SECOND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 505 



SUMMARY. 



September 18, 1888. — Gentlemen's roadsters, owners to drive. 



0. E. Thompson's Sailor 2 1 



A. W. Robinson's Bess - 1 2 



J. D. Dunham's Cleo - - -- - - 3 3 



G. W. Sampson's Roscoe Conkling -- - 4 



Percy Williams' Dixie - -- 5 



P. T.' Brown's Catherine - 6 5 



G. W. Trahern's Paul Shirley - --- -- 



A. C. Glenn's Minnie .'. - — . 



C. L. Ortman's Prince - - 4 



R. C. Sargent's Lady Washington 



J. W. Dougherty's Hurrah .. - 



SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday dawned fair and with promise of warmer weather than on 

 Tuesday. The pavilion attracted few persons, because the exhibits were 

 not catalogued and arranged. The city was astir at 6 a. m., the visitors 

 evidently desiring to get that for which they had come to town. Fakirs of 

 twenty sorts, each, if possible, more barefaced than the other, offered the 

 rustic capitalist an opportunity to gain largely from a small investment. 

 During the day the " sure thing " men pined, but they harvested large piles 

 of silver in the evening. 



The chief interest as usual centered in the racing, and the main receipts 

 of the society were from the gate, through which the choicest of the culture 

 and beauty of Stockton passed between noon and one o'clock. Light col- 

 ored and evidently light drapery contributed to make elegant equipages 

 noticeable, and if it is written that nowhere in favored California can so 

 much general beauty of classical severity be found, the writing will not be 

 an overestimate. The course was reasonably well occupied by one o'clock, 

 the advertised starting time. 



The officers elected to perform the tiresome duties of the day were : Judges, 

 Hon. Chris Green, Hon. L. U. Shippee, Senator B. F. Langford; timers, H. 

 J. Agnew, 0. A. Hickok. 



The first race, a mile dash, brought six excellent horses to the start. 

 Free for all; purse $400. 



Heliotrope was a strong favorite, selling for $20 to $6 for the field. On 

 the third try, starter Billy Donathan sent the half dozen off fairly, Helio- 

 trope, pole, leading to the quarter in 0:26. Then Applause took up the 

 running, and with Nancy was pushed through the backstretch and to the 

 three quarters at a flying rate, too high to be sustained. In the home- 

 stretch Heliotrope raced into command, and finished an easy winner of 

 the race in l:43f, Welcome, Oro, Applause, Nancy, and Boy Bolton finish- 

 ing as named. The time at the quarters was 0:26, 0:51, and 1:19. 



SUMMARY. 



September 19, 1888.— Running, mile dash, free for all; Jim Duffy purse, $400. 



Mrs. S. B. Wolfskill's b. m. Heliotrope, by Joe Hooker- Yolone— Hazlett 1 



Dan Hennessey's b. m. Welcome, by Warwick- Aeol a — Cook 2 



Owen Bros. r. h. Oro, by Norfolk-Golden Gate — Howson _.. 3 



T. G. Jones' b. g. Applause, by Three Cheers- Alice M. Rider— Spooner.. 4 



B. C. Holly's ch. f. Nancy, by Jim Brown-Mamie Hubbard— Nole. --- 5 



L. A. Lacey's b. c. Bay Bolton, by Wildidle-Maggie Early— Night -.. 6 



Time— 1:43|. 



Pools: Heliotrope, $20; field, $6. 



