MOUNT IDA RACES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 162, 17 December 1872, Page 6

MOUNT IDA RACES.

We take the following information regaifJ ing the first day’s racing at the above anuiJl meet from the Chronicle :— The attendance was very good, and nothi* disorderly occurred to mar what was a vei I pleasant, though not a very first-rate daj | racing. The first race was the Maiden Plate of 30 sovs. Distance, one mi I and a half. Kate Kearney, 3 yrs, 7st 11b ... 1 | Pasquinade, 3 yra, 7st 11b 2 Malice had been entered, but was scratch* Kate Kearney won easily by twenty length I Time—3min. fisec. Flying Handicap of 40 sovs. One mile, Hatred, Sst 1 Lyndon, 9st 41b ... 2 Wildboy (7st) and Beeswing also ran. Tl | letting was 3 to 2 against Hatred, 5 to p against Lyndon and Wildboy, and 10 to | against Beeswing. After a great deal of trouble, the hors git away in a manner slightly in favour Hatred, who maintained her lead. Lyndf never managed to get within three length Wildboy was third, while for Beeswing 0 ti company was altogether too good. Time—lmin. 55sec, Hock Race of 20 sovs. Open to all horses tb have never won an advertised prize of ov, £2O. Distance, one mile. Malice . ... 1 Bounce ... ... 2 I This was a complete gift to Malice,—Ra- \ her rider, winning as ho liked with her. '■ Symptoms of rain now set in, and c :| timed more or less to the close of the dar'B proceedings ; not sufficient, indeed, to miß tin rough wet skins, hut enough to make B ; unpleasant. After dinner, came the [ Selling Race of 30 sovs. Distance, one miiß Dragon, Sst 31b l I Pasquinade, Sst ... ‘J ■ ‘ Charley, Sst SJb ;; (j Charley jumped away with the load a r l ; the inside running, closely followed for rl j first half-mile by Pasquinade, Dragon a * ) lying close, with Beeswing outside. At til \ fatal three-quarter flag, Charley's didiculn* , commenced ; still, the crowd were wry trflj £ ling to believe that the white face of Bragl i, sailing up the straight was that of Charley,-® but it was not to be. I The race of the day was now hurried {.* waid, the rain-drops being heavy, and w ’ wil d being cutting for the horses and boB Tamhourini, Miss King, Hatred, Ihirgundß and Backbiter came to the post. Rav, nB ning Tamhourini and Hatred, declared* 1); win with the former, which held first place**] the betting, while Miss King and Burgunß were also fancied to some extent. r Gland Stand Handicap of 75 sovs. Distaufl two miles. I Tamhourini, flst ... 1 1,. Miss Kiner. 7>t 7lhs ... ... ... 2I , Hatred, Sst ... ... ... ... ;i Backbiter got the best of the start, tlimß j ti'itivd took the inside at the first corn*?, with Tamhourini hard held. In the last ha* mile, Miss King came up—Hatred bci* lt cased, and Burgundy out-paced—and B; finished a very moderate second to Tamlx*^ 1 A Veritable Watery Grave. I s " Some curious facts (says the /Sbwf/dßpi'i .Vries) are related by a correspondent of tßses ban Francisco JDnUetin of Lake Tahoe, Cflttl ! iornia. As numerous opinions have bßto | volunteered regarding the causes which fB of rented the bodies of those drowned ink B ini ! Wakalip from rising to the surface, the Bun formation furnished by the Bulletin umßdis of interest to those dwelling in the Lakeßsai triot, and may possibly afford some elucißsot tion of what has hitherto been a complßain mystery. The writer says:—“lt appeßsve that several persons have been drowned*the the lake during the past ten years, but iißch.i of their bodies have ever been discover*mil This fact gave rise to the superstitious belßanr that some monster dwelt in the waters, Btwe that all the bodies wore consumed tv Bruin The true explanation of the mysterious niß 1 appearance of the bodies is said to he dwßthe three causes. Tlie first is the great puritjß T the water and its consequent lack of buoyanßbi The second and main cause is due to* 1 groat coldness of the water. Even atßtaki the wannest season, the surface water is* the; cold as the drinker desires it to be, butßregi warm there compared with its temperature* y the depth of 100 or 200 feet. When a hßcom sinks in the lake to the depth required, iS the frozen stiff. The process, of course, preseßthey it, so that the gas which originates in Bribe body from decay in other water is prevenßand and distension checked. The body is tßScai kept in a state of greater specific gravity)* Hu the water in wliich it is suspended, ■ Spy thereby prevented from rising to the suit® pj The third cause lies in the great press®* Jl pure water on anything which is sunk great, depth in it. Corks placed on deepßpenc, nets arc pressed down in a week to haißHhran [size, and one of the oldest residents o|B pj j lake expresses his belief that, by the ti®B pp man's body has been suspended for a i a depth of about 200 feet (it is not likely^Ki on | it ever reaches the cavernous and akßby y | fathomless bottom of the great lake); Band < | compression of the water has reduced to that of a child’s. Doubtless the ! nucoffined suspension in such a “ wenjßinn I water” is not a pleasant one to contenip^»i| ce I but to be pressed into a solid mass aI1 “Blie jj ! pended into a liquid coffin of ice temper 3 I may be quite as pleasant in termed Bfniinf, j mouldering in the ground.” B JJ r