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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Trainer Lakeland said today that he sent Hamburg to the post yesterday fit to run a great race The colt had worked well enough to win in the best company he says The race was a bad one from every point of view and Hamburg was beaten nearly twenty lengths and in a gal ¬ lop by Bowling Brook and Previous Bowling Brooks race was not at all remarkable which makes the crushing defeat of Hamburg all the more unoxplainable unexplainable The colt was soundly beaten in the sixth furlong of the race and in slow time timeThere timeshare There are no explanations that exactly fit the case of Hamburg The most reasonable is that the colt will not stay over a distance of ground and that he is a sprinter pure and simple Only recently Lakeland entered Hamburg in the Brighton Cup at two miles The poorest selling plater platter in America could defeat Hamburgat Hamburg two miles if nothing was wrong with yesterdays contest There is understood to be some fric ferric ¬ tion ion between Mr Dalys Days agent and Trainer Lakeland and it is not known whether the latter will continue to train the colt All the horsemen agreed that Hamburg was sent to the post well trained for the race and say the true cause of his defeat is his inability to stay over six furlongs If yesterdays contest was a true one Hamburg in his 3yearold form is not worth forty cents as a racer racerFredTaral FredTaral Retrial who rode Hamburg said today I dont don't believe that Hamburg is a quitter and I dont don't think that Bowling Brook will be able to beat him on a fast track Hesimply Estimably could not handle himself in the mud The public will find before the season is over that that was not Hamburgs Hamburg race New York Sun SunThe Saunter The Coney Island Jockey Club is building a field stand for use during the approaching June meeting It will take in that section of the lawn occupied two seasons ago by the annexed stand of the betting pavilion
