view raw text
BONEY BONY BOY VINS INS A STAKF STACK STAKFWatery Saltwater Watery South of England sunshine was in evidence yesterday at the Harlem racetrack where everything showed the traces of the heavy rains of the preceding night and early morning The course was a sea of mud Not ¬ withstanding the free use of the blue pencil there were enough horses left in to make fields large enough to suit both the public and the bookmakers bookmakersThe bookmakers The second race one mile and twenty yards was declared off and a one mile selling race substituted substitutedThe substituted The La Grange Selling Stakes threequarters treasurers of a mile for twoj two earolds earls was up for decision and the small number of starters and their in ¬ ferior fernier quality is corroborative of the assertion often advanced by students of turf matters as to the inadvisability of racing associations giving stakes the argument being extended to a declaration that overnight handicaps make better racing than do stakes The La Grange Stakes was worth 1130 to the winner 200 to the second and 100 to the third horse Boney Bony Boy on the strength of his runaway of two miles Tuesday was held at 3 to 1 but the public play soon drove his price down to 9 to 5 Canace Cancel opened at 7 to 5 andpopped antipope up at every stage landing at 3 to 1 There was always a steady play on Mr Johnson The others ran for Sweeney Serenely presumably Canace Cancel broke quick ¬ est but in the first 100 yards Gold Fox took command and led into the home stretch Boney Bony Boy was always second and as he ran cwo co open lengths behind Gold Fox on the turn Virginia Bradley nervously exclaimed Why doesnt doesn't Rose go to the front I told him to do so Gold Fox quit at the last eighth it having been quite a contest from the head of the straight and Boney Bony Boy being in front at the last 150 yards looked to have an easy thing of it when Canace Cancel came very fast and ran Bradleys Bradley horse a close finish Mr Johnson got away from First Tenor and Fold Fox close in and got third money moneyCoralis monocracies Coralis Corals when the betting over the first race opened was flirted with by the bookmakers one man posting 10 to 1 and rubbing without tak tack ¬ ing King a cent All form players were anxious to get on but not until 3 to 1 had been posted did the stable money begin to come in Even Hiram Scoggan Slogan the most conservative of bet ¬ tors torso had a bet on Coralis Corals who went to the post at 7 to 5 although many of the 17 regular pencilers pencil there were on two field books had a dash before her name When the start was effected Coralis Corals shot to the front and under a strong pull throughout was never headed Warren Point fifth on the far turn ran home second and beat Moroni Moronic third several lengths Waldos Wealds horse had a hard fight with Inuendo Innuendo for the show money Fremont ran second the first half then died away awayElidad Elidad Elided opened at 7 to 5 but went to 11 to 5 because it was said Holden Olden could not ride him Lizzie Tizzies Cavalier was backed heavily Just what is the matter with the boy Holden Olden is not appar appear ¬ ent Kent He rides Diggs Digs splendidly and in the first race yesterday was third on Moroni Moronic On Eli dad he getting interfered with at the first turn rode like an old hand and made up lost eround round gradually not getting to third position feiEil feel threeeighths from home Lizzie Tizzies Cavalier had taken the lead Branch being second Sha Shan ¬ ron third Alvarado Allargando II fourth to the half mile ground Here Branch gained on the leader and passed her on the upper turn Sharon fell away as also did Alvarado Allargando II finishing with the trailers Elidad Elided passed Branch at the last eighth and won with Holden Olden looking back Lizzie Tizzies Cavalier third just beat Collins who was coming fast fastFor Astor For the fourth race Queen of Song opening at jual jail favorite at 6 to 5 witii witticism Hardy Par dee stayed in that notch while Applegates Appeases colt ad ¬ vanced vance to 9 to 5 A great tip was Sun God backed from 100 down to 40 to 1 he ran next to last Nora Ives Wives sprang to the lead Hardy Pardee Parsee second The Dragoon third and so the first two named ran to the last eighth where in a drive Hardy Pardee Parsee passed to the front The Dragoon had stopped and Frances D was third when from away behind came the favorite and heading Nora Ives Wives close home ran second Hardy Pardee Parsee all out winning Bloss Loss finished fourth fourthTom fourth Tom Eyans Yeans Midian Indian after advancing from 4 up to 12 to 1 in the betting was left standing at the post in the next race Primate led off George H Ketcham Ketch second and so they ran to the first sixteenth inside the homestretch where the favorite took the lead Peter McCue McClure showed third for a quarter then King Bermuda took his place The latter passed Primate at the last eight and as here the favorite faltered Butters work to steady him lost valuable time and King Bermuda beat him to the wire Rose on the winner rode a most determined finish he having his horse to the whip threesixteenths of a mile mileIn mullein In the last race Cutter in going to the post acted badly and tried to run away but was stopped by little J Reiff Riff the jockey being cheered Hosi Hoi went on at the quarter and was not headed although Cutter and Roger B brought him to the whip all through the home stretch Martin K was fourth close up at the threequarters treasurers threequartersA treasurers A prominent horseman says The statement that a priest living near Harlem owns George H Ketcham Ketch is false falseW false W A McGuigan Michigan will sell in the paddock at Harlem on Saturday next at 130 p m Eliza ¬ beth R Cora R and Banish Mr McGuigan Michigan said This winds up the lot in training I will ship my yearlings at once to my Arkansas chicken farm and there prepare Ihem Hem on a tem ¬ porary horary racetrack I have on the place placeTommy placatory Tommy OHara O'Hara turf oracle has this to say The reports of the length of time Starter Fitzgerald consumed in getting ths this horses off for the Futurity speak of record breaking as to length of time at the post Now in a stake race at Saratoga in 1885 Starter Wheatley Whitley took two hours and twentyfive twenty minutes in getting the horses away from the post I remember the race well Eddie West rode Estrella Stella and he was the only boy not fined Estrella Stella was finally left at the post The distance was five eighths of a mile and who do you suppose won the race Why Biggonet Bygone the dam of Mar timas times winner of the Futurity But this is the first time I ever heard of the breeding argu argue ¬ ment meant coming to the front in this regard It seems blood will tell in long delays at the post as elsewhere
