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AFTER THE FUTURITY. The consensus of expert opinion after the race was that it was truly run. There was not a horseman who had a candidate in it, not a jockey who bad a mount, and not a trainer who had anything to do with the preparation of one of the starters that had any excuses to offer. Fat Dunne voiced the general view of the situation when he said : "It was a good horserace from start to finish, and the best horse won. Chacornac was not oaly tbe best horse in this particular raoe, but be is about the best two-year-old that we have sesn this season. His race today was only a good exercise gallop. He could have won as far as Spencer desired." Jobn Hyland, who heard the Missouri turfman make tbis statement, indorsed it. "I thought that I had the winner in Brigadier," Hjland said, "but I was fooled. Brigadier is a good two-year-old but he is not as good a horse aB the one that won." The main reason that the race was truly won, and so satisfactory, was that the start was prompt and good It was one of Mr Fitzgeralds best efforts. No time was wasted in fretting about, which always proves so disastrous to high strung racehorses, particularly when they are young and keyed up to racing pitch. They were nicely bunched when he said "Come on 1" the first time and he threw down his flag. The horsemen who had candidates in the race, the bettors and the crowd generally were immensely gratified, for long delays at the post under snch circumstances are as trying to the nervoB of the spectators as they are harmful to the horses. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., who was watching the race from the top of the stand, exclaimed: "Good! Good! I never saw a better Btart!" M aher, the youngster who spoiled tbe start of the Suburban Handicap by refusing to take Banastar up to his field, said to Jimmy Rowe just after he had dismounted: "It was the best start I ever saw. We were all in motion when the flig fell, and I dont believe that there was a difference of one length between the first and lasthorBes." Bullman, Taral, Lewis, Clavson, Simms, Burns and OConnor all said the same thing. If any colt had an advantage at the start, it was Modrine, Bullmans mount He was moving a bit faster than any of the others when the flag fell and Bullman, thoroughly alive to his advantage, hustlbd the colt along for all he was worth. He maintained his advantage to the elbow, but there never was a time when he couli get away from Spencer and Chacornac. "He was simply breezing at my horses quarters." Bullman said, "and when Spencer got ready to go up, he sailed past me as easily as falling off a log. Modrine is not game and threw it up as soon as Chacornac passed him." Maher, who piloted Virginia Earle, had this to eay of Chacornac: "When the flag fell I hustled Virginia Earle up to the front as quickly as possible Modrine had jumped out in front at the fall of the flag and I wanted to catch him and make him qi.it, to give Chacornac a chtnee. 1 knew that filly had speed enough to do the trick, but doubted whether Chacornac c juld keep up for tbe first half. He fooled me. . I had scarcely drawn clear of the bunch before Chacormc was at my side loping easily along with his mouth open and his ears pricked forward It was nothing but play for him and in placa of Virginia Earie killing Modrine off for him, he killed Modrine off for the filly and also made the tilly quit. She began to stagger at the head of tbe homestretch and I shouted to . Spencer: "You go on, Spence, Im baaton." " This is easy, Spencer said, I can take cara of anything in this bunch. " "I hit my filly a couple of good cracks just for luck, but Chacornac had tied her up in a knot and I quit whipping her. There is no use beating a filly to death after you see that she is up against it." When Spencer dismounted he patted the Juvenal gelding affectionately on the neck and said, "Nice horse." To Jimmy Rowe, who was out on the track to hear his story of the race, he added: "He is as good a two-year-old as I over knew. It was an easy win." Chacornac was. bred by L. S. and W. P. Thompson, the sons of the late Colonel Thompson, of Virginia, at the Brookdale farm in New Jersey. More Futurity winners have come from that establishment than from any ether, which is a splendid tribute to Colonel Thompsons sagacity. The most recent Brcokdale winners were Requital and LAlouette. Chacor-nacs sire, Juvenal, is an English horse. He is a chestnut with a blazed face, of heroic proportions and splendid muscular development. Colonel Thompson went himself to England to make the selection. When he brought Juvenal home, many oldtime American turfmen told him that he had made a mistake. "Juvenal never was a great horse," Colonel Thompson was told. "Maybe be wasnt," the Virginian replied, "but you watch and see if he does not make a good stallion. Look at bis size and his fiery action and hunt up his pedigree." Col. Thompson did not live to see one of the get of Juvenal win an important race and American turfmen still held that the big chestnut was a counterfeit when Juvenal went under the hammer at the Thompson sale at Morris Park two years, ago. Nor was the dramatic eloquence of William Easton, the auctioneer who condncted the sale, sufficient to convince them that they were making a mistake. The bidding was listless and the splendid looking chestnut went to the California tarfman, J. B. Haggin, for the ridiculously low price of ,500. Chacornac is not unlike his sire in appearance, particularly behind the withers. He haa Juvenals big barrel and tremendous quarters. He also has great depth through the heart. Chacornac is not a good looking horse from an artistic point of view. He is rather ugly, in fact He ii slightly sway-backed and has a coarse lookinar head and neck. Great muscular-power rather than grace is his chief characteristic. Chacornacs dam, Laetitia, is one of the old Brookdale matrons. The last good horse ; she produced was the speedy Elkins. Elkins was a three-year-old along with Ornament and ! The Friar, but he did not do well. His temper, which he inherited from Uncas, his sire, al-1 ways stood in his way. In this particular Chacornac is nothing like Elkins. The big bay is as sweet-tempered as a kitten. He eats well, sleeps well, and is a veritable glutton for work. Nearly every shrewd horseman who saw yesterdays race predicted that he would make a splendid three-year old. Chacornac has the size. Ha stands a full sixteen hands in his racing plates and has a tremendous frame. It is marvelous that an animal of his size can got in motion so quickly. W, P. Burch said before tbe Futurity field went to the post yesterday that Chacornac was as quick a beginner as any two-year-old he ever saw except Hamburg, j Chacornac was named by Jimmy Rom e after a creek which runs through the Brookdale. The creek gut its name from the Delaware Indians who used to inhabit that part of Now Jersey before it was settled by Lord Carterets colon- Chacornac was developed by Rowe, and Iists. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAQB. AFTER THE FUTURITY. Continued from 1st Page. although the Thompsons have always had a financial interest in him, he won bis maiden race in Howes colors. Chacornac has many stake engagements at Sheepshead Bay, and he will fill them as long as he remains in condition. Brigadier was bred at August Belmonts Nursery Stud in Kentucky. His dam, St. Bridget, never produced a really great horse, but she was the mother of the very useful cami aigner, St. Bartholomew. Brigadier is a brown horse of good size and fine proportions. He is an easier animal to handle than the average member of the Rayon dOr family, and John Hyland did not have a great deal of trouble in getting him ready for yesterdays race. Mr. Hyland did not think that Brigadier could beat Chacornac yesterday, but he told bis friends before the race that he would make all the others hump themselves. After the race Hyland said that Brigadier had run his race and done quite as well as he expected: "He will make a good three-year-old and will win long distance races. These sprints are againBt a horse of his kind. He is too slow at the start." Brigadier cooled out nicely and went back to bis stable looking apparently as fresh as he did when he left the paddock to go to the post. Like Chacornac, Brigadier is pretty well engaged, and will be seen in a good many races hereabouts before the snow flies. Tommy Burns, who rides him, will go west tomorrow. BurnB is the regular rider for J. W. Schorrs stable, which is at Chicago, and was only engaged by Hyland to ride Brigadier in this one race. Windmere, the horse that finished third, was bred by Gen. W. H. Jackson at the Balle Meade farm. His sire. Iroquois, is at the head of the Belle Meade stud, and Trade Wind, his dam, is one of the best broodmares in the country. Windmere is a strapping big chestnut, not at all unlike his full brother Gotham, in conformation and color. He is quite as big a horse as Gotham was at the same age. This was Windmeres first race. He looked pretty well when he warmed up, but went to the post a bit sore and his stable was not especially sanguine of success. Arthur Featberstones only bet on the race was a one-two-three wager. Mr. Featherstone was gratified at Windmeres showing, and so was Julius Bauer, his trainer. Bauer picked Windmere at the Belle Meade yearling sale last season as a good colt and paid a fancy price for him. He believes that Windmere will beat the best of the two-year-olds before the season is over. The showing of the Regina Stables Plucky was rather disappointing. Harry Lewis who rode the Great Tom colt said that the trouble was in Pluckys inability to keep up in the headlong rush to the elbow. "Plucky got away well," Lewis told Tom Green, "but the pace was so hot that he could not keep up. He was running gamely at the elbow, but when I saw that 1 could not overtake the leaders I eased him up." Plncky, like Windmere, was bred by Gen. Jackson at Belle Meade and his dam waa the mare Endurance. St. Finnans race was a vast improvement over any previous effort. He was outfooted at first but closed with a great burst of speed at the end and was headed out in the last bound by Windmere. Both Billy Lakeland and W. L. Powers, Marcus Dalys eastern agent, were pleased with the Tammany colts showing. "He ran about as well as I expected," Lakeland said, "and will win in first-class company later on. St. Finnan was not himself in the spring but he has improved a lot since I retired him." St. Finnan was bred at Marcus Dalys farm in Montana and was developed by Fred Mossom. Mossom turned the colt over to Lakeland when he took charge of the Keene yearlings at Brook-dale last June. New York Sun.
