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NSW YORK TRACK TALK. "Pittsburg Phil." while he did not win the large amount credited to him on the opening day at Morris Park, still told a friend that he cleared .0,000 on the first four races. Starting to place 315,000 on Ethelbert. such was the crush that he stopped at ,900. and this amount won about 0,tOO. The next day he beat Magnificent and Approval and won 0,000. The third day his own horse, Lothario, won at 6 to 1 and probably Smith won largely as it was quietly known that this erratic horse was far better tempered than last year, when in the spring he worked faster than Filigranes trial for the Metropolitan. Lothario is well in the Suburban Handicap at 107 pounds. H. Eugeme Leigh, who. starting early, raced several horses daily at Aqueduct without success, is distressed over the defeat of Ildrim for the Larchmont, a maiden stake. He was offered 5,000 for this colt in the fall of 1900. Vulcain, however, has disproved the rumor of a breakdown. ■ , As soon as the eastern horsemen make up i their minds that the Chicago racing schedule i will be carried out, there will be a large influx here of serviceable animals. Not a single winning bookmaker could be I found at the close ot the first days racing at Morris Park, following the lead of "Pittsburg r Phil." Mr. Lewisohn, son of Gothams richest Hebrew, won thousands, and Mr. Featherstone J won largely on his pair of winners, Helobas j and Black Fox, backing the latter from 4 to 1 i down to 8 to 5. The public tailed on and the i bookmakers were helpless. Burke lost ,200 on » the day, although he picked two winners, and 1 Wheelock lost heavily. To show the general 1 disaster, one "dead line" bookmaker lost all but 00 of his ,500 bank roll. It ie said that such is the state of affairs in l I I the east that the total losses of the betting ring each year largely exceed the winnings of the successful bookmakers, the deficit being made good by "stake" bank rolls. "Chappie," who won 0,000 in 1899 by playing the system "the first shall be last," augmented -his pile by 5,000 in the pool-rooms during the winter. "Little Willie" has enough money left to bet ,000 on a race, and the pair of piungers | has been turned into a trio by a friend who re- cently won 0,000 in two weeks at faro. By men traveled in every land, Morris Park j is said to be the finest of enclosed race courses. | Jimmy McCormack says that Mr. Applebys 1 great four-year-old stallion, Knight of the ! Thistle, could easily be made ready to race by Suburban day. Ethelberts Metropolitan is thought to make j him a cinch at the weights as against Imp for the big handicaps. The general impression east is that Mr. W. C. Whitney paid too much for the colt Kilmarnock. Riley Grannan made book a few days at Aqueduct after which he again took to the outside. It is not thought that again he will become the , great plunger of former days and people say that much of his turf success was due to the friendship of the late Byron McClelland. F. T. Walton, the first of the Americans to be called a "plunger," is now landlord of the Hotel Victoria, New York City, he having been staked by Charles Reed, a millionaire of Erie, Pa. C. E. Brossman is in disfavor with eastern racegoers because of putting up inferior jockeys on the royal mare Imp, said by good judges to be better than Firenzi.
