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SANTONS SHERIDAN. There was only one chance to break a record at "Washington Park yesterday. That ■was in the first race and the feat was ac-•complished by Peter Paul, which covered five furlongs in E9g, displacing the track record of 1:00, held by Endurance by Right since June 25, 1901. Rain prevented the making of fast time in the other races. A light shower preceded the second race, which was run on a slow track. Before the third race was called there was a heavy downpour and during the rest of the afternoon there were only brief intervals when light showers did not prevail. A stable companion of The Picket, the American Derby winner, captured the Sheridan Stakes. With The Picket still under treatment for a peculiar soreness that developed on his left foreleg the evening of Derby day, Middleton and Jungbluth, the Louisville racing firm, were represented by Santon, by Golden Garter— Santa Rita, which had on the day before won at a mile and seventy yards*and placed a mark of 1:431 on the track records. Santon was understood to have been a maiden until Friday, but that was not correct. As a two-year-old he won a race of five furlongs, at Latonia, June 16, 1902. He started four times last year and an equal number of times this year. Last summer at Hawthorne he stopped in a race in which he was ridden by Winkfield, and an examination showed that the colt had a high fever. He was thrown out of training and turned out until this spring. It was impossible to get him ready for racing at the Louisville or Latonia meeting because of a touch of influenza xind subsequently a sore mouth. When he went to the post yesterday his trainer, Carroll Reid, did not know whether he could run in heavy going or not. But the colt had shown steady improvement lately and had come out of his race Friday so well that it was with no small degree of confidence that the stable entrusted him to carry its colors in the ■three-year-old event of the meeting which , ranks second only to the Derby and is to -some extent a sequel to it. He proved a worthy substitute for the Derby winner and ■won like a resolute thoroughbred, capable of negotiating any kind of going and likely io hold his own in any field of his age that may be brought together. He carried 122 pounds and was ridden by. Helgesen, who piloted The Picket in the Derby. Eight others started. They were: M. H. Tichenor and. Co.s Flocarline, 120; J. G. Greener and Co.s Postmaster Wright, 122; William Gersts Fore and Aft, 125; Clay Brothers Flying "Ship, 120; W. W. Darden and Co.s Sioux •Chief, 115; John F. Schorrs Gold Bell, 122, and Ed Corrigans Maxey Blumenthal, 115, :and Serge, 122. In. the betting Fore and Aft ■was given a slight preference over Flocarline and Flying Ship. The three choices were considered high-class performers in heavy going. There was 20 to 1 against ;Santon. They maneuvered at the post for about -andve minutes and then got away in good -order. Santon was the first to show in front, but was headed by Flying Ship before agoing a quarter. Going around the club house turn Santon clung closely to the leader and Flocarline took a position two -open lengths behind them. Thereafter those -three were the only horses which figured in the actual racing. Flying Ship drew clear •on the backstretch but Santon moved up to her again at the half mile ground. Half way around the upper turn Flying Ship placed a length of daylight between herself and her closest follower and Flocarline began to look formidable. Finishing a mile Flocarline drew up to Santons heels and directly afterward both accelerated their movements. When Flying Ship straightened out Flocarline, on the inside, and Santon, on the outside were right at her flanks. Flo-trline was pointed between the leader and the rail but Crowhurst anticipated the move and checked it by pulling Flying Ship toward the inside. Wonderly then pulled out. He had plenty of room to go between Flying Ship and Santon and he drew his whip and endeavored to drive his Ally Into the gap. She was not equal to the #ask. A furlong from the goal Santon drew away from her, closed with Flying Ship and challenged for the lead. A stubbornly contested finish ensued. Fifty yards from the end the filly began to shorten her stride and show signs of weariness. The colt was the stronger and won by—a neck. Flocarline was two lengths away. Wonderly claimed foul for the cross up the stretch. The judges confirmed the finish. The time was 2:101, the first mile occupying l:43g. The record of the Sheridan Stakes is now as follows: Year. Horse. Wt. Starrs. Value.Time. 1884 Kosciusko 115 7 ,070 2:12* 1SS5 Alta 118 7 3,950 2:091 18S6 Ed Corrigan 118 5 3,740 2:09 1SS7 Terra Cotta 125 . 9 4,590 2:10S 1888 Emp. of Norfolk. .125 4 5,340 2:171 1SS9 Proctor Knott ....115 7 5,350 2:121 1890 Santiago 118 5 4,840 2:12* 1891 Poet Scout 115 5 4,700 2:11? 1892 Newton 127 4 4,290 2:321 1893 Ingomar 122 9 10,870 2:10 1S94 Rey el Sta Anita 127 5 10,400 2:081 1898 Bannockburn ....122 5 1,990 2:061 1900 Sam Phillips 127 3 1,870 2:11* 1901 Robert Waddell... 126 6 3,555 2:12g 1902 Aladdin 122 3 3,160 2:1SJ 1903 Santon 122 9 3,850 2:101 Santon is a rich bay, with black points, and no white hairs. He stands about sixteen hands and an inch, and while he has a fine head and neck, is of substantial proportions. Combining great speed and strength, he promises to be a useful, if not a great race horse. He was purchased for his present owners for 00, at the sale of J. B. Haggins yearlings in 1901. John Morris selected him along with three others. Carroll Reid has a great fancy for the colt. He says the reason he did not start him a year ago at Washington Park was not because he did not think much of him, but because he thought a great deal of him, so much that he was unwilling to risk racing him on the trades that were the rule at that time. Santon is in the Drexel Stakes at Washington Park, and is well engaged in the east. Don Domo set a great pace and led into the stretch in the opening event, and appeared to be going easily when he straightened out. Before he had gone a hundred yards farther Peter Paul passed him, and at the end he was beaten a head for third place. Peter Paul won easily. After doing the half in 47 seconds he was able to finish more leisurelyi English Lad ran a good race and was easily second. Japan was third almost throughout the race. Silk Cord threatened to trim Glassfull in the second race, at a mile and a sixteenth. He collapsed when challenged in the stretch, and while Glassfull won cleverly, Boaster easily secured second place. With the track in a sloppy condition, Barney Schreibers Sylvia Talbot was a 1 to, 2 and 2 to 5 chance in the closing betting on the third race, at six furlongs and a half. She made the running, yet was never able to get a commanding lead and was beaten a length by Bad News. Bardolph was . second until Bad News moved up half way down the stretch. Barney Schreibers other mud lark, Schwalbe, was vanquished in the fifth race, a handicap of a mile. The California colt Epicure gave her a race all the way, and beat her a head on the post. Hargis was only a neck farther away. He closed many lengths in the last quarter. Straightening into the homestretch, Schwalbe, Epicure, Esherin and Waswift were closely grouped. Esherin made a surprising dash as she rounded for home. She skinned the rail and was a close contender when a sixteenth in the stretch and died away in the final struggle. Sam Fullen was a slight favorite over Jack Rattlin for the sixth race, seven furlongs and a half. Hoodwink and Evening Star disputed the lead for nearly three-quarters of a mile and then gave way to Jack Rattlin, which won in a canter. Sam Fullen is considered a good mud horse. His performance was not what was expected of either mud horse or favorite. It occasioned unfavorable comment. Captain Arnold performed in a sensational manner in the last race of the day. It was one mile and a furlong. When a quarter of a mile had been run the field of eight presented a long string, of which he was the tail end. He got on his stride when a short distance into the backstretch, and thence to the end ran like a phenomenon. He passed horse after horse, and without faltering at any point finally won by a nose from Bar-rica. The latter and Harry, the pacemaker, appeared to have the race between them at the last sixteenth. T. J. Gallagher.
