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ACCOUNTANT CHAMPION THREE-YEAR-OLD. Career of the Son of Filigrane and Reckon, Which Has Won 9,000 in Two Seasons. When Accountant won the Annual Champion Stakes on the last day of the autumn meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club his winnings in money for this year then amounted to the big sum of ,570. He has a number of valuable engagements remaining and if he continues in good form it seems more than probable that he will win more than 00,000 in 1906. The Hindoo Stakes to be run next Wednesday, is as certain to be won by him. as anything can be certain In horse racing and will net him fully 0,000. Success is what counts and Accountant will be justly deemed the champion three-year-old, even if he Is not the best. There is no doubt that Burgomaster was easily his master early in the year, but Burgomaster is in retirement from which he may not emerge, and disabled horses do not count against sound ones actively engaged in racing. As a two-year-old. Accountant did not rank in the first flight although a stake winner and a hardy courageous colt. He started in fourteen races, won two, was second twice, third twice, and ran unplaced eight times. His first start was for a purse at Sheepshead Bay, June 15, for which he ran fourth to Timber, McKittredge and Sufficiency. June 28, he ran third to Yankee Consul and Phidias at five and a half furlongs, In 1:07, beaten a head and a nose. His first success was In the Montauk Stakes at Brighton Beach. Here, with 107 pounds up, he beat George C. Bennett, 127; Ormondale, 107, and two more at three-quarters, in 1:14. This race was run July 10, and three days later he achieved the principal success of his two-year-old career when he won the rich Brighton Junior Stakes. He was at 20 to 1 In the betting, but with 122 pounds up won easily from Pegasus, 107; Don Diego, 125; McKittredge, 107; Albert F., 107; Oyama, 10S, and Timber, 112, running the three-quarters in 3:14. After that he ran unplaced in the Saratoga Special, Grand Union Hotel Stakes, Futurity, Great Eastern Handicap, Holly Handicap and Brighton Produce Stakes and was third to Vendor and Voor-Jiees for the Waldorf Stakes; second to Lady Na-varre for the Prospect Handicap and second to Kinleydale for a purse at Belmont Park. Tills year Accountant began his three-year-old career May 1, by defeating Tommy Waddell, Emergency and three others at Jamaica in a three-quarters lash for a purse, winning by a nose. He carried li20 pounds and ran the distance in 1:145. His next Btart was for the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park. He got off poorly and ran unplaced. Better things were at hand, however, and starting for the Withers Stakes, May 19, he led all the way nnd won by a head from Bohemian after a bitterly contested drive through the stretch. Clark Griffith was thlrdslx lengths away and The Quail, Juggler and Belmere ran unplaced. The mile was covered In 1:38, a grand performance with 126 pounds up and. the fastest Withers ever run. This performance at once marked Accountant a crack three-year-old and greatly ifnproved over his two-year-old form. In his next race he met his master in a colt that would probably have remained unbeaten this year had he not fallen lame. This was Burgomaster and the race was for the Belmont Stakes. Burgomaster at once opened a big gap and striding along without ever being fully extended won in a canter by four lengths, The Quail finishing second a head in front of Accountant; because the latter tired, in the stretch and lost several lengths by a swerve. The nille and three-eighths route of the race was covered in 2:20, a record for the event. The unplaced ones were Pegasus, Bohemian and Cassini. Accountants next race also brought defeat. This was in the Jockey Club Weight for Age Race, run at Belmont Park, June 4. Whimsical, then In rare form, took the lead at the start and was never headed in a remarkably fast run race. She traversed the first mile in 1:39 and finished out the mile and an eighth in 1:51, winning by a length and a half from Accountant. The latter ran second throughout and finished a length In front of The PIckef. Water Light was the only other starter. The result was anticipated, Whimsical being a 9 to 10 favorite at post time, and Accountant Was not disgraced. His next race was for an overnight handicap at Gravesend, June 8, distance a mile and a sixteenth. Carrying 113 pounds he won by a head from Logistilja, 105, in 1:405. Tradition, 123, was third and" Confederate, Garnish, Samson, Coy Maid, Larabie and Phil Finch ran unplaced. At the same track, June 13, he took up 121 pounds and defeated Garnish, 98; Maxnar, 105, and seven others in a similar race at the same distance in 1:475, quite a high-class performance. Up to this time he had run as the property of W. H. Brown, but he was now sold to James B. Brady and his next start was in the colors of .his new owner. This was at Sheepshead Bay, in the Tidal Stakes, at a mile and a quarter. He was a 7 to 10 favorite and, leading all the way, won easily by a. length and a half with Bohemian second arid BullsEye third. Kuroki, Pegasus, Holscher and Royal Sceptre ran unplaced. The track was slow and the race run in 2:10. It was worth 4,550 to the victors owner. At the same meeting, June 30, he was badly beaten in the Advance Stakes, at a mile and three-eighths, running unplaced. It was won by Flip Flap In such extremely fast time as 2:174 with Whimsical second and The Quail, a good, but unlucky colt, third. The unplaced ones were Cairngorm, Sir Hiibn, Accountant and Bohemian. As it was a weight for age race all ran on equal terms. Whimsical ran the first mile in 1:XSJ, with Accountant at her head and the latter tired badly in the stretch. His next essay was attended with better results. This Was when he won the Lawrence Realization, run July 10. He was favorite at 12 to 5 and Won, but barely got home first by a head after a long, hard drive through the stretch with Entree. The latter beat Bulls Eye a length for second place and Ormondale. McKittredge and Bohemian ran unplaced. The time, 2:4S, was fast and the race worth 5,310 to the winner. He was not raced again until August 4, when he won the Brighton Derby. It was a gift for him and, as a 1 to 4 favorite should, he won in a canter from Samson, with Albert F. third and Flimnap unplaced. August 23, lie won the Saratoga Derby, but not without some trouble in disposing of Gallavant by three-quarters of a length, McKittredge being a distant third. His success In the Annual Champion Stakes was achieved so recently as to lie fresh in the minds of all admirers of racing. In all, Accountants career to date shows the following results: Year. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1905 14 2. 2 2 8 5,430 1900 13 9 1 1 2 83,570 Total ... 27 11 3 3 10 9,000
