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T. S. MARTIN TAKES THE CUP. SMITHSONS YOUNG JUMPER WINS THE HARBOR HILL, JUST AS GAETH SAID. Running Water Scores an Easy Victory in the Ea- mapo Handicap Higginbotham Breaks a Track Eecord True- Wing Fouls John Lyle. Now York. October IS. It was cold, raw anl threatening at Belmont Park this afternoon. Not more than 10,000 spectators were present to witness the good card of. six races run off. Riming Water, the heavily hacked favorite, won the Ramapo Handicap at a mile and a furlong with supreme ease, displaying extraordinary improvement over her preceding race. It was mere play for the Newcastle Stable filly to down the speedy westerner Hot Toddy. Barney Schreiber s Nealon, which showed evidence of rounding into good form, finished an easing up third with Ironsides and Guidimr Star beaten olt". The celebrated Harbor Hill Cup Steeplechase, for three-year-olds, produced an interesting contest. T. S. -Martin, the favorite, won a brilliant victory in fast time, fully sustaining the predictions of Billy CJarth, ids trainer. The cup, which has been In the possession of Mr. Cotton since1 Deleantas victory last autumn, will now be held by Mr. C. C. Smith-son. Had SancHus or St. Kevin won today, the cup would have become the permanent property of Mr. Cotton. .lust bow much time records amount to at Belmont Park was shown in the third race when Higgin-lmtham, a two-year-old maiden of medicore calibre, ran five furlongs in :5SS, beating the existing record by a fraction of a second. This was a papular victory. It was the first -winner Anly Jtlakely had saddled this season and owner W. E. Applegate. Jr., won a good wager on him. True Wing, foully ridden by Garner in the first race, was disqualified out of second place on Millers complaint. The general public expressed surprise at the action of the stewards, but close observers were of 4 lie opinion, that Garner deserved a. suspension for his rough work. Flagmen will be stationed at each quarter In order to take, the fractional time accurately during the running of KoselMMis mile against time next Saturday. The suggestion that Roseben go against Salvators record came from Harry Payne Whitney, one of the most heavily interested stockholders in the Westchester Assaciatlons enterprise and a steward of 1he current meeting. Kosebens brilliant performance at seven furlongs Tuesday aroused Mr. Whitney to a higli pitch of enthusiasm. He declared that lie had never seen a sprinter of the class of the great son of Ben Strome and Eoseleaf and that lie believed that he could easily run a mile around the turn at Belmont Park in 1:35 llat. When Mr. Whitney proposed a trial against time to Mr. Johnson, Johnson assented readily. Johnson would have agreed to anything at that time. He was the most thoroughly happy man in ten states. He believed Roseben capable of anything, but In cold earnest half an hour later, and after he had a talk with his long-headed trainer, Frank Weir, Mr. Johnson ratified his original statement. Bose-bon would lose nothing in prestige if he failed on an eliptieul course to equal a record Salvator made on a straightaway and he would gain imperishable renown if he succeeded in running his mile in better than. 1:35-. Experienced horsemen who timed Boseben over those seven furlongs in 1:22 Tuesday declare that they never dreamed such running possible. John D. Crlinmins, Jr., timed one of the middle furlongs in .10. and the last three-quarters in l:09g. Charles T. Patterson clocked the mile wliicli Sliaw rode out in 1:352. Weir lelieves that Boseben can shade that time in a race in whicli he is rated for the particular purpose of lasting a mile. The last mile, of the Belmont Park course Is probably as fast as was the last mie of the straightaway at Monmouth, because the turn here is so well constructed It is as easy to taSe it as it is to run straight. If under favorable conditions Roseben does not equal Salvators record disappointment will be general. The fastest mile run hereabouts since Kiainesha equaled Dick Welles Chicago record of l::fis at Belmont Park last fall was Inquisitors 1:37 in the Sheepshcad Bay Hnndlcap on the 28th of June. Until the construction of Belmont Park the Sheepshead Bay mile was the fastest in the east. There is only one real turn in it, Efforts to make mile records at Brighton have been unavailing. The Brighton mile has two turns and one of them is rather abrupt. No horse has ever beaten Voters 1:3S. established there In 1900, although in the Test Handicap of 1004 Hermis, under 133 pounds, equaled it in slow going. Frank Weir does not believe it will be necessary to pace Boseben a greater distance than a quarter of a mile. The big horses trainer is of the opinion that after lie .settles In his stride he will go faster without a pacemaker than he would with one. Matt Byrnes, who trained Salvator, that August afternoon in 1S00, was discussing the probable result of Roseliens effort tills afternoon, when he declared: "If Salvator was In training today and in the condition lie was that day at Monmouth, he would run a mile over this track in 1:31."
