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RUNNING WATERS RACES THIS YEAR. One of the conspicuous fillies of the year and bj Tar the best in training at the end of the season, was the fleet and staying Running Water, a bay bj Sir Dixon Breakwater, and his sires best represen tutive in 1000. It is quite possible that Whimsical, both at their best, was her superior, but since they did not meet In a race that is a matter of guesswork. Whimsical was a high-class filly, but un fortunate in being forced Into retirement by thi development of a ringbone. Prior to this she had run some remarkable races in fierce competition with the best horses of the year. Running Water began the year as the property of Woodford Clay, but was sold along with her stable companion Content to the Newcastle Stable, and the majority of her successes were achieved in tke colors of tkc latter. She was unplaced in her lirst two races. She was not then ready and the races were a part of her training into condition. Her first race was at Oravesend, June 14, in a purse race at a mile and seventy yards, which" Logistilla, then in grand form, won -with Moonshine second and Coy Maid third. Running Water finished last. Her next essay was in a purse at Sheepshead Bay, June 25. 11 wax a dusk of a mile, run in 1:39; at the finish, Grenade, .112, was first by three-quarters of n length from Dainty, 118; she a head before Von Tromp, 109, and he a fraction of a length before Running Water, 100. This race demonstrated that the filly was about fit and ready to take brackets soon. This she did in her next race, at the same track, June 30. It was iu. a dash of a mile and a sixteenth, over the grass course and, with ninety-six pounds up, she easily defeated Tradition, IOC; Pirate Polly, 100, and Snow King, 108, running the distance in 1:47. Her next start was in a stake race and she was beaten. This was in the Spindrift Handicap at Sheepshead Bay, July 5. The starters were Kuroki, 114; Running Water, 115; Flip Flap, 123; Inquisitor, 121; Bat, 111; Maxie Witt, 100; Belle of Pequest, 100, and Heaslip, 117. The distance was a mile and an eighth, and at the end Kuroki was first by two lengths with Running Water second, a head before Flip Flap. The race was run in. i:G3. Then she was sold to the Newcastle Stable and sent to Saratoga. Here she won "her first stake race of the year. This was the Alabama .Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, and run August 9; distance, one and one-eighth miles. She carried 110 pounds and, setting the pace all the way, won cantering In 1:52, with Brookdale Nymph, 124, -second; Comedienne, 121, third, and Belgravia, i21, unplaced. Running Water was a 2 to 0 post favorite. She ran no more at Saratoga, her next start being for a purse at Sheepshead Bay at a mile. This she woneasily in 1:40. witli the two-year-olds Montgomery : and Sir William Johnson in second and third places respectively. At the same meeting she had to submit to defeat from Nealon in the . September Stakes, at a mile Hid three-eighths-. It was a fast run race for which the starters were Nealon, 122 pounds; Running j Water, 119; Tangle, 123; Disobedient, 103, and Moonshine, 103. Nealon -won in 2!1! by a length and a half, and Running Water beat Tangle live lengths for second place. It was the fastest run race in the history of the September. Her next race also found her bringing tip in second place. This was in the First Special at Brooklyn. The starters and the order of the finish were- Cottoutowit, 117 pounds; Running Water, 114; Tangle, 114; Go Between, 120; Dishabille, 123; First Mason, 123, ami Colonial Girl, 123. Running Water set the pace and after running the. first mile in 1:40, finally succumbed to the stern challenge of Cpttontown, but In a desperate finish only lost by a hose witli Tangle and Go Between but scant heads away. The mile ind a quarter was run in 2:05g, and the finish between the first four was one of the most thrilling of the year. In her next race she defeated Tangle in the Second Special at a mile and a half over a muddy track. Only the two started. Each carried 107 pounds. After both had run under a pull for a mile and a quarter, Running Water out-sprinted Tangle through the stretch and won by a length in 2:45H. Tangles admirers blamed jockey Sewell for not forcing a fast pace all the way, but it is more than probable that the result would not have been different if lie had done so. September 27, she won the Albemarle Handicap, for fillies and mares, at a mile and a sixteenth. The track ,vas muddy. She had up 124 pounds and easily defeated Coy Maid, 117 pounds; Dishabille, 120; True Wing, 107; Zienap, 105; winning by two and a half lengths In 1:50. It was a performance of high merit, for only a few days previously Coy Maid had won the Occidental Handicap from such cracks is Dolly Spanker, Good Luck, Cottontown, Dandelion, Oxford, Nealon and Go Between. Two days later Oxford, witli but 105 pounds up, to her 120, beat her by three-quarters of a length for the Oriental Handicap, at a mile and a quarter. It was run in 2:05J. Good Luck, with 113 up was third, two lengths away, and the unplaced ones were Fine Cloth, 104; Cederstrome, 89; True Wing, 100; Dishabille, 118; Ostrich, 111; Cottontown, 122, and Outcome, 110. It was now .her turn to win and at Belmont Park, October 18, she won the Ramapo Handicap, for three-year-olds, at a mile and an eighth. It was a fine, fast race and, with 121 pounds up to Hot Toddys 119, she beat him easily by a length and a half in .1:512. Nealon, 117, was third; Guiding Star, 102, and Ironsides, 119, ran unplaced. Then, after a tremendous set-to with Nealon, she won the Belmont Park Autumn Weight for Age race at two miles and a quarter. The two raced head and head for all of the long route and she only won by a few inches in 4:01. The Cricket was the only other starter and was far down the stretch at the finish. At Aqueduct, November 0, the two-yea r-old Philander, with ninety pounds up to her 122, defeated her for the Election Day Handicap, in 1:52; Angler with 102 pounds was third, and Oxford, Agile, Bad News, A. Muskoday, Cairngorm and Belmere ran unplaced. Four days later she won the Edge-mere Stakes, at weight for age, from Frank Gill, in 1:52, a new track record. She only won by a head and Philander was third, five lengths back, with Fish nawk and Agile unplaced. Both of these, races were at a mile and an eighth. This ended her campaigu of 1900 and she is now in , richly-earned retirement for the winter. To date her record reads as follows: Year. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1905 11 4 2 2 3 7,390 1900 10 8 5 1 2 22.440 Total 27 12 7 -3 5" 9,S30
