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THE GRAND CONSOLATION WINNER. There is considerable Interest attaching to the future career of Monfort since he won the Grand Consolation. Each prior winner of the most valuable Bennings event proved a racer of merit in subsequent years. It remains to be seen if Monfort is to follow In their footsteps next year. Lord of the Vale won the first Grand Consolation. That he was a high-class racehorse his fast Saratoga Handicap and other victories In the best of company attested. Orthodox was the second winner and was a crack three-year-old, his mile in 1:3S at Aqueduct, leing now the record at that track. Next in succession was Dandelion and all students of turf lore know that this fast and game son of Hamburg was in the front flight of the handicap cracks of 1906. Last year the fleet filly. Flip Flap, was the winner and tills year she classed with the best of her sex and age. All in all Monfort will have to be a smart three-year-old if he is to be accredited as classing with the previous winners of the Grand Consolation. Monfort, a chestnut colt, by Ornament Eleanor, began his racing career in a purse at four and one-half furlongs at Aqueduct, April 26, and at 40 to 1 In the betting, ran third to Mexican Silver and Black Mate in :55J. His first success was at Belmont Park, May 30, when he won a purse at four and one-half furlongs by six lengths In :52 from Jaunty, Greeno and fifteen other youngsters, setting a new track record. June 4, at the same track, he won another purse at the same distance by six lengths from Garters, Halton and four more in :52g. At Slieepshead Bay, June 27, he won at five and one-half furlongs In 1:07 from Frank Lord, Black Mate and twelve more. He won by a length. July 10, at the same track and same distance, he again won and singularly enough Frank Lord was again second and Black Mate third. He beat Frank Lord three-quarters of a length. Thirteen ran unplaced and the time was l:07i. Then he ran several times unsuccessfully, until at Brighton Beach, July 23, he finished second to Tourenne in the Undergraduate Stakes and was awarded the race when Tourenne was disqualified for fouling. Tourenne had only won by a head, and the good youngster J. C. Core was third. It was Monfort s first success in a stake race. After that he did not win again until he began his successful career at Bennings, but he nearly always finished in the first three. His last race prior to being taken to Washington was in a dash of six and one-half furlongs at Aqueduct for which he was heavily backed by his owner and friends, but ran third to Main Chance and Acrobat. This had the effect of abating confidence In him and he started for thp Grand Consolation an S to 1 outsider, but won In gallant fashion by three lengths better than Orphan Lad, -with the 0 to 0 favorite, Tourenne, third. In view of the fact that the track was muddy the time, 1:282, compares favorably with any previous record for the race. Since then the colt lias won two purses, but these races have been run so recently as to require no comment. Except in the Undergraduate Monfort has been ridden by V. Miller in all of his victories. He is a very fast colt and there Is no reason why he may not prove a stayer. His record Is now as follows: Starts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 21 - S 5 3 a 1,925
