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AMERICAS GREATEST RACEHORSE. New York Heralds Canvass Gives Majority Vote to Sysonby — Some Criticism. A select number of turfmen have decided that Sy-oiil .v is the greatest race horse that the Aineri can turf ha- produced. 1 lie New York llcrad made the e.niv.i— and published the result, fen of iheihirty three .experts who wen Interviewed favored Sy-onbv. live selected Hindoo, two Hamburg, two Luke Blackburn, two Salvalor mid Henry of Navarre, 1 .1111111:1111. l.onulcllou. L de. Oil Well-, "olll Bowling. Ah cdo. Kingfisher. Persimmon, Boat ben, Kentucky and Keenan each secured one vole. August Belmont. Algernon Daingerfll Id. John W. Gates, .lame- K. Keeiie, f. C. BcLeWCe, Alfred Heniien Mollis, J. L. XbCinni--, lame- Rowe, Thonia- Welch -elected Bysonhy. The sapoorters ol Hindoo were L. 0. Appleby, IV J. Dwyer, "Davy" Johnson. A. J. Joyner and Henry Stull. John B. Madden and W. L. Bowers voted for Baonbsmr, while M. Dwyer and Dave GMeon easl their lot with Luke Blai kbiirn. James B. llaiu and "Malt Byrnes favored Sahiloi. The other Aide- were as follows: Waller S. Vo-immh lor Homy of Navarre: "Snapper" Garti-on for Tammany; Billy Lakeland lor Lone follow ; Frederick Gebhard for Boor; John A. Drake for Orl Well-; frank Clarke for Tom Bowttng; Jasaen if BcUorsalch for nleeno; lacofa Pincns for KlngBsher; John Bnggtns for Persimmon; frank Weir lor Ko-chcn: J. H. Mi Crccry for Ken tack] and J. J. Hyland for Keenan. In c Inrtlag the eanvaas, the HeraU made the ■Intake in interview ing alto-ether two many pal ti-an and Interested parties," says the Baa Fraa i-co Chronicle. "for iu-laiice, no one el-e con neeled with the turf will agree with Jim IfeUor inick in awardteg the pnhn to Alcedo. He ne •■ showed to be as good a bane as Kinley Mack, who has not even been accorded a chalk mark, lint Mc-Oormiek rained Aleedo. Take ihe case of Salvator. His two vides came from J. B. Haggin. bis owner, ami Mall Byrnes, his trainer. "It is almost the same thing down the line. Bole, noted by fred Gebhard as the best race bane, was not even ihe best of hU family. Morello could bent him any mark on the road. Man B. Drake selected Oil Wells. He owned the bone. As a matter of fact, Ort Wells did not prove to he worthy of i la-sing with the twenty-five best hones. W. la, Cowers, who voted for Hamburg, made all engagements lor thai horse, and represented the late Marcus Daly, the owner, frank Weir is the trainer for Uo-eben. and as the judges were naked to take into consideration s|ieed, ganieiie— . endur ance, it is hard to understand how that horse could be given much consideral ion. It was al-o stipulated that lack of any of the major tpjalitications was eon-sidered a bar. Snapper Garrison is prejudiced in favor of Tammany, as he rode him in many of his races." And it might be added that Huggius vote for Iersiuiuion wa- brown away, the horse never having beey in ibis country.
