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- - Z.t , 5f"- -v.- ONE OF THE GOOD EASTERN THREE-YEAR-OLD CRACKS AT EXERCISE. mi te . - NEWCASTLE STABLES M CARTER, BAY COLT, 3, BY KNIGHT OF THE THISTLE CANDLE. There are some better three-year-olds in action this year of extra good three-year-olds than McCartcr, hut not many, lie is the best representative Knight of the Thistle has sent to the races as yet, a. fast, sturdy and reliable young horse that can render a good account of himself Jn any sort of company and is liable to beat, the best out if held too cheaply by a. cureless rider. As, a two-year-old ho won but two purses and one stake race, but. in several of the great races "for two-year-olds he kept the best of the year busy to prevent hlni from coming in first. Ills first start was in a purse for maidens at Belmont Park, four and a half furlongs, Slay 11, 1900. He was a driving winner Trom Moyea and W. H. Daniel in 55. May 1C he won the Bouquet Stakes from Claie Russell. Bcmay and seven more at five furlongs in a minute flat. A purse at Brighton Beach in which he gave Electioneer twenty pounds and a beating was his other success of the year. It was Electioneers first start in a race and not suggestive of a. subsequent Futurity winner. MeCarters best races were when be was defeated. In the Saratoga Special he finished second to Salvidere, with Peter Pan, Ballot, De Mund and Charles Edward behind him. All carried full stake weight and the three-quarters was covered in l:12j. In the Hopeful Stakes he finished second to Peter Pan and in front of Pope Joan, Kentucky Beau, Paumonok, Hickory, Don Enrique, Sir William Johnson and Purslane. It was Peter Pans best race as a two-year-old, lie covering three-quarters in l:12i, with 130 pounds up. McCartcr carried 122. Kentucky Beau, 112 pounds, was a 7 to 5 favorite, but was unplaced. Subsequently McCaiter ran second to him in the Waldorf Stakes at Sheeps-head Bay. This year McCartcr has been a busy and successful racer and has scored five wins out of ten races, with such important events as the Cosmopolitan and Saratoga Handicaps to his credit. His first start was in a inirse at Jamaica, in which he won from Halifax, Inquisitor. Don Domo and four more at five and a half furlongs in 1:07. In the Toboggan Handicap, at Belmont Park he was unlucky and ran unplaced to Ben Ban, Pautoulle and Red River. At Gravesend he defeated Dreamer, De Mund, Prince Hamburg. Hyperion II. and Faust over the "about" three-quarters course for a purse in 1:09JS. Then came his first important success when he won the Cosmopolitan Handicap at Belmont Park May 27. He carried 100 pounds and won from, Frank Gill, 107, and Nealon, 115, with Go Between, W. H. Carey, Blandy. Ethon, Belle of Pequest, Dolly Spanker and Far West unplaced; distance, one and one-sixteenth miles and run in 1:151. July 5, Caboehou, carrying 1015 pounds to Ills 114, defeated-him in the Spindrift Stakes at Sheepshead Bay at a mile and an eighth in 1:53s. July II! lie ran the best race of his career when he ran Peter Pan to a nose in the rich Brighton Handicap in such fast time as 2:03s for the mile and a quarter, with Montgomery, Da.ndelhm, Miss Crawford, Cottontown, First Pemiuni, Fountainblue, Coy Maid. Nealon, Faust, Gallavant, Martin Doyle and Tokalou behind him. At the same track he won a purse at a mile in 1::59, defeating Cressina and Kentucky Beau. August 5, with 111 pounds In the saddle, he won the Saratoga Handicap with Ruunfng Water, 115, second and Dandelion, 119, third. Ironsides, Gallavant and Red Leaf ran unplaced and the mile and a quarter was run in 2:05g. Since then .McCartcr lias not won. running unplaced to Ballot, Ironsides and Frank Gill in the Century Stakes at Sheepshead Bay and. to Brookdale Nymph, Dandelion and Old Honesty in the Omnium Handicap. But he is a sound horse and probably has many triumphs awaiting him. His record to date is as follows: Year. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Amt. won. 190.5 11. :! 4 0 . 4 $ 7,425 1907 10 -r 2 0 3 19,095 Totals . 21 8 6 0 ,7 7,120
