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BAD RACING AT BRIGHTON. ! 1 FORM SOMERSAULTS ARE MANY AND MILLER IS OUT OF FAVOR. He Rides Momentum and Suffrage to Defeat 1 Berwicks Revival Lancastrian j and Please Race Poorly. Now York, October 2. The cold spell continues, upsets are frequent, and only two public choices, Tliistledale in the steeplechase and Good Luck in the long-distance selling race, being successful to-day. Miller rode two odds-on favorites, Momctnum mid Suffrage, to defeat. He went to sleep at the post on the former and got away poorly and rode a timid and procrastinating race on the latter. Ills solitary victory on The Squire in the fifth race was received in absolute silence. Miller did not get a hand from the spectators, which was in startling contrast to tins time last year, when every linish of his was marked by tumultuous cheering, whether he won or where he was, so long as he was there or thereabouts. Miller was on much the best horse in Momentum in the opening event. Everybody was agreed in that respect. Suffrage may not have been good enough to win the stake feature, the Mercury Handicap at six furlongs, yet whatever chance the Keene mare had was dissipated by Millers ride, which was beneath the level of a stable lad. The winner turned up unexpectedly In Sewell, which failed so lamentably in his preceding effort in nimbly going when a short-priced favorite, although he was supposed to be particularly well served by the track conditions. Sewell wore hood and blinkers today, but did not wear them last .Monday. The-stewards have the-.niatter under -investigation. C. E. Dumell will be called upon to explain his reasons for discarding the colts customary head adornments in his last race when, as it Is alleged, he has always run unkindly and ungenerously without it in the past. Bat Masterson, the runner-up, was unable to raise a respectable gallop in his previous effort, but muter the soothing inlluence of hood and blinkers, was easily equal to the task of pacing a fast field for the major portion of todays journey. There was plenty of criticism forthcoming for the recent erratic running of licrwick, which won the first race and was well backed and also for the disgraceful showing of Lancastrian in the third. Ellisons horse was palpably unlit to race. lie hobbled through the stretch with extreme difficulty in his preliminary. Pleases race was the worst of all. Mays fast iilly was hopelessly outpaced from the start by a lot of inferior two-year-olds. Her price sagged towards the close when the wise contingent bet in chunks on the winner, The Squire. The closing affair at two miles, for gentlemen riders, furnished an interesting spectacle and proved a great attraction. The Brighton Association encouraged by the success of these races, will put more of tliein on theii program next year. .1. A. IScmiet will ship twelve racers to Oakland next Saturday and more will follow. Tlie Iinkertons have apprehended two men this week who were in the act of passing live dollar counterfeit bills at the race track. Berwick, after numerous unsuccessful and some shabby oudeavors, finally won a nice for Tom McDowell and, under a good ride, disposed of a hot odds-on favorite in Momentum for the first race. The latter was poorly ridden and unlucky early and ran a good race, but probably could not have beaten the winner today if off with Berwick. Troublemaker and George S. Davis ran well and are ready to win. The steeplechase was a soft spot for the excellent juniper Tliistledale, which led all the way without being extended. Knight of Elway performed respectably, but Delcanta was evidently thort and fitting for future stake racing through the field. Good Luck seems to have fully regained his liest form and won the mile and a half dash that caine third on the card in convincing fashion. He is now ready for action among the handicap horses. KUIiecrankic stayed well and was going fast at the finish. Beauelere ran a good race under difficulties, is a good colt and will win in good company when si capable rider is put up. Phil Dwyers lied Friar for a time ran as if he meant to win, but changed his mind. He always does nowadays. Sewell was an 8 to 5 favorite for a three-quarters dash last Monday, but ran unplaced to Don Enrique, Chief Hayes and Jack Atkin. With the same weight up today and at 10 tol in the betting, he had no difficulty in running away from sonic of the best sprinters now in training, in the Mercury Handicap. Suffrage was an even-money favorite, hut was outpaced all the way in addition to being inefficiently ridden by Miller. But Masterson was another that experienced a revival of speed and beat Ben Ban out for -second place. Jacobite ran a good race here, but was overweighted. The tabled history of the Mercury Handicap is as follows: Year. Winner. A. Wt Jockey. Val. Time. 1903 Divination ...2 Of! Bedfern ...,:!S5 1:1!! 1004 King Pepper, .f. 09 Travors 2,010 1:13 100.-. Big Ben 5 118 ONeill 2,02.". 1:13 lOfHi Lady Amelia...-. 135 W. .Miller .. 1,715 1:12 1007 Sewell 3 110 E. Dugau.. 1,740 1:12! The Squire, alertly and vigorously ridden by Mil ! 1 1 j ler, was the second choice for the fifth race and won after a sharp struggle with Berry Maid, but the 4 to 5 favorite, Please, ran a dismal race, got off well enough, but did not improve her position and finally finished far away from the first three. Berry Maid put up a smart performance, as did also the improving Queens Souvenir. DArkle was winner of the two mile race for gentlemen riders and, his 150 pounds considered, showed a creditable performance in running the distance in I!:."!. Gus Straus was the favorite, but it was a mistake to select a steeplechaser used to running at a slow pace for that position ami his backers fell heavily. The stewards are dissatisfied with Walter Millers ride on Bye yesterday. It was clearly the worst-looking saddle effort that this accomplished jockey has ever been guilty of. A prominent steward in speaking of the affair said that the ride had been discussed in the stewards stand, but no action had been taken its it seemed incredible that there could be any intentional wrong-doing behind it. The subject can, however, be taken up later. Jockey W. Doyle sustained serious and perhaps mortal injuries by falling from Voorhoes in the sixth race yesterday. There was a gaping hole In his forehead, caused probably by some horse slopping on him. The unfortunate rider -was taken in an ambulance to the Emergency Hospital at Coney Island. Doyle barely escaped death once before when thrown from Bobbie Koan on July 2:! at the same track.
