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GAME FLIP FLAPS GOOD RACING. The sale of Flip Flap by J. A. Rennet to H. P. Whitney and her retirement to the stud at Brook-dale Farm, if true, will rob the turf of one of Its gamest and speediest lillies. Flip Flap made her first start at Hot Springs, March 2, 1905, In the name of .T. A. Bonnet, but did not win a race until she scored in the Criterion Stakes at Gravesend, June 1, and her second win was at the Saratoga meeting. She finished fourth in the Futurity, won that year by Ormondale. and in her next two races, those for the Flatbush Stakes and the Great Eastern Handicap, she was unplaced, but in the running of the Babylon Handicap at Aqueduct, November 7, she finished third to Kinleydale and Hooray, and in their next race, where they all met again, the Oakdale Handicap, the order of linish was exactly reversed. Flip Flap continued In sunerb form, winning the Beldame Handicap and The Grand Consolation at Washington, her last two races as a two.-year-old. Her lirst appearance as a three-year-old was In the Preakness Stakes at Gravesend, May 22, in which she was unplaced to Whimsical, Content and live others. Her second start was in an overnight handicap for lillies and mares at Gravesend, where she finished third to Consistent and Belle Strotne. In her third race she equalled the track record for six and one-half furlongs at Belmont Park, when she won the Clareniont Stakes, defeating Dolly Spanker, Oxford, Diamond Flush and three others. Flip Flaps next two races were for the Van Courtland and Broadway Stakes, In which she finished third, but she followed these two defeats by winning the Gazelle Stakes at Graves-cud from Perverse, Meddling Daisy and St. Ursula. In the Marlboro she was beaten by Coy Maid, but in turn defeated Consistent.. Trad ft Ion and Tokaton. After running tiupluteil in the Slieepshead Bay Handicap she returned lo her best form and ran a remarkable race when she won the Advance Stakes from the best horses In training last year. Flip Flap ran the mile and three furlongs of this weight-for-age race over the Sheepshead Bay course within one-fifth of a second of. the track record, and finished in front .of Whimsical, The Quail, Cairngorm, Sir Iluon, Accountant and Bohemian. In tills race Flip Flap proved herself a filly of genuine stamina, trailing the tremendous pace set for the first seven furlongs and" moving up with a late but well-maintained stretch run to win at the finish by a length. Her next performance was in the running of the Spindrift Stakes, finishing third to Kurokl and Running Water after being intef-fered with nearly all of the mile and an eighth. In the Brighton Mile she again finished third to Hamburg Belle and Whimsical, but only a head and a neck separated her from the winner, the race being run In 1:39. In the mile and a quarter Brighton Handicap, won by Rams Horn, she again met with considerable interference,, but closed up with marvelous speed when clear. In the Cup Preliminary at Brighton Beach, October 2, Flip Flap was palpably unfit to run to her best form, showing evident soreness when going to the post, but in the Brighton Cup race of two miles and a quarter would have won from Holscher but for an overanxious ride by Shaw, Flip Flap only being beaten a length and a half and wearing him down at the end. This was her last race of the year. Her first start this year was at Jamaica, May t. when she finished third to Dolly Spanker and Tommy Waddell. In her second race she wasf unplaced, but won her third start, at Gravesend. .tune 0, winning the Westnfinstcr Handicap from Running Water, Phihuider, Far West. Good Luck. Go Between and others. In the race for the .Marlboro Handicap at Gravesend, June 13, she gave weight to all her opponents and won handily from Brookdale Nymph, Coy Maid, Tokalon, Veil and Whimsical. This was Flip Flaps last Winning race. Her last race was at Sheepshead Bay, July 1. In the Commonwealth Handicap. The tabulated record of her races nnd money won Is as follows: Year. Age. Sts. . 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 11103 2 14 5 1 2 ti ?12,140 1900 3 14 3 2 0 3 19.S10 1007 4 t 2 0 3 3 12,540 Totals ...3 315 10 3 11 12 44,491
