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BROOKLYN HANDICAP WINNER RETIRED Superman is to be sent into retirement at Castle ton and the retirement may be permanently to stud duty although shonlel he recover satisfactorily from his recent injury he may bo trained for rac ¬ ing again againSuperman Superman was a good race horse but not a great out His brilliant stable mates of last year Peter Pan and ISalfot were far superior to him Itit as the winner of a Brooklyn Handicap he acquired a measure of premiinenco elenied to the majority of gemd iacers sind his compotelit trainer thought him capable of achieving triumphs of similar importance this year an expectation destroyed when he was Injured while running in the Metropolitan Handi ¬ cap capAs As a twoyearold ho won but one roce This was when he made his first start which was in the Expectsition Stakes at Gravescnd May 21 1000 At the end of a good race he was first by threequarters of a longtlr with Do Mund second Senator Clay third and W 71 Daniel unplaced Afterwards ho rsin seKonel to Charles Edwarel for the National Stal ¬ lion Stakes at IJelmont Park thin to Water Pearl ami Itallot for tho Grerat American Stakes at Gmveiond second to Oran for the Foam Stakes at Slievpshoad Iay thirel to Water Pearl and Peter Pan for the second half of the Double Event at the same track thlird to Salvidcre and Chaseaway for the Brighton Junior Stakes at Brighton I eachv and was unplaced in tho Granel Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga and tho Holly Handicap at Gravescnd a respectable record all but one of his races being in important stakes with good weight up Last upLast year Superman made his first appearance in the Paumonok Handicap at Jamaica April 27 and ran second to Red Ulver but was beaten six lengths at tlTcequarters in 113J Then he finished sixth in Glorifiers Metropolitan and ran a good race May 10 ho won a purse at Belmont Park at a mile and a sixteenth In this with 112 pounds np he defeated Dolly Spanker Blandy and five more useful racers and1 by running the elistanec in l44J set a now track record and showed himsolf to be in rare fettle His next start was In the Brooklyn Handi ¬ cap IIo carried Oft pounds and won The track was muddy but safe The other starters were Beacon Light 100 Ncalon 114 Flip Flap 112 Okonite 93 Buttling 107 Good Luck 108 Jo Between 120 Scwell 97 Boauclere 94 and Ox ¬ ford 110 Go Between was the favorite and Super ¬ man the third choice at 5 to 1 Ridden by Miller he won from Beacon Light by a length In 209 with Nealon a closeup thirel After that he won no more bnt was second to Peter Pan for tho Belmont Stakes with Frank Gill third In all his racing roce rel Is as follows followsYear Year Sts 1st 2d Sel Unp Won 1KM5 0 1 2 3 8900 1907 7 2 2 0 3 185tn 1908 2 0 1 01 I Totals S18 7 295S3
