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PRISCILLIAN A COLT OF GREAT SPEED August Belmonts Son of Hastings and St Priscilla Has Not Been Defeated It is rather unfortunate that Prisclllian shouh have been out of sorts when the band of Bcliuont youngsters mnong which was Norman III was shipped to trainer Watson at Newmarket Eng tow years ago Had he been well English turf his ¬ tory might not have been what It is and Priscillian and not SIgnorinetta won the Epsom Derby of 1908 That August Bclmont has a remarkably fast and good threeyearold in the unsexed chestnut son of Hastings and St Priscilla is certain At Sheeps head Bay Monday last he won and ran his mile race n 137S with 108 pounds up This equalled In quisitors record for Sheepshead made June 28 19CG with 101 pounds Priscillian won in a canter too and good judges think that had he been pressed in the last quarter of a mile there is no doubt that lie would have beaten the worlds record of 137 held jointly by Dick Welles and Kiamesha The Belmoiit threeyearold showed his quality when after Peter Quince had run the first live furlongs in better than 5 according to many watches lie ran over the Keenu easilyLile colt very easily Lile Mr Keenes Colin Priscillian has never been defeated He did not race last year but ever since trainer Joyner sent him to the post in the spring he has done all that has been asked of him Pris ¬ cillian lias now won five straight races in all kinds of going and with all sorts of weights He started for the first time on May G at Jamaica and will Wo pounds over a good track he defeated Peter Quince and other maidens running six furlongs in liJoJ On May 12 also at Jamaica he picked up 11 pounds and beat Zienap in a romp a mile and a sixteenth being rim on a fast track in 147 On May 14 at Belmont Park in the mud Priscillian with Hi pounds ran the same distance in 1474 beating Berkeley Mary Antony II and Dandelion In a gallop Again in muddy going at Belmont Park the Hastings gelding packing 111 pounds took the measure of such crack sprinters as King Cobalt Roseben and others in a dash of six and a half furlongs the time being 1214 Good Judges say that Priscillian is a better threeyearbid than Fair aT aTwIlJch wIlJch lf truc means that he is not far be ¬ i hind Colin and Celt as to class and form
