view raw text
- 0ME OF THE SWIFT0iVE THAT MADE HASTINGSgPREMIER , ; AUGUST BELMONTS BAY FILLY. FIELD MOUSE. 2, BY HASTINGS FLITTERMOUSE. - Among the many good two-year-old Allies that made their appearance in racing this year August Belmonts Field Mouse was in the front rank, althous:b held safe by Mnskette and one or two others. She made her debut in racing-unobtrusively in the Elriihurst Stakes, at Jamaica. May 2, and finished an unnoticed last at 100 to 1, Fitz Herbert winning, with Trance second. When she next came out, which was in the Fashion Stakes, at Belmont Park, May 10. she was again an unconsidered outsider at 100 to 1 in the opening betting, but some one evidently had some notion that she could run fast, she going to the post at 00 to 1. She made a spectacle of her opponents and won by eight lengths from Melissa, with the favorite. Ladv Hubbard, third. Iu the Gaiety Stakes, at the same track. May 18. 121! pounds each, she ran third to Trance and Mellsande. Trance winning by a length, with Melisaude a nose better than Field Mouse. At Gravesend, June 5. she took up 119 pounds to 114 on each of her opponents and won the Criterion .Stakes by a length and a half and ran the live-eighths of the race in 1:00. Suffragette was second throughout and Melissa finished third, seven other speedy fillies runnin? unplaced. June 18. Melisande, at 115 pounds to her 119, defeated her by two lengths for the Castleton Stakes at the same track, with Lady Hubbard third, five lengths farther back. Six others ran unplaced and the time was one minute flat. Her next essay was at the Sheepshead Bay fall meeting. September 3, in the Dash Stakes, at three-quarters straight. She carried 124 pounds and at the finish Miss Kearney, with 103 up, was first by a head, with Sea Cliff. 107, a half length in front of Field Mouse. It was run in 1:11 and on all bands it was agreed that Field Mouse had recorded a grand performance. A week later she ran second to Mediant in the Great Eastern Handicap, at three-quarters straight in 1:11 A. Mediant carried 10S pounds to her 115. Dobbin was third and such cracks as Fitz Herbert, Perseus, Statesman, Lady Bedford and Hilarious ran unplaced. In the Culver Handicap, at Gravesend. September 37, Peter Quince and King Cobalt defeated her. but bad to run the "about three-quarters" course in 1:C9 to do it and such swift ones as Ben Ban. Baby Wolf, De Mund and Fountainblue were behind her. Her last race of the year was for the Nursery. Handicap, at Belmont Park. October 10. This Trance won by two lengths, while Selectman nosed Field Mouse out for second place. Practical, Statesman. Spectatress and Joe Madden were the unplaced ones, in all her races except the first, in which she was not ready. Field Mouse proved herself not only a fast one, but a remarkably game filly as well. Her record and pedigree arc as follows! , . . , , year. Sts. . 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Won : 1008 9 1 . 2 4 1 0,755 r Australian ........ J Wost Australian . . . j 1 f Spendthrift;... J Emilia j IS11"8- . ,, I!:" , J- .-Aerolite 5 LexlnKton AliScenCarneal. " 1 Florine r.it i Glencoc. ..-1 Melody. -Hastings ..... ; . !, i- . ,r- m J Harkaway. 8 ; - -rr .. J King Tom Pocahontas. -1 f Tomahawk or 1 o A-Gindcrella..--.. .-. ........ .-: , - Blue Ruin Mincemeat Mincemeat J Sweetmeat. Hybla. , j Weatherbit. f n T - Brown Bread i Brown Agnes. . - y ; , wf ...,.vo .Vr;. t L Manna ..... j Blrdcatcher. g t j - . Tartlet... 1 Mare by Don John. o "3 ...1 . , . J Trumpeter. E S, i . . , Flutus jaugh. of Planet. .... . f Flageolet.... i j Monargue. S a .,. rRav6n-d0r.";:.-J La lavorita "j Constance. W a " V ". I J Touchstone. S h ji " ; . . Ambrose 1 Annette. " : . . . : 1 Araucaria J j Glencoe. I Fllttermouse ..-J--1 -1 " , Pocahontas j Marpessa. J Boston. T.t" ." r.xIngton 1 Alice Carneal. ; and. . 1 fci r -- f Kingfisher j Kingston. Eltham Lass M.byPyrrhsthelst. Flibbertigibbet . j The Baron. Stockwell I Pocahontas. L Filagree j Touchstone. Extasy Miss Wilfred.
