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HILDRETH KEEPING IT UP FITZ HERBERT ADDS BROADWAY STAKES TO LIST OF LEADING OWNERS SUCCESSES. Son of Ethelbert Overcomes Poor Racing Luck Like High-Class Horse and Is Regarded in Line for Championship Honors. i New York. June 8.— Fitz Herbert encountered enough racing misfortune in the early stages of the Broadway Stakes to have daunted say but a really good horse. That he survived under the circumstances and came on to win easily at the end ill fast time for the somewhat euppy track and unfavorably chilly and windy weather conditions places him directly in line for the three-year-old championship turf honors of the season. With the exception of Fashion Ilate the quintette of starters engaged were briskly supported. The play on . the favorite was remarkably heavy notwithstanding the virtually prohibitive price and the uncertainty as to his staving the unaccustomed distance. Turncoat, one of th-1 most conspicuous rogues that has recently appeared on the turf, liolted at the start and the bugaltou in the race was thereby eliminated. Marcellus was another supiaisedly dangerous quantity whose pretensions to stake quality went glimmering in actual contest. The race resolved itself into a two-horse affair between Fitz Herbert and Fashion Ilate and the net result of the Broadways running leaves Fitz Herbert a topnotcher among the three-year-olds, coiitirnis Fashion Plates claim to handicap class and relegates Turncoat and Marcellus to the selling plater division. The tabled history of the Broadway Stakes since 1900 Is herewith given: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1000 Sarmatian 100 Henry ,245 1:40 1001 The larader 121 Landry 1.815 1:40 1MB Old England lus Bullinan ...-2,340 1:471 1!K3 Irish Lad 120 T. Burns .. :.XU 1:47 1004 Bryn Mawr 114 Lvne 3.335 1:40* 1003 Oxford 110 ONeill 3.1*50 1:48 MM Ormondale 120 Miller 3..VI0 1:454 1007 Montgomery 118 Radtke 3.550 1:464 1008 Master Robert ...110 G. Burns .. :.970 1:404 1900 Fitz Herbert 118 G. Burns .. 1.828 1:47 Elizabethan. King Cobalt. Fitz Herliert. Dream-r and Fireliox were each considered winning propositions in their respective races. The failure of the first named spoiled what otherwise would have been a clean sweep of favorites. It was a day of dls- -aster for the layers, who have hardly been vouchsafed a respite from similar experiences since th" metropolitan season of racing hegan. There were very few withdrawals the card being run off much as originally scheduled. First-class sport resulted. After the Our Hannah upset in the opener the best horses continued to win right down the program. Sanctus inaugurated- the sequence of winning first choices in the steeplechase. He made good Impressively and clipped four seconds off tin-track record for the alxiut two miles course. Water-speed keenly contested the first mile and a half of the cross-country journey and then retired, leaving Sanctus to come home alone. King Cobalt turned the tsblfs on De Mnnd In the sprinting handicap. To a difference in the weight adjustment, as well as a probable improvement in the former, this reversing of their previous running was due. Dreamer scored an easy victory in the fifth race. The old Duryea gelding is one of the most Improved horses in training and if he should happen to keep up his winning gait, it may have the effect of hastening his owners return from France. An overcast sky and a chilly breeze combined to keep the attendance at Gravesend today down to 0.000. Even at that. It was one of the biggest midweek crowds of tile season. Everyone expected President Philip J. Dwyer to announce an extra days racing in consequence. The size of the crowd has nothing to do with it," said Mr. Dwyer. "I have my doubts as to the advisability of racing oftener than three days a week. I am fearful of overdoing the game. If. however. 1 should decide on an extra days racing, it will be on Wednesday of next week." There is a steeplechase jockey now riding in France who earns a retainer of 5,000 per season. His name is Ilapperman. Jockey W. ott has just left this country for Bom-hay. India, where he is to ride for Dr. II. C. Bossier.
