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TEN POINTS CONSISTENT AND HIGH-CLASS RACING IN THIS YEARS CAMPAIGN Ten Point is a great colt. There la no way of reaching any different conclusion. " Had it been so that he could have met Rock View,- Cock o the Walk Horron, Buskin, Gowell and Flying Fairy in a race at stake weight for three-year-olds, the weight of popular opinion would certainly have made him the favorite. Yet he was, in some respects; a hard-luck horse-, a signal Illustration of this being that he was-beaten in the Kentucky Derby by the comparatively Inferior colt, Donerail. If the latter had subsequently reproduced his Kentucky Derby form in his racing it might have reasonably been concluded that he was legitimately the Derby winner by, virtue of being as good as Ten Point, if not slightly his superior. But Be Did fiot do so and the result of the Kentucky Derby can be set down as one of those flukes that crop up how and then to perplex students of racing form. Of course there is no overlooking the excellence of Doilerall that day. He carried the same Weight and, coming from behind, beat Ten Point a half length in the fastest Kentucky Derby ever rim at its present distance. But while Ten Point went on to great feats in racing, Donerail was so frequently beaten as to make it a cause for special wonder that he could ever have triumphed over the eastern crack at even weights. In his career this year Ten Point was usually in competition with the best, not only of his own age, but of the older horses as well. His last racof the year was a plain definition of his superior class. This was in the Washington Handicap at Laurel, in which he was given the crusher of 128 pounds to 112 on Lahore, 104 on Donald Macdoliald, 105 on G. M. Miller, 9 on Barnegat, 101 on Tartar, 102 on Lochiel, 108 on All Gold and 95 on Flainma. Yet in this excellent company he was only beaten a head and a half length by Lahore and Donald Macdonald over a slow track, the state of the going adding to the severity of his task. By the eastern scale of weight for age he was giving 24 pounds to Lahore and 36 pounds to Donald Macdonald, which was .asking hira: a difficult question that he barely failed to answer triumphantly., Two weeks previously, in the Baltimore Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, he carried 127 pounds and defeated Barnegat, 97, and Donald MacdonaHl, 107. At Saratoga, in the Saranac Handicap for three-year-olds, Rock View was given 130 pounds to 124 on Ten Point. Whether these imposts were correctly- based or not could not be told from the race Itself, for while Ten Point was in front from start to finish and ran the mile in 1:39, Rock View w-as so knocked about at the start that he almost fell and really hardly had a chance and finished next to last. The other starters and their weights were Night Stick, IOC; Leochares, 1 10, and Flying Fairy,- 112, the latter fast filly being also interfered with and finishing last. A few days previous Ten Point took up 122 pounds in an overnight handicap at a mile and ran second to Reybourn. This six-year-old .was then in great form, had up only 92 pounds and led all the way, but Ten Point forced him to run the mile In 1:37 Jf, to win".. Night Stick, carrying 105 pounds, was third in this race, which took place" August 12. Four days previous, at three-quarters and carrying 118 pounds, he defeated Besom, 113; Presumption, 105; Hedge, 111, and Sir John Johnson, 117, in 1:12. All of these late in the season races, of Teh Point show him in the light of a remarkable weight carrier of great speed at all distances .and a horse of dauntless courage. He possesses all the qualities that go to make the great handicap horse and when the weights assigned thosd nominated to next years Metropolitan. Brooklyn and Suburban handicaps are published it will be of interest to note whether Mr. Vosburgh is still of the opinion that Rock "View should be asked to concede him six pounds, as he was in the case of the Saranac Handicap last August. It will probably be found that they will be assigned about the name-impost and that they will be the topweight horses in those great events of the turf. That same Rock View is a corking good racer himself. . Ten Points earlier achievements have been published at length in a former edition of Daily Racing Form. Suffice it to say that he- won the Belair Handicap. Philadelphia Handicap and the Susquehanna Handicap at the Havre de Grace .spring meetingand was then brought west to meet his first defeat of the year in the Kentucky Derby. In the Susquehanna Handicap he gave a capital display of the consistent good form in which he has raced throughout the year. The distance was a mile and seventy yards and. carrying 117, he led all the way and, running tlje first mile in 1:38, covered the distance in 1:43. and beat Buskin., 102 ionnds liy oi.half.length. . John, Fnrlong. 124-pounds, was third and the other starters were Loch lei, 10;;Adams Express, 12ti. Flabbergast, 102, and Ilssion," 107. The reconl-ot this Truly vgood race horse and his pedigree areiv-u . . Year. .AjfjeT .Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Won. 1912 2 0 4 1 0 1 ,155 1913 3 lU . . 8 4 1 1 12.840 Totals 2 .-.....-....,......,..20 , 12 5 1 2 5,995 .. - . , Voltigeur. j Voltaire .XVSXL? " ,,-Bllet......,.......i v Martha Lynn v SirTsoh. - V - ; Calcutta..; Flatcatcher "v si, - I - -. " .--l a Miss Martin " " ;,-V "V :UaWet,w.... " aratogtpn j F-a-Ballagh . - i X . lr . i D.of Pantaloon f Jack- Point: ;.V: " V v - -Maggie B. B...... Australian - - s-- v - " , .-,.,. ."" Madeline " !: Glencoe J i - .".r- - C Vandal -I- : -." -f ""..-.. .v3 - Alaries dam v- 2 ;lrerry?MaidenJ J O Bmenla. 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