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HAMBURGS SON BEATS ENGLISH RIVALS. New York. June 2. — American blood scored decisively in the first important test of speed and endurance of the year SB an eastern track between the two-year-olds of Kritish and home stock when Harry l.:.vi:e Whitneys strapping brown colt Ilwfa. pronounced hwoofa. whipped Omar Khayyam and Jack Mount yesterday afternoon at Piping Rock in the Invitation Sweepstakes of the Piping Rock Associations card and worth 90.900. Hwfa. named by Mr. Whitney for Hwfa Williams, manager of Sandown lark. one of Brest P.ritains famous race esarses, would have had stiffer opposition but for an epidemic of coughing accompanied by disquieting f.biile manifestations, which has prostrated nearly all the two-year-oltls of the great eastern stables. It is reported that his sggsaaatS, Omar Khayyam and Jack Mount, were respectively among the most highly thought of youngsters of English parentage in the stables of C. K. i. Hillings and iilTord A. Cochran, and the eagl-- screamed joyously when he galloped down in fro-it of them in BS%. According to the program, flu- distance of the Invitation Stakes was. ••about five furlongs," but Thomas Hitchcock, the | man who laid the course out. declares that it measures a full five-eighths antl a few feet more, perhaps. Moreover, there is a pronounced dip in it about a quarter of a mile from the finish, which makes it mole difficult than the conventional flat straightaway. The youngsters shouldered lis pounds apiece. Hwfa. Jersey -bred, almost black in color, is a son of the late Hamburg out of Dove-let, she a daughter of Peter Pan Cushat, and is descended on both sides of his house from Maiinie Gray, the dam of Domino, and the fouuder of about the most potent American family racing today. Standing 15 hands 2 1-2 inches on his plates. Hwfa is a horse of tin- Hamburg type and aopears easily the best two-year-old uncovered ill the" east so far. It is likely Mr. Whitney will find him worthy to carry on the line of Hamburg at Krookdale Farm, which the tenth of his sire last spring and the shipping away to Chili of Rurgoniaster. left without many male representatives in this country.
