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I , i i . i I I i ; ! PLEASED WITH BELMONT MEETING I Attendance Was Exceptionally Good and Racing Hijh-Cass in Every Respect. New York. June 19. — Belmont Park wound mi its ■ racing season Saturday in a most satisfactory manner. Throughout the meeting the attendance was exceptionally good, iu fact, far better than anticipated and Saturday there were easily 20.000 on hand to watch the battle of three-year-olds in the historic r.-lmoi-.t Stakes. They witnessed a horse race, too — one that will live in the records of the running of the event, on •] account of its uncertainty up to the last eighth. For three-eighths of a mile War Cloud and Johren had a head and head battl . neither one showing any signs of going away until nature was exhausted. It was a breathless contest from the moment Ioftus made his move with War Cloud to go to the front five-eigl ths from home, only to Is- followed and quickly joined by Robinson on Johren a niomeut later. Robinson had orders to watch Loftus and War Cloud and from the moment the harrier was raise. 1 Robinson never had his eye off the horse lie knew r he had to beat. t Loftus knew he had a hard horse to beat in Job- • ren and he used every device he know to get War I Cloud home for ".r. M.-icomber. but without avail. Whether Johren will continue to beat War Cloud t on other tracks later in the year remains to be » seen, but it was almost unanimously conceded after the Belmont Stakes, that Johren is the champion ] three-year -old so far shown. "Horses for courses may enter into the argil- ment ar Aiiueduct. Empire City ami Saratoga, how- 1 ever, and War Cloud may be a far better horse on i a track like Aotioduct. where the footing is different ; from that at Helmont Iark. The same can be said of Empire City. Saratoga will lie an enigma for all t IMM until it has been tested, as it is a perfectly uew course as yet untried. . MAT HAVE TR0T/BLE WITH OTHERS. What Johren will do with Iapp. Sun Briar. Jack . Hare Jr. and other stars of last year, if they ever . return to their two-year-old form, is a matter of . conjecf.ir.. but ill boating War Cloud it can safely j b.- asserted that Johren will lie the choice of the ] populace in the tliri e-year-old races until some j other horse has shown superiority. j Sarauel Hildreth bemoaned his ill luck because 1 Lucullite had to be withdrawn and further, that he , did not buy Johren a short time ago when he could have purchased him for 5,000. "I dont know why I did not get him." said Hil dreth. "I knew he was a really good horse and I made a mistake when I did not take him. It is • simply one of the opportunities 1 missed. While t Lucullite is a good horse, he has certainly been un- t lucky for Major Belmont. He may shake the jinx ; off later on and give some of the three-year-olds an nrgument. but in the meantime all these rich i plums an* falling into tiie laps of other owii-rs." i In commenting on the outcome of the Belmont ! Stakes, in which Johren showed himself a true stayer, a well known breeder remarked that, while i he had the stoutest blood of England through his • sire. Spearmint, he also inherited through his granddam. Hurley Hurley, a daughter of Riley, by i Longfellow, the best blood in our American pedigrees. Hut ley Hurley was the dam of that good horse. Burgomaster. The improvement in Jehrcns condition since his first appearance on the Maryland tracks last spring has been remarkable, and those who were unwilling to concede his gn-atne-ss at that time, said they had no reason to doubt that he was a good horse." a
