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ROMANCE OF CESAREWITCH How Cleopatras Sale Caused Bracket to Go to Mrs. Robinson Immense Betting. BY E. E. COUSSELL. LONDON, England, October 20. The Cesarewitch is the most popular handicap, of the English racing season. It is run over two and one-quarter miles with only one turn, the last mile and a quarter being quite straight. This year the contest attracted the greatest crowd ever seen at Newmarket. The weights were published six weeks before the decision of the race. Before the weights appeared the three-year-old filly Bracket was favorite aud all these weeks she was prominent in the wagering. As is known, she justified the confidence of her admirers by winning easily. The stable immediately associated with Bracket are reported to have won about 50,000. Another wealthy owner and big bettor is stated to have profited 50,000 by the fillys success. Immense sums were lost on the favorite Blue Dun and also on Holbeach. Neither made any show. Blue Dun was in a highly nervous, state and beaten before she was saddled. Indeed, for over a week prior to the race Newmarket, where she is trained, was almost solidly against her chance of success. Holbeach was too big for his small rider. When there were only five furlongs to go the issue appeared to rest between Bracket, Brance and Front Line. Brance, a son of Buckwheat, which might have brought off a 40-to-l chauce, was beaten at two miles, when.Front Line went ahead. He is a horse of one pace and lacks that final dash of speed so essential. Two hundred yards from the finish Bracket passed him and won by two lengths, from the other thirty starters. The owner of Front Line told me after the race that the two lengths made a difference of 90,000 to him. Mr. Whalen, who has dene a lot of racing in India, nevertheless won 0,000 in "place money. , , . , The winner is an attractive looking filly, which appeared fit and cool. She has been consistent all the year and before she went out to win her race appeared to many shrewd critics as possessing a most excellent chance. She was bred by her owner, Mrs. Gilbert Robinson. The breeding in a way has some reference to American breeders. In 1913 Mr. Gilbert Robinson, who owned a couple of mares, only decided to sell them. One of them was Gnllice, in foal to Corcvra, which was bought for Mr. Arthur B. Hancock, and the mare went to Kentucky. In 1917 she foaled the filly now known as Cleopatra. In the December sales, 1910, Mrs. Robinson thought she would like to own a mare, so she gave 50 for Simonath, an eleven-year-old daughter of St. Simon, which was in foal to Cantilever. The resulting produce was Bracket. Simonath ran once only unplaced. The Duke of Portland bred her and sold her to Sir John Robinson for ,100 when three jears old. Sir John had no luck with her and his ill fortune continued when, after mating her with Cantilever, he sold her. Philomath, the dam of Simonath, never raced, and foaled a fair colt in St. Oswald. Brackets third dam Chrysolis, was a high-class mare, which produced Philomel, which won the Liverpool Cup, and Laodamia. which won five good races, including the Doncaster Cup, aud ran third in the Cesarewitch, carrying top weight. King Edward gave 7,500 for her in 1897, but she failed to produce anything of merit. Chrysolis was by Lecturer Winged Bee, a family that enjoyed considerable fame on the Irish Turf about seventy years ago.
