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c I j j , 1 i I I I i , ! 1 1 1 1 1 - . I -, ; $ . . , 1 4 . t i; j j I U ;j 0 0 1 2 9 PETER PANS TURF CAREER m Sire of Tryster and Prudery a Remarkable Racer. ! 0 i Won 16,450 in Two Years Eacing- Best Three-Year-Old of 1907. Tin; marked success of Tryster and Prudery in the racing; of 1520 brings their daddy, Peter Pan. into greater prominence as a sire than ever before. True. Peter Pan has sired other excellent race horses, such as tlie Futurity winner Pennant, Casle-ton. a stake Winner and one of the fastest sprinters in England, Panoply, Out the AVay, Flibbertygib-bet. Peter Piper. Vexatious. Exodus and others. However, in Tryster and Prudery good judges believe Peter Pan has sent to the races two horses that, will make the son of Commando as famous in the stud as he was on the race course. Peter Pan was the product of the lale James It. Keenes famous Castleton Stud and brought Die largest price of any Keene horse at the dispersal sale of that noted turfmans racing and breeding establishment. Peter Pan was a remarkable race horse and unquestionably. the best three-year-old of 1907. This is saying a groat deal for a colt, of tin? year in which such other grand young racers of that age as Ballot. Salvidere. Frank Gill. tioiJeor, Montgomery. Dinna Ken and McCarter formed a collection probably iineoualed in any other year. Peter Pan was a superb colt of great speed, a stayer and a weight-carrier of high class. As a two-year-old Peter Pan was in the first flight and winner of the Surf Stakes at Slieopshead Bay. Flash Stakes and Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga and a purse. In the Hopeful Stakes be carried 130 pounds and ran three-quarters in 1:12,.-,, a great performance, lie was secoud to Water Pearl in the Double Event and third to Salvidere and McCarter in the Saratoga Special. He ran fifth in the Futurity with 127 pounds up when not at his best. He went into winter quarters with the reputation cf being a good colt, but not the equal of Salvidere or Electioneer. Peter Pans first start as a three-year-old was for the AVithers Stakes. To the surprise of all concerned Frank Gill beat him out by a neck in 1:40. All carried 120 pounds and Saraciuesca was third. His next start was for the Carlton Stakes at Graves-i :in. He was beaten again. This time his conqueror was Dinna Ken. but he had to run the mile in 1:38 Jf. to do it. breaking the track record. He carried 111 pounds to Peter Pans 122 and Avon by half a length. Charles l-M wan I was third. Then Peter Pan won the rich Belmont Stakes from his stablemate. Superman. Frank Gill was third. It was 120 pounds for all. with no time taken. The tinier started his watch at the wrong place. Next, he tcok the Standard Stakes fiom Electioneer and Flip Flap easily, one and one-quarter miles, in 2:05s.-,. and won the Brooklyn Derby over a heavy track in 2:41 from Paumonok. Yankee Girl. Frank Gill and Oran. In the Tidal Stakes it was easy for him to defeat Hickory and Paumonok in 2:07-.-, for the mill? and a quarter, but in the first running of tlie Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes, at a mile and a half, he ran unplaced to Frank Gill. Montgomery and Salvidere. He had up 12! pounds and led for a mile and a quarter, but severe racing with Salvidere told and he unexpectedly tired. Then lie redeemed himself in tlie Advance Stakes by running away from Salvidere, Flip Flap. Montgomery. Kun-ning Water and two more, one and throe-eighths miles, in 2:20. Peter Pans last and greatest race Was for the 5.1100 P.rightoii Handicap, in which, carrying 115 pounds and giving weight to everything in the race, he ran a mile and a quarter in 2:037.-, and won from a crack band of the best handicap horses in this country. McCarter, 101, being second and Montgomery. 109. third. Tlie story of this race is worth repeating. Peter Pan was a hot favorite. The rank and file of the racegoers had sublime faith in the great three-year-old and swamped the ring witli their wagers. Peter Pan was ridden by Joe Notter. who at the time was a diminutive lightweight knocking at tlie door of fame. The issue after the first half mile was strictly confined to tlie three horses placed at the end. McCarter. with Miller up. as was to be expected. beat the others away and made tlie running. For the first mile Miller kept looking back at the others. He did tli is so often and his horse seemed tt be run- ning so powerfully under him that ultimate victory for McCarter was freely predicted even before half tlf gcing had been negotiated. Montgomery, in the meantime, was always in near and close pursuit, but Miller apparently was not exercised over the horses close proximity, but was looking for some one moie formidable. This was .Peter Pan. of course, which, during the early running, was so far hack that he was invisible to the leader. The Tavorite got away slowly, hemmed in on both sides and did not loom up until beginning the turn into the hackstrotch. He made up ground slowly, but surely, the third quarter; more rapidly on the turn, and finally, after having passed Montgomery, challenged McCarter in the last quarter with an expiring and heroic burst of speed, getting up to win right at the end in the most wonderful exhibt-I tion of gameness ever witnessed anywhere, Peter Pan was injured in that race and his re- tirement to tlie stud followed. During his two years I of racing he won ten out of seventeen races and 10,150 in turf prizes, as the following summary discloses: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. AVon. 1900 2 S 4 1 1 2 9.650 1907 3 9 0 2 0 1 80.790 Totals 2 17 10 3 1 3 16,450 .
