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| WEIGHING IN By EVAN SHIPMAN Continued from Page Four 0 horses parade beneath the leaves of trembling sycamores is as welcome during the heat as a long, cool drink. The . other tracks we have mentioned make much of flowers, their bloSm decorating every idle space, but Delaware relies on the various shades of green inherent in deep woods, the coolest of colors, and, in this particular locale, we can only applaud the restrained, temperate choice. Far be it from us to attempt to edit another newspapers copy, but there are so many errors of fact in a column of yesterdays edition of a prominent New Mondays edition of a prominent New York paper, all dealing with a sport for which we have a special affection, that we must rise in our wrath. In writing of William H. Cane and the Hambletonian festival at Goshen, this columnist began by saying that Cane "conceived" the race. Wrong. It was "conceived" by George Reno, brother-in-law of the late William Monroe Wright; Joe Markey, a great turf journalist, and Wright, himself. Wright, who founded Calumet. Farm, provided the "sinews of war." Cane had nothing to do with it. This columnist also says, "For four years it was a bust." Wrong again. The Hambletonian brought the largest receipts to I the Syracuse State Fair that that great meeting had ever known. He continues to say that Canes filly, Nedda Guy, favorite when the race had already reached Goshen in 31, "fell into the dust. She had broken a bone in her foot." Wrong, once again. Nedda Guy never fell. She finished that heat, and well up, although she did not win. It was discovered later that she had fractured her pelvic bone. Finally, he says that, in the next years renewal, Brown Berry "crossed his front legs which 30 feet in the lead, collapsed in a heap, threw Fred Egan underneath the carriage, but Egan managed to right the sulky and horse to finish the race, a rare accomplishment to say the least." It certainly would have been a rare accomplishment had it ever taken place that way! As it actually happened. Brown Berry and Mary Reynolds were racing, side by side, through the long Goshen stretch, and, about the furlong pole, Brown Berry stumbled, losing ground, and his driver, Egan, did lose a stirrup. The colt did not fall, nor did the stumble cost him more than a couple of lengths. So much for the legends that grow up -around a great race. But in the profusion, let us not forget the final error in this copy. We read that Cane "broke two legs driving in a Hambletonian." No, no, and again no. Bill Cane never drove in a Hambletonian stake. He did, however, drive in many races, and those legs were broken years before the Hambletonian ever came to Goshen at the Munrose, New York Orange County circuit meeting.
