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WEIGHING IN By EVAN SHD7MAN Continued from Page Fifty-Two done what not even the great Roseben was able to accomplish, "The Big Train," with 135 up, having run second to Glorifier back in 1907. Going back to the long-ago chart of Rosebens Carter, we find, however, that it was not weight that beat him, but rather bad racing luck. It was his first start of the season, and. he was an outsider in the wagering, going to the post, for once, at odds of 8 to 1, while something called De Mund was the choice in the large field at 13 to 5. Roseben, according to the chart" footnotes of Daily Racing Form, was "bumped and knocked back in the first furlong, then closed an immense gap and finished with a tremendous burst of speed." Looking at the cold figures, he was eleventh at the head of the Aqueduct stretch, eighth at the furlong pole, and was beaten a length and a half for it all, conceding .the winner 16 pounds. It was certainly a great race, but thats the kind we have come to expect of Tom Pool, and we are wishing the latter better fortune in his brave attempt than that experienced by Roseben. AAA When Billy Ames, major-domo at Nar-ragansett, paid New York racing a visit recently, he was full of the New England exploits of Mrs. E. duPont Weirs astonishing importation, Royal Vale, and it was not hard to guess that Ames covets this one as an entry for the Narragansett Special next September. The transplanted English horseman had nothing but praise for the transplanted English horse, going so far as to hazard the opinion that Royal Vale might,* conceivably, have accomplished that rarest of all doubles — Cesarewitch and the Cambridgeshire. Naturally, such a feat depends to a great extent on the none too tender mercies of the handicapper, and Royal Vale, we both were forced sadly to concede, has now "shown his hand" in no uncertain manner. What Ames was really driving at was that here was a horse who looked capable of both the nine-furlong distance of the Cambridgeshire and the gruelling two and a quarter miles of the Cesarewitch. It was alo accomplished by the English filly, Plaisanterie, as a three-year-old in 1885, but we doubt if there is a more modern instance. The late Jacques Wittoucks Palais Royal II. captured the Cambridgeshire in 28, and since he was a good third in the Ascot Gold Cup, the Cesarewitch could have had no terrors for him, but he was not started. The Macomber Stable, then a power in French racing, did succeed in 25 with a Cambridgeshire-Cesarewitch double, but that was with two different horses, Masked Marvel IT. and Forsetti.
