New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-14
THE GREAT HANDICAP FAILS
MISS woopFoRD MAKES WILD WORK OF IT.


CAPS DISAPPOINTING ALSO.
J. G.. X. Lawrence, secretary and official
handicapper OF the Coney Island Jockey Club, has
discovered new principle In handicappng'
which makes both the theory and practice OF such rldcu
lous old oges Admiral Rous the Messrs WeatDeroy,
Charles wheatly and Captain Coster appear amazing
and unaccountabe by contrast tradition has
come down from the early days OF the
turf that the way to make good, close race
is to put weight the best horses and take 1t on the
poorest. This has been the method OF MI Lawrences
predecessors His plan is to take weight oil the DeSe
horses and pnt the poorest or course AIS intehoh
must be get up PROFESSIONS Instead Oh races'
and he must have been highly gratided yester-
day when he horses that ran In the Great East
ern Handicap strung for nearly furlong' wnle
Miss woodiord won by dozen lengths Ill canter'
Miss wOodfOrd had run seven times TINS year peoie
| Yesterday, aad had run so brilliantly thh
everyone considered her the best 1y of the year,
and equal TO any ihat have appeared for years
She has beaten just twice-once at Sar1toga Dy
Empress, when she suffering severely IRON an ALI
mept that for the time took away her speed and once at
Long Branch in the Monmouth Stakes, when she was
run only set the pace for the DeAeut
OF her stable companion George Kinney. mere
has never the sghest TO suppose that any
animal in America could give Miss woodtOld ten pounds
in race of mic and half, aud with perhaps bah
dozen exceptions a threeyear-od mas run TINS year
that she could not-wben wel-gve lopOuhd
beating. But MT Lawrence fdted hcr "s t"SN"
pounds below George Kinney eight pounds below
Drake Carter only pounds better than Blue Grass
Belle and only ten pounds better than Empress Before
she had qunrter-mie yesterday, inc
superb fily had shown the folly OF any snch
underestimate OF her powers With Miss wood
ford out, the Great Eastern Hnn3cap, wouiu
have been a race. With Miss Woodiord In, at 40
pounds 1t simply display OF her great superior
iiy, with struggle at ALL
II "a true that some OF the nine horses behind her
woula have been much nearer her dry track Car
nation cannot ut all Ia tine mud. and slps ana
founders about IN the most painful way Moreover
there a disappointment about her rider EVans nau
been engaged. but at the Last moment H. o. bernard'
Of the Clpsana Stable forbade bDl 20 rue as 10
had suddenly concluded Pixies Pride SO jockey
was put mp In whom the owners of Carnation put 10
faith simply because other was to b. got ut so late an
hour Auy who the real capacity oil Cara-
ton by Der running yesterday will be sadly In error
Drake Carter rank aud out OF form ana
could not have won anyway. But the mud crippled him
aoeether with the fact that he treated unfairly at
tn. start SIR. Caldwell dropping the flag when he was
far behind Dir. Lorard is finding his $4,000 purchase
"A costly bargain. for Drake Carter ID delicate and Dard 10
train and has been fully himself since he changed
owners ". H. scotts three ran up 10 expectation,
Referee getting second place aud All Hands Around
third Bowie's FLIES, Empress and Bessie. failed
iamcntaby.
Mr. Lawrence had an unbroken OF success with
his peculiar system OF handicaps yesterday
AranZa away from Der heid III the
second race the Miss WOodfOrd style. Apollo did
likewise In the fourth OF q miles, aud Disturbance
followed their example H. the seepcciase The oldest
ircquener OF the turf cannot recall day when ieur
handieaps all furnished such singular rcsult4
Dan X won the first selling race without hurrring
himself and Weasel inated him In tho second AFFAIR
OF that kind. There nothing approaching
a sharp struggle In any of tho SIX socaled races
The track OF course deep IA mui. but htue ram
fell and thousands OF people present one end
auce was large though the weather was so or0iddngl
| were put 10 no serious discomfort
There seems to be 10 rceson why Dan X
should not go and win one selling
race every day for OF the meeting lie Il just In
the humor lhc clear. sucu affairs are
fares OF the worst kind
Arauza seems Tx, the mud. But she Il exceedingly
uncertain. la her race she may suk and be beaen
badly
The starler was extremely unfortunate yesterday.
Three OF his starts mtoeraby bad lie LETT slOeum
post In the srconl race, treated Drake Carter
almost IA uuusty u the third aud stopped the ayonte
Black Gal in tlc ith. Bui the Executive Committee
thought that sax the rider OF slOcu. did moi try to get
oil and suspended aim zoe the meeting.
Apollo 40 pears he getting back the form which be
showed when he when the KcntuoSy Derby last
year.
New st.eliechassrs OF good quality needed jim
~
are only lea capable OF carrying anything Ike
decent weight
The Couey Island Jockey Club offers 81 500.to the
horse that will beat Lexngons tiine-7:l9S IN tine
Great Long Isianl stakes dash OF four miles, Oh
! september 80. the iast Gay OF the meeting
DAN n. WINS ANOTHER SELLING RACE.
First Race-Pursc $500 selling allowances; all ages;
| one mile Seven startcrs-IIcnners gcllng Dan X.
| sred % pounds Purcell Ackcrman's Geding Edwin
A. aged 90 Logan; Bucohs mare Helen Wallace. s. 30.
MAYNARD W. G. Days nifty swift g. o. Garrsoa -. Wal
denis oily Pear fnorne, g. -. j. Donoaue; McMalons
geding Lytton. 3. 81, Lewis; aud Excelsior stables
| eediug Quebec, t. %, McKenny. POols-Dan X 500,
Edwin A. So Helen Wallace $50 SWIM SO. Lytton $40
| Pearl Tborne So Books-Dan X. eyen Edwin A. 10
l. Helen Wallace to 1, swift TO |. Pearl Thorne 10 10
l. Lytion 10 to Quebec Is 10 l. Tne start was prompt
ana good swift ard ytton disputed the lead up to the
last quarter mile, where swift fell back ana Dan X went
| by Lytton without urging. winning by two lengths In
l;47 LYON second two lengths before Edwin a. third.
swift poor Ourth the struggling IN. Mutual pools
| $965
ARANzA RUNS AWAY PROM HER FIELD.
Second Race Handicap sweepstakes. $50 each $500
added 500 second rs miles Seven starters-With-
ers's gelding Duplex 4, Ia. McKenny; T. L0rlIards
marc Aranza, 3. 112. snauer; +. Ro5nson's eeldng
Lutte Fred T. 107 NJ. DOnohue; DwYer Brothers geld
Ing Wanderng, >, SO. Purcel; Forbes's mare Bonnie
Bird; aged, 1919. liz over, Jamison; Jenaingss nly
Farewell, A. 80. ConkIin; and Morris Paton's geld
Slocum. 3, -, Fox Pools-DupeNS1o, AranEa 500
Little Fred SiO slooun $40, Wandering S35, field S35
Books-Dupex TO 2. Aranza 10 1, Wandering 10 /.
Bonnie Bird to /, socum 10 10 |, Farewell 10 to /.
There was struggle Aranza getting away two lengths
in 'front.' taking such lead that none OF the others
could ever get her. Little Fred and Dnplex were
embarrassed by tie mud, ana showed no speed, the
ligh-weghted Farewell getting second place. Slocum
was left the post, ard cantered over the course
Arnnza won by over dozen len sths In 1859 Fare well
secoua hall lengths before Duplex, Bonnie Bird
a Door fourth Lutte Fred nlth and Wandering sixth
Mutual pools %l1 DO