New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-14
DOWN GO THE FAVORlTES.
STRANGE UPSETS AT MONMOUTH PAIN
TENNY RUNS LIKE A GUTENBERG CRIPPLE
TORSO AND LoNGsTREET DO LITTLE


fall as swiftly and hopelessly have the certificates
of the Lead Trust II racing Of the sort that has Deen
far too prevalent I'm the East this year Is 10 Do
continued. Let racc-goers once get Thoroughly coh
WINGED that owners, trainers and JOCKEYS di'
INSCRIPTIONS buncOsteerers or thIee-caru-moio
men, and that these trckstes VIII always fleece lo"
completely and mcrcllessly as the manipuaorS
Of the badger game do their work, and the 'o's
capitalization of the race track would not be worm
cents the dollar. Racing cannot prosper unless
ii has the confidence of the public. All the gaze re
ceps, all the added money TO stakes, all the purscs
finally from the pockets of the great mass
OF the people. They alone and no other support no
betting ring With its sixty boobmakcrs at Sl2o per
day, and If they come TO the conclusion that Il -
not fair game and that the gambling IS carried Oh
with loaded dice. they will stay away from the grounds
of the Jockey clubs and grass will soon be growing on
the homcstretches and around the turns. Is IL COM
mon sense TO suppose that thousands OF persons VIII
continue TO go 10 the races pay railroad iaeS DuS
grand stand tickets, pay more than city prices Ior
all they purchase at the tracks, and then VlSlt int
betting rings and lose their money, if they once mako
up their minds that they do not receive honest iIea
ment and that the racing associations, through ind
ference, apathy or negligence permit gangs of free
hooters TO make racing form of piracy instead oil
decent and legitimate sport
Never did a more suspicious. angry and dlsgusted
multitude leave Monmouth Park than that OF yes
terlav They may have been entirely wrong but
the great majority of them could not see any thing
credltable consistent in the running OF Ienny or
the victory of Reporter. Captain Brown, a year or
two ago. had something to say about certain Ken
lucky Derby in which he asserted that some fraud
was practlscd man who ready to criticisc
others ought TO cleanse bis stable without delay
No more scandaOus I'm and-out running has ever been
seen In a great American stable than the running OF
Reporter this year. In big stakes when there were
good odds against him. Reporter has shown good FORM
In purse races when the betting strongly In his
favor his running has been repeatedly OF the most
fearful and wonderful description. Whom Reporter
won the Stockton stakes yesterday so easily. some
one should have been called up and been asked to
explain the colts running Just week before. when
he failed 10 get a place.
II would have been we'll also 10 ask the owner
or trainer Of Tenny why a colt that well in the
Realization made miserable a show in the Mid
summer Handicap. No doubt the reply in both
cases would have been than when tho two colts
run badly they out of form. and when they run
brilliantly they in form. But owners and Jockey
clubs also will learn in time, if they do not know
It now, that unless they in some way secure
consistent running on the part Of their horses
racing viii fall into serious disrcpute II sank
into in the North during the twenty years previous
to the first meeting of the American Jockey Club
at Jerome Park in 1866. Unless such abuses as the in
and-ot running OF Such horses as Reporter Kenny
can be stopped. there is reason why betting on
races should be permitted at all. II would be very
EASY indeed, 10 secure the repeal Of the Ives Pool
Act In Ncw-York State. and II would be very easy 10
persuade the Legislature Of NewJersey that boolmskng
or any other form Of speculation racing should br
stained in that state and unless in way owners.
trainers and Jockeys prevail upon horses to display
a little more self respect and less regard for the
quotations in the bettlngrng, many people who have
- ~ al and
porers Of the best q the turf in the past will
Join in an agitation for such legislation shall sup
press entirely every form of speculation contests
between horses.
II was another day Of excessive humidity and
tormcnting heat. A great crowd writhed aud wiltcd
suffered and swctercd. steamed and slmmered al
Monmouth Park but what they saw in the
way of racing did not compensate them al all for the
agonies they endured from the dctestable weather
Orator was the favnrte for the first race, but Jay
+. Dee is better than before, and easily,
while c. W. Cook got second place and Tpstaf third
Orator ran poorly and came in fourth
Mr. Wthers however got ample consolation in the
Atlantic Stakes. Torso strong favorite with
Padlshah second choice. Torso led for nearly half
a mile but slipped and sprawlcd badly when he struck
a stretch of mud near the nIn into the homcstrcch.
and Mr. Withcrs's unnamed colt by stonehenge-
Eccoa, who had been running second shot by him in a
twukling and with his Hight weight, home alone.
winning he liked, while Mr.. Belmont's Clarendon
cot second place The Eqcoa colt has a great gift
Of speed but whar he viii with the full weight up
is doubtful. Torso IS often somewhat awkward In
handling himself Padshah, who backed almost
heavily Torro, was wholly unable TO give ten
pounds to the EccOla colt and TO his stable com
panion Clarendon.
After Tenny's remarkable races at Sheepshead Bay,
every turfman wildly eager to back him for the
Midsummer Handicap But Tenny never displayed
The aintct trace Of speed in the race and never
IN the first four. His owner Mr. Pulslfcr, declared
that he backed the colt, and could not account for
his Wrctched failure. Litlcfcld, who rode Tenny.
said that he could not make the colt extend
himself Tenny had no speed. and neither whip
spur could rouse him. This was very queer. The
Midsummer Handicap Is an important prize, well
worth the attention of owner and trainer and
well worthy of his best efforts to get colt IN proper
condition 10 win it, Badge the race somewhat
easily Bella B. second only a head before Tristan.
The bookmakers showed little fear Of Tenny, for It
was easy 10 get better odds against him at tho close
than at the opening.
After the stockton Stakes whispered word
about matching Longstreet against Salvador. Such
suggestion would have seemed tho lowest depth Of
imbeciy. The betting on Longstreet opened at to
on but the Dryers showed 10 eager
ness in Lacking him, and much money
was put on Reporter and Eric that when the
colts went to the post for the stockton
many boohmakers loudly Offering to 5 against
Longstreet for big sums Garrison rode the Dwyer
colt at five pounds overweight. Reporter led all
the way from start TO finish, and won lily In the
very slow time Of Q 10 3-4 The mile was made in
! :46-nO pace at all But slowly as the race
run, the pace too fast for Longstreet Sorrento,
Eric CynosIre and Phander, all Of whom ran like
sofshell crabs just after they have been fried in
batter. 1t was as CHASTITY an exhibition could be
found in any dissecting in the world. Here
Reporter. that only a few days ago could not
keep pace with Clifton skate, and
shamafuly beaten or. winning in
the easiest possible manner the rich
stockton stakes. and defeating the mighty Dwyer
" crack that they were frantic TO match agans.
Salvador for 100000 side.