Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-14
FIRENZI BEATS RILEY.
And Terrifier Wins From Kingston Through
HamiItOn's Mistake.

And TerrIfier Wins From Kingston Through
HamiItOn's Mistake.
Firenzi demonstrated to the satisfaction of
racing men yesterday at Jerome Park, when
she beat Riley and Raceland for the champion
stakes, that che is the real queen Of the turf.
The 5000 persons present gavo the beautiful
mare warm greeting and generous support in
the betting ring. sending her to the post the
warmest of favOrites Barnes waited until the
final quarter Of a mile with her, and then TAX
ing the lead won handily. Riley second and
Raceland third. The feature Of the days sport,
outside of Firenzi's victory. was Hamilton s
stupid riding of Kingston in the Orange stakes
that usually careful jockey pulling the favorte
up Mt the old finish, thus enabling Littlefeld to
60 on and win with TERRIER.
FirenZi was great favorite for the Champion
stakes. opening at even money and receding to
three to tive at the post. allen b. Morris said
that he had a good horse in Riley. The Long
fellow colt looked fine as at any time this
year, and when he breezeti through the stretch
with his CHARACTERISTIC rocking-horse motion
the talent agreed that he would make the queen
run some and would defeat Raceland TO a GER
tainty tor the place. Mr.. Dwyer and his friend,
were afraid of FirenZi. but thought the gelding
| could just about take Riey's measure.
No time was lost at the start, Covington tax
ing Riley to the front at once for it was plain
pace, and Riley's only chance lay in keeping
things a boiling from end to end. Passing the
stand Riley was length and a-half before
Eirenzi, who had Raceiand at her tail. Around
Picnic hill Covington attempted to steal away a
trifie, but FirenZl and Old Bones chung to him
and coming to the club house bluff they were
running i'll Indian file, length apart
As they made the turn for the run past the
south field Hamilton shot through aud beat
FirenZi for the rail, Barnes making no effort to
was still in front, but they neared the home
stretch both Riley and Rscelaud were under
pressure, while Firenzi WAS going handiiy, with
Barnes sitting on her like a statue
Two to one Firenzi WINS" shouted an ex-
cited Onlookcr, and the words had scarcely
passed his lips when the bonny mare strobe to
the front.
Yes, and Raceland beats Riley" cried an
other man. as the old gelding moved up and
collared Ed. Corrigan's bulldog and headed
him for Il moment. Covington gave Riley
three or four savage cuts with his whip, and
the our-yesr-old tackled the old gelding in a
hight for second place. FirenZi had the race
secure and Barnes, turning in his saddle
watched the battle between Riley and Race
land. Raceland could never quite overhaul
Riley again and the three passed the wire necks
apart FirenZis mouth was open and she
could have won way OIL. From now OF the
queen will give any horse on the turf race at
IA mile and half. 1t was genuine pleasure to
ton, and beat such horses as Riley and Race
h.nd 80 cleyerly.
KINGSTON BEATEN.
The Orange stakes will long be remembered
by N. F. Dryer, owner of Kingston one of the
greatest race horses this country has ever seen;
Jockey II lmilton. who rode the brown horse
and by those who put up $1,000 to win 800 or
800 to $40 on Kingston. There were but
three starters for the stakes, Kingston Territier
and Annie, the latter being put III ut the
eleventh hour. Kingston fnvOrite, of
course, 10 to on being the prevailing quota
ton all over the ring, while it was Is to l
against 1errlher ana almost any odds against
Annie.
TERRIER was the pacemaker and surprised
everybody by giving Kingston quite an argu-
| ment in the hOmestretch, where Hamilton
| moved off with the favorite. Hamilton kept
| the brown nose under an easy pull after getting
his head and neck i'll front and fifteen or twenty
| yards from the old finishing line Littleteld
stopped riding Territier. This gave Hamilton
| the impression that the finish Was at the regu-
| lar stand instead OF a furlong below, and when
! the pair had passed the regular line Hamilton
| lowered his head and dropped his hands on
| kIngston's shoulders. The favorite stopped
| very quickly and Wyndham Walden, who trains
| for the Messrs Morris, shouted to Littlsheid,
| go Oh, Fred
The boy dug his heels into Terfifer's sides.
| and before Hamilton could realize what was
up the three-y ear-old was length away. Then
it all flashed across his befuddled brain and the
words Finish here on the screen a furlong
away looked Is big as a house. He sat down
and got kingston going again. but failed to get
up In time, Territier winning by q short neck.
When the spectators saw Hamilton pull up
| they were dumb with surprise, but when it was
clear that the brown horse beaten the air
was lively with words that wOuldnot look we'll
in print.