New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-21
RACING AT MONMOUTH PARK.
A DULL DAY AT THE LONG BRANCH TRACK.
EIzABETH L. CARRIED OFF THE PRODUCE


STAKES.
One of the largest turf multitudes that nave
gathered at az Eastern race-Coursc since the
Fourth Of July assembled at Monmouth farK
Yesterday, and was intensely disappointed ey
the tame and unattractve racing. Mr.. Woioo't
and his associates in the Monmouth PARK As"
cistiop had done all that they could 10 secure
q lively and noteworthy afternoon VI sport, but
neither the Owners nor the trainers h"a
responded WELL and the racing was
comparative failure. Whea MI. Woeo.'
generously added very handsome cup whlch
cost him 81 900, TO the Choice Stakes, he had
right to expect that a fair field would run ioT
the prize But the affair a virtual walk
over for I.ampligh,er, who the mile and a half
IN the contemptibly slow time Of 2:3s. ARA,
carving l22 pounds to ISmplighters III, was No
match at all for Lsmplighter. and could not make
him run rapidly Trainer Rogers who had charge
Of Iamplighter until after this race, had not
wound him up for severe struggle, and the colt
looked soft and high in flesh. lie lathered
all over slow az the time was, and II lorkvlle
Belle had started in the Choice Stakes, the
chances are that Iampghter would have been
defeated If Colonel McLewee had not lost hl-
father a few days ago, and if 7. A. Ehret had
Aeen at the track it is probable that iorkVllie
Belle would have won the Choice Stakes, and
s,,sve decorated the Ehret sideboard for genera
i,ions. Pierre Lorillard has legions of cups and
rxod and silver trophies. won by his horses ID
ENGLAND and Amerca. He did not need this
cup and lie could well have spared II 10 ti'e
.Ehrets IL would have been Inuch-adihlre"
Permanent in the Ehret ancestral Castles IN
Germany Mr. Allen il one OF
Ethe most courteous, amiable anu
conscientious trainers III the country b"' "o :"
over-cautious lie hates to start any horse III any
race for fear that the horse may not WIN Il
a. Ehret and Colonel Mcl@wee had o'Fh u.
either side OF him, to sten his backbone, he might
,hays consented to start Iorkville Belle ana 'nae
artistic and exquisite Choice Stakes cup woula
have fallen to the empress Of the three-year-od
allies of the East the imperial forkvile Belle.
lit ia true that there are valuable stakes that
Norkvile Belle may yet win this year, but cups are
scarce and when she has chance 10 capture cups,
she ought 10 run for them
IL NAV be that Mr. Lorillard did not pay an
excessive and extravagant price for l.amphgh'cf'
when he gave his check for $4,000 for tI'a'
colt, but the probabilities are that ne dd Lamp
/. lighter may be worth that amount OF money. but
neither last year nor this year has ne pceh All
;sllconquering racer of the class Of Duke Of
Magenta, lake Blackburn and Hndo0. aud it is
by no means certain that he is the best Arncri-
can three-yesr-old of 1885,?
Kilkenny has improved amazingly in a few
DAYS. Recently ho was defeated by Siephon Yes
terday in the fire race he ontTan, without dlfli-
Guilty, the favorite Pickpocket tone of the most
7Over-ratel colts in the history of racing Russell
Fred Tara and others
The greatest generals, the greatest poets. the
greatest preachers and the greatest jockeys some
times make mistakes. Among American jockeys
three stand out as superior to all otherS-CarT-
49, ls,,t Lurri *
at fault Fitzpatrick lost with Slcipner the
other day that he ought to have Won easily, and
[Tsral lost the rich Produce Stakes with 81 900
: added money, by sluggishness. apathy and bad
Judgment When Wacott X Campbell bought
fEagle Bird for $4,000, they had the Produce
Stakes in mind. 1t was a valuable prize, but
owing to the peculiarly "cranky" conditions de-
Sised by Mr.. Wthers, the number of void entries
rand declarations was huge. aud few youngsters Of
'any class of value were lift in. The race was in
tended be rival 10 the Futurity, but Mr.
IMithers had too many eccentric notions IN his head
no cope with the FuturiJy. If Tara had not been
Ssverconfdent and careless and had gone Oh
steadily with Eagle Bird from the fall OF the flag
to the finish, Eagle Bird must have won the
Produce Stakes But he dawdled and DELAYED, and
let W. H. Landmarks Elizabeth i. get q long lead
that he did not quite succeed in closing up. Eliza
beth l.. won the prize By head. Even the bss'
of our Jockeys seemed to be spoiled al times and to
become extremely careless.
j. b IIaggin appears TO have Gone a posi-
tive injury 10 the American turf, when he i'm
ported Sir Modred. Tournament, Sir BONN and
| Comanche are typical specimens OF Sir Modreds
get. All have won good races, but all OF them
tumble out of form with Etwdering swift
ness and fall below selling-plate class in fash
The Sir Modred stock is one of the least trust
kYONthy and salts facsOlb! ever 1ufoduced IN
America. Conanche had some backing IN the
produce Stakes, In fact. was second cholce.
sdo better at Sheepbead's Bay but his recent
Eat Monmouth Park have been dismal In the eX-
tremc.
Reckon won the fourth race at mile and a
quarter In the fast time, for the circular course OF
9 :06 1-2. She must have paid u visit 10 New-st
since her last previous race But Dogee't couid
Sleipner, if he had not lain ont Of il for mile:
This boy is pulled up amazingly WITH the laea Oh
his own Importance at present. But he thre" away
i1he race by the groseest incapacity
, Estelle is wonderfully fast with light weight
at mile or less; She ran away with the sixth sixth
race, and was bid up. The second and third
horses in this race we're in the same stable The
genius who overdid the racing rules so as to
4, allow stable to start more than one horse in
"a selling race. ought 10 he set in a corner for
ever with ounces cap on his mead
All Tammany Hall backed Reginald in the
fifth race, and he won easily. ialnmany now has
plcnty Of funds for the camraign
There were seven races Yesterday, and IT ought
TO have occurred - the dullest intellect that IT
would be popular idea TO shorter the lnteTya a,
was Lamplighters practical walkoverl' and so let
the spectators get home early. Bnt In some
features Of turf management the lack Of ordinary
intelligence simply takes ones breath away.
DETAILS OF THE RACING.
FIRST RACE-Sweepstakes $1,000 ADDED One mile
and sixteenth.
s,s... BettlcQ.
St. Pl.
Rspcocas Stables br. c. Kilkenny. by Dore
'JlI bin--K airline 3 VS. III n (famltonl - VI
Brown & Rogers br. c. Pickpocket, ., III
. - - (Sinsj . 1i-3 80
j. A. A. II. Morrs's b. c. Russell T. l22
49, (I.ittlefeid 8 81 u
Fred Tarsl, g.. (MeCafertyl u 60
Affshaft, y, lO4 liLaihpe.)V
yAvonia g. (Eeisen II %
Snowball T. llJ...-.--.-.--...----(i rs( - 10