St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-14
TRIED The HORSES.
Tupfmen Absorbed in Trying
to Pick the Brooklyn
Handicap Winner.
Nearly All the Entries Given
Their Preliminary Trials
Yesterday.
Judge MORROW and Charade
Go the Route in Good
Time.
LampIighter's Trial Watched
by horsemen Represent
ing $100,000,000.

New York; May l8.-Who will win
he Brooklyn hadicap for 1898?
That's the one absorbing question at
present among the followers of the turf
in this section of the country,and it will
be decided next Mondayatternoon at the
Brooklyn Jockey clubs race track at
Gravesend. the clubs spring meeting
will open on that day, and it also marks
The opening OF the racing season of the
state. From Then until next October,
there will bf racing daily in this
vicinity, the Zones alternating between
Gravesend, dheepshead Bay, Morris
Park, IMonmduth Park and Brighton
Beach. The devised list of starters and
the conditions for the big race follow:
Fourth raci, the Brooklyn handicap,
for three-yeaf-Oids and upwards, $500
each, half forfeit, or $50 if declared the
club TO addi an amount necessary to
make the Waite of the stakes $1,000, of
which the second horse shall receive
$4,000, and the third horse $1,000;
weights to he announced Feb. |, and
declarations TO be made by Feb. 20; one
mile and a quarter Starters: Pick
pocket, 1O3, &. Taylor; Fidelio,
los. j.. L22mleyi Banquet i16 ,roE 1ss,
mo1t Raceland, 1l6, LamIey; Leon
awell, 10, Doggett; Charade, 1O5,
c. Sloan; Hume, %, Noble; Judge Nor
row, 1l6, a. Covington; Russell, 1l2,
Penn; Mars, ia, Littlefield; Lamp
lighter. 125. Simms; Diablo, 1l2, Iaral;
Terrider, lOS +. DUane.
Preliminary Trials.
For the past two weeks the handicap
candidates have been given preliminary
trials. but in the majority OF cases the
final questions were postponed until to-
day or tomorrow. The questions today
were not asked in as decided manner
as many expected. Work, owing to a
drizZling rain, did not begin until late.
In spite of the weather, there was a
large crowd to see the gailOps.
First came grand, raCy-lOoking
thoroughbred horse, accompanied by
rather ragged looking bay colt, and they
logged around the circuit for mile.
Everybody had recognized the royal
looking bay horse as Judge Morrow, son
of Vagab0nd and Moonlight, and his
companion as Hume, the fOur-year-Old
colt by The Ill-USed- Bayadere. Aleck
COYington was IN the saddle on the
Judge, while young Noble held the
reins on Hume. Old Green Morris,
hero of many stirring scene
in South and West, gave the
signal for test trial and the
horses were off together at full speed
for the brooklyn handicap distance.
The two set Il steady pace from the
start, COyngtOn, on the Judge, evidently
having stable orders not to do anything
hvil nj IX IN ST a n
Hume was running free, but even then
it was evident that the four-year-old
colt was not good enough to push Nor
row out. The time for the mile and a
quarter was 2:l4, made by some watches
2:1415. Judge Morrow, under a pull,
finished a length and half better than
Hume, and had rot turned hair.
TyO-XeaT-OIds Out.
Then there was a wait. Big banks of
vapor rolled in from the sea and it still
drizzled. Some Of the youngsters in the
two-year-old division were hustled
around the track; but the horSemen
wanted royal game. Muffled up in their
great coats they alternated growing at
the weather and the delay. Neverthe-
less the volunteers all showed in good
form. Sir MUdred and st. Julian, who
start in the Expectation stakes, made
fast half miles and promise to be up
near the haHdwagOn on the day of the
race. Then some sprinters and purse
horses had an inning, DR.. HaSDrouck
making the fastest three-fourthS Of the
mOrning-1:13.
Then there was buzz Of converse
ton. The Pill Dwyer handicap cham
piOn, LeOnaWell. was seen to come out,
and had his preparatory gallop. so as to
warm him up. Jimmy Lamley was on
the little son of Leonatus. He was
under a pull. He made the mile and
furlong in 81, pulled up. 1t was good
work, as the iirst three-eighlhs was
done with his bead in the air. The mile
and a quarterwas done in 2:13.
Michael Dryer holds a good hand
with Banquet, Raceland and Nomad.
The latter's mile was recorded in 1:50,
the five-eightlls in 1906. and the three
fourths in 20. When Banquet came
out there was decided stir among the
horsemen and trainers, as he is looked
upon by all good judges as a dangerous
factor in Mondays race. The son of
RayOn GOr, however. was not sent at
the top notch of his speed. His work
was useful and level, however, and the
mile and turlong, which he covered IN
2O5 was done in fashion that caught
the crowd. .Raceland, not looked
upon this spring as his Old-tlme
self, was the only one of the Dwyer lot
to go TO the full handicap distance.
Like Banquetiand Nomad, he was not