The herald., 1893-05-21
TURF AND TRACK GOSSIP,
A Review of the Big Brooklyn
Handicap.
Diablo, Improved by His Rest Up,
Defeats the Giants.
Various Matters in tho Trotling and
Racing World la California aud 81
th Far East = This New
Distance Rules.

Well, the Brooklyn handicap OF 1893
is now piece of turf history, and the
enterprising firm OF Walcott & Campbell
has won it for the second time in four
years. Their last one was in 1890. when
they pulled off the prize with that
ching OF shreds and patches called
Castaway H., by the Virginia horse
Outcast. He was years old, and had
run more hard races than most horses OF
6, but Campbell is great renewer OF
exhausted energies, and got him out in
great shape for that event, and, as he
had only to carry 100 pounds In that, he
romped in ahead OF Badge, Erie, Como
to Taw, Los Angeles and four other IN
2:10. He opened at 30 to ! and closed
at 20 to L, 80 his party reaped g neat
harvest.
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This year they had avery considerable
margin over that race, good as that was.
The great Lorilard colt Lamplighter was
quoted az to S, Judge Morrow 8 to 1,
Banquet to |, Charade and RAceand
each to l, so that cords OF money
poured in on those horses, while the
ultimate winner was wholly neglected.
He opened so to |, and hold that way
until 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, when
his price began TO shorten. They had O
2-year-old called Black Hawk that b I'd
moved through the stretch along with
Diablo on the day before the race, but
the old horse could beat him very clsv.
erly, The race before tho Brooklyn WAS
q flyefurlorg spih for 2-year olds, in
which Black Hank ran the crack Cnat-
eau to head in fast tims. Walcott
had packed the black colt for a place and
won come $1,000 in doing 30. He imme-
diately etarted off and backed Diablo for
over $4,000, at odds varying from 80 to
down to 30 to l. He il reported to have
won $50, 600 outside of the stakes of the
race OF which the winners share WAS
$4,000 and the second horse $4,000.
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When Matt Byrnes was here last JAM
uary, the writer OF this article asked him
which OF these horses he deemed the
best-Salvator, Tammany or Lamp
lighter, and he said he preferred them
in the order named. On being asked his
reasons for this opinion, he said Salvador
had won the suburban OF 1890 with 127
pounds up and he had serious doubts if
either Tammanv or Lamplighter could
carry that weight to- victory this
year. He called attention TO
the fact that Salvador gave 10
pounds to the second horse 'Cassus' end
Tenny, to whom Salvador gave one
pound, could not come home within
three lengths of Cassius. That race was
run in 2:06 5 while this was run in
2:09, and yet DIablo carrying Eve pounds
more than Cassius did in that race, wins
by nearly two lengths from Lamplighter
who had up two pounds less than Saliva
tor carried. According to both tests,
time and weight, Salvador must be re.
garded q better horse than Lamplighter.
It nov remains TO be seen II Tammany
10 sxhnd ane.,sh ta- haaE-L.ana VI si.ta-ais..-
the SuDurbdu.
In the last number OF the New York
Spirit, "Augur" says: Mr.. James II.
Keene has, | am told, abandoned ths
hope OF importing the celebrated EGG
lish horse, Amphion. 1t lie known 10
several that last season Mr.. Keene made
overtures for the purchase OF this noted
racer. Mr.. Foxhall Keene has always
been extravagant in his praise of him.
He told me last summer that he consid-
cred Amphion the finest specimen of
blood horse he had ever beheld. An
American gentlemen made an offer of
II 900 guineas for Amphion last season,
bnt was told that another A nerican gen.
tleman had the refusal of the horse il
his owner concluded to sell, and every
one knew that Mr.. Keene WAS the
"other American gentleman" whose
name was not mentioned. But the
owner must have concluded not to
cell, as Mr.. Keene has since said he had
abandoned the idea. 1t is likely Mr..
Keene would have given 500 00O for the
horse. But it was Amphion's frat year
in the stud, and his owner remembered
Ormonde.
The Same writer also says, in speak
ing of the retirement OF Victory from the
turf:
In breeding Victory is superb. His
sire, Brag (sire of Burnptious), was by
Struan, by Blair Athol. Victor's dam,
imported Viola, is the mare which at
the Belmont gale sold to Mr.. s. Sanford
for $40, 800, the highest price ever paid
for brood mare in America. She was
by Kisber DERBY, 1870, dam Parma, by
ParLaesan; second dam Archeress, by
Longbow. Parma was a full sister to
the great mare Modena, one of the best
mares of her time. Viola's fourth dam,
Vibration, was full sister to Venus,
the third dam of ST. Blaise, both beirg
by Sir Hercules. dam Echo, by Emilius.
1t is in Victor's favor that he raced but
little as year-old, and that bis racing
career was short. He goes into the stud
fresh and full OF vitality. II l were q
breeder l should hesitate to breed from
o horse which had been raced hard and
trained many seaGons. 1t must impair
the nervous and physical forces. Most
of our horses nowadays are raced 80
hard and 30 long that they are unfit for
stud duty for several years, and often
they are abandoned becase they fail DUR
ing the first year or two.
Buckrene, the winner of the IroQuoig
stakes at Nashville, is by Buchanan, son
of imp. Buckden, out OF the blind mara
Irene, that few years ago came up out
OF the bushes in the southwest It and ran
over almost every sprinter in the west
ern country. His race in the Iroquois
stamps him as colt of no ordinary
merit. The Kendall stables iilly Maid
Marian's recent race in the Duncan Ho-
tel handicap at Nashville, stamps her "a
one OF the best three-y yet sean
out in the west. Sho ran the distance,
mile and seventy yards, in :454.
within second OF the record, and hn-
ished with her mouth wide open. The
quarter WAS run in 0:24, the half in
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