The morning call., 1893-05-16

| NEW ORks May To- urIInen ReHeF-
ally have been expecting that this would
| be the most dazzling and lucrative season
| in the history of racing in America. They
were fortified in their anticipations by the
! impressive opening of the Brooklyn
| Jockey Club.
Few racing organizations in this coun-
! try have had a day to compare with this,
| when June sat smiling in the lap of May.
Now and then light cloud scurried across
the sky, but the air was gracious and be-
ngan
No excessive heat and no untimely chill
| disturbed the peace of mind of the great
host of $4,000 spectators of the Brooklyn
handicap.
Every seat in all the buildings Of the
club was taken. The roof was hidden by
thick array of gazers set upon lofty
perches. Every part of the grand stand,
| balconies and the clubhouse was be-
sieged and attacked with the ut
most eagerness of assault, and the
tower and all the area from which the
racing could be seen were beset by people,
and so also was the inner fields
Few larger assemblages have ever been
drawn together in America TO note the
agility in horselesh.
How the anxious ones did swarm from
points OF the compass to Gravesend.
Have you ever seen net full! of menhaden
pulled in? There are myriads of fishers
in the haul and they are crammed to-
gether so closely in the net that they ap-
pear to be almost agglutinated.
so was it Of the mulIitudes at GTayesend
| track. Hydraulic pressure could hardly
have crushed them more closely together,
and the betting ring seethed and boiled
| Ike a place Of torment
There are 108 bookmaker's stands within
! the Internal circle, each stand paying 500
| to the club for the day. So from the
betting ring alone the club drew $4,000
! for single day.
Gate receipts could hardly have fallen
below $4,000. and the profits from priv
| ileges, bars and eating tables and from
programmes must have been very large.
| James r. Keene was at the track and
| William X. Vanderbilt was also locker
| on. Unfortunately Pierre LoriiIard's
weakened health did not let him visit the
Iacecourse to-day. and he did not see the
woeful riding 0f his jockey Sims on Lamp
! lighter.
The result of the Brooklyn handicap
was bitter as Hunyadi Janos or the Waters
| of Marah to the legions who looked on.
/ iSAiO Colb udu
won SO many memorable trumphs
last year, had been hero and
champion OF so many savagely-fought bat
! ties, that no other horse in the race had
! one-tenth as many followers ana admirers.
| On class, on quality, on appearance. on
! achievement, he deserved to hold the first
| place In the good will of turfmen in all
parts Of the country. LorilIard paid
| N 000 for him or nuf Dar1- Iao
| summer, and he is well worth $4,000 TO-
! day.
Lamplighter had been trained with
great care for the SIS, 900 Brooklyn handi-
Gag by John Higgins, trainer of long
standing and Of uncommon skin. The
owner and trainer had done their part.
| The jockey did not do his.
Every turfman Of intelligence who saw
the race declared after it had been run
that Lampiighter was by far the best ami
NAL in 1t even at the weights, and that if
| liz had been properly ridden he must have
captured the first great prize Of the year.
| Among the thirteen jockeys who had |
mounts in the Brooklyn handicap were
some rascals who always try TO interfere
with and defeat the fsvorlte in the great
race IL horses which they ride themselves
have not speed enough to get first place
Lampligher was backed all over
| country to win this race for many weeks
before the contest took place. 1t had been
| known for a long time that the colt was
certain TO be strong faYorite in The bet
ting If he went to the post.
Hundreds of thousands of dollar were
bet on him in the ring. 1t was for the in
terest Of every bookmaker that Lamp
lighter should be defeated, no matter
| what other horse should be victorious
What could be simpler and easier than
FOR bookmaker to send an emisSary to
the jockey with promise that the jockey
should have 500 Il he would do all. he
could 10 interfere with Lamplighter and
prevent his winning?
Several Jockeys rode AS If each had re.
eeived promises of S100 apiece from a
score of bookmakers. Some jockeys might
reject with seOrn a shameful bribe of this
sort, but every jockey In the race
knew that Lamplighter was horse of
higher class than any other in the handi-
cap and if Lamplghter could be van
quished by any trickery. any crossing,
any fouling, the chances of the rival
Jockeys mount get a part OF the money
would be improved. Sims has sense
enough to know all this. 1t was then
plainly his duty TO handle his colt in the
race to steer clear of pockets, fouls and
crosses. Lamplighter showed form last
year and again yesterday 50 far superior to
that OF anv other horse which ran In the
Brooklyn handicap that Sims could not
have lost the race if be had kept the colt
on the outside the whole way. But he ran
Lamplighter into a pocket over and over
again and near the head of the home
| ha OF he IL bo
jostled, crowded and crossed that he was
compelled to pull him up
Starter Rowe was at the head of the
homestretsh when the horses passed. He
says that Lamplighter was then so far be-
hind the leaders that he thought Loril-
lard's colt had no chance even for
place, but when Sims got the superb crea-
ture at fun speed in the stretch, Lamp
lighter flashed by the other horses
as the Campaula. with ali
steam on might thunder past
fleet of Brennan's dump scows outside
Sandy Hook. This was magnificent, but
IL was too late and the selling platter,
Diablo. won the race.
Thousands upen thousands of long
faced supporters of Lamplighter had no
heart to look upon any more racing after
the defeat Of the colt that they so loyalty
admired. and they dragged their grief
stricken feet to the homeward trains.
1t was a notable blow to their fond
est hopes. Diablo had very few followers.
A. F. Walcott. senior member of the firm
OF Walcott & Campbell and President of
the Monmouth Park Racing Association,
backed his horse for some hundreds of
dollars and got long odds that his VIM
nings were rum0red at from $4,000 to
$4,000.
1t was whispered about that he won
$4,000 on one bet from l.. o. Appleby, the
latter laying $4,000 to 500. But rumor
rarely tells the truth.
John Campbell, junior member of the
firm which owns Diablo. has given up
betting, largely on account of previous
losses on Dlablo, and did not have dollar
on the horse.
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