The herald., 1894-06-18
SOME HORSE GOSSIP.


Lowlander and in 1892 by Marcus Days
in-and-out horse, Montana. This year
1t will be very hard to pick the winner.
ss between Ramapo, Piekpocket, DIR.
Rice, Clifford and Lamplighter. The
latter horses chances we're Landed from
one end of the union to the other in
syndicate letter purporting to be signed
Rice in the Brooklyn. and RamRpo in
the Metropolitan; and who, for an ear
nest, persevering Jockey that never re-
lakes an effort till the winning poet is
passed, has no superior among Ameri-
can riders. The authorship of the above
letter is now denied by Tsral, who says
that he was bored to death by report
er to whom he gave a fill" about
Lamplighter. not supposing it would be
published in a dozen newspapers stimuli
taneously and his signature forged to it.
That Lamplighter was great three
year.old in 1892, nobody denies, and
that he behaved well under big weights
in the forepart Of last year is equally pa
tent to close observers.
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But Lsmplighter did not seem to i'm
prove as time wore along. He won eev-
eral races and lost one or two that he
should have won. 1t was the writer's
good fortune to witness the great race
between him and Tammsny at Gutten-
berg in September in the presence OF
$1,000 spectators, at least one-third Of
whom were never on that track before
and are not likely to be there again.
Garrison rode the chestnut to periec-
ton, and waited on Lamplighter till
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he suddenly relaxed his pull and gave
the white-faced son of Iroquos his head.
The race was over and Tammany won
ss he liked. Later on in the season |
saw Lamplighter at the Hawthorne
track, near Chicago. He had stale
look to nay eye, and in addition to that
he had become very nervous, eating but
little of his food and getting up and
down at all hours of the night. For q
horse to race we'll, he must eat heartily
and slee, soundly, hence | not only do
not expect Lamplighter to win the
Suburban, but also don't expect him
to be one of the three placed horses.
Wnen horse once becomes nervous
and fidgetty. he has the very hardest of
all maladies to cure. So if Lamplighter
even gets mark in the race, shall be
disappointed.
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Clifford, even at the impost OF 122
pounds, would suit nae good deal bet
ter. He hes not been out since his
Brooklyn defeat but will probably get
short race tomorrow or next day, as q
pipe-opener for the great event. With a
tirst-class rider up-ssy Garrison, Taral
or Littlefeld-he will be the most dan
gerous horse in the race. Ramapo's
victory in the Metropolitan will bring
him up to 120 pounds and while he is an
honest and game horse he is hardly the
horse to carry that impost to victory.
Sir Walter has 122 also and that effectu-
ally disposes OF the game little son OF
Midlothian. Doctor Rice's victories in
the Brooklyn, Parkway and Cherry
Diamond. have brought his weight up
to 127 pounds at which impost he will
be on even terms with Lsmplighter 80
| do not fancy him particularly. The
English horse, Bsssetlaw, that had
decidedly the best of the weights, has
been scratched 30 he does not figure in
any calculation. Henry of Navarro lie
the best of the three-year-olds, but | do
not fancy one OF his age for such race
as the Suburban. Ny preferences are
Clifford, Ramapo and Henry OF Navarro.
in the order named.
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Next Saturday will see the American
Derby run for at the Windy city and l
consider the race very open one when
you look at the quality and character OF
the horseH that are to meet in it. If
there were no $50 mile journey to be
performed by the eastern horses should
say Senator Grady, Domino and Dob
bins or Dorian. But knowing how
young horse gets belted and banged
about in journey of that sort, and the
amount OF needed sleep along the trip
that he should have and does not get, l
am prone to discard ray preferences for
the eastern horses and look for the win
ner among the candidates from the west,
that have been on the ground for some
time. The Pasadena colt, Lucky Dog, is
my preference of all the western dlvis-
ion, or rather he would be if he had q
good rider ON him. He ia sluggieh
colt like his sire (Darebin) was before
him, and will take better rider than
take young Hill to be. Dobbins is act
ing as though he bad already been
made too much use of, and, while
greatly fancy Domino for a mile, don't
like his chances with four additional
furlongs tackled on. Senator Grady and
his stable companion, the imported colt
Matt Byrnes, will both carry Marcus
Daly's colors, but do not fancy the
young Britisher.
II these eastern colts-Domino, Dob.
bins, Senator Grady, Matt Byrnes, Do.
rian and John Cooper-can go out there
and get first and second places in the
American derby, they will at least upset
all theories and calculations based upon
the history of the race. There was
never a better colt sent from New York
than were Pessra and Snowfall, in
1891. and they finished nowhere. Little
Strathmesth, barely above the rank of
q selling platter after emerging from his
3-yesr-old form, won the race, with Poet
Scout a moderate second. Last year
Mr.. Keene sent Chorister and St. Leon
ards out to represent him, but Bound
less clipped them both, under the able
pilotage of Garrison, otherwise known
as 1.-THE Snapper" People think that
because Domino has won IL consecutive
races, the longest of which is a mile, he
must win this with the same ease. The
fact that horse can win at mile does
not necessarily imply that he can go
beyond it, saw Fryingpan beat Malua
mile with 14l pounds up, Malua car
rying 135 pounds, in 4214 but when it
came to a mile and a quarter he could
| not finish third / OoDcede Domino TO