The herald., 1894-08-26

very worst shaped OF all the big and
fashionable tracks. and yet, when Tam
many won the Withers stakes on that
course, he carried 122 pounds, won by
four lengths and covered the mile in
/ 40 fiat. There is no other performance
which compares with it, to my idea.
Here we have all the conditions against
the horse. yet he showed the fastest
time under the biggest weight and on
the slowest track. When Salvador did
his mile in :35ls at Monmouth / won
over $400, 5000 OF which l bet that the
horse would do his mile inside of :37,
the chances being ali in his favor. He
only carried ITO pounds, ran on q care.
fully prepared track and q straight mile
at that. To run by the same ecale as
that carried by Tammany in his Withers
race, Salvador would have to put up 1876
pounds. Does Mr.. Haggin want to bet
$4,000 that Salvador can run mile in
40 or better, with that weight on the
old jerome track? ! trow not.
For my part have always regarded
Salvador as q wel.mansged horse, rather
than q really great one. He was never
the equal of Longstreet as far as I am
competent to judge OF horsss. As two
year-old he was vastly tho inferior OF
both Proctor Knott and Centaur, then
known as this Faverdele colt. At three
he was beaten by Longstreet in the
Omnibus stakes and only haat him in
the realization by having in the race
"helper" by the name of Kern, who at
the proper time, collided with Long
street and enabled Salvador to win.
Out of this grew row in which Mr..
Haggin's gray hairs protected him from
a thrashing at the hands OF the Brook
lyn butcher who owned Longstreet. I
don't say that he deserved it-I merely
wonder that ne escaped it. But it ia
quite enough to say that it was only at
Long Branch that man could have
been given the race, alter SO pa alpable q
foul.
But those horses were giants compared
with the dogs that will face the starter
at Coney Island on Saturday. Gould
there be metempsychosis by which all
differences OF age could be abolished
and all the placed two.yesr olds of the
past seven seasons placed on the tracks
together, should look for Dominic, His
Highness and Potomac to be the first
three with 12S or 130 pounds apiece on
them and no euch skates IS those
which are to start next Saturday at
Sheepshesd Bay, could run into place,
even with 95 in the saddle. There ere
two-year-olds and two.yesr.olds, just as
there are sires and sires. Perhaps St.
Carlo might beat Potomac, but hardly
think 30. There 10 10 possible discount
on the only colt that was ever good
enough to win the Futurity at two years
old and the Realization at three. And
until some other colt does the came
thing l must continue to hold Potomac
above ell but His Highnesa end Dominic.
Apropos of Potomac I am reminded to
say that full brother to that & ne horse
will start in the futurity as q maiden,
having been held out expressly for it. SO
as to secure the light impost OF los
pounds in this race. Kindly 30 l must
and always shall regard his owner
(young August Bslmont) | fear he has
made q mistake in not letting the colt
go on and win earlier races in the season
if fit to do so. There is no age at which
horse feels the difference of weight as
little as at two years and an age at
which he needs 30 much work to fit him
for q race. 1t was not the difference OF
IA pounds in weight that enabled Chaos
to be st. Carlo. 1t was the rascslity oi
the snapper who rode St. Carlo not in
the interest Of his gruf but kind-heart. t.
ed old employer but in the interest oil
the bookmakers, with whom theft and
rascality are the food of their daily exist.
ence.
Hence I shall place Gotham first,
Connoisseur second and either Waltzer
or Butterflies in the third position at
the finish. do not believe there ia one
of the four that is within 10 pounds OF
the form displayed by Domino last year
or His Highness in 1891. Nor do l be-
lieve any one of them to be within II
pounds of Salvador, Huron, Sinaloa or
Burlington; or within 10 pounds OF
Strathmeath, Chaos, The Masher or
Ballarat. l. ia curious how often this
off-year occurs both in England and
America, when to win a Derby or Flu
turity, as the case may be, gives you no
real criterion OF horse's claims to ex-
cellence. HIDALGo.