The evening times., 1895-09-17
Big HORSES AT GRAEVESND
Crescendo, Ben Brush and Margrave
Meet This Afternoon.
Ra ma DO Expected to Give Navarro and
All the Rest of the Cracks
Hard Race.
Especial TO the Times }

New York, Sept. 17.-son,e OF the very
best sport of the season is promised al
Gravesend this afternoon. and there is nc
will be out to see II.
Among the features of the card are the
Holly handicap, and the First Special.
The first-named event is for twoyear-Oldi
ct five furlongs The entries include
Crescendo, Ben Brush, Margrave, Hazlet
|Silver II, Axiom and several Others ol
the best of the youngsters of the year.
1t is likely that speculation will I've Con
fined to Crescendu, Brush and Margrave,
| and hot and fast race is locked for.
In the First Special, for three -yearolds
and upwa rds. the list of entries includes
| Henry of Navarro, Domino, Ramapo, Santa
Anita Clifford, Sir Walter and Sir Francis.
II may be that neither Navarro. Domino
| nor the Baldwin horse will start, as they
| may be saved for the second of the mat cb
| .aces, which is to take place in n few
days. but IL they do there is a suspi . II
| that they will have a horse race Ia beat
Ranilpo.
The distance is one and quarter miles.
! Ramapo is in magnificent condition. and
| before. His recent r;.ee at Sheepshead
Bay proved that his rest had done him a
/ world of good. and no one would he sur
| prised to see him lead the way To the
| wire in to-my's event. With Navarro.
Domino and Rey Ell Santa Anita out. the
race is bound To be a good one, fos Sir
Walter will see to il tisat no lettering
| or luafing will be allowed
The recent big winnings of Riley Gran
| nan, md the appearance OF ths new plunger,
| The Humming Bird has set everybody
| TO telling stories about men OF their kind
| and the wonderful things they have done
! on the race track. "A pale-faced, but
| termilk -mustached, debonair young man
created n similar sensation OH the tracks
here four years ago. says Chicago paper.
His name was ]. Fred Harting. and
the bookmakers dubbed him The Ghost
a nickname that fitted his person and bis
methods without bagging Mt the knees
or punching out at the shoulders. He
never saw race track until while visiting
In New York ,le strayed out to see the
Brooklyn handicap run. He was carried
away with the speculative fever, and
without knowing a horse from Il donkey
race. When he mopped bis brow and
counted his money at the close of the
day he had STOO OF the bookmakers'
coin. With his winnings he returned
to Chicago and turned up at Hawthorne,
where, during the spring meeting he rolled
high and went owe to owashingtonPark with
bank roll of $4,000. His luck still
stuck to him. Toward the close of the
meeting The Ghost appeared in the press
stnad with box of perfectos under his
arm. Boys he said, addressing the race
critics, you have had a heap of fun with
me. and want you to say thatI am Through
with the racing game for good. have won
exactly $47 900 in three months, and it
is mine TO keep. have made my last bet
Good day. And The Ghost kept his
word"
Speaking of the reinstatement Of the
outlaws by the Jockey Club, western
paper says: Report has it that few outlaw
owners will take advantage of the offer
of reinstatement with tho Jockey Club
ranks. One thing can be depended upon
every one with the semblance Of a good
horse will come into the field. There is
nothing in the out law business, while
there is q chance on the minor tracks un-
der the control of the Jockey Club. In
fact, it is absolutely necessary for the
outlaws to come in, as the Virginia tracks
are on the verge of closing. Where will
the outlaws go then? They will have no
home, no friends, little money and no place
to dig up.
Keenan, is rounding to, but he will not
be raced again this year.
The great mare, Yo Tambiep, that went
wrong at st. Louis several months ago,
is getting to be herself again and may be
started during the Oakley meeting.
McCafferty got $4,000 for Applegate
at the sale of his horses the other day.
few months ago Mr.. Belmont offered him
$50, 900 for the colt.
Little is being said Just now about
match races between Joe Patchen and
John r. Gentry. The Belmont affair prob
ably dampeDed the ardour of those who
were anxious to see these horses go.
At the present writing 1t appears that
Requital is the best colt and One / Love
the best filly Of the year, says a turf ex-
pert. shrewd judges agree, however, that
they are only the best of bad lot. There
are no His Highnesses, no Dominos, no Tre
monts this year.
Richard Croker Is coming home, but will
return to England after q short stay here.
He says that politics viii have no further
attraction for him, as be has becme
thoroughly devoted to his horses and the
turf. and that be finds England preferable |
to America.
The great horse Halma is to be started |
in several stake events at the present |
Oakley meeting. He Is said to be himself |
again after being amiss for months.
1t is said that Monroe Salisbury win |
shortly start Azota to beat the worlds
trotting record. and that he Is Offering to
bet that be viii do H.