New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-21
TARAL SECOND FOUR TIMES.
ALL SORTS OF FUN AT sHEEPsHEAD.
-,,r rK1AR ENTERTAINED EVERYBODY BY HIS
n,su1Nc cAYETY-IUCAN's LOST POEM


WESTERN HORSES RAN WE'LL
,,. ,urfrnen have undoubtedly heard of the lost
.oans Of Iucan But some racing men may not be
- -. the rumor that an Athenian eXcavator In
aA,,e,ria not long ago dug up one of those lost
e In the eleven hundred and forty-fourth
Sv,reter Of this unearthed collection OF verses.
,~an il is said warned the horsc-owners Of that
- "a, 70 put TOO much faith in Ethiopian jockeys.
other bcxameters. so report goes, Lucan de-
r.i his unfortunate experiences in betting on the
.. Ephesus n the August meeting. which was
- IN the Ephesian hippodrome several centuries
80 the Christian era and tho poet. in his blunt
ooken classical way advised his friends never
we Jockey from Zanzibar or Madagascar II
avid get a rider who born north of the
.h4rrnal line. north of the Mason and Dixon
~ ~ that period Blu; \. Nelson. who like Lady
,.ru,on's friend Of Trafalgar Bay renown ex-
80 every man 10 do his duty had not read
,oans recovered poem when he went 10 the
ehaenshcad Bay races yesterday Hence he unwise-
/, nerrritiod Anthony Hamilton (who. by-the-way'
a., not descended from the Anthony Hamilton VINO
I'D 90 much to DO with the De Grammon' memoirs
- the court Of Charles II Of England. and Is no.
, ,. u.ov connected collaterally or otherwise with
- fo,ilv Of iIoratio Nelson's admirer TO ride MS
g.. eli, Louise y Hamilton slipped n stirrup IN
.ho race which was first the programme. liam
u,on has been slipping all sorts OF things TINS year
.rr,-s and various other articles Of value. But
. xeisor was so anxious to pay Hamilton for rid
a., ro,ise Y that he ran and fro all over the
-, g., searching for him. He found Hamilton
e,auv. and paid tho Senogambian for the mount
NAN owners would have let the Jockey chase
them or chase the duck instead OF their ChaS'hs
.h ,ockev as Nelson did. But Nelson does not
h.,ore 10 the roof garden party which assemblies
-. afternoon on the top tier Of the grandstand
This roof garden party Is composed Of weli-Kho"h
rotel-k,encr from Brooklyn. and OF various o'hei
persons who say that their experience is Ike that
NJ tho man who went down from Jerusalem 10
r,ricto rs narrated in The New Testament. and fell
among the ayers-of odds of that era. The victim
- ,bo book,ra kers Of Palestine who piled their
trade . m. years ago was fortunate enough TO re-
oe,ve succor from Good Samaritan the mem
hers OF the roof garden party at Sheepshead ia!
still retain their racng-glasses. no matte" no"
much money they may owe to the layers-of-od
They perch on the roof every afternoon. and their
racing-glasses are turned with feverish anxiety
toward the entrance Of the racetrack. They DON
care 10 watch the races They have seen the priests
and the Levitos pass by. The priests go TO the
Brooklyn monasteries. and do not tarry TO help the
members Of the roof garden party. The Leves are
on their way Long Branch and they don't nave
time stop. SO the unhappy members Of the roof
garden party are peering through their glasses
hoping against hope that the Good Samaritans may
b. coming in the Flynn trolley-cars.
No one fails 10 remember the parable of Blue
Beard and his nquisitve wife. Sister Ann went up
the truculent Blue Beard sharpened his yataghan
sister Ann saw a cloud of dust in the distance.
Could il be that the dust was stirred up by the
feet II the dromederies that bore the fororn hope
which TO save Sister AIMS sister from the
s.imitar Of the bloody Blue Beard? The first dust
did not come from the movements of the noble band
that 10 prolong the life Of the Polly Pry spouse
VII the right dust rise in time TO put end to the
troubles Of the roof-gardcn party sore 0eset as IL
!, by the Philis tines OF the betting-rng? Per-
hans
While there's life there's hope. 1t is true that
have joined the salvation Army, and they do not
hasten 10 mitigate the perjury OF the sxteen-to-9ne
iuio the clutches OF the layers-of odds But the
hary yo S amiton r and pad him SO
for his losing mount Some keen observers OF the
Ysmiiton az nicKel for his ride on Louise n ne
would have Overpaid him by about four cents DuS
han ridden Louise y. then in very truth fine !
pic OF riding would have been seen. But the |
dow Sloane for i've racing days because md nc
bacXers Of his mounts that starter Flynn mem mem
qsards ' Know how FredeTc Archer gained as
posi- or the foremost Jockey OF une WolIu |
head BAY stewards know how James McLaughlin |
gained his place the foremost Jockey OF AlhtICa.
ina -, get ;Se hest Of every start? Men Of
made MS own way in the world and achieved sue
Look at the careers Of Adam. Cain. MethuSaleh
Tnoch Noah Moses. Joshua Jethro, Dayid Rom /
uius Mltiades. Alexander Of Macedon. Mah Snnd
julius Caesar. Genehis Khan. Sayonaroia Napo- |
leon Abraham Incoln GoemGdofRR uss@ SAGE
Prince Bismarck and ii Hung Chang. Ihey Were
a.. G- arid Nv Starter Fiynn or by Board Of
Stewards too stagnant to approve and applaud uue |
ans AmsFS2n oa fp5STIiSs she staTns post
A few days ago Sims rode the tTiar, e. a i Any
The Friar fell his knees at the outset OF th ny
-. Ia
Trar stumbled a little at that time, but he did /
not rau 10 his knees and he ought 10 have run !
~ no. nan he did run that day That lost poem
Of Lucan. recently discovered in Paphlagonld ah9
soon 10 be published by Anthony ComstocK, OF |
Summit Y J. and r. Tennyson Nicely, Of Chicago /
habits OF senegambian jockeys. who tell Marco
polo stories 10 explain why their mounts do not
Kley Grammar was conspicuous at the track yes,
terday Whenever this plunging hemtucKla an - a.
racetrack he is consPcnons-s LOO coz on
s1icuous. Grammar backed The triar heavy "a
at least the layers-of-odds say that ne dlu aau
colt carrying the Morris scarlet had iight Welghtl
and he also had more speed than he exhibited
~ 'te Futurity. was the odds-on iaVorlte put me
Tr.ar. with his advantage IN me Wels n.S, raj ali
away from Rodermond and deiea'eG nun Mi'ii io az
Inc ease mat can oe dres Iltu Oh oiI.o i.. 100
OF Britannia several Of the horses that nave car
r.ed the Morris scarlet have been n-and-out run
ners Study the records OF Russell OF reckon oI
Correction and Of several other bearers OF me
several millions OF dollars does he get much sin
cere qualification and unailoyed JOY ana uilauuisS
lriaitG ilN OLi OF the l4-dIu-Oul Va
such horses as The Friar and Formal? Now if a.
u Morris gets much real fun out OF the in-and-out
Running ~ such horses II would be chur.ish ana
unkind e. begrudge him that fun. Some persons
possessed Of millions of dollars however, would
prefer TO shoot The Fridr and Formal To-Day
rather than allow such animals TO display so
much in-and-out running in the family colors YET
II should not be forgotten that Eve told the ser
pent when She bit the apple that tastes dinered,
and tastes seem 10 have differed ever since.
In al fairness II must be borne In mind that The
mar had very light weight yesterday, ana that III
his previous races he had carried much more
a. he ed
day n comparison with his previous races. ana De,
feafed RoderInOnd very easily and by 50 big ana
broad 4 margin. THAI a puzzled whistle and sigh
IN the direction Of tho stewards stand seem TO be
ne appropriate comments. As current reports rum
~. ra- ~ LLsN in booming Slane on