New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-30
HASTINGS IN POOR LUCK
roO MUCH WEIGHT AND 4 BAD START
- ys1.,vu AGAIN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

suiae and that hay" never n
occ George Daniels j. sturdy. stalwart brown
,, hv roncfe,log oft Of Nanitd. He is owned and
.,c.d hv Lewis Eln'Orc The colt IS named after
,be word-reuowned Poet Laureate Of Foriysecond
a. whose sonnes. published under the title of TThe
Four Track Series" have made Pctrarch turn in
nj tomb. The Forty-second-st. sonneteer has a
or1 Of speed in metre. His poetic feet cannot be
ooproached for swiftness He is the president of
The Quaint Club. which is inconroverbly the fast;
o., social organization within square mile OF The
Grard Central Station Tho Quaint Club however
Is like one Of the Grydocks Of. the United States
Navy. il vas never known 10 be We: and j: Is al
ways under repair.
I:p to this time George Dpnicls. the colt has kept
hi, speed concealed George Daniels. the Poet: has
no hating feet Al his sonnets scan. George Dan
,es the colt. however. has feet which do no;
halt In fact. the colt Is all halt. Nevertheless
several turf saCes DECLARE that the colt has a
Yukon gold field OF CELEBRITY packed away in the
recesses Of his anatomy. The Quaint Club with
its honored president leading the prospccors. de-
teTmined to SCI at the secreed velocity OF the colt.
even II il is necessary to stake out claim and dig
down deep. Both the Empire State Express and
the colt will he mt in training promptly, and on
the twonty-ninth day OF February. 1895 the son of
Iongfeow will be matched against the four-track
train TO from Kingsbridge to Spuyten Duyvil.
the quaint Club to act starters judges. timers
md stewards. and 10 hold the stakes. After the
race an original will be read by the Petrarch
Of Forty-second-st
Blu: what poet DO Justice TO Pe,tengil the
racetrack starter? Perhaps Juvenal might. u he
could come back 10 life and had plenty OF time
and plenty Of parchment. Petiengill spoiled the
first race as he has spoiled many races. General
Coils ought to employ him ; contractor TO i'm
prove Fifth-ave. AS starter Pettengill is Ike 4
Chinese hrecracker which has been soaked in the
since the birth OF Confucius. In other words he
Is OF date. II dismal mess which he
made Of the start IN the first race. That contest.
however. was not of earth-shaking moment. 1t
In the Culver Handicap. the most importan,
affair OF the day, handicap of 5000, for al ages
at six furlongs in which Pettengill dealt heavy !
blow at the popularity Of the turf in this State !
Five horses ran. Two CT these. Hastings and Oc- |
,agon. are owned by August Belmont Hastings |
carried $50 pounds. and ridden by Taral Oc |
tagon had 10 pounds. and Hewitt rode him. T. !
DUNES Flying Dutchman carried le2 pounds. and |
was ridden by that subimated quintessence OF keen
ness William Martin. a jockey who is well known |
all America. because. he has been put the |
ground twice and because every person in Amer |
lea who knows anything about racing knows tina; |
". Martins conscience and scrupulousness in |
tockeyship similar to the conscience and |
scrupulousness which usually ascribed to a GER
tain parsonage who enjoys the unique distinction |
of being mentioned conspicuously both in the Book |
OF Job, in the Old Testament. and in immortal |
poem which written In Germany before the |
death OF the Dussant Teutonic statesman Stein |
Michael F. Dwyer that much-admired in-and- |
out colt Previous to the post The weight assigned |
10 Previous by the Handicapped Jos pounds |
The colt had no chance on earth at that weight |
and the handicap was an injudicous one in several
details. But Previous with four pounds over
weight, and Sims in the saddle. The mysteries OF !
NJ +. Dryers turf plans are past human under |
standing. Why did he care to Previous. who ,
could not possibly win the weight. against Fly |
ing Dutchman. Hastings. Peat and Octagon? The |
Turney Brothers started Peat 1ls pounds ridden
by r. Williams
The Tribune spare the space to-day to |
print the details Of the by Flying Dutch
nrsr IN 1896 and 1897 but il assure It's readers
that a careful study OF all the races run by p |
Dunnes horses in years and Of all the rides
of w Martin. P. Dunne's favorite Jockey would |
make the most erudite Of conc sections and
OF an the abstruse intricaces OF the paraboNc
and-hyDerbOlic curves OF the most complicated |
mathematics grope with desparing perplexity. The !
philosophy of apologsts is difficult science Certain |
apologists have praised the Sultan Of Turkey for |
the Armenian massacres. Froude commended |
Henry the Eighth, the assassin who put 20 death |
the wives of whom he weary. II Is time for a |
Froude 10 md apologies for certain races |
which certain horses have run in recent wears for
certain rides which certain Jockeys have exhibited |
ana Tor certain ineXcusaDe starts with which Ger |
tain starters nave afflicted the turf on September |
Dutchnan AZ NILE ana frr'nng ana hjs n n3ln9
was an odds-on favorie. On September FLYING |
dicap in which ne was second to Ornament and |
behind R1 Fdd him were aayoe keqgita Den De Orc
him. The betting was 6 20 straight. Any one |
every w de o FnR ahs 70 % nS
that he has a run brilliantly in number Of contests
in number Of contests when the odds were not |
races when the odds were tempting and and several
unskilful races when the odds were not tempting |
note Of such matters. The truth Is. that. While |
some OF me men MI %nS naeG AGED rs stewards
intellect and ability, several of the stewards do |
"f FLYING Dutchman t the oddson favore was
beaten at SheePs 5ir Pay on sspem5er by Pau
last In field Of four. i vas a ghasty looking |
the Culver Handicap the betting as TO Fiying |
Dutchman was not al odds Early in the specll. |
dunno and his friends and Pts6urg Phil and ne
shrewdest Western betois are said to have backed
post the price against +. D. only to 2 |
flng nd pH nS mi got muGn the hes, of the
wonderfully fast for the slow Gravesend track II
very 6ad-onc Of Pe,;engs Worst starts S' and
that Is saying great deal deal, NJ Bemons stable
the betting ODDS and the great majority
ors ' and Believed that the Belmont ss ao wo SG
certainly win And SO it might probably have done
tagon so far behind as TO be almost left the
post. The Belmont stable had declared TO win
proved that Octagon was the better Of the two at
the distance with the weights which were carried.
While Hastings had iSo Remember, Also thaf
Hewitt rode octagon and Tara rode Hastings and
a broad space the best Of American Jockeys as
cally year after year IT must be admitted with
that Tsral best OF American Jockeys. often
makes big mistakes. So did Napoleon. But Taral
made mistakes Hastings He rode Hastings
as well he could be ridden. The handicapper
has some eccentric ideas IL Mr. Dunno would take
his horse TO England and would take W. Martin
along TO ride them. he would soon find that the
English handicappcrs not asleep. Did the
American handicapper who put I22 pounds Fly
ing Dutchnan in the Culver Handicap desire 10 en-
courage the in-and-out running OF Flying Dutch
man. and the in-anG-out riding OF W. Martin?
fyin2 Duichman IS fast morse when he
acts as II he liked the odds. Perhaps ne may be q
veteran calculator and close observer OF the bot