New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-07
ODD RESULTS OF RACES.
STRANGE REVERSALS OF PUBLIC FORM.

REQUTTAI HAS LOST HIS.
In and out they are still running at Sheepshead
Bay. 1t me. big holiday hest which saw
the races yesterday. The heat Was intense. Livery
one who went into the betting labtred That was
light Ii was Labor Day. But the stewards did not
labor They were ancient Chinese philosophers in
aspect. and seemed to study their own midr'is.
In the early cycles Of Cathay racetrack stewards
Kept their eyes and their thoughts bent upon their
i!aphragms The Sheepshead Bay stewards look
inward. and not outward as the finances OF the
Ming dynasty looked inward many centuries ago.
/, was a Barren Island mess which the Handicapped
and the starter made out OF the Bryanstic chaos
at the track.
Schopenhauer and Hene handicapping II Is under
which the American turf groans in the2e days.
Both Schopenhauer and Heine were pessimists, ana
II IS pessimstic handicappng at which turfmeh
stare In this era. When Cuvier was dead MS prai1
was weighed II was exceedingly heavy Inc
weight was SO ponderors that every medical school
In every land upon the globe has been holding up
the weight Of Cuvier's brain a model for every
medical student ever since. But no inedic"I SUI
dent ever If he filed his skull with shot as MARX
Twan's hero filled his jumping frog with sho'' mas
ever made his brain nearly as heavy as Cu'ier
was. In certain chemical laboratories there are
scales which can weigh the thousandth part OF an
ounce Put a handicappers BRAIN III oHe pan "
those infnitesmal scales, and just drop an lh'ais'
bic imponderable invisible and inscrntaoe 'houet,
In the other pan. Up 10 the ceiling at oo' "
Jump the handicapper's intellect
. some months ago the Handicapped had an loea
Doctors Of unlimited erud!tion ana eNpeiie"Ie
toiled arduously TO save him. II hahuicappei
ever infected with an idea, 1t is almost sup!
human task TO rescue him. THIS IDEA was u ".
effect that 1t he proper policy 10 put hsn'
weights on the horses which are owned by inhuen-
tal turf officials. To some extent iahc! s''
abroad that the prosperity of handcappers ihie"'
depend upon their subservience to CONSTITUTED au
thortes on the turf. Nevertheless c0mmoh-sehse
Tn n hanQiCapper tnat IL is HIS
pain duty to adjust weights in fair measure WIFE
out thinking whether the owner of horse Is not
q steward of the Jockey Club.
But the Handicapped who has been picking ont
the weights for the jumpers this year seems 10
have decided that 1t most polite for him 10
display extreme indulgence 10 the horses owned py
a certain steward of the Jockey club. FOR some
inexplicable reason this owner OF jumpers was Sc
lected some time ago for a place among the
stewards of the Jockey Club Ii he ever had any
conspicuous qualifications for the place. nobody has
ever discovered them Since he taken in as
member of the Board Of Stewards of the Jockey
Club the handicapping OF his jumpers has been
usually of kind that could not fail TO be gratifying
and acceptable to the owner.
"Goodwin's Oflcia Turf Guide is Klondike
mine of information as to racing affairs. Dig into
every page of this Guide and ponder over the
weights which have been assigned to this Jockey
Club stewards jumpers in every jumping handi-
cap this year In which these horses have been
entered. Any fair-minded and Impartial student of
the "Ofcial Turf Guide" might easily slip into the
erroneous inference that the jumping races in the
East kept up chiefly for the pecuniary enrich
ment Of that steward of the Jockey Club. The
records prove that the jumping horses which have
been started this year by this steward of the
Jockey Club have captured a remarkably large
pRequiiai's race in the Twin City Handicap
far below his REALIZATION form He was RIDDEN Gy
defeated hin last in peculiar ecu and asSni w
be put his tomb will not be of stainless Paran
or aabaster. An exquisite specimen OF spotted
Pillar Of sombre anthraeito vii be about right for
Willie Martin Diamonds are unaoyed earbGn n.
ments. Martin wears big diamonds on his fingers
s% Of h of has by
tin has light seat-almost as light as ne handi-
Ing races: He has a light heart-amost as light as
M G 'ns s
Of the Board of Racetrack Stewards. And he has
people wso that T the e Of FORM Which
are so frequent and SO conspicuous at this meeting
Hamburg redeemed his reputation yesterday: IN
%ey he Is 5avs s0 hq o M
upon his spinal vertebr@ White would be useful
a jockey he is large and luminous wili-o' the.
wisp II competent Jockey had ridden HAMBURG
would have won that race: If a competent Jockey
sa sd IciorS 81 r fW inches Ten in e as
jump from Hamburg at Saratoga Hamburg would
ArcsdSe ht & at md w
Hamburg. No doubt John E. Madden has many
eSud have an" 3n % u
SsR sny sv had written qS r or mt
Mariner II Coleridge had written It first. But
asoa n9 Sk to 70 so a c a
and then let's White lose two races with him
s amb e at
at ten pounds the worst Of the weights and then
Stakes. when it is the plainest thing possible from
all his that Hamburg runs best IN front just
his sire Hanover, best in front and Just as
Luke Blackburn ran best in front Luke Black
ambnGs long ago Frank Leses said an
'Judgc" repeated the remark in after centuriesl
people who wish to start raceiracks or faro-banks
in Alaska but VINO cannot get 6r any ran9 sna
song TO the effect that blunder Is worse than
cooking purposes rises in the Ladue region TO 50
ounce next March before the ice in the Yukon
With the see anthem. "A biunder is worse than
crime" The ghost of poor Andree will join in the
'' BY the way what boon it would be. to the
sey and an Connecticut II MIR Pettenglll had been
an Aeutan prospect0r years Egg 90 had sasgd out
ag@ns; s 1bs STATE and Sad be Ksh hs
Straits and left them there
But to return to Hamburg That is colt i, Of
high anS aa S SG ever 10 pu, WS
him in race White LOST two races on Hamburg
Hamburg al seven furongs against Requital. y
Fu,y and RsazatioPe nns Th gas he
10 order Taral TO wait with Hamburg In the rat
bush Stakes. Hamburg Is a great colt; lie mas
6een mismanaged as wofully and as wildly as II
he were a Broadway cable-car =,
What human being who looks upon the turf az IN
any whit better than a wild speculative whirl
does not think with disgust Of the result OF the
Flatbush Stakes when that turf tot Previous
defeated Hamburg simply because OF the foolish
orders given to- Taral to Wal! with ham5urG s.
make trfman of common sense sens faii IN NJ;
Hamburg ran away from the ned yesterday IN
the Autumn Stakes. He was ridden by Tar9i In
the only way In which ne should ever be RIDDEN.
He was sent 10 the front promptly. and no otncr
horse In the contest could run with MN or ru;'
anywhere near him in the homestrctch Nch-
duke second. NJ,
People who have memories. and who have DIS
erection as well. will not soon forget the previous
scandal No one who Ii not a dime-museum itrh,,
credits the absurd story that when Previous iai.e
10 get a place in the seling-race on September
he was knocked his knees or seriously lhter-