The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-23
THE FAST SON OF BRAMBLE
BEN BRUSR, DRIVEN BY SIMMS, WINS THESUBURBAN HANDICAP.

Twenty Thousand People Witnessed the Great Turf Eyent-The Winner Finished
 Second and Havoc Third-The Time Was
 2;O7 1-5-Ben Brush Was the Favorite
 and Was Heavily Backed.
 New York, June 22.--At last the luck has changed and the Dwyers have won one of the big handicaps. They tried for years together and were beaten time and again and then tried separately after dissolving partnership, and now after many years the younger of the pair, Michael F. Dwyer, has carried off 1 the great race of the year, the Subur- ban, with his son of Bramble, Ben Brush, in the fast time of 2:07 1-5. It was a victory for the favorite, and con- sequently a popular one, and as far as could be seen was true run race. The attendance was enormous, even larger than on Brooklyn handicap day, which was the largest crowd at race track in the east in several years. Fully 10000 people packed the lawn, the two tiers of the grand stand, the roof and
 
 went up when Ben Brush landed the race and Simms was hoisted into the floral jockeys chair it would seem as if all had backed the winner.
 The day was perfect one, the track was fast and a better race could not have been desired even if the horses en- gagged were not of class that has been seen in this classic stake in other years. | T. 1.on +ha cr1a Had tho nine contestants to the post and they came out of the paddock in Indian file, Ben Brush leading the way and the others following according to their numbers on the card There was a slight delay at the post owing to the fractiousness of Semper Ego, the Win ner and Belmar, but within five min utes Petingill got them in perfect line and they were away on their journey.
 The Winner was the first to show in front, followed by his stable companion, Belmar, the lightweight Havoc, Sir Walter, Ben Brush and the others al- though there was little to choose be- tween them. They were fairly straight ened out before they had run a fur long, and then the boys began to hunt for the place In which they wished to
 
 ously not even the lightweights cared to set the pace and the first three fur Ilongs past the grand stand and around the lower turn were very slow, 39 sec onds being required to negotiate the distance, all the boys pulling and haul ing at their mounts to keep them from getting to the front. The furlong around the lower turn occupied 13 4-5 seconds, l,n fnf I 1yaria e a WY that it was unwise to choke Havoc, and gave him little leeway and the colt became the pacemaker. Close behind him came Semper Ego, but Scherrer was urging him while Havoc was going easily and with lot to spare.
 Then came Ben Brush, the favorite half a length away. with his boy doing all in his power to prevent him from using up all his speed so early in the race. It was in that order they passed the first half-mile post of their journey in 51 1-5 second, the last furlong of the half being run in 12 1-5, the fastest eighth of the whole race. Behind Ben Brush were The Winner and Belmar while the others trailed along with Dutch Skater holding the rear and with scarcely bit of the speed he showed a few days ago.
 Half way to the quarter pole conditions began to tell and Semper Ego with his bolt completely shot drop ped back to the rear ranks, his place being taken by Ben Brush, who at the six furlongs marks was half a length behind Havoc in 1:16 2-5 and a length in front of The Winner, all running free. Now they were beginning the upper turn with a quarter mile dash around 1t to the stretch, and Simms gave Ben Brush his head Lewis did the same with Havoc and lost but lit- tie, for in the 25 4-5 seconds required for the run to the mile pole, which was passed in 1:42 2-5, Havoc kept his ad- vantage of neck, while Ben Brush was a length and a half in front of The Winner, he in turn a length in front of Belmar, while the others were hopelessly beaten with not even a chance for third money unless couple of the quartette in front should fall. They rounded the turn in safety and strengthened out for home. Then Simms began driving Ben Brush, while Lewis was driving but little on Havoc. Simms worked all the harder on the game son of Bramble. The colt re- sponded to every lash and. inch by inch narrowed the space between him and Havoc. Now ne was at the horses sad dle, at his withers, at his ears and now his nose shot in front and Simms knew that all he had to do was to keep on driving to the end as hard as he could and he would beat the lightly weighted Havoc. It was a desperate race. Nearer and nearer drew the finish line, and nearer and nearer came The Win ner. One vicious cut to Ben Brush, one frantic push with knees and heels and he was over the line in safety winner of the coveted Suburban, with The Winner half length away and Havoc stopping fast, in the third place, five lengths in front of the rest of the field, all badly beaten, with Belmar leading them.
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