New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-15
AT GRAVESEND TO-DAY.
ONE OF THE BEST CARDS OF THE YEAR
UP TO DATE.

ONE OF THE BEST CARDS OF THE YEAR
UP TO DATE.
June was In pleasant mood yesterday. not too
warm and not too cold. The wholesome breeze
made life acceptable What pity 1t was not
race day! Since the Brooklyn meeting was be-
gun, afternoon after afternoon was soaked with
foods and the hours passed dismally. In true June
weather Howard Mann would not have won the
Brooklyn Handicap, Octagon would not have won
the Brooklyn Derby. and with apt June skies and
sweet juno airs this meeting would have been
series of delights. instead Of a CHASTITY nightmare
Previous won the Great American because he had
had plenty of public racing, both on wet tracks
and dry tracks, and because he was ridden Dy
Sloane who outrode every other Jockey In the race
Previous Ia not even fair colt That Will be
proved plainly in later races. But the owner and
trainer Of Previous not In the class of inept
mshres who keep horses In glass cases and then
expect them to win races. Previous was the only
racing enough, both on wet and dry tracks, 10 nj
Was il not a dazzling str,ke OF genius to start
Archduke in the Great American without giving
were dolts and ounces in comparison with the
marvellous mortal who conceived the superhuman
masterstroke OF starting colt In the Great Amer
lean without giving him preliminary race.
Adam and Noah. Moses and Homer. Alexander and
Hannibal, Julius Cesar and Napoleon, Dante and
them what they think Of trainers who run horses
in great stakes without giving them proper num-
Der OF preliminary races, ana Unat tney mink OF
the owners who employ such trainers and actually
pay them handsome salaries. The great OF
all ages would say. II you could get them to talk
at all that most Of the trainers and most of the
Jockeys in America have minds just fitted to cope
with the vast problem of selling shoestrings on
Broadway corner. Most Of the trainers and most
OF the Jockeys who misuse horses In this country
knew nothing at birth and have learned nothing
since
The Broadway Stakes of 5000 at the Brooklyn
Don De ORC, Buddha, Ogden and Challenger. II
is certain from what everybody has seen in the
past that most Of these colts will go the post
half-trained. and that most OF them will be poorly
ridden, because most American horses in all parts
OF the country in the hands of incompetent
trainers. who never learn anything from expert
ence and because American Jockeys
stupid and unskilful. But these colts. hall
trained and half-rdden most Of them will be,
may make a hot fight of il.
Previous the chance winner OF the s12.5C0 Great
American, colt inferior in genuine speed. quality
and class TO several of the half-traned and half
ridden cots that in behind him. is expected TO
run In the fifth to-day
II he starts he probably will not win the race IL
Sims rides him Sloane rode Previous Satuc-
day better than Sims ever rode him. In fact.
Sloane ia a more skilful Jockey than Sims was,
even IN his best days.
The owners and trainers have made liberal en-
tries for the this afternoon. and the card IL
ore Of the best of the year up TO date. The track
IS likely 10 be dry and fast, and the contests
should be OF the liveliest kind.
Here the lists Of probable starters in all the
races: