New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-27
THE RACETRACK.
MAHpR AGAIN RIDING wIcKBDLY.
ALI. SORTS OF ODD THINGS WERE SEEN AT
BROOKLYN.

ALI. SORTS or ODD THINGS WERE SEEN AT
BROOKLYN.
Crowded cemeteries abound each side OF the
railroad to the Brooklyn course. For many genera
tons Long Island has been renowned for Its grave
yards and several of these near the grounds OF
the Brooklyn Jockey Club solemn bond has ex-
:stsd for fearful years between the track and the
tombs. Ever since Frenzl, ridden by that accom-
plished reverse-action Jockey spellman. was de-
feAted by Bessie June in the first meeting In the
history OF that club the Lamentations Of Jeremiah
,and Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" have
been the cherished songs among the people who
hav visited the betting at Gravesend Note the
moUnful meaning OF that word Gravesend. How
II moves the heart and fills the eyes with floods OF
sorrOw Weeping over the lost ones has been we'll
nigh jncessant Gravesend. with It's dust 10 dust
ashes ashes sound. after In sombre
verfty tho Gravesend track Is turf graveyard.
and from the main gate 10 the back fence corpses
lie Wondering. AS tho impatient adventurers
travelled down to encounter the bookmakers in des
perats ARRAYS they saw that among the monu-
ments which cluster thickly the plains violent
quakIngs and turbulent connections had begun.
These unexpected convulsions among tho long,
tenants Of grass-covered abiding places provoked
conjecture. Later It thought that quiet COM
pany Of the dreanless jewellers beneath the sod had
been summoned by urgent call TO nse. 10
loosen their shrouds. and 10 ride a number
Of tho horses which crept around the course on
the tenth day of this funereal meeting. Now, was
IL truly decorous 10 open collins and put the sheet
ed dead on colts and FLIES in order swell the
fortunes OF the bookmakers? 1t has been said more
than that in awful emergencies both
the cradle and the grave have been robbed
with the hope Of saving nation. Should
the cradle and the grave be robbed for the
Of heapng up riches for the betting ring? Is the
ring beneficial TO civilization that even ceme-
teries should DO ravaged In order to sustain It?
The cradle was plundered cruelty when Maher was
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graves OF Long Island for the first race and the
fourth race yesterday? Some OF the lheless forms
which occupied the saddles in those races had not
been thoroughly embalmed, and the odor Of decay
was sckening
In other words several Jockeys rode as II they
had become moudy and were falling apart; as II.
in fact, they had been buried for months and had
never been disinfected.
century ago In England a few ribald turf
cynics said and wrote biting things as TO various
incidents In racing. Their sarcasm and satire
smacked Of the style OF the pitiless diatrbes Of
Dean Swift when he was in his worst humor.
Jonathan Swift. however lived in earlier
and never saw race What pity IT is that Swift
never saw race and that Swift is not living to-
day! Had Swift been living in period In which
he might have studied racing he might have pub
lished pamphlet about IT which would have aused
a stir almost equal 10 that which his Tale Of a
Tub brought about Were Swift living now and had
he been constant observer OF the strange happen
tngs Brighton and Brooklyn in 1885, the corrosive
Dean might be tempted TO dip his pen in aqua
regia and dissolve the most refractory and obsti-
nate OF abuses with that marvellous power OF his.
To some features of the racing ct Brighton and
Brooklyn this year the irony and ipvectiye OF q
Dean Swift night well be applied. and aqua regia
IS not too strong soiution in which 10 steep the
turf
Corpses and corpse-lights were conspicuous upon
the mad hurry burly, the wild hurry-scurry. which
was first on the programme, while the starter had
a gargoyle in the Cathedral Of Notre Dame on the
island in the Seine. Headlight II won that race II
at five ana one-haf furlongs Had ii not been that
sae oeede H senns the P b
off on terms, Headlight II would not have
Years from now Roys5ere
who was well backed by horde of feather-headed
Maher's mounts because they are too obtuse 10 see
that the reverse lever Is row In use n Mahers
ahead" but Back her; back her! Full steam to
And the stewards? Unmoved. unwnking. s,old.
wide and thick as the great pyramids Of Shizeh
as iney b ssSde II they DO Know they hide their
knowledge. and think and think and think, Their
parts in this quaint turf drama OF the day are
j. Mscsfferty i: smaznsly IrosperSus and he
out Of selling race !; is said by expert persons
that Is Tsay @ sn 5Opt to end
money to deserving frequenters Of the tracks
popuogs troops Of deserving men S Snd Ss frs;
them go TO McCaferty and apply for loans from
one dollar 20 a thousand dollars each. McCaferty's
hand is always open, and he never shuts his ears
to the cry Of the needy This Is his week for lib
<ral loans OF the largest size. Try him.
Michael F. Dwyer was In rockbound luck when
he lost Ben Ronald. useful oats-gleaner. But
Mr.. Dwyer is not as one without hope. II he Is
hard put TO II any afternoon TO settle his ac-
counts with the bookmakers, McCafferty will glad
~ float a loan for him.
Fortune is scowling at the Feischmanns. They
have been liberal and enterprisng owners, and
they have had great deal Of unmerited ill-luck
Formerly they owned Nosey. He was taken from
them IN selling race. Last week they got him
s. C. -HiIdreth Claimed George Keens from
ridden by Msher. the favorte in the
second race. Maher rode him stupidity, and
he was third behind Ben Ronald and Estoca
in the nth race George, Keene, in Hildreth's
colors and not ridden by Maher who rode him
etupidly last week. but ridden by Clawson. de-
feated Macy Whistling Con and White Frost. So
many mshaps have occurred TO the Fleischmanns
through no fault OF their own that II will not be
surprising II they sell out their stable and retire
from the turf at the end OF this season
Satin Slipper the favorite in the Flatlands
stakes selling affair for two-year.olds. carried
only 50 pounds and successful, but with an
even start the second choice, James McLaughlin's
Dininutive. would have been first instead OF third
Maher. on Armament. got much the best OF an
extremely uneven start. and led up 10 the maj
and outran him. Makers finish on Armament was
distressingy weak. the same Jockeys finish on
Noeey had been in the second Clawson's
riding Dminutiye ill-judged, waVerInB and