The San Francisco call., 1899-05-28
Bopostor, Winner Of the Brooklyn Handicap,
and His Rider, Jockey Moher.


the game three-year-old, was not TO
be denied, and the fiVe-furlOng pole
showed his head in front of his rapidly
firing competitor. The five furlongs
We're run in 1:02 the fifth eighth having
been run in :12 As. Banastar had i'm
proved his position. He had never been
bothered or hampered, running third,
only length behind the leaders. The
great crowd yelled for him to go on.
Algol. too, had friends, and Don de ORC
and Lanky Bob made determined eff
forts to get away from the rear diVis
ion.
Up the backstretch, nearing the far
turn, Filigrane and George Keene were
being ridden desperately. When the
cranes head showed first and the
watches indicated ia 2-5. The sixth
furlOng was faster than the fifth, hav-
ing been run in :12 2-5.
Fiigrane was doing marvellous work,
but the four-year-o from the Clark
stable had all the best of the weights
and appeared to have a lot in hand.
Scarcely had they made the turn when
BanaStar caught the colt and George
Keene and swept past them as if they
We're tied. One, two, three, four, five
lengths advantage Maher gave his
mount before McCue and Clawson real
lied how fast Banastar was going away
the three-year- and Filigrane an
swered gamely, but George Keene had
shot his bolt and was rapidly losing
ground
AS far as Banastar was concerned the
race was over, for, full of run, he fairly
flew for the mile post in 1:39 Is, having
run the eighth furlOng III IL o-5 seconds
and the quarter in % seconds.
When George Keene cracked, Everett
on Lanky Bob and Spencer on Don de
ORC began their final efforts and both
horses answered with a will Straight
ened for home, the run in was only a
question of place honors, Banastar
having the field soundly beaten. Maher
kept the Clark horse going, however,
and the mile and a furlong was made
in :52 3-5, the furlong having been run
in 13 seconds.
Behind Banastar the sight was a
thrilling one. Everett drove his spurs
into Lanky Bobs steaming sides and
the son of Lord Harrington answered
gamely. He caught and passed the now
thoroughly tired Filigrane, but could
make no headway on the leader, whom
Maher was simply guiding home.
Don de ORC, too, was struggling no
bly,. Spencer did not raise his whip nor
use his spurs. The Don was doing all
he could, but the distance was too great
to be overcome.
Banastar was taken in hand the last
sixteenth, and Maher brought him
home alone three lengths to the good,
amid piercing shrieks and shrill cries.
Lanky Bob was second full length
before the game but tired Filigrane,
and Don de ORC was fourth, two
lengths away and only head in front
of Bangle. Then came Algol and Ben
Holiday the latter never a factor
from the fall of the flag.
The California mare Maxine (for-
merly Fleur de Lis), with Doggett up,
was fourth at the start, quickly drop
ping back, and finished twelfth. She
was never prominent in the race. In
the betting Maxine was 40 to 1 straight
and 10 tC 1 for the place.
The time of the winner, 2:06H, is a
new record for the race, the 2:07 of
Dry Monopole having been made in the
first running of the handicap in 1887.
The time, 2:06H, might have been a
good bit faster had Maher desired to
make it So The record of 2:07 has
stood since 1887, when Dry Monopole,
Blue Wing and Hidalgo ran nose and
nose to the most exciting finish ever
witnessed
The Brooklyn handicap is a stake of
$40, 900 of which $4,000 goes to the win
ner. The other winners have been:
The Bard, Exile. Castaway H. Tenny,
Judge Morrow, Diablo, DR.. Rice, Horn
pipe, Sir waiter, howard Mann and
Ornament.
The other stake on the card was the
Expectation, for two-year- at four
and a half furlongs. His Royal High
ness, though carrying topweight, was
made favorite at odds-on, but Rikki
Tiki Tavi upset all calculations by
winning by neck in drive from Vul-
cam who was head in front of Prince
of Melbourne. Results:
h,,,1 oar,t
Mile and a sixteenth, selling
won, Kirkwood second, Estaca third
Time, 1:4712.
Expectation stakes, four and a half fur
longs-Rikki Tiki Tavi won, Vulcan
second, Prince of Melbourne third. Time,
:55h.
The Brooklyn handicap. one and a
quarter miles-Banastar 110 (Maher). I
to l and to 2, won Lanky Bob, 105 (Ev-
eretD, 40 to ! and 10 to l second; Fill
Crane, 9S (McCue) 13 to and even third.
Time. 2:06A. Don de Orc, Bangle, Algol.
Ben Holiday, Warrenton. Thomas Cat,
George Keene. Previous. Maxine, Jeffer-
son, Jeannot, Imp ana Box also ran and
finished as named.
Selling five furlongs-Silver Garter
won. Manville second, Lottie Sheville
third. Time. 1903.
Steeplechase, handicap, two mles-Gov-
ernor Budd won. Duero second Colonel
Bartlett third. Time, 1864.
Mark to Return to ENGLAND.