New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-10
SIXTH RAcT-sT. NICHOLAS HURDLE HANDICAP
With SEQ added: for four-yesr-olds and upward; 20
second horse third SIS Of the added money
- ana half rn.es over ak hights OF hurdles.
TALK AMONG THE TURFMEN.
PASSING COMMENT ON RACING AFFAIRS

Al Morris Park yesterday there was perceptibie
,hinrnss IN the firing line inside Of The bettingring
trochas The Mauser magazine OF six winning
favorites on Saturday had discouraged many OF the
men who thought that ali that was required 10
make fortune on the turf was pencil rac'ns
card and stool in the inclcsure
Racing results were wholly different yesterday
Thanks 10 the barrier and the starter and other
causes some OF the contests developed Into scram-
HES from nagfall to finish with disastrous effects
to the men who bet the favorites
A surprise sprung on the spectators III inc
first race. when Continental at 40 70 got hrst
place with Handcuff at 40 to ! In second ana
Autumn third. 1t was dizzy affair as me faVor-
ties were never near enough TO the leaders to he
considered factors.
In the third race J. E. Mcdonald and his friends
bet on A. n b. so extensively that Brooklyn Rapid
Transit went off 81 points owing to liquidation
to secure funds to put on A. ~ b. The result
shocked the bettng-rng 10 such an extent that one
excited layer declared that A. y. B. was full OF
inflated gas, and that the wind that was blowing
down the stretch landed him winner without the
aid OF his jockey
A. ~ r. is named in compliment to Anthony n.
Brady who Is too modest to have his full name
attached to racehorse.
Incorporation Counsel ". II. Clark was joyous
when Banastar won the Toboggan Handicap. The
performance highly meritorous. The Time l;Os
is the worlds record for the distance
F. V Alexandra is unfortunate. His horse
Sanders ran third in the Metropolitan Handicap.
when the record 1880 for the Wthers Mile was
made and was beaten neck in the Toboggsn In
record time.
Manuel is lame and will not start In the Clark
Stakes.
David Sloan, who went England with Tod
Sloan was III the track He said that the English
bookmakers laid extremely small odds against
Sloans mounts and that the Americans had not
won many pounds shlllings pence In England.
Frank Hitchcock has announced that ne intends
TO withdraw from steeplechase and hurde-racing
and to devote his entire attention TO racing on the
fat.
There should be jolly times aboard the steamship
Paris, that sails to-day for England. Turfmen
should read the list of favorites that intend 10 wit
ness the EPSON Derby. What stupendous array
of unrivalled talent, as "Tody' Hamilton would put
IT, Is going abroad to enlighten the Britons. Peter
Dunno (Mr. Dooley) has been unanimously chosen
the historian OF the voyage. William Gillette Is
to write play Charles Frohman will review II,
and a company selected from the passenger list
will enact II under the management OF Charles P.
Norcross G. b. Dillingham; Will be the official critic.
Here are a few selections from the passenger list:
F. p. Dunno Mr. Dooley), John Drew. Charles
Frohman, Ethel Barrymore c. r. Dillingham;. Elsie
De Wolfe. Joseph Wheelock. jr, John C. Rice.
Sally Cohen. Charles p. Norcross. Mrs. Alfred Hay
man. Josie Hall and William Gillette.