New-York tribune., 1899-06-23
THE RACETRACK.
CONTESTS OF LITTLE INTEREST

RICHARD CRoKERs LITTLE sAiNi D
sHEEPsHEAD BAY.
When August Belmont sold Merry Prince 10 !"
e DAILY for 81 900 and when Patrick Duiine o. A.,
pa,ront,s eelding Fly-by Night for small SUM w.
ri, ord Mr. Dunne secured excellent bargains "ii'
Mr. Belmont obtained only little part OF "ha' ''-o
borses were really worth. In the thiro race S
dav Merry Prince carried ll2 POUNDS al i'' 60
a quarter and was defeated by ie" ihcne' V'''
Thomas Cat the favorite, snatchlng 'he p'...a p''D. "
an,sb which was SO close that many spec'a'o,.
,h,ch, Merry Prince successful In the swift
s,okes at seven furlongs Fly-by-Night which MI
Re,nont sold a few days ago. displayed reinal h"o
speed It was gambol for him 10 ou'P"ce r-,'I,' .
Mack Greatland. Little Saint Lackiahu' III. ~ -,
berg and others Few tu-fmen keener 'hah fa'i''N
Dunno ever lived -, c.,. ~
cause Richard Croker's English colt Little SAINT
wac seen I'm public for the first time In TINS country.
He was backed freely but his chances were ruiheu
by the fumbng and bungllng OF McCue VINO Io"e
him The Tribunes racing column has hau sonie-
thing 10 say about jockeys in the last quarter OF
century 1t has been quick TO note the powers VI
mastery jockeys when those jockeys were not
widely known II was among the first to declare
that Taral and Sloan and other princes OF JOCKEY
ship were exceptional 1t was prompt to detect the
decline and fall Of Isaac Murphy, when drunken
ness had made a wreck Of him. 1t has told the
truth p.ainly ana fOrclDly ABOUT tWlSttu anu "ii-
faithful and misft Jockeys year after year. Look
over the list Of riders who have been prominent on
the Eastern tracks since 1874! See where those now
stand whom The Tribune has praised! See 10 what
depths those have sunk whose egregious faults The
Tribune has pointed out McCue Is In favor Just
now with certain owners and trainers but when he
wins race his success is mainly due TO sheer luck.
In the Swift Stakes with Little Saint he committed
almost every fault which 1t is possible for Jockey
to commit. Mr. Croker's colt is all wool. and no
shoddy He is not grand. He is not great. He is
not good. How could Tammany colt be good?
But with Taral on his backbone Taral all alive and
free from frances. ST. Richard Crokers Little Saint
might have forced ST. Patrick DUNES Fly-by
Night to hustle.
What queer names Of these cruel owners
punching into their horses, Fly Night! Is
that decorous with which to afict a re-
spectacle horse? Why is il that no racer OF blue
blood has run in New-York far with the pleas
ing title "Therell BE Hot Time in the old Town
Tonight" something similar? Why doesn't
Frank Mckee buy Maid of Harlem, bring her to
the font or fountain dt matters little which, and
call her Roof Garden? When the Jockey Club ac-
cepts ribald and unseemly a name Fly-By-
Night. where at, and what are COM
ing to? Patrick Dunno. however. does not
about the names of horses. horse by any other
name would run as well Mr.. Dunno knows
Shakespeare by heart backward. and his constant
quotation is taken from Romeo and Juliet" and
has some allusion to roses. Racing men won
dering who is the Little Saint OF the Turf Ed
ward Lauterbach? A. Humme? Anyway Nc
Cue isn't He fell into almost every error that a
jockey can be guilty of In his handling of Mr.
croker's colt Can It be that McCue ever gazed
upon the olympian brow of the Tammany dieta-
tor? II Mr.. Croker had been at Sheepshead Bay
yesterday and not thousands Of miles away in his
beloved and adored England he might not have
been pleased with the mistakes which McCue made
IN riding Little Saint Suppose that McCue ever
encounters the awful frown OF the Ruler OF New;
York! That frowu might strike him dead And
his passage Acheron with no return ferry
check would help the turf substantially. AT the
start he uncouth and awkward with Little
Saint that Mr.. Crokers pet got much the worst OF
II. Then McCue steered Little Saint into every
pocket which he could find. 1t Is surprising that
Mr.. Crokers closest friends did not discover before
the that McCue held retainer from Frank
Moss and Is closer John c. Sheehan and James
j. Martin than any other boy of his years now v-
ing McCue is burning with deadly hatred against
Chief Devery, John F; Carroll and Captain Price,
and venerates Assembyman Mazet To McCue
Andrew Freedman and Mayor Van Wyck are
poison ivy. He expects to join the Citizens Union
In a few days And yet Mr. Croker's representa-
tlves this country engaged this rank little mug
wump McCue TO ride Little Saint!
Come back, Mr.. Croker! You can't race horses