New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
THE RACETRACK.
AoUEDUCT GATES NOW OPEN.

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OF THINGS HAPPENED AT THE TRACK
The Queens County Jockey Club began the rae
ing season Of 1899 in this State at the tiny Aque
| duct track yesterday. Current gossip says '"~'
| Brooklyn Rapid Transit will soon control every
TRANSFORMATION line between the City Hall OF Man
| haitian and the Eastern end Of Long Island speed
! the day IL the Flower Transit Trust will run quick
| trains to the tracks. For many years the race
| trains have been slower even than the ieauen
| foot OF Justice at the heels of Richard Crokei'
| But the slowest OF trains was never slower IMAM
| the starter Pettengill acted yesterday as II he
had decided that racing after dark was the faVorie
! sport OF New-Yorkers. Marconi Is neeoeo III
| Queens County with wireless telegraph Champ at
tached to the red flag. Slow starters shouio DC
| sent TO Spain. 'Manana' suits the spahiarus.
! but Americans want swiftness here. there anu
everywhere Matt Byrnes went to Memphis ana
! found that he too tardy In starting MI
Byrnes has a conscience He promptly resigned his
place when ii was clear 10 him that ne was too
| slow for the sudden issues Of to-day. VIII fltz-
| gerald or Pettengill ever resign? Never Matt
| Byrnes was not employed by the superhuman ana
| supernatural Jockey Club of this State That
amazing sublimaon of celestial and colossal genius
employed last year the sowest starter ever known
a starter who spoiled the Suburban, the Fu'uri'y
and the Junior Champion by his slowness, and as
reward for his slowness In 1898 the slowesl ol
starters has been reappointed for 1899. Pettengni
may be slow but he is not as ineonceivaply anu
unapproachably slow as the Jockey Clup starter
of 1898 and 1899.
April was good to Aqueduct yesterday. spring
afternoons of better temper than that of April IL
on Long Island are not frequent Many men anu
several women and troops of bookmaKers came
together at AQueduct. Most of the men and Few
of the women were anxious to lose their money
but the bookmakers were high-mnded ana cum
siderate and decided to discourage betting by orer
ing odds which were so forbidding that specula-
| al and he'd
son the bookmakers at AQueduct have done all
they could to suppress gambling enureiy' lhe!
ate persons who are eager to back horses that the
percentage In bookmaking Is so largely III la'oS
horses that speculation on a racetrack is so GER
tain to enrich the bookmaker ana 10 pegsdr tn1
racing goes in this part of the world ana as
betting goes in Queens County, the hrst afternoon
of the turf season the Atlantic Coast had IN II
bang enough and smash enough:
the pubic the night before the contests was put
thrice t EutSry ya w to6 tS of
honoors. Poor old Harry Reed the favorite, but
useful legs, but Michael F. Dwyer, his compassion;
ate and thoughtful owner has treated Harry Reed
to that which he bestowed upon Hanover, when he
halloween of that superb horse. me re-
suit is that almost the only sound part Of the he
his southeast ear. If Michael +; Dwyer lives long
enough Mr. Dwysr win pfobSbly start fragment
Of disused rear tire of Richard Croker worn-out
and give the public chance to bet on i aisS hv
laughing at the other uncouth hatracks in the sec
ond gallery exhibition. 1t was not truly serious
State are sincerely serious, But tha, Is probably
an excessive estimate. Isn't 1t odd that so many
SO many racetracks and So many solemn and
stately and majestic Pecksniffs of the turf take
and merry gambling whir and wheel like that at
Monte SarH What is the use Of se W naas
DAILY one Of the most s massys and 1l% aSs
average bookmaker after all the cornerstone and
the capstone and the eornice also Of the racing eng
without the bookmakers? Then what's the use of
treating the turf seriously? few pomP99us per
racing as If the world would drop apart the
tracks TO be closed But the world would still spin
Jockey r any CLUB % Ssy a tO VANISH That may
| hard saying TO certain stewards OF the Jockey
Club Nevertheless II Is an eternal verify. ana can
| not be gainsaid
| Il was blithesome romp for Gaze. she was wen
| The Chief comedy Of the afternoon the Carter
| Handicap at about seven furlongs, Duke of MID
dleburgh was the added starter and the conqueror
| changed hands. Alfred H. Morris. former owner
and no doubt he detests 'plutocratic dukedoms" as
various sincere and Jealous Democrats do. Mr.
Morris has gained fame the turf by his skill in
selling his best horses at small prices ana helping
his worst ones He sold the Duke Of Middleburgh
stable horses not worth one-half as much as the
| Duke is worth. Mr. Morris may become the
| Jockey Club starter some day. lie IL Just the
There was a great deal OF 1ostling and reckless
| riding in the Carter Handicap, but not nearly as
much tOstng as was seen at the Bryan d I'm 1 on
| Saturday night. Barleycorn Charentus, Sir FLOR
| ian and Trlo were well backed but all Of them
ran poorly, and no one Of them was placed Every
| burgh, DR.. Parker and Bafnnock. was at a hand
some price in the gambling. Taral was on Ban
| was unlucky more than once in the Journey Ban
| mock hates fields Of more than half-dozen any
garne-ofcraps horse at best, but In his class he
| will 'Come seben. come eleben' all right enough
| later. $500 In, ,,ou.o.,. .,d
sadducee The air was full of talk about Sadducee
before the fourth race, but Joseph Ulman had rad
Gospels for long time. and forgetting all about
| the New Testament denuncatons of the Pharisees
and the Sadducees, Joseph, who had left his coat
| was ready to bet against "Sad Deuce" Sadducee
was. indeed. a sad deuce for Joseph, He was a
| Michael Clancey's Maxine Gomez was victorious
| in the last act Of the diverting comedy at Aque-
duct Before that act MI Oah hs curtain was fell ya
was an anti-Agunaldo expansionst all over at
one TO sixteen.
THE SUMMARIES.
FIRST RAcE-selllng; s4Oo. Five furOngs
s, Betting +,
Kingiiko~Julette. yrs.' los D.,
F. v. Alexandre's b. C. Tyrian. a. 100;
J. R.&F, p. Kesne's ch. f. Nauteh Girl; .,
Harry Reed aged IO4 ........ 20 connor) 81 -
Rare Perfume. g. l0i............ CMaheD 81 al
Swamp Angel o. 1Os........ Oh. Martini 5-l FL
Rev Salazar. T. 102. Moody 30 ID
south African. g. iio. (suivan} % 81
Chenille 0. lO2 ........'.......g SLACK 30 ~