New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-04
THE RACETRACK.
GOT ONE STRONG FAVORITE IN FRONT.

sADDUCEE SET BACK FOR a VISIONARY FOUL.
Bad riding and bad starting the principal
features of yesterdays races at sheepshead Bay.
Snencer and Wilson were the Jockeys whose errors
caused scathing censure from all intelligent OBJ
servers and reduced the sport TO the level OF
Tammany primary When he takes pains and tries
TO do his full duty Spencer ride fairly. but on
Saturday when he threw away the Vernal Stakes
by foozling in the style of a golf dot and Ounce
with the chances of the favorte, Virginia Earle,
his riding was cOntemptibly stupid and silly
that II would not have been too severe PUNISH
ment 10 put him on the ground for month Care
fully and steadily ridden Virginia Earle could
have beaten Killashandra and Fond Hopes by
length at least Tangled and twisted and foolish
as Spencer's riding on Saturday, II was worse
yesterday. He rode the odds-on favorite, captain
Sissbee in the first race. after the fashion of
snail. and got second place He had no mount IN
the second race. In the third he rode Wa'renton
with the energy force and vigor of an extinct fos-
sill and was unplaced. In the fourth race he was
on Sadducee who was at odds Of 10 on. Prop
erly ridden Sadducee could have won the race by
several lengths Spencer rode him carelessly
and feebly that the homestretch Sadducee leaned
over Montanic although he did not actually foul
or impede Montanic. No one doubts that Sadducee
is a better than Montanic, but Spencer's neg
Hgence in not keeping Sadducee straight, which
any careful and competent Jockey could have done
easily. cost Sadducee the race. The leaning of
Sadducee over on Montanc, while 1t did not foul
or Montanc and is very frequent in races,
gave the miraculous stewards shadow OF a shade
of a faint tinge of an evapescent hue or color OF
an excuse for disqualifying Sadducee and giving
the race TO Montanic. This decision was appar-
emily unjust The owner Of Montanic is popular
and influential. and has legions of loyal friends
The owner of Sadducee is an Italian nobleman
who employs a regiment of bootblacks But the
difference between the owners does not alter the
eternal verites or the basic principles of everias
ing Justice. And the simple. solid truth is that
Sadducee did not actually foul Montanic. There
fore the stewards were wrong. Had Spencer rid
den Sadducee like a jockey. however. and not like
a double dummy stuffed with sawdust the stew
ards would never have had a chance TO give
wrong decision, because Sadducee properly ridden.
would have been lengths of clear open space In
front OF Montanic all the way after the hrst fur-
long had been run.
Spencer rode the favorite Great Neck In the
fifth and rode him as stringbean whose vitality
had been destroyed in early infancy might ride
bthcmoth. II a sight TO make graveyards
yawn Fort lnately for evsyoody Spencer had
no mount in the sixth race But. alas! he is to
ride to-day.
The Realization the Double Event and four
other IA ses are 10 decided this afternoon. but
the fieids in the Realization and Double Event are
poor ana weak lax b ~ who Ibe aTd is not attrac
tive 1t is almost sure that the bookmakers will
Won't to do Especially on saturdays and ho
DAYS Mhsn the sd WILSON, Se to d
and their riding s enough TO spoil the best
DAYS sport ever offered. Those people who stay
away from the track will probably be happier to-
night than those who &c, TO the races because
those who stay away will no risk OF being
cheated by tae bookmakers with Their put-up jobs
and their practically unfair. avaric Gus and greedy
odds. "
The Fleischmanns successful men In bust
ness Consumers of their fine Yeast and drinkers
~ their choice whiskey say that both the yeast
and the wniskey are IL excellent quality The
TTeischuanns always try win and their trainer
e. square and honest Nevertheless II is i'm
position the public for the Fleschmanns 70 put
that dininutiVe caricature OF stable boy wilson
in the saddle. The Fleischmanns dropped Will
lam Martin. They were right Every wen-in-
Sormed turfman knew what w. Martin was doing
ant ia was wrong for them 10 put up such an In
1nitesimal atom Of infant In Intellect as VIII
son a haby of so low grade Of mentality that his
actions are seemingly governed by his toe-joints
and not by his headpece. IL the angels ever weep