New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-13
HARNESS RACING.
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF TRACK AND ROAD.
GEORGE STARR TO TRAIN FOR WILLIAM SIMPSON
THIS HARMONY IN THE PARKWAY
DRIVING CLUB-sCHEDUI.E FOR

THIS YEAR-HARMONY IN THE PARKWAY
DRIVING CLUB-sCHEDULE FOR
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN
With three 5000 stallion races at New-York
Louisville and Dubuque announced for the cam
paign OF 1899 interest In the horses likely to figure
in these important is already at high tide
among turfmen. II the entries In and winter
betting were in vogue. the chances are that Bngen
(2:06A.) and Directum Kelly C2:0si4 would be in
stalled hot favortes six months before the date Of
the first race. Bngen has been recognized as one
OF the fastest OF trotters since his public trial
OF 2:l2i1 as twoyearold. His record Of 206s. was
made In winning race at Louisville last fall and
many horsemen who witnessed this and other OF
his performances in 1895 were Of the opinion that
BIngen then possessed speed enough 10 equal or
beat the champion stallion record OF Direcum.
2OJA The handsome Of May King Is heavily
handicapped in a large field ~ horses owing to
his pronounced aversion to scoring the inside.
next the pole. When he wins a heat and Is forced
10 take the inside track In scoring for tho next
heat there is likely be trouble. for the horse very
often breaks and drops away TO the rear soon as
the word Co. is given. Matched against horses
OF equally high class. he would be hopeessly beaten
before reaching the quarter pole but his flight OF
speed Is great that Driver Henry liter often
made up the lost ground in these circumstances
last year and sometimes won the heats. At other
times he laid Bingen up after these costly breaks
and made no effort TO win Bingen's Louisville
race was fair example OF his style. In that con-
test his positions In the successive heats first.
eighth fourth first. nth and first. Directum
Kelly in his two-year-old form was almost
'notonal" Bingen IT, his buck-jumping breaks
having cost him more than one race which his
speed should have enabled him TO win. At Fleet
wood one day In 1897 Trainer John Kelly gave the
headstrong youngster a trouncing which apparent
ly took the nonsense out Of his head. for the great
colt won eight consecutive races last year In the
best OF company He was believed by many horse
men to be 2o5 trotter when his campaign sud
denly ended at the Gens Falls meeting in the
Grand Circuit. Although catarrhal fever was gen
orally understood to be the cause of his sudden re-
trement the report got abroad that one OF his legs
was ailing: and there was some speculation az 10
again. In an Interview at Chicago the other day
his owner, James Butler. Is reported TO have said
Direct is perfectly sound Some Of the keenest
turfmen IN the country would not be surprised to
stallion record in the approaching campaign. on
the other hand. there are those who point to the
fast 200 and improved it the following year.
These turfmen say that neither Bmgen nor Drec-
their belief being that some fresh young horse not
now in the fast list will come on and lower the
The factiona test OF long standing which
eliminated at the postponed annual meeting Of the
Parkway Driving Club last week is believed to
have cleared the course for united action in the
future. and the horsemen OF that organization are
a
the Brooklyn half-mle track. Although ex-District-
Attorney Foster l.. Backus and his friends were
defeated in the election by James Shevlin ex-Sen-
ator John McCarty and Frank Dreamer they kept
their experienced political workers busy from the
she finish Of the contest for control The
opposition Of Mr. Backus and his party was d.
rected not so much against the reelection OF
President Dreamer and Secretary W. c. Allen as
t was against the policy Of the Board Of Directors
had been offered one Of the results of the con-
test for control was TO put into the treasury OF the
forty delinquent members having paid up just be-
fore election in order to vote.
George STAR has been engaged by william
Simpson to train and drive the trotters and PAGERS
OF the Empire City Stud In this years campaign.
Starr for several years Budd Dobles chief
sistant. and later drove Directum. 2o5A Little Al
bert. 2:lO; Matte II. 2:llh. and the PAGERS Flying
Jib. 2:0i Direct. 2O5ia and San Pedro, 2l02.. for
Monroe Salisbury. OF California. Since 1898 Starr
has trained public stable at Terre HaWe. In that
year he drove the NewYork pole team Aubine and
Gambia to a record Of 2:l3l2 for Major s. T. Dick
inson. Three years ago Starr brought out the
crack pacing stallion Planet. 2:0is4 now owned by
W H. Reynolds. OF Brooklyn. The horse was bred
and reared by the Terre Haute reinsman. who sold
him for 5000. after winning the fastest siX-heat
pacing race record. At the Empire City Stud
Starr will handle for Mr. Simpson lot OF young
Pennsylvania winner Bouncer, 2"o
Among the promising trotters that w. II. Nc
Carthy will train this year is the slx-year-old bay
mare Anona. owned by Andrew J. Freedman, OF
the New-York Baseball club. She bred by
J. Malcolm Forbes. OF Boston, and is by Arion
2O7s. from Edgeline a sister TO Edgemarck 2l6
1t is said that she trottcd hafmile in lO7-a PA
gaIt-in her work last season, and as she has no
record faster than 23s Mccarthy says she looks
like a winner Besides Anona. Mccarthy is now |
fitting for the spring campaign William Kely's
bay trOtting stallion Dan Cupid 209l4, by Barney |
lab
and Baker, ?l4'.,. by Sphinx. and Patrick Ryan,s
double gated stallion Exploit. with uoting rec
ord OF 21s1 and pacing record of 20ss Ex-