New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-25
A KEENE FILLY OF CLASS.
CAP AND BELLS HAS CHOICE QUALITY.
SPENCER AND TURNER SUCCESSFUL AT
BRIGHTON.

James R Keene is now in England. In THE
New-York Herald" yesterday a long and suggestive
talk with Mr. Keene published. 1t was tele-
eraphed from London. In that talk Mr.. Keene was
sonnbre and melancholy concerning American bust
ness, American railroads, American mills ana
American affairs generally. This Is not the nrst
time that Mr.. Keene has limited in substance that
This Republic might possibly be the verge OF
tumblng to perdition and nothing could save IT.
In August and September. in 1896, Mr.. Keene was
copious and profuse in telling his friends that MT
Bryan would be elected President. ana STOCKS
would drop with dull. sickening thud. Neverthe-
less. Mr. Bryan not elected President. ana
Wall Street did collapse in a panic. Mr.. Keene
may perhaps be as far awry in this presidential
campaign as in 1886 But II he had been at
Brighton yesterday instead of London, and had
seen his feet flly Cap and Bells Ia daughter OF
that immortal sire Domino. before whose shrine
Mr.. Keene burned joss-sticks every Sunday win
the Spinster Stakes with a flight or speed worthy
of the whrlwind Domino himself Mr.. Keene might
perchance have chatted more cheerfully about
America and Americans.
II may be that British cooking and British habits
affIct Mr.. Keene with indigestion, and cause him
look at the present and future of this Nation
with bilious eyes Many politicians and Wall Street
men say that if Mr.. Bryan is elected in November
Mr.. Keene will be the Secretary of the Treas
ury. and that within q few weeks after the fourth
day of March, 1901 with Mr. Keene as Secretary of
the Treasury. all the Whitney-Ryan stocks will be
for sale at 10 cents per ton, long measure, and
mat BROOKLYN RAPID transit ana 1nHQ avenue
bonds Will be ground up for cheap pulp in the
manufacture of common wrapping paper the
coarse, thick. brown kind About that time Richard
Croker may be appointed Collector of the Port of
New-York in place of Bicycle BidweH. and also col
lector Of all the ports in the universe and Of every
thing in sight and out of sight.
Testing apart. the Keene hlly Cap and Bells by
Domino cut Of Ben-My-Chree, is a rare FLY of
able quality, speed, action and beauty. She is
lovely lass. Sweet Lavender was the favorite in
the Spinster Stakes, but soon after the start Cap
and Bells shot out into the lead at a gait which
ere long forced Sweet Lavender to fumbling and
wavering. Eeach OF the carried 122 pounds,
and Sweet Lavender had run so well in several
races that she was first choice over Cap and Bells.
Lttlefeld rode Sweet Lavender with zeal and
energy, but Cap and Bells eaped far 10 the fore
in the first half mile that Sweet Lavender had no
conceivable chance TO catch her or even to cut
down the gap between them. Sweet Lavender tired
badly in her vain efforts 10 approach Cap and
Bells that she lost second place TO Janice in the
hOmestretch. but this not gravely 10 her dis
credit, because she carrying 122 pounds TO the
io7 on Janice, and Cap and Bells had led her such
an elhn dance, such waltz OF witches that her
heart was gone.
The time slow. This was because Cap and
Bells had stopped the others by her class and
quality and speed in the first half mile. and can
tered home alone And that has been the rule the
world over. Great horses stop horses less great.
win races in a canter, and therefore rarely make
fast time. Some day the cheap and silly school
boys who make so much fuss over the absurd
paters al Brighton. Washington Park, in Chi
cago. and at other circus spring. board tracks,
study thoroughly the races Of the foremost cham
plonS, OF OrnOnoe. and the other m!ghtest racers
81 6ee G fe Own T BEN they o may Rer5aPs d
OF praise or petty selling platers that break records
and aggR at tesv as e s2T p en- 5ne Of do
mon sense has been laughing al them, and the
time announced at Brighton since this meeting be-
The Herald" a, few days ago had an apt car
toon showing horse with ringbones spavins,
splintS ana fractures all over him This disabled
just ready to break TacetracK record This car
o 5 hat fnd g{ 9n I per
up at Brighton this year for cripples that can
slant danger Of failing apart is Of any c o se
euence as a test OF racing merit are afflicted with
what they think are their brains ~
Park Friend Of my childhood and dear, good
fellow! Give away that time honored Tiffany
any time that makes your true friends s' sob
ana moan e anq NV weep with sympathy and COM
Not once this rye year has Brighon been hot as
up and tossed him in the waste basket at Kansas
will he get his medal? Can he the political life
q Ag mac bTyaa IN Noyem0er? He saved Peter
City Island. How is il, anyway. that those Tam
hone from RTyaREie2 rd dhey never touched
mud. WIN he be able to save himself when the the
people get mad? Long ago it was said Of
These people are slow anger but when they do
get mac they are dfangerous Then look out" So
jail Many turfmen were asking this question AT
Brighton yesterday: where and when will Platt
It was a cool afternoon at Brighton. although the
air was sultry. clinging and clammy in town. The
attendance was large, and the track was dry and
fast. Favorites in some of the were put to
death with Chinese cruelty that shockingly
dian starter was unkind TO the favorite, L.
burys Long Isle, and. moreover Long Isle
IN addition he clumsy ridden by Mitchell He
was never dangerous prominent. Mitchell rode
Shanehal say that the Dowager Empress
Picking has a retinue of thousand eunuchs and
would qualify FOR tbe posito- 81 cTief
attendance on the Dowager Empress the Dowager
might be pleased and the turf would never miss
him '-'17
Much money bet on Frederick Gebhard's
Zeus IN that first race. He ridden by Henry
Of Zeus as the hurler OF thunderboits The mod
eh Greeks or the betting ring hurled thunderboIts
AZ Zeus ana hit him hard But they hit Mitchell
All Green. with Turner up had MANY hackers
IN the second race. So did Beau Gallant with
Pittsburg Pills jockey Shaw in the saddle iI II
was reported that p Phil backed Beau Gallant
heavily King Pepper went off like a ivddjte sbej
and held his lead to the last furiong Trne SHen,
Al Green rode keen. smart race. caught King
rode stupid sovenly sleepy race on i Raar S e
LIANT, and came in third. ~
The odds-on favorite. Gold Heels. ridden nv
he liked McCue rode the second choice Bounteo,s as
u careless. lazy. back action style thus siioudn
Ningut, TO get second place at startling odds MY
McCue is culture tube Of mslehcent turf bsciIIi
The victory Of Cap and Bells In the sr,,.o
Stakes has been described already. 'P'"sler
he ought 10 have been the form Of his las "a ca
but Henry rode him slothfully. 1t was perpleTine
tnat CeyIon dld not win that prize very easily as
Henry Is an honest boy, and Ceyon was GER
tainly much the fastest horse of the lot And vet
this strong favorite Ceylon home a verV had
second, 70 that peanut beast Specific. in slow time
and only a neck before Jack Telling a colt ~ The