New-York tribune., 1900-04-29
THE RACETRACK.
THIS SPRING MEETING WILL PAY STANDARD OIL
DIVIDENDS.

| Rumors have been afoat in Wall Street that John
| d. Rockefeller mas been spending millions of dol
| lars buying the control the Missouri Pacific.
| Certain Jamaica Bay turfmen say that II IS not
! Mr.. Rockefeller but Mr. Reilly. president the
! Queens County Jockey Club, who is purchasing
trunk lines. The Aqueduct track is making so
much money that no need fear a stringency in
! loanabe funds in Copcl Court in Threadneedle
Street in the exchanges of Paris. Berlin Wen
| ma or in the vicinity of Trinity churchyard. Any
! investor or speCulator who furnish satisfactory
collateral can borrow many millions as he may
desire by hypothecating his securities with the
| president of Aqueduct. Several of the book
! makers have become temporarily involved in their
I finances at the current Pettengill panorama. But
their troubles were only brief and transtory Pres
ident Reilly's pocketbook has been constantly un-
c'asped, and the knights of the betting circle have
been able at all times to negotiate loans with him
| upon highly favorable terms. This has been a
nugget meeting in the borough beyond Brooklyn,
and the Queens County Jockey Club has been
amassing wealth at such speed that it may decide
| to buy both Norris Park and the Empire City
uack and convert both Of them into Aqueduct
neXes. Possibly Mr.. Reilly may decide purchase
the Fifth Avenue Hotel from the Emo estate, and
also the old Demonico Building. at Twenty-sixth-
st. and Fifth-ave. Why shouldn't he?
Long Island breezes trihe rasping yester-
DAY, and the visitors to Reillyvle who had not
pawned their midwinter ulsters and Arctic gums
We're proud and happy. They gazed with compass
sion at the forced growth hothouse shrubs that
rad peeped forth without double wraps Freezing
blasts from Labrador stiffened the speed of Vouch
Strategist and Himself in the first race and Moor
a telescope outsider from afar, shot home in the
van But no gales from Spitzbergen or Nova
Zembla chilled the pace of Trumpet the odds on
1aVorlte IN the second affair. ]. p Robson
poth hlng Barleycorn and Bueaway. He decided
that Blueaway, with only hundred pounds on his
back, would need no help from King Barleycorn
in handling the third affray and he took out King
bar4eycorn l3lueaway equal to the task with
was absurdly facie. But the start was delirious
Inc horses Were scattered all over the when
the whimsical Pettengill dropped the flag and
scores of spectators who exactly opposite the
barrier hissed and hooted because the start was
SO plainly unfair
Up to Yesterday this Aqueduct meeting had been
starting in number of the contests had been pit
man of the Jockey Club. He has been iii recently
ana ana SAL sailed for Europe Yesterday in order to seek
months ~, Mr. Keene has not visited Aqueduct this
was ill that there was no possibility of his see
Ing the starts at Aqueduct? If he did not know
bad H1,tnS starts dtis. to the Keepe horses?
was so peculiar that the iockeV 6npht o ba ago
oeen taken TO a dissectinG room and thoroughly
riding of Zanone in the last Yesterday was SO
55ee9 4dd 1nad me bR0ng b rays ought to have
are President Reilly, Francis T. Clarke and w. S.
for The future of Missouri Pacific that he might
PosTdoEy Pc n E overlook di pull ILL., now and then He means
sly, crafty and cunning for him at times. Mr.. Vos-
less saint Francis T. Clarke has contributed most
Iiberally to the missionary fqnd Of the great Con-
tensely absorbed in mission work in Ching -Kiang-
ttces of Jockeys here home. If the riders at
ra PaganT TE3m 1o s & or then
with burning zeal and see to it that they not
police court on Friday Mr.. Clarke and the other
stewards may have thought that he needed no
H. Lewiss, jockeyship Flax Spinner in the
ROCkaWay strange,
strange in fact, that Lewis ought . have been
il is the plain duty, Of the Aqpeduct stewards to
reason to suppose that she is in fit condition for
racing. Gaze was backed heavily. by the unsus-
was unpiaced. It is a grave injustice and wrong
TO the Pqbc m to allow her % b to start when she is in
past performances. No gold brick or greengoods
Aqueduct. Keep the sport clean and straight and
that he ali M T IN he the u SO
tracks will soon be rich enough to ride in the cost
of the class Of the corSair and the Valiant But
if thimbleMrgging is winked az every honorable
In the first race o,connor on youeh and pullman 1
pace that the lightly weighted Moor COR, at long
self ridden awkwardly and stupidly by
Magic Light is usually left at the post
away, He has a. dabocal temper. He ran away
start If sobr in the hd anS & so Rs3 s5 hs
possible chance to get either first or second place
after the flag fell
Prejudice has regained her speed. which
missing in her last previous race, and easily out
the favOrite Manitoban and the rest of the
contestants in the fifth race. She backed with
conspicuous confidence by a certain shrewd set of
spectators. who took much money out of the
right.
On public form at the weights and the distance
Zanone should have defeated Heobas without
straining himself in the last race. But the blush
ing bridegroom Bullman took excellent care of
Zanone, who came in third. The start exc
cradle.
O'Connor and Mitchell won two races each Bull
man and Booker apiece.
Henry Stull, the celebrated painter Of horses and
of racing scenes: has surpassed his previous tri-
umphs in his work for the big poster dis
played in the elevated railroad stations and else
where. The spirit and dash and ufelike appearance
of the exciting struggle which he depicts rivet the
admiTing gaze of hosts of observers.
Here the summaries:
FIRST RACE-Fo- two-year-oIds $500 added selling
Five furIongs.
I Betting.
Pl.
MoroccoIKisbern a5 N .GFookerp l 15-1 81
Onecl: Stables b. c. Srategist. 1o4
R. W. Walden & sons b. c vouch 10
Bt,,sa,, 10 ....... 'oT9nDoT %9gnoT} ?ll 40
Woodsticlls. O. Slack 2n-1 10
/
Hayman. MichaelS) q 20-I S
IIiia, C)angmam 10l ii
An tseatonl 4O-1 15-1
San Luis, 100 ttntonI 6p-l 20
Evil. tWeisspI Isl