The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
RACE TRACK GOSSIP
Special Events to Be Decided at
GraveSend This Week.

Only One of Moment for Two-Yesr-
OIds-The ParkviIIe and Ocean View
Handicaps Many Good Horses
From the kecnc and Whitney
Stables to he Shipped to England.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Half dozen old
time Gravesend fixtures will be decided
this week. which is the last OF the Brook
! Ign Jockey Clubs autumnal meeting. The
Parkville Handicap. for three-year- olds,
| $1,000 added, will be run tomorrow; the
| Bayshore selling race, for three-year- Odds
and over. 81 COO added, on Tuesday; the
| Standard Selling Stakes for three-year-
| olGs, $1,000 added Wednesday; the
| Ocean View Handicap. for three-year- olds,
| $1,000 added. on Thursday, and the Pros
pect Handicap for two-year-olds. $500
! guaranteed. and the Oriental Handicap, for
all ages, $500 guaranteed, on Saturday
There will be only five days of racing. I'M
less Phil Dwyer makes UP his mind be-
tween now and Wednesday to use Friday.
which is an open day, and may or may not
| be used, as he sees fit
The particular in which next weeks
Gravesend programme differs from the
schedules of the first and second weeks is
In the scarcity of special races for two
year-olds. The Prospect Handicap is the
only fixture for youngsters on the card
they viii have to do most of their running
IN overnight handicaps and maiden selling
races. There are plenty of events of this
variety for them. The Prospect Handicap
mas always been one of the best of the
Gravesend autumnal races for two-year-
Odds Indeed, until the JUNIOR Champion
race of $4,000 was Instituted three years
back 1t was the star attraction. The dis
lance is five and three quarter furlor gs
and the purse is worthy trying for The
best youngsters in these parts ready to
race are eligible for the Prospect and big
field of them will start
The keenes may start Conroy, the win
ner of the Holly Handicap last Saturday.
and the speedy Domino FLY Noond4y. and
the Schorrs will probably be represe n :ed
by Alard Scheck, Lady Schorr and Silver
dale. All three of them are eligible The
other good ones are Newton Bennington
Beiiarfo. Anthony l.. Aste's Surnise Al
bert Featnerstone's Black Fox, Charles
Fleisehmanns &c Sons Blues and Six
Shooter. Sam Hildreth's lebanon ana
Maximus. ". J. Kilpatrick's DR.. Barlow.
Dave Morris Fake. S. Sanford &. Sons
Chuctanunda. Edward F. Simmms' The
Puritan, Michael Murphy's King Left. Col.
James E. Peppers Prince Pepper and King
Pepper. and ]. E Seagram's Far Rock
away. These are about the best two-year-
olds in training. William c. Whitney's
Ballyhoo Bey and the Keenes' Commando.
Olympian. Tommy Atkins and Cap and
Bells are no longer in training, so far (,
tins country is concerned. Ballyhoo Bey is
keeping quiet and getting over the VERY
serious injuries he sustained in the race
for the Flat5ush Stakes, and the Keene
quartette Is being got ready for shipment
to England. where they are to race next
season. 1t Is hard 10 see all the good
American two-year- going to England
but there does rot seem to be any way of
stopping the exodus. s, i.... s-i-
Millionaire horsemen like the Keenes
and the Whitneys say that the races for
3-year-olds and over on the English cal
endar are better than ours and IL is OBJ
viously their intention to breed and de-
velop their horses here and take them tic
England after they have reached maturity. !
Unless they change their plans, the Amer |
lean turf will soon degenerate into a |
breeding ground for the English turf |
Nineteen choicely bred Rancocas year !
lings. the property of Pierre Lorillard |
were shipped to England last night on the I
Atlantic Transport Line steamship Min |
nehaha. The threeyear-old David Car /
rick, who beat Ethelbert in the Annual |
Champion Race at Sheepshead Bay two /
weeks ago, went with them. Mr.. Loril- /
lard is one of the American millionaires 1
who is not even going to use the American J.
turf as training ground. The way the /
game is conducted on this side of the At |
lantic does not suit him, and he only in /
tends TO maintain the Rancocas breeding {
establishment here. American racing sec
retaries may win all these rich men back
by cutting down the number of their ri
dlculous two-ye ar-old stakes and devoting
the money hung up for baby horses to
good condition affairs for maturer ami /
mails, but the majority of them seem 10 |
be absolutely dead TO the seriousness of
the situation.
This. however, is a depression. The
two good 3-year old races on the Crave
send calendar for next week are the
Parkville and Ocean View handicaps. The
standard is not much. 1t Is merely a
selling race and probably will not even
call out the best Of its eligibles. The
activity of Sam Hildreth Mike Clancy
Fred Burlew, and Anthony l. Aste in the
claiming line this year has frightened
the owners of the good selling plateTs
and they dare net put them in selling
races any more. The ParkvilIe Handicap
Is d sprint Oi I'VE IuT-
longs. If the best Of it's potential can
didates faced the issue 1t would call out
Lew Elmore's speedy Belle of Lexington,
Charlie Dryers Trumpet, Maxine Co
mezs full brother, and Tommy Atkins
half brother. William c. Eustis' Knight
of Rhodes, Albert Featherstone's Indian
Fairy J. S. Furguson's Musette. E. L.
Liger's Gold Or, Sam Hildreth's Vulcain
Charlie Littlefelds Watercure, Green
Morris Modrine, Hennen & Dave Morris
Prince of Verona, Harry K Knapps
Rikk Tiki Tavi. Waterson Showalter's
Smoke. Ed Simms' Mark Cheek, Frank
Taylor's Waring, and William c. Whit
ney's Killashandra. Two of these horses
at any rate will hardly start. They are
Prince of Verona and Contestor. The
Cayuga colt has not amounted to any
thing since he was hurt in railroad
train in North Carolina while on his way
from New Orleans to Washington early
in the spring, and the Galore colt has
sore shoulder. He is nothing like as
good horse as he was early in the
spring. Then he could run any distance
with any mans sprinter Now about
four and one-half furlongs In the cheap
est company seems to be his limit. Con-
testor probably will not amount to any
thing until next year. Then look cut for
him. That sore shoulder will be cured /
By winters rest, and he will be able
TO do some fast stepping once more.
The Ocean View Handicap is a gallop OF
one mile and sixteenth. Prince of Mel
bourne and Kilmarnock, the champion