New-York tribune., 1900-04-22
THE RACETRACK.
MEETING is POPULAR.
JAMES R. KEENE's coLoRs CONSPICUOUS.

JAMES r. KEENES CoLORS CONSPICUOUS
The golden sands of Cape Nome are beggarly
in comparison with the silver sands of Aqueduct,
a Bryan mine of Reilly riches. Prospectors who
guide the operations of the Queens County Jockey
Club have unearthed Long Island lode which is
paying daily dividends larger than any de-
clared by Syndicate Miller or John w. Gates To
what wild excesses will the mania for betting
the racetrack extend! 1t has become a trembling
delirium. since Chief Devery prematurely discov-
cred the existence of pOOroomS and hastily shut
the doors of every one of them. The classes did
not mass at Aqueduct yesterday In thick batta-
ions, but the masses hurled themselves with furious
impact against the thin black line of bookmakers.
Their assaults We're inspired by recklessness not
often exceeded Aqueduct pent up Utica far
too small for the host of pleasure seekers which
stormed its gates The stockholders of the Queens
County Jockey Club do not whether not
KRUGER blows up the Transvaal mines. Their
drifts yielding in such pyramids
Cecil Rhodes in his fantastic visions of King
Solomon's Ophir never ina gined
On Aqueduct's opening day the programmes were
too few. Yesterday there were enough and 10
spare Nevertheless the for gambling on
the horses after most of the poorcoms had been
sealed engrossing that the attendance
every day has been wonderfully liberal And as a
rule the sport has been surprisingly consistent.
No grave scandal has yet disturbed the peace of
the little track hidden among the obscure reCesses
of the outskirts of Jamaica. Possibly trouble may
come later but Francis T. Clarke, James Rowe
and Andrew Jackson Joyner exceedingly in
fuential the south shore of Long Island. and the
three have bound themselves with strange oaths
that nothing wrong is to occur Jamaica, un,ess
1t may be their dead bodies. When these
three musketeers join in a pledge the shade of
Cardinal Richelieu Is visibly shaken, and Sleeps
head Bay mosquitoes scatter in alarm.
If James r. Keene the races yesterday he
kept himself in the background and out of the COM
mon view. A trip to the Borough of Queens by one
of his favorite Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains might
have afforded him bit of passing diversion, as his
gelding The Regent, neuter offspring of his superb
champion Domino, the second race, and his
gelding Doublet. neuter progeny of Domino was
first in the fifth race while Unmasked, neuter off
shoot of Domino, was second in the Arverne Stakes.
Countless regrets expressed that William c.
Whitney Thomas F. Ryan, H. ii. Nreeland, De
Lancey Nicoll, William f. Sheehan and other inti-
mate friends and ardent admirers of Mr.. Keene
present to celebrate with jubilation the
triumphs of the Keene coOrs.
Some people are the victims of delusion which
impels them to believe that little O'Connor is
jockey of high class. Those victims deserve the
pity of all intelligent persons who know what
jockey of high class really is. O'Connor had
hands seat, Judgment of pace, anything
else as a jockey, except tadpOie instinct to stick
to saddle. With jockey on his back ShOreham.
the favorite would have played with the first race
and pirouetted home tiptoe With O'Connor up
he came in second The anatomists of America
ought to study OConnor. At the crest of his
spinal column knob holds the place of the
MUM, which in the average human being lodges
the cerebrum and the cerebellum In O'ConnOrs
case this knob Is suspected to be untenanted The
school books OF hundred years said that
nature abhOrred vacuum. What does
think of OConnor?
A crazy rumor went flying over the track that
Richard Croker had died suddenly in England.
Tammany Han had sent legions of loyal warriors to
with the pale cast of thought when he heard that
rdaI aa Z fer no in it,
ite in the first race, would have been the front
in the saddle he was second. In the last race
{. +; Dwyer's luck was as good as it was bad in
in that last affair. but Mitchell went sleep
Mercer, as O'Connor had done on Shoreham. and
proper riding Mercer would have Pcardy by
several lengths. 1t is odd coincidence that Bull
the sixth with Picardy pullman Cow
man are the Siamese twins the jockey list
the COmmunipaw abattoirs the latest figures TO
pullman and Cowman are posted in prominent
places
In the third race only three ran Wait Not was
the favorte and the winner. His success due
to him.
Three out of the six prizes We're captured by ia
riding superior that of any of the other
jockeys. although he looked weak and Ill. He
orders implicitly. Otherwise he may be a chronic
and incurable invalid before this season ends
Orleans He was on The Jefferson in the first
race. and at the end was in the last three In the
fourth he was unpaced with Royal Sterling and
he handled his mount as if he had been beset by
placed with the generously backed Oea and in the
last he muddled and messed the favorite Mercer so
Modrne got off well in the Arverne Stakes and
this time, strange to say. he did not stop until
quitter. and Unmasked almost caught him. If the
run had been little longer Modrine would have
first.
THE SIrNJNAPJFS