New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-26
RACING AT SHEEPSHEAD.
KEENE JOCKEYS HAD THE BEST OF 1T.
NO rAuLrrrNDIxG FROM THE BooKmAKBRs.

NO FAULTFGNDING FROM THE BooKMAKERs.
While the present starter holds his place. racing
suggests a ghoulish kInship TO the game of craps,
because il H. uncertain Come seven, come
eleven come NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., come any old
thing THAI may increase the income Of the ring!
That's the way in which the hazards now toss
ing. The in the last race at Sheepshead yes
terday was mischance. Did the starter ever know
what a bookmaker was, OF did he ever hear of
-poolroom. when he sold his manifold tables Of
positions OF the runners TO the betting ring several
years ago? This starter salesman of mani
fold dope TO the bookmakers in the eighties He
cannot deny It. And after the start In the last
race. why shouldn't he send bills for those
old tables?
IN that final act Perry Belmont's Dread and
J. ". Colts Prejudice carried most of the money
OF the sleepy and unsuspectng public. When the
flag fell neither Dread Prejudice had the
motest chance. What dividend did the opulent
starter receive? He has made Sc much money out
Of the turf that it is time him build palace
in Athabasca and to abandon the United States
permanently.
This is the finest Of Junes for racing but Rich
ard Croker. the ruler of New-York. has not yet
sent out his order TO close the poolrooms Mr..
= Croker IS IL town. having back from his
chosen land and people in England fill his hol-
low pockets from the earnings of his Manhattan
serfs. He has not shut the poolrooms yet. When
the money Inducements consigned to him are suffi-
cient the poolrooms viii probably be closed, and
then the betting ring at Sheepshead may be
pected 10 distribute Ice Trust dividends.
The heat on Coney Island yesterday was South
African Visitors to the track seethed and steamed.
Many Withdrawals ravaged the programme. Mr.
Whitney has sold Gold Heels. Therefore Gold
Heels the favorite, the first race. A royal
flush low neck tip made the Oneck Stable entry
Browndale the second choice IN that opening af-
fair; but after long delay at the post Gold
Heels flung HIS heels front OF BrGwndale Onerk'S
choices are sometimes hack-neck runners at the
finish under the checkerboard training of Walter
That Rubaiyat jockey. Spencer rode Competitor
In that initial whirl. Competitor was fourth. David
gideon has sold Competitor, and it is time for
and the Athabasean starter will wander home later
owns Blue Devil ana few other cTayfish Of noble
pedigree A high class movement is on foot to
persuade Mr.. Morgan carry a big stable like
Mr.. whitney's Perhaps IT may succeed Blue Devil
was blown home in the second zEirmish. Peter
WINNER trains several Of Mr. Whitney's horses
and he has trained Jean Beraud for Mr. Whitney
and Kinley Mack for Eastn & Larabe SO skill
fully that Eastn & Larabie and Peter WINNER
nave me Llohey on hl1leE gach HG M ar W 11rsS
and his pet jockey. McCue, handle Macleod Of
1t was ru1nored in the furthest recesses OF Kings
County that AIacI- Of Dare was roarer of such
violence that when he roared In Brooklyn the
horse ever foaied, was so noisy roarer that when
in Iceland poured GU! lava Prince Charts lie
roar Peter WINNER and certain hookmaherss
like lions as Macleod Of Dare passed the betting
ring aid Macleod Of Dare was third to Blue Devil
OF Dare not ride of the sort which Bret
Harte described in his immortal tale of The Luck
SO Macleod Of Dare Is a roarer is he? Wait
the conditions and see how much roaring that
colt will dc! MScus an nj nfesf9 6 T4age anu %n f5
poolrooms. and he roared Justify at the critical
could have won had he been rightly. ridden.
f5t Vas hot for Humanity and the track was
dry and fast. the Official lists Of probable starters
and trainers in several races The keene colt
Commando had run SO fast IN MS private
AT odds for the Zephyr Stakes He was raw
S sF ong time only i've came out for the zePhyr
Commando is a remarkably level well BALANCED
hcnors with a broad space in He is by
two-year-oid. He died prematurely or he probably
would have been one Of the greatest stations
that any country ever produced W. lakeland had
charge Of Domino for Mr.. Keene. He also had
did Ingenious things with those splendid
Had he not done those ingenious things he might
not be rich as he IS
The death Of the great Domino when he had
only Just begun his career stallion a
serious loss TO the turf Of the world
A Tin can tin on Decanter in the fourth race set
popular Incident Of The afternoon was the failure
outsider Favonus ran first Mero Was second
and Intrusive third O'Connor rode Colonel Roose-
he sR f have ~ ga 4d Money action
The handc,apPer is easily deuded. Dr. .Eichberg
nae no trouble in getting first lace in the hurdle
race In fact. the Handicapped had been misled so
hTst by at least score of lengths. had Veitch
cared TO show him up
As already intimated. the start in the last race
Tas a GlTgTaeefg ana lReXcusable as any seen
and eccentric starter dropped flag only one of
the large field had any chance whatever. That was
the keene lilly Pink Domino. In ancient Assyria
starters were put 10 death with hideous toTtuTes
Tor OFFENCES less grave than that start. How many
coupons Will the for that start? Preiu-
dice ard Dread backed heavily by thousands
OF the spectators Neither FLY had any chance
earth when this Canadian freak Of a starter
gave the signal Racing ought be abolished bv
law in this State and every other State unless the
turf managers VIII have the common decency to
employ men who will give fair starts. Within the
boundaries Of this republic there more than
7GGtl 600 Of people. At least 100000 of the
then did the Jockey Club import incompetent
Canadian from the border TO start
horses unfairly. and why does II pay him $50 per
day for his incompetent work in starting horses
unfairly
4 strange body, that self-constituted, sef-perpe-
trating self-organized oligarchy OF a Jockey Club,
with its perpetual Canadian starter who IN
fairly with his nuisance Of barrier
The made a present OF that last TO
Pink Domino who came home first by many
Eileen DAILY. owned by W c. DAILY the wife-b eating
and boy-beating pest Of the turf. third. Fon-
solee was fourth. With fair start the would
have been between Prejudice and Dread. With the
Prejudice nor Dread was in the first four.
Gold Heels. winner Of the first race. was bid up
10 2,545 and bought IN. He entered be sold
for 500 Mike Clancy did the bidding
Blue Devils mile on the turf in 40 2-5 a
new track record. The old mark 40 3-5 made
1856.
Commando ran in the interest Of James r
Keene, not in that Of J. r. & r ?. Keene as the