The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-07
Big PURSE FOR WINNER
An Important Racing Event at
Sheepshead Tomorrow.
Chances for KiIIas hnndra, w. C.
Champion Believed to BE Excellent
The GoidGnch FiIIy's Perform
nnce in the September Handicap.

beats William C. Whtneys Killashandra
in the Annual Champion Race, two miles
and quarter, at Sheepshead Bay on Sat
urday will come pretty close to getting
the winners end of the S25, coo purse
guaranteed by the Cone Island Jockey
Club 1t will take good one to do it.
The Goldfnch FLY is the most improved
horse of the older handicap division in
training. She has been getting better Cay
by day ever since her trainer Peter VIM
mer, brought her down from Saratoga a
fortnight ago, and it can be said without
extravaganza that she is up to her best
two year-old form.
There is an Unborn prejudice among
| horsemen and turf patrons against FLIES
in races with colts. ard as general prop
osition II is good thing but every now
and then Briar Sweet or an Imp comes
| along and knocks this prejudice silly. 1t
| begins to look as though Killashandra
were such mare. She has beaten some
mighty good horses lately over good, stiff
! distances and under weight, This is re-
markable because in the early spring she
| was looked upon as mere Splinter. Even
| Mr.. WINNER had no idea that she could
go mile until he tried her at Sleeps
| head Bay ten days back.
The race that makes Killashandra look
| particularly good for the Annual Cham
| pion was run at Sheepshead Bay yester-
| day. 1t was the historic September for
| three-year -olds at one mile and three fur
| longs on the main track. The purse was
| about $1,000, and four started-William
| Barricks James, carrying 121 pounds; Ca
ruthers & Shields Advance Guard, 121;
| Killashandra 1CS and William Lakeland's
! Motley, 10S. James McLaughlin's First
! Whip, los, was an overnight nomination,
but was scratched early in the afternoon.
! The Duke OF Montrcse colt, the best
three-y ear-oid selling platter out in the
| early spring, is no longer very good. He
goes lame in both legs in front every
time he gallops at top speed, and al
though his indomitable courage always
prompts him to run hard, which I'M
doubtedly gave him a chance at the
weights in the September. Jimmie Me
Laughlin made up his mind to scratch.
First Whips place was taken by Motley.
Billy Lakeland had not intended to start
her. but when he saw how light the fsld
was going to be, he thought he might as
well take a chance. He got third money
for his trouble, also knowledge that VII
probably save him money in the future,
namely that the Montana filly is not
slayer. One mile and furlong is her
limit. She can go as fast nearly as any
three year-o1d hereabouts that distance,
Dut no ldilBti riit NdS III Ohl VI lh5
September to the head of the stretch
and then quit.
Prince of Melbourne, Missionary, and
Ildrim, prominent annual Champion can
didates, might have started in the Sep
TENDER, but for various reasons none o.
them did. Mr.. Whitney did not take
kindly to the idea OF starting Killashap-
dra. He is a fair man with his horses I
and feared that another Icing race after /
bar n ard uaI in no TxxiO CITY Handi- /
cap, which she would have won had she |
not been penned in between Z. hel5ert |
and Jack Point in the charge through |
the homestretch, might hurt her. Mr.. |
WINNER argued that it would not.
To fit horses for such races as the I
Annual Champion promises to be, he con-
tended they must have work. 1t would /
be necessary TO give Killashandra a stiff !
gallop before Saturday. Why shouldn't |
she go on in the September in which |
there was a chance to win purse. When
II was put to him in that light Mr.. Whit !
ney consented to allow her to start. The /
race was only a gallop for her. She lay
we'll in behini Motley in the dash around /
the near turn and Up the backstreteh
under restraining pull. Master George /
Odom was up and he gave killashandra
her head in the middle of the upper turn.
In three bounds she closed the two
lengths gap that separated her from Mot
ley and entered the homestretch head
and head with the Montana FLY. Frasch
went to the whip, but it was useless to
beat Motley. She had done her best.
was simply a better fily.
Abreast of the last furlong pole she
drew away and won hard held by a cou-
pie OF lengths. Her time, 2:22 was with
In a second of NanM Pooh's record for
the race and the track at one mile and
three furlongs, established In the run
ming OF the September Stakes of 1855.
The winning list of the September since
its institution in 1881 is illuminated by
tbe names of such celebrated horses as
George Kinney HidaIgo, The Bard. King
ston. Peg Wellington Ohe dam of David
Salvador. Judge Morrow Reck-
OIL, Pactolus, Bassetlaw and Batten. Bat
ten was the victor last year, and he car
red the coiors of Tom Mcdowell, of Lex
lngton.
The addition Of Killashandra's name does
not disgrace such a list While she may
not be as good as some of her predeces
sors, 1t is certainty that none won an
easier victory. She was never extended.
and horse that can do as well as she did
at one mile and three furlonEs can stay
two miles and quarter. Master Odom
rode in his finished style. He held her to-
gether nicely, kept tab on the race, and
made his run at precisely the right mo-
nent. The little fellow is really riding
rs well as he did year ago last spring !
when his cleverness inspired Mr.. Whitney
10 offer his father sl0,0 a season for his
services for three years.
No longer can it be charged that Odom |
aeks courage. He is as quick at the post
IS any jockey in these parts and rides I'M
lesitatingly into per!lous places on crowd
I'd turns. He took every chance with An
hony l.. Aste's Sadducee in the six-fur-
ong condition race, which came next on
he programme TO the September II was
lot his fault that the Bathampton gelding
vas beaten. The trouble was that Sad ,
lucee had not been out in nearly a year
md needed race TO fit him for a bruising
truggle.
Advance Guard Motley. and james all
an well in the September. but as neither 7
4 them is in the annual Champion thew >,
ave no place in n IS story.
The probable Annual Champion starters 4
With the names of their owners, and their !
Weights and riders arc as follows:
Perry Belmont's bay colt Ethelbert, 4 S
ears old, 133 pounds (Maher) 9
The Osceola Stables b. T. Maid of Har-
EN-, 4, 127 slack.
Pierre Lorillard's b. c. David Garrick, g. '
% CBullmanl. I
August Belmont's b. g. Brigadier, g. i13 !
McCue)
August Belmonts b. C. Kilogram, 3, lie
Burns). n
Francis d. Boards CHI c. Prince Of Mel ,
ourne. 3, 1I9 Spencer
Deimet Farrells br. c. Ildrinl, 3. 119 :
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