New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-06
IMP BEHIND JEAN BERAUD
Mr. WHJTNEY'S COLT HAD COURAGE
THE MARE FAIRLY ourRuS AT GRAvEsEND,

THE MARE FAIRLY oV-TRUN AT GRAvEsEND.
Although the Democratic State Convention was
in session the turf boom so big and broad
that the throng Of spectators at Gravesend was
impressveIy numerous. Most OF the hoiders Oh
Ice Trust stock were busy with apologies and ex-
c,iees In Fourteenth-st and in place OF the usual
majority of the Tammany organization which nils
the rockets Of the bookn1akers, a few straggiers
from Richard Croker's Falstaffian army OF looped
ard windowed raggedness deserted the Academy OF
Music and travelled TO Long Island to observe the
meeting OF Imp and Jean Beraud. James Russell
Lowell never sang of A rarer June afternoon. Sun,
sky and serene. Nowhere except IN the
fetsG lair Of the bookmakers was the atmosphere
rnufky. Once more were the vast gains Of the
Mdases and Crrsuses who own Brooklyn Jockey
Club stock multiplied manifold and once more
were the Egyptian and Gentle masses despoiled by
the chosen children Of judah.
CLEAN Of hope brightens the horizon Of race
track transportation. Soon the Pennsylvania Rail-
read will take hold of the Long Island system
Pennsylvania managers know how to handle trains
and boats that racesoers will be satsned AT
present or Long Island the turf transportation
seems be the hands Of mystics who see Visions
and dream dreams. but have no practical common
sense as to cars and ferries. The Thirty-fourth-st
ferry Is lame and hating maddenng extent
Still worse the track service to and from the east
end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Falsehood has been
heaped upon falsehood with regard 10 that ser
VICE TransvaaI Beers would not treat kaTilrs
more rrdely than the rulers of the line from the
bridge to Gravesend treat the passengers AL
intolerabe is practised daily upon the occu
pants of the trolley between ParkVille ana the
racecourse. A schoolboy could collect the fares
utthout stopping the cars but II is now the custom
m sim the cars before the track is reached, IN
order TO collect the fares. Mob violence is never
excusable but the men responsible for such
rexatious annoyance as this are In peril OF pro-
soking riot.
The only gratifying incident at the cheap. COM
naonplace dusty dirty. uncIeansed little track at
Crayesend was the success of William I. WHIT
news colt Jean Beraud in the Brookdale Handicap.
INN was the odds-on favorite and Jean Berauo
was second choice Only four ran-Imp, Jean
Beraud Charentus and Prince McClurg. From the
outset 20 the close the struggle was between Jean
Beraud and Imp. The two fought 1t out from END
20 end, and Charentus and Prince mcclure could
not approach them. Jean Beraud drew the rail-
position and Imp could not deprive him OF 1t. al
though she tried TO do so again and again turner
rode Jean Beraud coolly and sturdily. Imp strove
Justify and chung TO her task stubborny, but Jean
Beraud the better of the two yesterday. and,
while his superiority not as deep as a well or
as wide as a church door,I1S Was decisive. Imp
was stoutly ridden by O'Connor and was not dis
graced. That gallant wrest4ss with Ethelbert on
Saturday had cleared Jean Beraud's lungs had
melted away the final OF cloggfng and super
auous fat or tissue near his heart upon any
part his CorIiss engine machinery. Jean Beraud
was a better rncehorse than when he succumbed
70 Ethelbert. No training even Of the searching
and exaeting type do for a runner what public
racing does. 1t never did and il never Will.
The Whitney colors are so popular and MI. " nut,
ncy is much admired on the turf for his liberal
policy and Methods that the achievement or Jean
Beraud heartily acclaimed Ethelbert Jean
Beraud and Imp expected to meet In the SUB
urban Saturday. June L. The three, with fair
day and fast track, Will exhibit some rapid move
ments
Turner rode Jean Beraud like the most dashing
oavalryman whom st. Cyr ever sent to battle He
rode Ir. Whitney's Hostein, the favorite in the
fifth race as wooden toy in the Paris Fair might
ride the stormwind of the equinox. Holstein was
by far the best of the lot but Turner let him run
out in just that part of the race in which 1t was
easiest TO prevent his running out Alas. these
Jockeys, Not of them can be trusted when he
rides favorite Holstein second. He should
have been first. McAddie owned by John j. Nc
Cafferty whose record is blotched and spotted
shockingly. was first; Il is an injury to sport of
high class when McCaferty prospers. The Whit
news elevate racing. The McCafertys and William
c. Days and men of their stamp degrade il.
J. B. Haggn's Watercolor runs in the name of c.
Ittefeld, Jr- He is big. powerful. fast colt. His
reputation was so high although he had never
been seen in public, that he made the favorite
in the third race He displayed striking speed, and
was first very costly. Mitchell wss off in front but
he rode Competitor stupidity that he lost second
place TO the outsider. Cresson Competitor could
not possibly have defeated Watercolor but proper
" ridden he must have been second Mitchell, like