New-York tribune., 1900-05-29
PROGRAMME OF SPORTS TO-DAY
THE RACETRACk.
FOUR FAvoRITEs FARED BADLY.
NOT DAY OF THE CHOICEST SPORT AT
GRAVEsEND.

NOT DAY OF THE CHOICEST sFohi Al
GRAvEsEND.
1othario cut corks in marvellous style at
crsvesend Yesterday But It is high time for his
amiabe owner TO get rid of this horse, even II he
has TO sell him for some such petty sum as $500.
.fPittsburg Phil is not eager 10 JOIN j. 1orniheueu
and Ed" Heffner on the outside. is he? Lotharlo
is too dense a riddle for common daily use ana
Pittsburg Phil doesn't desire TO go into exile. does
he? A few days ago Lothario was strong favor
ite at Morris Park. He ran as Bryan Will run IN
November-no better. The circumstances did not
suit him Yesterday the circumstances did suit
him and he was successful against horses superior
to those which he failed TO excel at Morris Park
1t was not merely his defeat at Morris Park which
opened the hoodgates of sneers and fouting in
Kings County yesterday. It the absolute
absence Of speed which apparent at Morris
Park that day. while he had amazing surplus
of speed yesterday. And this was by no means
the first occasion when Lothario, after having
orawled and crept at a short price, came out few
Gays later with speed that was astonishing after
the bookTnakers had set up tempting figures.
Lothario is Of those Punch and Judy run
ners that honorable man can afford to own.
Mr. Smith. beginning with the capital which an
honest oorkcutter In Western Pennsylvania can
amass in a few years from the average salary paid
10 industrious artisan, has accumulated several
hundreds of thousands of dollars on the turf.
Like thoughtful chorus girls who, by the constant
practice of rigid economy and penurlous sei1-oe-
NAL, buy broughams and automobiles out Of their
savings from salaries of SIS week Mr.. Smith, by
inoessant frugality has piled up fortune on the
racetracks out Of modest income. But he should
not forget that Ice Trust is in trouble at
last The political pull of the Ice Trust is
tremendous Mr.. Smith is not a Tammany boss,
and he is irresistibly influential with the
stewards the Jockey Club. II is the policy OF
prudence and Of wisdom for him TO sell or kill Lo-
thsrio or prevail upon that queer beast TO run more
consistently. This suggestion is put forth IN kna
and friendly spirit. Mr Smith has many devoted
friends on turf. But the plain truth is that
since he has owned Lothario that horse has oeeH en-
the inand-out runners 1t can hardly De 1naf ~ Nj,
Smith is ambitious TO return to eorkeuttlng Ior
livelihood Yet i Lothario continues tp9 & ioIg ,ar az
ought 70 be presented with the freedom of open
world. matter whether that owner is mliqn- p
Iothario game of battledoor and shuttlecock- 1t
gray and gloomy was the weather at Grayesend
yesterday. and the line of spectators was shalloW
Clouds some Of the wild vagaries of form that
@ as sea d qPen e aa Hih 9snda a Eclipse IN
the morning Nothing wrong couId De dlscerned 1 n
Blues oddson favoT,ts and he vas much
the best Sd MiF ue EodG a h n o%n tR
two-year-old colts OF mark mark No S comm1HnpaGee ace
be hP poron @ fairly fought for and fairly gained
John Madden cordially admiTes mir j., the Tdi9g OF Of
repeatedly with brisk emphasis. Why didn't he
f the aeeo1d nd raee@ He PUT up 6do dear little
d T neg Gge h SAD Oat m aHt at 5H M
r and h5 his m faf race ans aGe
n as Rses sGia and d tpped @ ee f othario
Halt s Ten Sandss SS;db ca4ad and Jack 1Ss
good news TO Ghent. Gulden would have been a
Win poor ri little doom his SacR @ iookine ike
cripple on Streteher sire & at the door % OF surgical m S
immoral a and d aunPrin7eiple;ds mp LothaFo Il, rio
for horses e Which had never won me race and ve
were at dist distances Of less than Isl six & frIongs Isn't
The cry that racing S Is kept up in this State solely
Baxter-st. rhetorician whose fervent oratory is
used to extol the charms of second hand clothing.
ners came out for the third race Selling @ affair
at s i've fur0ngs kensngton % was the faxorite but
spectators and diseredtable to the starter The
Kensngton he was of poorly at the start More
over, Spencer rode him shoekngly, and in a style
q victim Of insomnia? Macbeth murdered sleep in
starter Sleep e his Mab csh Starts ta
Several fillies were withdrawn from the Glover
yeaI-oisdi FLIES. and several were added; Sweet
first and second, They were clearly superior TO the
others. Sweet Lavender was the favorite.
Limelight first choice for the fifth race but
Queen Louise, with Maher in the saddle and Bomb
shell ridden by OConnor. had more speed than
IL. Il was gsnsTIay Ia Z thoqght by the experts that the
8RP eo Paae B9fh s heav a but
P Foxs Pnche came home rs Sanaen sead
and Scales third. The running of Strathconan
psn bTa Ro one opbs now BGfh ta
Chamberlain is by long odds the worst horse that
Pierre Ioriliard ever bought. In the of his
long turf career Mr. Lorillard has purchased a
great many horses OF a great many kinds. Mr.
has been dolorous beyond expression. Fortune
has been shifting him without pause pity.
Pincher. the winner OF the last race, was an ey-
trene outsider in the betting
OConnor was on the second horse in the third
fourth. nth and sixth races-rather an uncommon
experience. He had in the first and sec
ond races Turner was third in three races. MaheI
Odom. Littlefeld and Clawson a single race
each.
singular error made in sending to the
newspapers Saturday the of the famous
mare Briar Sweet a probable in the
third race, selling affair. Walter Jennings was
the track. and said that Briar Sweet was ir
kentucky. He added that Briar Sweet had not
been entered in a selling race. and would
be j. B. Haggtn. who owns Rriar Sweet. expects
that she will be A great brood mare and will never
put her in q selling race.
The Brooklyn Jockey Club ought to change i'm
mediately the statement its programmes and
in its advertisements that trains direct the
track leave Park Row. New-York by way of the
Brooklyn Bridge and Fifth Avenue Elevated every
ten minutes. They don't. They didn't do II either
on Saturday or yesterday. 1t is necessary cross
Then, at the Brooklyn end of the Bridge change
TO a rscetrack train which takes a half hour to
feacn the track But these trains do not every
zen minutes. or anything like IL. They didn't on
saturday and they didn't yesterday They seem 70
start at almost Old time intervals of fifteen
twenty thirty minutes the train starter
them. ~ - go
II is just well TO tell the truth on programmes