New-York tribune., 1900-05-27

The Brooklyn Handicap of 1890 fell 10 Western
6rrn Easton & Larabie, whose four-year-cld colt
Kiniey Mack unquestionably the champion of
the field which worked its way dismalIy through
the profound mud and under the leaky skies at
Gravesend yesterday Kinley Mack has the mud
habit. his breeding is saturated with humidity
He is by Islington cut Of Songstress-not Cecil
Rhodes-South-African diamond pedigree OF purest
ray serene. blazingly fashona bic lineage. but
eristocratie enough for Gravesend- Who was the
fantastic tster syabIes that responsible for
the eccentric christening OF this colt? He must have
been Populist because Kinley Mack is a grotesque
reversal OF the familiar OF the President
Of the United States. and no one but a Ttmanite
from South Carolina, q Wharton Barker agitator,
Aguinaldo Bostonian. Middle-of-the-Road
sockless demagogue, or Tammany district leader
would ever have had the efrontery TO juggle with
the name Of the Chief Executive OF the Nation and
10 damage a thoroughbred wi,:: perverted and
Iistorted appellation as Kinley Mack
THE CLASS OF THE VICTOR.
Ignobly rnisnamed as the colt may be. he is
q racer with some tendency 10 class. especially
upon heavy track. Turn for moment TO the
scroll OF the Yictors in the Brooklyn Handicap
II is an llustrious list. and the letters blaze in
1iring Hight. Daniel Webster said IN oration
sn which he failed 10 mention Brooklyn. Here
they are: Dry Monopoe, The Bard. Exile. Castaway.
Tenny Judge Morrow Diablo DR.. Rice, Hornpipe
Sir Walter Howard Mann. Ornament and Banas
tar. Thirteen wreath bearers at Gravesend up TO
Einley Mack. Consider Kinley Macks career since
BE first seen in public. and ii becomes ap-
parent that he has claim 10 the topmost line in
ahe Brooklyn Handicap roll He does not rank with
The Bard. with Tenny, with Sir Walter or with
Ornament. His rating may be apart from the
rating OF Dry Nonopoe. Of Exile and Of Banas-
tar, but 81 s above that Of Judge Morrow, Diablo
and DR.. Rice. while II is long way higher than
she classification OF such nischances as Castaway
Hornpipe, and, worst Of all. the unimaginable
and unspeakable Howard Mann.
In the rain and in the mud which Kinley Mack
was lucky enough to encounter, the Isngton colt
was plainly superior 10 the sqpr starters. Ethel
bert, Jean Beraud, Box, The kentuckian Ap-
proval and others withdrawn. Elnley
Mack is fonder OF mud than OF It IS COM
fortng that nothing IN the starting nothing
in the riding, nothing in the incidents OF the
test, gave Kinley Mack an unfair advantage. He
outruns himself in ditch-s-Gn dry track he IS
Ethelbert, Jean Berauc and Imp. He is
q child Of mist, and neglect him when the
air is drenched and the ground is soaked. So
efficient ''mudder" is he that little McCue, who
rode him, had him under pull in the last fur
longs. No excuse can be thought Of for the others
fn the handicap, except that of them are
Ike cats and shrink from wetting their feet. Il
seems well nigh incredible but II is the truth that
the starter the lot away promptly to an even
start Rafaello, the savorite, is always a slow
Beginner. and Herbert, also a suggard in the
first part OF run. prominent at the
outset. But unbiased turfmen admit that no blame
ehoud the on the riders
OF Raffaello and Herbert because those horses
were in the division in the first six furongs.
tkauaeio dnG herpert invariably develop their
highest speed in the homestretch. They do that
in every race in which they seen, and nothing
but explosion OF lyddite of Mayor Van
Wyck could ever compel Rafaello and Herbert TO
move off swiftly the beginning be
spicuous in the first half mile of q
ETHELBERT AND JEAN BERAUD ABSENT.
Many thousands of and women and several
hundreds Of boys and girls went to the course yes
1erday with the hope and expectation of seeing
Perry Beimont's Ethelbert in a fair fight with
William c. Whitney's Jean Beraud. Ethelbert had
done so much in the Metropolitan Handicap and
had gained so impressive a success that he had
vaulted at one bound into the place Of the most
popular horse in training in America. Mr. Whit
ney and that modest, drawing. deliberate Dutch
man, Peter WINNER. a true Pretorian and kr1-
gerian, who trains Jean Beraud and other
horses for MIR. Whitney. have held firmly the
faith which IS in them. and they look upon the
owner and trainer Of Ethelbert little better
than unbeieVers, heretics and inides because they
do not admit that Ethebert is inferior to Jean
Beraud. The burning question is this: Is Jean
Beraud faster than Ethelbert, is Ethebert faster
than Jean Beraud? The devotees of pedigrees and
running lines and records and several other things
arc alame this controversy.
The and trainers of both colts i'm
patient have the matter settled but neither colt
IS .'nudder." Or at least, the and train
ers want EtheIbert and Jean Beraud to fight It
out on dry. fast track, that lingering
Ethelbert and Jean Beraud were Withdrawn after
a host. OF people had travelled 70 the track in
comforts Of many kinds with the anticipation
Hney Hs6yokSn TSniq H@ndap bet~ee1 the TWO eeebae m {
racers Rude words hurtled through tho air from
cherry lips-when the official blackboard made it
clear that Ethelbert and Jean Beraud
be seen, and that the principal attraction OF the
spoiled. Could Mr. Belmont and Mr. Whitney have
heard the comments which were expressed 50
take domination for an elective Office just then
II the decisive votes were to be Yast by the spec
What he poor: dear public can never understand
Nfarsla Afr
Belmont permit the Philip j. Dwyer jockey club
70 allure people 70 the Grayesend grounds in bad
weather 10 see Etneloert and Jean Beraud meet.
gnen Il was 50 easy for Mr. Whitney and Ny.
that Ethelbert and Jean Beraud Would nor mn
il would cost Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Belmont no
public with that Information but It would prevent
the Brooklyn Jockey Club from enticing mtltitude
battle between Ethelbert ana Jean Berand
when in fact neither OF the colts was TO starr
philip J. Dwycr and with f. d. MehyFe tFedency m yeo OF
retary has enjoyed an enviabe fame for padded
there for padded programmes? Is it the wisest
policy IN the long run TO Try 20 deceive the public
and 10 tempt people 10 2 track 10 see horses
which are sure 10 be kept in their stables?
a SPECIAL RACE FOR THE TWO COLTS.
Now that the Brooklyn Jockey Club has amassed
enormous profits by inducing host of visitors TO
go the track for the purpose of watching a
splendid contest between Ethebert and Jean
Beraud In the Brooklyn Handicap (neither colt
left his box) the owners Of E1helbert and Jean
BeTaud have kindly consented that the club shall
have an opportunity 10 make a great deal Of money
out Of special race between Ethelbert and Jean
Beraud which is to take place Saturday June
The rules OF the Jockey Club prohibit turf matches
for well known reasons. which Il is not necessary
10 dwell upon here and now. But they permit
ADciai races. and a special has now been ar