The St. Louis Republic., 1902-05-30
MICKEY D. WON
SPRINT HANDICAP.
Venerable Race Horse Defeated
Crimean by a Length in Very
Fast Time.
STARTER DADE IN BAD FORM.
Red Hood Almost Left at the Post
-Crimean of Very Badly
Cochran Had Not Il
Chance.
STARTER DADE IN BAD FORM.

That venerable grandfather os race
horses. Mickey D.. with all the money Of
Springfield. H.. bet on him, won the sprint
handicap at the Fair Grounds yesterday.
He beat Crimean by a length Mickey d.
was the favorite. was much helped by a
real bad start and won by length in 1:l2,
time which equaled the track record for
the six furlongs.
Crimean was almost left at tine post. and
was cut off in the stretch by Mickey D,
when he seemed to have a chance to win.
He ran strong race and was right there
at the finish.
-Four Leaf c. and Kindred were not in
the money. 1t was too fast for Four Leaf
and Kindred seems TO have gone wrong
recently.
Mr.. Dade Is having his troubles these
days. and is evidently about to have spell
Of bad starting. He pulled off a bunch Of
bad ones yesterday. As a general rule the
favorites Jared badly in the miX-up. Red
Hook was turned the wrong way of the
track when Mr.. Dade threw his fias, hut
was good enough to win anyhow. Sir Flo
rian probably could not have won had he
been off thirty lengths in front, but he was
off badly.
Cochran, the favorite in the first. was al
most left at the post.
The field went away in two sections in the
fourth race. but the favorite happened to be
away in front and was lucky TO win. Leflare
was off none too well in the third race, but
ran so strongly in the stretch that he man
aged to make up all his ground lost at the
start.
Eugenia s. the favorite in the last race.
was off well.
Au Revoir, rather well ridden by Helge-
son, took the first race chiefly because Coch
ran, the favorite, was virtually left at the
post. As good as 3 to l could be had against
Au Revoir. Cochran ran d grand race and
finished third right up the leaders. He
could not have Won with an even break.
Red Hook was looking around when the
field started IN the second race, but showed
lots of early speed. went TO the leaders in
hurry and seemed to be unGer hard Restraint
tn the stretch turn. Here he hung and
Beauchamp had to drive him hard to get
him going fast enough 10 stall off Doeskin.
who ran splendid race. Hainau!t was a
good third.
Lefiare showed eminent stretch-running
ability in the third race. and won from no.
pace: Swordsman set the pace to the final
eighth. where Letiare came with Il rush. He
was well ridden by Dcnegan. La Spara ran
an extra bad race here.
Mickey ID. LED from start 10 finish of the
sprint. Elastic ran with him and stopped
at the half mile. Four Leaf Clover and
Cr!mean, the other contenders. were off
last and made a strong effort, the ad-
vantage Mickey D. gained at the start
could not be overcome.
o. Neil tr.d to come inside with Crimean
in the stretch and was very clevcrly cut
off by Bell on Mickey u.
Narro, backed from to TO L. won the
posed TO be good after his trip from Cali
fornia. but he was good enough to beat this
lot and he did II easily, though Mathews
had 10 resort TO mild drive to get him
going gain at the end.
Sir FIorian, an idiotic 1-tc-2 shot who fig
ured to 1. never was in the running at
any part of it. He is bad horse at his
best, and is never at his best on first
out.
Eugenia s. the logical favorite. won the
last event handily enough. Wall had blink
and was ''Hawkins's horse" in this
race. 1t looked rs If it was in for seven
and one-half furlongs. for Wall was in front
and hreezing. But he sullled when pressed
and finished second. Bill Iassie looked like
n winner here to the last sixteenth. but
his tongue got over the bit, he swerved and
was beaten.
After the race Mr.. McAIlister. owner Of
Hutch Miller. claimed Massie out OF the
race. Hutch Miller is A good claiming horse.
He did not run foot in the race. He
simply buck jumped and kicked. and
stopped. He knocked Branch and one or
two others out of ii before he got through.