New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
HASTINGS LEADS STATIONS.
Get of August Belmonts Thoroughbred Wins
$1O6,5s1 in Eastern Races.

The racing season OF 1902 will be long remembered
by August Belmont, president of the Jockey Club,
for not only did he finish second on the list OF
winning owners for the year in the East. and
close second at that but he also has the honor OF
owEing the leading stallion of the year in hastings
whose get this year have S106,5S1 in the East
The two-year-od Mizzen who won the Natonai
Stallion, Juvenile and Eclipse Stakes at the Nor
ris Park spring meeting. heads the list of Hastings
winners. with s30ss6.
The three-y year-old Masterman. who only started
twice winning the Belmont Stakes at his first
start, and finishing second in his other start, to
King Hanover in the Carlton Stakes. at Graves
end. is next. with s14.S45. while the two-year-oid
Lord of the Vale. who beaten nose by Sava-
BILE in the Futurity. and who only won one race
the Grand Consolation at Bennings is next with
S14,340. The three-year-old flly Gunire, owned by
W. c. Whitney is fourth, with s13,155.
The second stallion on the list is Candemas. and
he his position chiefly to the two-year-old
Irish Lad formerly owned by John MADDEN. put
who most of his races in the colors of whit
ney & Duryea. Irish Lads victories in the Great
Trial Stakes. Saratoga Special, Flatbush Stakes
and other races earned s42,2S0 Swiftmas' VINO
broke down during the Saratoga meeting. is sec
ond, with $685. while the steeplechaser MISS
Mitchell is third. with s5715. although she was
retired the middle of the season
Handspring who was Hastings's greatest rlVai
as a two and three year old. so in the later
year third of the stations. and the threeyear
old Major Daingereld is his grea test
Handspring has not as many to race as sie
only five his list Dut tIe feIiS' h1p.0
showing of Major Daingerfield gave him pig mt
Major Daingerfeld won the Lawrence RealzaIIlon
Annual Champion Stakes, Tidal Stakes, Broohlyi II
Derby and other big events. and was second IN
the Preakness Stakes and the Brighton Deroy'
His winnings s56.775. ,,.+
Ben Strome is the fourth stallion on the nsI
while the two-year-old Savable. by winning @ the
Futurity, and earning $45040 in that one race, pu.
Salvador in fifth place John Maddens len et s,aiiiol s
Mirthful made great showing for ms nrSt seq sea
son. he has five year-olds on the rs hst' ,s s
winners but one, and finishing tenth on the llst
With little more luck, he would have Deen closer
I'D. The tWo-year-od Mexican won $1,000 up 70
and including the Brighton meeting when ne wa! was
retired owing to the death of Clarence H Mackay
father The colt sold soon afterWaro, Dut
never raced. Acefu, who is M!rthfuls best WIN
ner did not race until late in the year, and MS
winnings should have been double what they arr ar
He finished second to his stable companion, irlsh
Lad in the Flatbush Stakes, which ne coHiq % nav S
won easily was beaten nose by Grey fridr, III
the Matron Stakes at Morris Park, and was beaten
out in the rich Matron Stakes. .,
Skiiifu did not race until the Saratoga me meeting
end then only ran in a few races. Wtttuli won
one race while Merry Reel was the only one OF
the five that did not earn brackets Ben brush
occupies a good position being next to Mirth1u
while St George follows his greatest breadwlnnner
heine C,rev Friar who three out of his hve
starts peing second in the other two LIKE ses-
eral others he did not begin racing until the SARA
toga meeting.