The Washington times., 1902-06-08
Champion Event Of the
Year Will Be a Great
Race.
THE WINNERS IN THE PAST
Sheepshead Bays Race Has Always
Been the Most Interesting Race ir
America-Watercolor Will Not Stat
in This Years Race-Probable Entries

The racing panorama will shift mex
Saturday to Sheepshead Bay, where tn
| ey Club will be run. 1t will last unit
July 4.
Sheepshead Bay. by the sea, is pros
ably the prettiest racetrack arouI
| New 1ork. At this course on Saturda.
| the Suburban handicap will be run. Th,
| Surburban is really the champion rae,
of the all-aged division of the yea,
Both the Brooklyn and Metropolitan ar,
big races. but in point of interest tn
| Suburban is the greatest racing even
of the year in America.
| Many of the best horses that tn.
American turf has ever known have
| been returned winners of this classi,
race. Indeed, there is hardly a horse
that has won the race that cannot b,
reckoned as almost the best horse O.
his year.
First Suburban.
The Suburban was first run in 1884
| when General Monroe won from Wa
Eagle and Jack of Hearts. This trio
were three of the best performers o
their year. and the race was a good one
The second Suburban was won by the
good horse Pontiac, after struggle
with Richmond and Rataplan. In 1886
Capt. S. S. Browns Troubadour won.
and the Dryers Richmond was again
the runner-up, with Savanac third.
The favorites in 1887 were Ben Ali
and Quito. and each horse carried tons
of money, but both were left standing
at the post. The track was heavy and
Lakeland's Eurus came ON and won
from O-ifiamme and Wickham. ORR
famine was the first three-year-o to
get within striking distance of the big
end of the race. The next year Elkwood
seat Terra Gotta and ]. B. Haggins fine
mare Firenze.
Old Bones Victory.
In 1889 August Belmont's great geld
ing Raceland, affectionately known by
an adoring racing public as "Old
Bones" was the winner, and again
Terra Gotta was second, with Gorge
third. The race was not entirely salts
factory, as many thought Gorge should
have won.
In 1890 probably the most interesting
Suburban ever ran took place. Sal
vator. the champion of the year. start
ed the favorite, with the mighty sway
back Tenny as second choice. Among
the other seven starters was Cassius. of
the Walcott & Campbell stable, whose
horse Castaway had two weeks before
won the Brooklyn Handicap Cassius
was a very warm tip for the Suburban.
as was also Terny, but Salvador carried
the bulk of the public money.
A Great Race.
The race was horse race from start
to finish and at the end the mighty Sal
vator beat the light weighted Cassius
a neck in hard drive, with Tenny
third. This race resulted in the fam
Gus match race between Salvador and
Tenny, which Salvador won by head
after a desperate duel between the two
horses in the stretch.
Loantaka, who had been known as
The Ugly Duckling in his first years on
the turf, was the winner of the race in
1891, with Major Domo second, and Cas-
sius this time third. Loantaka was at a
long price in the betting and Bergen got
home in a drive.
The following year Montana was made
the choice. Major Domo started again
that year and made all the pace. He
was leading by half dozen lengths
when he entered the stretch and looked
all over winner. but Montana collar
ed him in the last sixteenth and won the
race, with Domo beating the three year
old Lamplighter for the place
Lamplighter, who was a four-year- old
in 1893, was hot favorite for the event
that year. but the best he could do was
TO finish third to Lowlander and Terri
fer. Lowlander had made his first ap-
pearance on the Benning track and was
considered only an ordinary performer.
He also was at long price in the books.
Two That Have Fallen.
Gideon and Days Pontiac gelding.
Ramapo. was the victor in 1895, with the
good old Dwyer gelding Banquet finish
ms III ottchu Piot', anu JUG IdylOT
Sport. third. 1t was the belief of many
Of the spectators that Sport should have
won, as he came like whirlwind in the
stretch and with plain sailing could
hardly have lost. This was the last good
race Sport ran. He turned out to be
confirmed sulker after that and was
finally shot because of his ugly temper.
Banquet afterward went to England. and
at last accounts was drawing cab in
the streets of London. Thus are the
mighty fallen
The West furnished the winner in 1895.
at the time Lazzarone could
properly be called an Eastern horse, as
he had been in the East for several
years. The horse had two weeks pre-
viously run second in the Brooklyn,
which good judges thought he should
have won. Sir Walter was the runner |
:p, with Song and Dance third.
Dwyer's First Victory.
That bnrca uapr,