The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-17
August Belmont Had a Splendid
Season East.
Owned Leading Sire Whose Get
for 1902 Has Won SlO6,5s1.
CANDLEMAS is SECOND.
Mizzen, Lord of the Vale and
Masterman at the Front.
List of MAJ. Daingerfield'sP urses
Shows $56,575.

New York, Dec 1.-THE eastern
racing season of 1902 will be long re-
membered by August Belmont, presi-
dent of the jockey club, for he has
made a record which any man might be
proud of. Not only did he finish on the
list of winning owners for the year In
the east, and close second at that, but
he also has the honor of owning the
leading stallion of the year in Hastings,
whose get this year has won $106,581 in
the east, and better still, the two-year-
clds, Mizzen and Lord Of the Vale, and
the three-year-Old MaSterman, who are
first, second and third on the list, won
all the money in his colors, as did sew
eral others on the list. The writer has
made up list of the winnings of the
different stations whose get raced in
the east and finds Hastings at the top.
The two-year-old Mizzen, who won the
National Stallion, Juvenile and Eclipse
stakes at the Morris park spring meet
ing heads the list of winners, with $780,
$50. The three ear-oid 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
Gravesend, is next with $14,845, while
the two-year- old Lord of the Vale, who
was beaten a nose by Savable in the
Futurity, and who only won one race,
the Grand Consolation, at Bennings. is
next with $f4. $40, while the three-year-
old FLY Gunfire, owned by W. c. Whit
ney, is fourth with $13 155. The second
stallion in the list is Candlemas. and he
owes his position chiefly to the two
year-old Irish Lad, formerly owned by
John Madden, but who won most of his
races in the colors of Whitney & Dur
yea Irish Lads victories in the Great
Trial stakes, Saratoga Special, Flat
bush stakes and other races earned
$42, 230. Swiftmas. who broke down
during the Saratoga meeting, is second
with 81, 1876 while the steeplechaser, Miss
Mitchell, is third, with $5,715, although
l. -
season. Handspring. who was Hast
ings' greatest rival as a two and three
year old, more so in the latter year, is
third of the stations. and the three
year-old Major Daingerfield is his great
est bread winner.
Handspring has not as many to race
as Hastings, as only five are on his
list, but the remarkable showing of Ma
jor Daingerdeld gave him a big lift Ma
jOr Daingerfeld won nearly all of the
big 3-year-old races, which included the
Lawrence Realization, Annual Champion
Stakes, Tidal Stakes, Brooklyn Derby
and other big events, and was second in
the Preakness Stakes and the Brighton
Derby. His winnings were IFS. Ben
Strone is the fourth stallion on the
list, while the 2-year- o1d Savabie, by
winning the Futurity and earning $45,-
$50 in that one race, PITT Saliva tor in fifth
place. John iAIadden'sl stallion Mirthful
made great showing for his first sea-
sen, rs he has five 2-year-olds on the
list. all winners but one. and finishing
tenth on the list, and, with little more
luck, he would have been closer UP. The
2-year- old Mexican won S13.545 uD to
and including the Brighton meeting.
when he was retired owing to the death
of Clarence H. Mackays father. The
colt was sold shortly afterward, but
never raced. Aceful. who is Mirthfuls
best winner. did not race until late in
the year. and his winnings should have
been double what they are He finished
second to his stable companion. Irish
Lad, in the Flatbush Stakes, which he
could have won easily: was beaten a
nose by GREY Friar in the Matron
Stakes at Morris park through the bal
riding Of Cochran, and was beaten out
in the rich Marion Stakes a t the same
place through foul riding, being almost
knocked down. Sl1illful did not race I'M
til the Saratoga meeting. and then only
ran in few races Witful won one
race, while Merry Reef was the only one
of the five that did not earn a bracket.