The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-25
Sterling Best of English Lead
md Hen Holiday of Americans.

and Hen HOli1uay OI A"SEAcuhss
While owners-and this term does not
bar the great sportsmen of England and
America, lords. dukes and millionaires-
do not like weight-for-age events. these
are the favorite form of racing with the
people who like to see races as a spectacle.
American owners hate them so that it Is
a difficult matter to get entries in the big
weight-for-age events, and Englishmen de-
test them SO much that even the conditions
Of a Derby had to be changed so that 1t
lost many of its original condition fea-
lures. The EPSON Cup. the great Ascot
Cup, the great after-Derby try-out, early
lost It's importance and the Whip went out
of existence.
Then the Englishmen tried to stem the
tide by putting in the great 5000 handl-
caps. which, being nominally handicaps.
really had many of the pecunarlties ot
weight-for-age races in that they nave
many minor penalties and allowances, me
idea was to retain some of the features OF
the weight-for-age events ahG 10 lnuuce
many owners TO 80 and run at tne chanlpton
Probably the best of the Old English
weight carriers was FauSh-a-baiiaSh-lTiSn
for Clear the Way-and The Baron me
mounds and won the Cambridgeshire, the
highest-weight ever carried by a winning d
year-old in that event up TO that IN tif fssa
with III up and the next year TOOK ahe
Chester Cup with 1855 up. The Hero, an
other great handicap horse, won the hp Sa
In the Goodwood Cup Chandelier gave a
3-year-old 4S pounds and a beating; LeaIn5
ington. the great sire. imported
to America, gave Gunboat. q really soou o.
year-old. % pounds in the Chester Cup ahu
beat him. r,s .uce
Hawthorne. the dam of Thormanby. she
took up 1874 pounds in the Chester Cup, ana
ran second to Red ;1,n Dee q aoSnSs' This is
perhaps the greatest weight,carryihs Iea o.
ever performed: Alice. carried more tnar r,e -
by the winner. She was a wonderful Face
mare and dam Of a wonderful SON
1soMoNY's GREAT F e he Man.
chester Cup and beat. t~wenty-one horses,
Abbott. a 3-year-old, with ninety,ohe
pounds up. was second; BarG eaa w : wa =
marvel. He carried 1856 pounds over Two
miles. gave Shrewsbury seventeen pounds
and beat Hagioscope 126, and Victor Eman-
uel l23. easily. Bendigo took up lSs pounds
in the Jubilee Handicap Of 1887 and beat a
horse to whom he gave forty pounds. In
1855 Minting took up 40 pounds in the Jubi-
four pounds and won easily. The bottom
weight had sixty-three pounds from Minting;
Yet Mining. same way weighted, could
never make Ormonde extend himself in
horse Ormonde must have been.
Blue Gowns feat Of taking. up 126 as a j.
year-OlQ ana running SeCOuQ III tHe SdHl-
bridgeshire was a great performance. He
was beaten by See-Saw, a 3-year-old of very
high class. who was In receipt of twelve
pounds from him; Blue Gown was giving
Sterlirg's Cambridgeshire- was a great
weight-carrying race. Hebwas 3 years old
and a1S took up l2 23o pounds 0Un6s Sabinh Us. a year year
pounds, ran a dead heat with Sterling for
poanSs Dl frSn A Ate4IiSs. was Is in si Tseei ggsb IF IS
the weight was a great feat. as Sabinus
had the previous year won the City and
which proves that he was a horse
of high class.
The field behind Sterling was a terror.
the year. with 12s up: Kinseraft. the Der
by winner Of the previous year. with LIS
up; Corisande. the Cesarewitch winner of the
of the succeeding years Ascot Cup. with
107 on him..
BEN HoLLADAY GREATEST AMERI-
CAN.
all latter-day horses behind him. He won
the Municipal of 1898 with 100 up, giving
took up 1873. giving Thomas Cat IS and JEFF
serson "A pounds. over two and o~ne-quarter
miles.
Then the next season he won the Munich
pal with 100 pounds and the Autumn with
126. Then in the Morris Park of that year
he took up 14O. and was beaten only half a
chS ny AtuShdu1ue, lUo, WIN EtneiDeTt,
then 3 years old. III up. a neck behind. He
was a light horse and narrow of quarter. a
slow beginner. but a horse of great pluck
and nervous power. He always trumpeted
like an elephant while being saddled for a
race, as if eager for the fray.
Henry Of Navarre's victory in the Sub
urban, with 129 up. Is high tide for that
event. He gave The m IA pounds.
Clifford ,. Sis Walker 4, Belmar II and
Hornpipe IS.
Hanover's Brookdale was his best weight
performance. He gave Dry Mono
pole IA pounds after that horse had just won
the Brooklyn. AS Hanover did this in May,
his class can be seen at a glance.
Ethelberts 100 pounds and second In the
Suburban of 1900 to Kinley Mack, to whom
he was giving . pounds, was his best race
under lead.
Rey del Carreras was a great weight
packer at a short distance as Il 3-year-oId.
He gave Belmar "a pounds in the Brook
wood and romped in. He took up 125 in the
Culver and won In a walk. 1t took the
great Handspring's life to beat him. carry
ing 10S to his 40. Handspring being a 2
year-old and Rey a 3-year-old.
Hamburg took up 15 in the Great EAST
ern as a 2-year-old. endured an hours de-
Law at the most and won easily He mos