New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
TURQUOISE BLUES RACE.
WINS THE RICH VENUS.
Fire Eater Takes the IroquOis-
Good Racing an Bad Wedther.

In the past performances of the weather one
must go back to the original food to discover
day that could surpass yesterday for general all
around moist misery. Yet so tyranically does the
horseracing nlCrobe dominate its victims that ten
thousand OF them succumbed to its demands. and
5oUrneyed TO the track by the sea as bthely as
though horseTacing really diversion and
not a business. The rain swept in binding drench-
ing sheets over the salt marshes and into the
protected grandstand. The track was almost uavi-
gable, great pools of water formed in all the hol-
lows where the victims Of the horsera cling mcrobe
were compelled TO stand; the storm swept through
the betting ring and rubbed" the prices without
consulting the layers; twice the deadine had
retreat before IL and encrosch the exclusive
circle Of the Metropolitan Napoleons: the names OF
added starters and Of Withdrawals washed
from the board before the clerk could his
back; horses and jockeys were incrusted in
mud that they locked like sculptors' models done
tn clay.
And in all this wet wretchedness some Of the finest
sporting spectacles OF the season were seen. More
than this, the ten thousand succeeded in picking
on short notice three animals capable of carrying
their money through the lagoon OF mud TO ultimate
victory. 1t was of the vest and OF the
most extraordinary days of the turf year
TWO RICH FIXTURES.
In the Venus Stakes. for two-year-old FLIES. at
nve-eighths of a mile. Iroqouis Stakes
at a mile and an eighth. for three-year-oIds
there were two uncommonly rich and attractive
fixtures to be decided. The Venus exceeded its
guaranteed gross value of S5.Co by $40. and with
Shree added starters Offset the Withdrawals
the largest field Of the day the post. The brown
nlly WaIterin, which sold at the wedding
sale OF J. " Schorrs stable earlier IN the day the
Oakwood Stables st Roma and Charles w.
Moore's White Plume were scratched. John W
schorr's Sweet Gretchen. Maurice Kraus's Dancing
Belle and Tony" Aste's Pirodette filled the gaps
in the ranks. and the company that faced Mr..
Fitzgerald was fourteen strong. r. W. Walden,
with his fllies Monsoon and Petunia was the only
owner 10 send double entry out for the prize.
A FfHr L,l
with ia pounds up carried top weight
SO convinced were the players that the Belmont
lilly Msrjoram the best OF the lot and so
eager were they to accept the comparatively short
price which the ring offered that J. B. Haggins
JuVenal iliy Turquoise Blue. with only 80 pounds
on her back, was quite overlooked The market
closed offering % 10 l against her chances The
little Fat boy Wilkinson rode her and she was not
conspicuous until the stretch was reached to
which point Glad Smile and Inquisitive Girl showed
the way. Then the Haggin flly went to the front
and won easily by a length and a half from In
quisitive Girl. Glad Smile died away in the last
eighth, and Captain Browns chestnut 7lIy Audi
ence. by Sir DiXon-Sallie McClelland who was
making her first bow TO the racing public took
her place and finished third
FAvORITE's EFFORTS UNAvAIIINC
The favorfte did not seem TO find the going to her
liking and Odoms efforts to bring her up to the
leaders when the final struggle came were avail
ing.
colt whose performances are not always as violent
as his name might suggest, had no trouble what
ever IN disposng of the three candidates who op-
posed him in the Iroquois Stakes He carried III
pounds-dividng the impost honors with .Bf"
DAYS IyTiR-and the two of them gave 3 pounds
10 the colt Monte Carlo and 3 pounds to James r.
l>eene's gelding Cardinal Wolsey. Fire Eater was
held at prohibtve price and from beginning to
end ran his own race out in front, and won easily
from Cardinal Wolsey
IN an overnight handicap at one and one-eighth
miles arranged for the usual group of handicsn
horses. Lord Badge with 107 pounds and Fuller nm
lIoNed one OF those unusual good things that do
not 60 wrong Hunter Raine. with l26 p0Ilnds was
ne nominal faVorlte but bulk of the money
Nas placed on the Oliver gelding at I6 10 < Like
tlre Eater in the previous race he led his field oF
hlN al the way and won by two lengths from
tourtenay, who beat Sambo for the place The
aGh ana the impost were sufficient to beat Hunter
The real sporting finish of the dav occurred IN
Li.o AIsl race also handicap for the older horses
4LsH ~ SIX Tnrlongs, and was furnished by Young
81. DANIEL Turning into the stretch these siw
1oTsss hned up across the track and Charged
Gown on the Judges heads apart It was proba biv
que 10 Odom's desperate ride that Young Hanr,,,s
nose reached the wire first The Others Trera co
closely grouped that required the official eve IN
separat them. Salvatea received second place and
from last place and the usual denonstra which
Ereets this rider on his return to the scales was
Walter CIeary won the Curragh steepIechase
OF mile from field Of four Rostand af : m
won the last race at a mile and a sixteenth.
SUMMARIZES
FIRST RAcE-Handicap: years and over. 6 turlonrs
cFetting-