New-York tribune., 1903-06-11
RACING IN THE RAIN.
DEEP MUD AZ GR4VESEND.
Contentious H7ins the CIOrer Stakes
Bon Not Redeems Himself.

The races at Gravesend yesterday were run under
circumstances which would have put an efectua
stop almost ang other outdoor diversion. II
rained and IL Numbered. and the track through
which tho horses founder5d was fetlock deep
mud Not only did the six contests on the pro
gTanme I'll wcl however. but TIE number Of with
draNals surprisingly small. The players sue
oeeded in selecting three winning favoTites. and
group OF wise landed considerable amount
In the last race. by the geding Bob Hilliard
after he had been pounded down IN the ring from
90 TO ! Is to /
The ring on the other hand. must have taken in
enough money on the Oneck Stables Trossachs in
the Clover Stakes 10 more than hqu-date on its
other losses
The Clover Stakes for two-year-old FLIES. al five
furlonEs first 1855 the particular attTac-
tion. and after Sydney Paget had withdrawn MS
fast fly Hamburg Belle other owners hast
ened enter their youngsters in the hope that
vfih the Hamburg flly out Of il they might stand
q chance r. X. Walden added his Galore hlly
Contentious the Oakland Stable ST. Roma. r T
Wilson Gold Ribbon and II. N Ziegler Pirouette
Pleasant Memories TIE only other candidate
withdrawn. and with the four added starters the
field that 10 the post numbered an even dozen
August Belmont's Beldame, a daughter Of Octa-
gon. although she had r.ever been to the races
made q favorite the strength Of the glow
ing accounts OF the railbirds, who in the gray
dsHns had seen Tie f1ly DO all kinds Of remark
able things And Beldane might have won had
luck been with her. The Walden fly. al TO J,
the Oneck Stables Trossac chs backed down from
20 o s TO / was the good thing The others
Mordella Destiny. Glad Smile. Zeiller. Ocean
Tide and n Theo. Ocean Tide had the best or the
start. and Beldame decidedly the worst Of it Tne
favorite q little slow in getting away and the
field closed in promptly that Minder soon found
himself well Of II. Ocean Tide quit AT the end
of four furlongs, and Contentious took her place
Beldsn7e. in the mean ;ine, had run around her
company and had them all beaten with the eXcep-
Ghr clxC
tious however. but managed to finish second 20
her Nordella and Trossachs fought II out for'
third place and the former got il with something
20 spare The FIVE furlongs were run in 103. II is
said that certain well known plungsTs stood 10
win" fortune the Belmont hllv
Although the field perilously slippery and the
race only selling affair. the eleven contestants III
the sfeeplechase. about two miles through the
field, put UP q cleaner eNhihllon OF fehc''g 'na''
has been given number of times by performers
with more pretensions TO class. J. ". Colts Gum
Honey to favorite. and l. y Megargees
Tireless fell TO sure. but when they went do"n
and a. the first jump rounding INTO 'he zach
stretch the others Ralloped away III pretty Iah
order for a eteeplechase Tankard and Gold Ray
alternated at making the pace after the faForl'e
fen The aged Hitchcock gelding took his jumps
easily and ia good form. and when the turn 10
sT1 T mon 10 oTerhauI Gold Raw and beat him ceyery
LORD Radnor. "A second choice, was third ialA-
DR. Rowcii's i'll tempered colt Bon Mot fid much
70 redeem nimse ena,ast ~ @ for beaten horses of the
rI5a- 5;,seion n :. mile and sixteenth There
49, seten pretty fair paters entered. oi mh,1ih
R ,Sot Vas mad favorfte He behaved in his
fis,,aI 1,nnlaasanf fashion the barrier ana "hth
ii w3s released he practically ieIL ms snp
g,orters sroaned and abandoned al nope oi @
In. cashier after the race. Hack honrser hIs
le ,,T on the colt and gradually he oyerh;ned il
4al6 md in the stretch. challenged 1adeh III
9,1r1,S~ate who then In front H. -, g3en
surrendered before the wire was reacneo ao i,h 6p
wot ,yon from the former by almost = S aeiiEi a.
1:,aaen and Meistersineer showed lot OF speea "a ~
- - -. ~ the race. but 10th OF thetn s.oplel
tadl, ~ tho end Of seven furlones. @ -sIti'a, =,