Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-05
GRAVESEND RACES.
Major Daingerfeld and Africander
Beaten by Heno.

The races at Gravesend yesterday were
run in yellow gloom, so impenetrable at
times that 1t was quite impossible to follow
the horses with the most powerful glasses.
There can be no denying, however, that IL
was a kindly veil SO far as it cloaked the
performances of the first three favorites.
Beginning with r. II. McCarter Potter
The CarmeNte, first choice In handicap
for three-year-olds, at one mile and seventy
yards. they were bowled over in one, two,
three order, and after the Standard stake
had been run and won by an outsider the
gloom that settled over the inclosure was
not due wholly to atmospheric conditions.
The Standard stakes, with its $1,000 in
added money, was, with the possible ex-
ception of the handicap of Wednesday, In
which Hermis started, the most interesting
race since the Brooklyn handicap. 1t as
sumed real significance when 1t was found
that Major Daingerfield, running for the
first time this year, and in the colors or
w. B. Leeds, who paid $4,000 for the colt
two weeks ago, would not decline the issue.
The Standard is a weight-for-age race at
mile and half, open to horses in the three
year-old and upward division. The field yes
terday was small, but select. 1t included
the four-year-old colts Major Daingerheld
and Heno and the two three-year-oldS
Africander and Sunny Shore. The former
two took up their allotted 126 pounds and
the latter 100 pounds. Alexander Shields,
Hunter Raine was withdrawn, but that did
not simplify matters much, from specula-
tive point of view, and the shrewdest
plungers gave it up as too tough problem
to be solved. The layers made the Deimel
and Dwyer colt a favorite at ID to 20 with
16 to quoted against Major Daingerf1eld
and Heno. "Jerre' Dunns candidate was
the outsider at so to 1.
Heno, since his racing career began In the
colors Of Clarence H Mackay, has always
been colt to be reckoned with, and so
long as he remains in his present form 1T
c a1tOQpfhar ha will a
factor in whatever contests he takes part.
He was ridden yesterday by H. Michaels,
who did the colt full justice. Burns was
up on Major Daingerfield. Odom on the ia
vorite. and Patsy" McCue on Sunny Shore,
who carried three pounds overweight in or
der that the jockey might ride him. Mr..
Fitzgerald sent them away together and
all running Michaeis galloped down the
straight the first time around. showing the
way by head. with Africander second and
the Handspring colt third. Dunn's colt
trailed along behind the others and never
became a conspicuous figure In the picture.
HenO and Africander took turns leading I'M
til the far turn was reached. when the for
mer gradually drew away, and after that
was never vexed by the others. Major
Daingerfield showed he was in distress at
the head OF the stretch. but Burns perse-
vered with the colt. and he struggled on,
two lengths behind the leader and length
In front of Africander. He was stopping
all the way. however. and the last sixteenth
was wv iiAuSh Luz Hill. Hio thASO-J OiN
adversary beating him under the wire by
good head. Heno ran the mile and
half in 2.33. which establishes new rec
ord for the race by one and three-fifths sec
onds. and equals the best record for the dis
lance. made by Blues. with ITO pounds up.
The first mile was run in 1:4O 2-5. and tho
last in :43 1-5. Dave" Johnson Is said to
have bet $500 on Heno at odds ranging
from to to 3 to l.
There were seven races on the program,
but 1t was not until Operator won six
furlong sprint from dozen platers that the
form players took heart. Previous to this
race The Carmelite had been beaten at
mile and seventy yards by Mackey Dwyer,
Reliance by Jim Kelly at five furlongs, ana
Agnes D.. favorite in a selling race at one
mile and seventy yards. had been left at
the post. Ella Snyder, a second choice, won
this race. Jocund and King Pepper, both
favorftes. were the other winners or the
afternoon. -