Evening star., 1903-07-15
BRIGHTON BEACH RACES.
Astarita Captured the Glen Cove
Handicap in Fast Time.

Ten three-year-oldS ran in the Glen cove
handicap the only stake at Brighton Beach
yesterday. and the winner proved to be AS
tarita owned by the Mexican stable, whose
races have been excellent all season Ihe
filly would have been at much shorter
price than to if any of the fashionable
jockeys had been on her. but with Hicks IN
the colors a good price was laid.
Whether she would have won but for Eu-
genia Burch being knocked about for the
first part of the race is moot point Those
who accepted to l against the last named
were for a short time fiattered, because the
filly showed great burst of speed In the
last half mile of the race. was compelled TO
run around a big field of horses and actual
ly ran UP to fourth position in the stretch
The time of the race was very fast Lib 10
Those who saw the performance were sat
isfied that Eugenia Burch will be hard 10
beat in any race hereafter over fair dis
tance of ground. The value of the Glen
Cove handicap to the winner was 81, $50.
Redfern and Odom were brought together
in a stirring finish near the close Of the
third race. Redfern was on the favorlte, W.
r. Condor, and after Cardinal WOolSey had
set the pace for almost seven furlongS there
was general closing from the rear Odom
mount, Hunter Raine. came with his ex-
pected dash, but in the end w. r. Condor
was a head in front of Hunter Raine, while
Thorneycroft and Cardinal Woolsey were
heads apart just behind the leaders. Tugai
Bey was close fifth, and Cogswell was
never in it after the pace improved In the
last half mile.
Lux Casta who has been severely cam
paigned since the beginning of the Morris
Park meeting, and who has run but one
bad race in all that time, defeated the odds
on favorite, Counterpoise. in the last race,
after that gelding had led until well into
the stretch. Counterpoise beat Shotgun a
few days ago, and it was argued that if he
could repeat that performance he should
win.
The gelding did repeat. but Lux Casta.
always hard to shake off in the stretch,
seemed to outgame Counterpoise. King
Pepper, with a stable boy up, and heavily
played to be third, filled that position at
the end.
Burns rode the winners of the first two
races, Rowena and Dark Planet. The
former is daughter of Altamax. declared
by ]. H. Mccormick to have been probably
the best horse he ever trained. This was
when the firm of Burns & Waterhouse was
a power on the California turf. Rowena
came from behind Sweet Gretchen in the
last furlong. White Plume finished strong
and was third. Funny Side carried little
Miss Littlefield's colors well to the front
for half mile.
Cincinnatus should have won the race
that Dark Planet secured. He was full of
running and led to the last few strides.
then his rider, De Souza. nearly fell off. AS
it was, he was second But the colt was
feeling SO good that he ran nearly another
mile before he could be pulled up Never
more and RoStrand finished very close to-
gether for third place. Knight of the Gar
ter was slow to leave the post. and his de-
feat should not be taken as line. Courte-
nay was unlucky at the start, also.
1t was reported that w. G. Daily had ac-
cepted an offer of $500 from a well-known
racing man to put O'Neill up on his tilly,
Luminosity, in the fifth race. The filly won,
largely because of ONeills efforts. Thistle
Heather and Short Cake were heads apart
with Harbor close fourth. Charlie Fisher
was badly interfered with soon after the
start Dinah Shad, against whom as good
as 100 to 1 was laid by some of the book
makers. led twO-thirds of the distance
Ruby Hampstead, half-sister to the famous
May Hampstead, was one of the starters in
this event.
Redfern had five mounts and was inside
of the money in all Of them.