The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-29
Which Lowered the Record for the
Race to 2:O5 2-5, and Equaled Gold
Heels's Time for the Distance.
FAvORITE GUNFIRE SECOND
AND HENO THIRD. EIGHT LENGTHS
BEHIND THE LEADERS.
Winner Partly Owned by Harry Payne
Misunderstanding Finish-Expecta-
tor Stakes Won by BrOOmstick.

NEW YORK, May 2S.-Irish Lad won the
seventeenth Brooklyn handicap at Grave
send to-day in 2:O5 %. Ridden by O'Neii
with perfect judgment, he bore the colors Of
the Westbury stable, a partnership of
Harry Payne Whitney and II. Il. Duryea.
Rated by the Handicapped highest Of the
three-year-olds entered, Irish Lad carried
103 pounds.
Gunfire, Ill pounds, winner of the Metro
politan handicap and favorite for to-day's
race, was second, beaten by not more than
three inches. Burns rode her for William
c. Whitney, father OF the winners half
owner. Length behind the pair-eight, ac-
cording to official figures-came w. S. Fan
shawe's Heno, 11S pounds, II. Michaels up.
Close on Heno's TANKS were Foxhall p.
Keene's Injunction, 30 pounds; Jacob
Worth's Dom Paul, 107, second favorite in
the betting, and Alex. Shields's Hunter
Raine, IS pounds, with Fuller in the saddle.
Old Herbert, lis, Odum up, was last, with
B0nnibert, Igniter and the much-thought-of
Yardarm of L. r. Thomas, in that order. in
front of him.
Irish Lad lowered the record for the race,
2:O6A, made by Banastar in 1899, and equaled
the record for the track, made by Gold
Heels last October. Only once before has a
three-year-old won the Brooklyn. In 1901
James r. Keene's Conroy. with 1O2 pounds.
won the classic in sea of mud in 200.
John E. Madden owned and sold the first,
second and third horses in to-days Brook
Ign handicap. He sold Irish Lad to young
Messrs. Whitney and Duryea last year,
when they branched out turf men. He
had previously sold Gunfire to the former
secretary of the navy. Clarence Mackey
bought Heno a two-year-old from Mr..
Madden, hoping TO win the Futurity of 1901
with the colt, which was practically left at
the post in that event.
Irish Lad was bred by Eugene Leigh in
New Jersey at Appleby's Silver Brook farm.
His sire, Cadlemas. was the property of j.
Il. Haggin. His dam, Arrow Grass, was
raced at the winter meetings at Gutenberg
and Clifton. Mr.. Madden bought Irish Lad
as yearling for $500. The price Messrs.
Whitney and Duryea paid for him has never
been authoritatively published.
Worth in gross SIS, $50, the winners share
of the Brooklyn handicap of 1903 was SIS, $50,
the second horse taking $1,000 and the third
$1,000.
EVENLY JUDGED RACE.
No more evenly judged race was ever
run, as the fractional time shows: Quarter,
% seconds; half, 50; five-eighths. 1:O2 1-5;
three-fourths, TIA 20; seven-eighths,
LIZ Is; mile, lao 1-5; one and one-quarter
miles, 2:O5 2-5
Irish Lad led practically from post to
finish, successfully stalled off the chal-
lenges of Dom Paul and Igniter and won
after final bitter struggle from his stable
companion Both trained by ]. w. Rogers.
the Whitneys' horses were the only real
contenders for first honorS after the Held
turned into the stretch. When Capt. s. :.
Browns Broomstick had shown her heels
oIas raff nrac tnlx thnr
was a rush to the betting ring to see the
odds on the handicap contestants. Scratches
had reduced the original eighteen entries
to twelve. Blues and Francesca at the last
minute followed Rayal, Waswift. Himself
and Sambo in declining the issue. Gunfire
was always favorite, although her price
rose TO IL to at post time after opening
at 2 to /. Dom Paul, we'll backed, stood
steadily at Z to /. Yardarm's price rose
from TO and Hunter Raines fell from
II to s. Irish Lad. opening at 10, went up at
enc time as high as 10 to i.
Lined up last the handicap field made the
longest wait at the post for many days.
Nearly fifteen minutes had elapsed when
the flag swished and the race began. Irish
Lad, No. from the rail, was away well
and O'Neil, rushing clear, took him over
close TO the inside fence. He led as they
passed the stand, running easily under re-
straint, with Dom Paul second, Gunfre
third and Igniter fourth. Swinging around
to the back stretch Heno and Injunction
tried to join the leaders, but both were
was a length in front when the run down
the back stretch began, but Dom Paul chal-
lenged at once and the two, raced side by
side for three-eighths of a mile. Gunfire
appeared in difficulties for a moment. Ig-
inter raced up and passed her and Colonel
Bill was making a sturdy bid. He reached
the filly's throatlatch as they neared the
turn. Then in a moment it was all over
but for the two horses. lgniter and Col
Bill fell back and Dom Pauls green and
and white jacket was hidden by Burns s
he (runfire second
THE FINISH.
Irish Lad led into the stretch by a length
Gunfire close behind and Dom Paul still
within striking distance. but apparently
beaten. Strengthened out for the run home
Irish Lad and Gunfire had the race to them
selves. Irish Lad had never faltered. When
Gunfire drew alongside the three-year-old
a sixteenth of a mile from home and Dom
Paul made a last effort the outcry from the
stands and lawns was terrific. With every
muscle strained and riders doing their ut
most Irish Lad and Gunfire raced to this
wire The filiy gained on the colt inch by
inch and twenty feet from the end her
nose was in front, but with one splendid
burst of courage Irish Lad leaped forward
in the last jump and won by heads
breadth. One jump from the wire the race
rider in the West last winter, took his first
ride i'm the aoral horseshoe. and another
Brooklyn Handicap was history. Between
30 coo and 40OcI saw the great race.
The Expectation stakes for two-year-olds
was won in gallop by Capt. S. S. Browns
colt Broomstick. The Ben Brush colt, or
his good race at Morris Park, was favorite
and after racing Dimple into submission in
half a mile won easily by three lengths
Summaries:
First Race-Handicap. about six furlongs
Northern Star. 100 (Dagman). II to 1, won
Astarita, 107 (Bullman), Z to /, second: In
vincible, 40 (Cochran), 10 TO l, third Time
1 90 20.
Second-Hurdle handicap, about one mile
and six furlongs. Ohnet. leo (Sanger) /:
to g. won: Mc(irathiana Prince, $50 (Heider)
III to 10. second; Draughtsman 152 (Harris)
TO 1, third. Time. 3:l5 20.
Third-The Expectation stakes, five fur.
longs: Broomstick. 122 (Odom), 3 to TO- won
Tim Sullivan. us (Fuller), 10 TO l. second
Dimple. 112 Genkins). u TO l, third Time
100 2-5.
Brooklyn handicap: mile and one-quarter
Name. W.T.. ST. +. Jockey. W. Pl
Irish Lad........-les In O'Neil.....12 5
Gunfre ......-.lu rs Burns......i1-5 /