New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
WATERBOY'S RENEWAL.
HE MAKES NEW RECORD.
Goldsmith Poor Third-Injunction
Wins .Spindrift.

Wins ISpindrift.
J. s. Higgins slashing black colt waterboy the
four-year-old son of watercress-Zealandia won
me Suburban Handicap Renewal at the Sleeps
mead Bay course yesterday afternoon by three
Psrts OF a length from the three-year-old colt
irish Lad. winner OF the Brooklyn Handicap. Will
lam c Whitney's four-year-old colt Goldsmith, the
pubhcs choice in the betting finished in third
Place. six lengths behind Irish Lad Neither Afri-
cander. Herbert Hunter Raine. the horses that
Tan first second and third in the original handicap
TOOK part in yesterdays renewal and the question
therefore, which the Coney Island Jockey Club
ostensiby undertook 10 solve in framing contest
10 be run under precisely the same conditions still
remains open
In the light Of Waterboys amazing performance
yesterday, however. Il be said with much
assurance can be applied to any horserace that
had the original handicap been run under the con-
oitons which existed yesterday he would have de-
tested the first field Of sixteen as decisiyely he
won from his six opponents yesterday.
Re ran the one mile and quarter in 2:o4 5-5,
- ~hsch establishes a new record for the distance
by two-hfths Of a Il ond. on June 25 1890. Saliva
tor, also carrying Mr.. Higgins jacket. ran the
Suburban in 2o5. Before the race. curiously
enough. these were the figures which wise horse
men predicted the record would be lowered to. The
only discrepancy in their reckoning was that Gold
smith do the lowering.
Although the Jockey Club held out an induce
ment so.ooo in added money to owners Of horses
that had run in the first were eligible and had
been withdrawn owing TO the conditions overhead
and unoerfoot, only twelve Of them accepted. and
Of these five changed their minds before it came
time 10 call the horses the post Those who were
left in. however. served to make up all-star
cast. and the performance they gave-though it
failed 10 settle definitely any vFXed problems-vas
q brilliant and repaid the twenty-five thousand
people who it for the discomforts they endured
The enclosure was like huge chatting dish with the
cover left on and the throng fairly szzed within
the three-ply grandstand.
GOOD LIST OF ENTRIES
The owners who accepted the conditions Of the
Renewal were Frank Farrell, who started the old
equine -four Ausher" Blues vsao, if he bully
his company into believing he IS the only horse
1n the race; becomes really dangerous: ". b
Leeds with Major Daingerheld. for whom he re-
Gently gave $4,000 and who has not repaid him
yet; ". c. Whitney. with the little bay bulldog
Goldsmith: J. B. Haggin, with his long harrelled
big striding Waterboy: Whitney & Duryea, with
Irish Lad. the of their stable George F. John
son. with his game old rater Bonnibert, and Amos
Turvey with the four year-old Wawekus colt Glen
water whose underpinning is none of the best
Hoa- rode Blues, who. with Major Daingerfeld
carried top weight with 123 pounds O'Nsil had the
mount on the Major; Redfern was up on Gold
smith who handicapped at 116 pounds; Burns
Irish Lad, whose penalties for previous vic
tories brought his impost up TO lis pounds; Odom
rode Waterboy liz pounds; McCue Bonnibert u.s.
and H Michaels Clearwater. 106.
For some reason the public confidence in the
Whitney colts ability TO win oozed out at the
last moment, and although the ring was prepared
for e big pungs Goldsmith and held him at
short odds the plunge failed 10 materiaze Neither
the students nor the Whitney stable seemed TO like
him, and from 10 the odds gradually length
ened. until post time 70 and in some books
20 ! could be had.
The whitneys themselves. it Is said. pinned their
faith TO Irish Lad and supported him generously.
He was backed down from 10 TO TO L Water
boy equal second choice Blues received
little support from his stable and closed at to L
Tweves were quoted against the Major. against
Fonnibert and - against Clearwater.
At the start Blues shot out in front. and the
crowd waited. Some horse had got to go out with
him and kill him Of there telling what
would happen. When Burns hustled the Candle
mas colt alongside there an expression Of gen
eral satisfaction. In the vernacular Of the turf
that is the way the students had 'doped" it out
Irish Lad was going out TO kill the leaders. Cold
smith was 70 be rated along easily, and when those
In front came hack him-whv. then il would be
all over. The great majority did not know that
Irish Lad had been heavily played by his stable
and the assumption was warrantabe.
BLUES LEADS AT GRANDsTAND.
As they passed the grandstand Blues and Irish
Lad were struggling for the lead, with the former
having a shade the better OF it. Odon had placed
Waterboy in easy berth behind these two Major
Daingerheld and Goldsmith were running side bv
side length back and Bonnibert and Clearwater
formed the rear guard. Hoar let Blues have his
way. and in the around the two lower turns his
placed two open lengths between himself and Irish
dad In the flight through the backstretch the
CsndIenas colt gradually this lead down Wa
terboy in third place. and Major Daingerfed
had the best OF the favorite by length The other
two already out of It.
II was not until the far turn was reached that it
began dawn on the spectators that their calcu-
lstions might riscarry. Blues had fought his fight
and quit, they expected but Irish Lad showed
signs Of coming back, and Redfern was taking
Goldsmith up with rush that betrayed alarm
Odom, cool. patient. resourceful, had also stolen
away. and when the field again faced the stretch
Irish Lad had only Z shade the best Of it
Waterboy looked big and dangerous bur still
cdom kept him back saving his last ounce cf
strength for that last crucial moment. And when
IL came-in the last siXteentfthe jockey raised his
whip (no get quite so much out Of a whip
without using il Odom cam and fourished II
high in the air. brought Waterboy alongside in
TWO jumps ana never touched him. Then he put
the whip up. and, riding only with his hands