The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-13
HORSES At DELMAR
ALL Of ONE CLASS.
No Appreciable Difference Be
tween the Reputed Best and
Worst Among Them
CASES THAT ARE IN POINT.
Back Young No Better Than Judge
Cantrill-Ladv Strarhmore
: Might Not Beat Wild
katie-No Form.

Two odds-on favorites were soun,ilv beat
en- AT Delmar Park races on saturday The
defeat Of Pourauoi Pas. l-to-3 shot IN the
Gasconade Stakcs-she was NOS aven third
was a surprise in most quarters. Not 81
10 The Republic. which forecasted her
probable defeat
The sole and simple reason NJ 5bis defeat
j. that the fiily. like all horses racing To-
Caiiy this season. is in but the one class.
There is not at 81. Louis non a horse be-
s'==d mediocre ability.
certain horses. however. are regarded AZ
tessessing higher class. On this they are
regarded certain winners and ara made
1-to-s favorites. where they are really -i--
toll favorites. standing excellent chance
Of being beaten
Jack Young. for instance is supposed 20
possess class. Mr. Baker refused sloo1
last winter. so It's said. though there is a
rhrewd suspicion that it was GeheimnesS.
mot Young that Charlie Hughes was really
after. Very well. Pcurouoi Pas ran Jack
Young the $1,000 colt. to q neck on Thurs
day. On Saturday Judge Cantrili &5H
colt. who has been and who will he beaten
by $40 piaters. easily beat Pourquui Pas.
weights relatively the same.
The bettors will now regard Cautrill as
q stake horse and will back him 20 heat
PourQuoi Pas and Jack Young. As mat
ter of fact. Pathos, The Wizard and horses
OF that kind can beat him and Young also.
The fast is that Young. Pourquoi Pas,
Cantrill ana Pathos are all in the same
class-sieO platers.
THE CLASS OF MAUD CONNIE.
Take another case of class-Iaui come.
She is reported great and of high class BE-
cause she beat the wretched Mynheer and
Ed Ball. Eda Riley. mare who has q colt
old enough TO be a sire. and who has one
foot hanging to her leg by a thread. beat
, Nynheer quite as decsively as Maud Come
l did.
Again. when Maud Come met Miss Mae
Day. the latter giving her Two pounds. the
hettors figured Come a 3-to-5 shot. In
fair trial Mae Day beat her. seven furlongS
run in Isl Mae Day is a $3.50 platter She
has been run for that when winning al odds
q: 10 TO 1 all over the West, and with no
bidders.
Her owner offered her fer sale for very
little more. but his highest bidder was
man who wanted 10 race her at the county
fairs and who would give but 80 fer hei
". ". Darden refused to give Sl.GJ1 for he'.
NJ. Elliott. her owner. said that she Wa
affected by the heat the day prior to lie
race with Maud Come. ana Was not her
dnn by in len s hard Srra e BOTH hs M4as
good luck and neither rider making any
mistakes
=
horse. Yet he ran almost as fast As Ma
Day and Come with four pounds less up
He did I:ssi7 easily, while the mares dd
one-Quarter better with the advantage at
having fast pace set by Poseur-
KESOVAS CASE.
kenova was badly beaten by Golden Gilt
ter who cannot beat Baronet. Then kenova
ran away from Jack Young and jordan.
almost the same way weighted Lambda
aAorld have beaten Kenova when Golden
YGltter did. and Landola cannot beat any
Zone.
Buccieuth. who has not run as $50
horse, should this year. went a mile and
three-sixteenths on Saturday and almost
was 20 to ]. He is not worth saN Neither
is Josie F. Neither could win a race at
Newport and either is lucky to win at St
Louis but Josie F. is rated gcoG mare.
SAME AMONG TWo-YEAR-OLDS
1t Is quite the same among the 2-ysar
olds. Barring Miss Crawford, no local >
year-oid has shown any class. One day last
week Check Morgan ran third among $40
piaters. She was on il front and well rid
Gen. The next day she came out with
reputed stake colts and ran second to Fore
nana: Persons accused her OF displaying
races We're alike.
The stake lot: however. was just like the
each other back and forth. The luck of the
race, not the merit of the horse. produces
the winner. One has his lucky day and
wins. Then the luck breaks the other way
and the other wins.
Colin George might beat Forehand to-mor-
row and no judge could accuse either of a
reversal Of form
For instance. take Tickle Saint She
worked well. Twice her owner played her
10 win. She was of badly, unucky and ran
last She Is held al 10 to J. and next time
= out is lucky. gets off and wins.
When Pourouoi Pas was beaten in the
Y Gasconade Stakes il was urged that her
previous race with Jack Young hurt her by
Its severity. II was a boat race. Every
furlons was run in trotting-horse time and
the mile and seventy yards in l:i7i-. Any
3-year-old that cannot run faster than that
in August with 9S pounds up is what Pour
Gyoi Pas is-a $500 platter
BIAS DORIS PROPER PLACE.
Bias dor is supposed to possess some
class. He certainly has shown more of it
than any of the local lot Yet Sioux Chief.
a maiden. ran him TO a nose in a trial. in
which Chief set the pace for him. They
then began to acclaim Sioux Chief great
horse He is almost years old, yet maid
en- You do not find many great horses
maiden 4-year-olds.
Take the handicap lot. Santa Ventura can