New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-18
THE RACETRACK.
Il Week of Good Sport Promised at
Misunderstanding Methods.

II the Queens County Jockey Club sustains tbs
PACE IL has set in the last two days OF racing
throughout the coming week. its spring meeting
viii be the most successful one IL has over had
The attendance for the two days aggregated forty
thousand. and there was aPpreciable falling OF
IN the crowd which went to the track on Saturday,
although there was stake of the Importance OF
the Carter to be decided. The fact that II IS
longer necessary reserve the great turf fixtures
for a Saturday half holiday to all tie Enclosure
was nerer more satisfactorily demons trated than
on Friday. when the facilities OF the plant
AquedUct taxed 70 the utmost to accornmo-
date the band Of eager racing folk that came
knocking at its gates. The wisdom in increasing
the value Of the stakes and purses TO be for
has also been shown ,t in the class Of horses that
Aqueduct can no longer be included IN the list OF
Six days of the meeting remain and a stake OF
some sort has been provided for each day For
long sprint fer three-year-olds. and nine owners
includes Peter Paul which ran srcn a pII1cl<y race
in the Carter and finished second to Beldane. and
against a rs pound penalty in the handicap: the
with BeldaTne until the head Of the stretch was
reached in the Carter. and which has e1 inpost
with 105 pounds; Andrew Mack. 100; Auf Wieder.
sehen ilS; Mohican 100 Monet net 1Os and Tomcod
Other stakes to be run of are the Rose. az
closed with seventy-nne nominations; the Peconio
Handicap. on wednesday: a race for thTee.yesr-
three nominations: on Thursday the Ozone Stakes
eligibes: Friday the Flushing stakes. a
selling affair for the older horses at one mile
On Saturday the meeting viii close with the re-
newai OF the Queens County Handicap also for
the older horses at mile. Sixty candidates are
eligible for the handicap and the list includes such
performers as Charles E1lwood. Beldame. Rosetint.
Ascension. Spring. Conkling. Jack Ratlin. Major
DaingerheId McChesney. Grand Opera and But
tons.
Horse owners and the public alike will weicons
the day when the Jockey Club settles some
definite method Of starting the horses. Since the
Bennings meeting opened IL has been experiment.
ing between the running starts introduced by Mars
Cassidy last fall and the standing starts which
Mr.. FITZGERALD has used successfully since MS
barrier mas been in AS the result OF aterrar-
ing between the different methods horses and
Jockeys have become confused. and no one seems
to know Just where he is at The running starts
may have advantage over the datfooted
starts but the latter method on the occasions on
which il has been employed has given more salts
faction and has resulted In getting the fields ON
In better alignment.
George Odou1 celebrated his return 60 work on
Saturday BY being set down for one day. He IN
Cured the starters diSpleasure at the post IN tbs
Canarsle Stakes when he had the mount OF Daly's
Henry OF Navarro colt. Ambertack. Shaw, was
also suspended for day, for disobedience at the
post, while W. Hennessy got two days on for tho
same offence. Redfern Is still the sick list, and
Il Is understood that he will not be able to ride
for a number OF days. He contracted a sewers colt
Bennings.