New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-11
THE RACETRACk.
Fast T50o-year-olds at Local Tracks
Poor Starts at BenningS.

At both GraveSend and SheepSneao BAY udIH0is
have been working their two-year-olds this week
faster than Youngsters have been. racing at Ben
nings. The local tracks, to be sure, are iaSler
than the at Washington. but the dinerelce -
scarcely equal to that between work time anc race
time, and the natural inference is that the oaoy
runners whose performances at the washington
Jockey Clubs meeting. in the absence or anything
to furnish a contrast. have seemed so eredilaoie'
Will find their fame of brief duration "ieh '''eE
meet the ones awaiting them on the local udeAs
who have yet to hear the first saddling call were
1t safe make any positive assertion concerning
so uncertain a proposition two-year-od run
ming horse It might be said that the semi-opli'io
OF the smaller circuits awaits a vast maJoii'S %
the youngsters that have been seen IN ActNA'
contests at Bennings When 1t is remembered.
however, that Hamburg Belle barely missed Just
such fate last spring when her owner decid a
after her first race at Aqueduct 10 M a.aedin-
out sale. it will be seen how hazardous Is any
prophecy concerning their future 10. D-ongb, OH.
several young ones who either because oL ti ,th
performances or their breeding have attracted pup
English horse that John E. Madden 6ougnt LSw
years ago from King EDWARD raclns ESQ so tba
meut have been shown with colors up ana liIe
~ cg 1eer reatiTes Of Diamond Jubilee.
Florizel and Persimmon. Sandringham is by 81;
bT1fheF OF h tesg besver neither resembles them
81 iools nor in deeds He never did anything on
the turf worth remembering and IN his conforms
than the fine lines of St simon; 1t remains to be
whether he G%n P s tw Soe haTe started
at Bennngs Courtplaster, bay My OUT OK
The colt has been started twice and the hlly once
The latter finished third 10 Fila and Maxey moore
placed. Neither OF them seemed TO be quite up to
raging form and their performances count ioF
on his performances Thomas Hitchcock. :r.'s. The
Claimant has evoked more favorable comment from
owners and trainers than have the others Ae Is a
Pr eS by e esR1 ST ta Stud
owned his sire he has only started once wnen ne
and fat and appeared at least two weeks away
from bruising race Yet he ran through his held
courage and determination and was close upon the
winners heels at the finish; A.. ., -. .-,o.
at AQueduct racetrack stick TO their work some
OF are ney to set FJ oIneE P bd Them
out at Sheepshead Bay this last week in pairs and
they had been at II Tor mouths insJehd GI ~esks o
worked half in O:iS15 with 50 pounds up holds tho
record so far this spring for WORK.
There seems to be some doubt as to whether
Mars Cassidys present method OF starting ia alto
gether a success or can be made Instead OF
lining his horses up few yards from the barrier,
he did last fall. and walking them up slowly.
he now sends them back almost a sixteenth OF a
mile and IN spite OF the efforts OF his assistants
TO restrain them. every boy IN the race is hunch-
ing" his mount along that he may DO out In front
when the gate is released and the result IS that
the entire field IS Gaoping before halt the distance
10 the barrier has been travelled Nlils times IN
OF such a start and tho little fellows are outger-
eralled. Even when the field is brought up slowly
the animal that comes dancing and tptoeing up 10
tho barrier away In front OF the horse
that walks to it, because he has all his feet under
him ready 10 dig his toes into the ground the
second the starter gives the word The number
OF bad and 'pOoP' starts at Jennings according
TO the charts, outnumber the fair and good'
starts almost two TO A number OF owners
have expressed the hope that when Mr.. Fitzgerald
takes his ia the starters stand no VIII return
to his old method Of lining hts field up directly
behind the barrier and breaking tho horses nat
footed II is the general impression that Mr.. Fttz-
gerald will have charge Of the gate az Aqueduct
although he has never heretofore started at any OF
the meetings of the Queens County Jockey Club.
Grover Cleveland Fuller. instead OF Thomas
Burns. VIII have the mount ]. Rodens Hastings
marc Rosetnt in the Carter Handicap. Burns ac-
cepted an engagement to ride tho marc IN the
handicap but afterward found that Charles Fox
had decided to start Ascension. and. he
under verbal contract TO ride her, he had to cancel
the other engagement. Patsy MCCue Will prob
ably ride Masterman. tho other Hoden candidate
for the Carter. Virginia Bradley has engaged
Hildebrand TO ride Peter Paul In the Carter, and
the colt will probably be shipped TO Sheepshead
Bay this afternoon. The OF Aloha IS eligible
for the Brooklyn Handicap. and II his perform
ances are satisfactory he Will probably be kept in
the East. and not taken 10 Chicago with the rest
Of the Bradley OUTFIT.