New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-09

fair field be made UP. Some Of the threo-year;;
ODDS that may start are Bryn Mawr. whose 5000
he VIII duplicate Shorthoses performance last year;
n J. aayIIlan Jrtnodox VINO Tor a tIiIle vs. =
ston colt, who IS just beginning 70 full the hopes
Maddens 2dbeii and Paniqae E + ThoInass Stall
wart and 81 Valentine. ard r. I. Wilson. 1r.'s.
M0ntresOn
Leonidas tho Hamburg Boise colt Tor which Z.
Z. Smathers paid 80 600 the top price OF the Whit
ney sale. Saturday. IS engaged IN the Belmont.
the Realization, the Annual Champion and tho
Saratoga Handicap. II IS generally believed that
Mr. Smathers should have a fair chance OK getting
son
No one incident OF last weeks racing brought
mora satisfaction 70 owners and the public than
the adoption By the stewards OK the Jockey club
OF a permanent method OF starting the races. Since
the opening at AQueduct tho systems % Mr. F1tz-
gerald and Mr.. Cassidy nave both been tiled. and
with the result that horses jockeys and thu start
ers themselves have been on The verge OF nervous
prostrarion No ono knew exactly where he vas
at until he found himself left AZ the post The
majority Of turf patrons and turf critics a-ree
that the Jockey Club acted wisely 81 accepting
Mr.. Fftzgerald's method q breaking the horses
from standing start in preference % Mr.. cas-
sidy'5 method OF q moving start The latter. how
ever. had and sun has many advocates, and could
II bs carried out Mr.. Cassidy originally intend
ed. IL undoubtedly would possess some advantages
over the fiat footed" start. II was Mr. Cassidy's
idea 70 walk the fields slowly up the barrier
and. ng them n alignment send them away.
This he argued would place the sluggish. slow
breakers equal terms with the fast breaker.
and no horse would has" any great advantage over
another at the post So long as tne Jockeys could
be kept II hand and would walk their hul ses up
70 Tho barrier this worked very well. but little hy
little they took 70 launching another.
short lime before the aeids we're gauoping al
the barrier fun tit. and starting, 70 al intenJs
and purposes. had reverted to the old recall Tag
system since the opening or the WestchesIer
Racing Associations spTinS TeetiRs me sl,L4I
ana neither owner nor Spectator has had any
fault 70 md
The value OF the horse express which the
Long Island Railroad put on at the beginning Of
the season for the benefit OF owners and trainers
IN transporting their runners from one track to
another has been thoroughly established. and al
ready IS looked necessity rather than a
luxury. For owners who stabling al Gravesend
or Sheepshead Bay when meetings at either
Jamaica or Aqueduct. the express IS actual saw
ing Instead OF having 70 buy feed for two three
DAYS the horses taken the morning
train and taken back 70 their homo quarters the
fecessart to put on couple Of express cars and
the average shipment was seldom fewer than forty
The reports that come from Gravesend about Nc
Chesney-the Western champion who went around
all last season looking for Waterboy-are not
couraging It is said that big Mac" IS very sour
and that he does not take kindly 10 his work. He
looks however in far better condition than he did
last fall, and IL is quite likely that Frank Taylor
can Jolly him out Of his case OF sulks and have
him IN readiness one OF his olGtine races
when the bugIe sounds for the Brooklyn Handicap.
Charles F. Dwyer, the owner OF Africander. is
well pleased with the work his great colt has shown
him IN the last few days. and he believes he Will
not only stand training but Will duplicate his
splendid career OF last year. Africander worked
a mile at Gravesend the other day in 1-46 80 and
pulled up sound as bell. Dwyer intends %
start him Morris Park next Saturday, and the
race will in the nature Of trial for the Brook
Ign Handicap. for which he is being expressly
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