New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-06
THE RACETRACK.
Fine Fields for the Standard and the
Brooklyn Derby.

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Brooklyn Derby.
This is the lest fun week Of the Gravesend meet
ing although the racing Will continue there until
Il week from Wednesday. With the Standard
Stakes. the Brooklyn Derby, the fremont, the
kensiHgton Steeplechase and in addition the Ga
5ele and couple Of selling stakes to be decided
between and Saturday night, the week should
prove the most interesting of the meeting
The Standard. for the older group OF horses at
mile and quarter. will be run tomorrow. and
may bring together some Of the top liners
Hermis. Highbau. The Picket. Africander Delhi
and Irish Lad are all eligible. as are Major Dain-
gerfed, Hurstbourne and some thirty others The
rain OF last week seriously interfered with the
plans Of trainers and some horses that were being
especially pointed for the Standard may be kept in
their stalls Willie Shields had intended TO send
Hermis TO the post and J. J. Rogers also expected
TO have Irish Lad ready It seems now that II
Lad is all az sea in the mud, and his trainer has
not given him all the work he needs for such a
race The going cannot be TOO sloppy for Afri-
on saturday that he is looked on as an almost GER
tam competitor James R keeneS De!hi Ioo3g-
full whether any OF them starts.
The Brooklyn Derby. at one and half miles. will
be renewed next Saturday and from the eligible
list il is possible bring together practically all
the stars of the three-year-Old division Delhi
Bryn Mawr, Highball. StaIwart. The SOutherner.
MontresOn and others with less claim TO fame
still remain in the list Of possible starters The
fremont, stake for twO-year-olds. with a guar
anteed value of S125OO. will also be run on Satur-
dav just after the Kensington SteepIechase. There
are forty-seven youngsters eligible for the TIE
mont, but the names of Gloriier. Tanya and Song
and Wine do not appear in the list. The Gazelle is
for flles three years old at mile and six
tenth. and will be decided on Thursday. The
longs the hanover selling also for the youngsters
20 De run on friday, and the Bedford, another
the other features.
That Tod Sloan has not fallen into the oblivion
busy and forgetful world usually casts the idols
It has knocked from their pedestaIs was made alb
sUrdy apparent in the paddock at Gravesend where
the jockey held court last Friday. The air OF def
erence with which many OF the substantial
and conspicuous turfmen greeted this diminutivs
genius would have appeared absolutely Iudicrous
TO one who had not known him when he was the
racetrack idol of two continents. Men who look
Troublesome youngster shook hands with TOD
as though they were being presented TO a foreign
pOtentate. Sloan looks a day older or a pound
heavier than he did on the day he rode BalIyhoo
Bey to victory at Sheepshead and outmanCeuvred
all the jockeys who had conspired to beat him
With all his silly vanties and the solemn serf-
BUSINESS with which he took himself there are few
turfmen who will not admit that as a race rider
he was little less than genius His influence over
horses amounted TO witchery An instance OF this
was recalled at the track the other day by an old
timer. who had Just shaken hands with Sloan and
had stepped aside to give others a chance. IT was
Just asking him. said the oldtimer with pride
IF he remembered the day he won with Our
Johnny at Gravesend Our Johnny was one OF the
slowest horses in the world TO get away from the
post. II he starting in a mile race it generally
took him threequarters OF 1t 10 get the news that
he was in q horserlce. and by that time he was
always from a sixteenth to an eighth Of q mile
behind He would would come through the stretch
like whirlwind. but he could never overcome the
through the 8 at the R sf a 6S da {he TGr
came around, and announced complacentIy 70 his
owner that IL he would let him ride Our Johnny
in certain overnight handicap ne would win by
- H!oCh- ne morse had ABOUT as Inuch business IN
but Tod persuaded his people TO start him. and
suggested that it would be nice time to pick UP
however. and only backed him for very small
from that owner was one OF chaErin rather than
delight. Tod had got away least six lengths
within hailiug distance and won on the bit. In
assumed that his horse had reformed and that
any boy could ride him. he put up another
saw his horse get OF sixty lengths TO the bad. and
It Is tina general opinion that the only chance
Sloan has OF riding again is track under
the Jurisdiction OF the Western Jockey Club. which
does observe the rulings Of either the Eastern
that he would thus destroy his last hope Of rein
statement By applying for a license in the West
Contrary 10 the common notion, Sloan never
ruled Off the English turf, but when 1t came time
10 have his license renewed the stewards intimated
to him strongly that his application would be
denied that he took the hint and did send IT IN
he had many admirers and friends who were In
fiuential on the turf abroad and these requested
King Edward TO intercede with the Jockey Club in
only question of time before the stewards would
have granted him a license. when Sloan returned TO
london resumed his extrayaSant habits and spoiled
the good offices OF his friend the King
1t is reported that Newton Bennington has de-
cided to sell at public auction his stake winning
colt Song and Wine whose last victory was in the
Great American on Saturday. The only reason Mr.
Bennington gives for wishing to part with one OF
the best youngsters that has been the races this
year is that he has had so many offers for him
Many thought that Song and Wine all out to
beat Britisher q head Saturday. but O'Neil. who
rode him. says he had a lot Left and that he
thought Britisher close to him. The Claim
ant was the only one he reckoned with in the last
sixteenth, and when he saw Shaw go TO the whip
he realized he had him beaten, and took II for
granted that he had won the race
After the Brooklyn Handicap had been run.
Africander's condition OF a good deal
OF worry to his The colt appeared sound
enough. but in such nervous state that he
would allow no in his stall. and whenever any
attempted enter II he would crouch down
in one corner as if in mortal fear. His owners de-
Cided that racing him might bring him around and
started him against Hurst Park The experiment
was successful. and he has not had return Of the
trouble since. His starting IN the Worlds Fair
Handicap depends on his performance IN the
Suburban
So pleased were W. NJ. Scheftel. the owner OF
Highbau. and Bud May. his trainer the
colts performance in the Broadway Stakes on
when he gave Bryn Mawr twelve pounds
and was only beaten a neck. that they have de-
cidas 10 start him in the Standard Stakes at a