Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-05-18
BIG RACING
YEAR At HAND
Purses and Stakes Offered by
Associations Are Exten.
sive This Year

NEW YORK. May 1S.-The two
million dollar year of the thorough
bred turf in the state of New York
| is at hand. Last month the curtain for
the prologue of the greatest racing ro-
nance in the world was lifted at Aque-
duct, the home of the Queens County
Jockey club. 1t is what the public has
wanted and longed for since November
last. 1t is what the chief actors-the
trainers and horses, the breeders and
owners, and the racing associations
has been preparing for.
OF a certainty, the public was eager
again to see the royal thoroughbred
and cheer those struggles that warm
the cookies of every heart in which
red blood flows. A sport royal in its
actors. regal in it's rewards, enthusi-
asm in it's contests. magnificent in it's
settings and environment, racing APP
peals to the American public in most
especial manner.
There Is particular reasons, too, why
this year Of racing in this state should
attract most largely. In the days ago
enthusiasts were content IL but one or
WV Hci SSS "hOSc pToWeSS HdO WON
them fame, continue their battles
against the younger giants. This sea
son there are more horses of larger
worth than ever before appealed for
favor. AS If to confound the Worship
ers of ancient days and ancient meth
DDS. who have wept while the rest Of
the world cheered over glorious battles
fought nv tho
as susvivors of this highest test of ex.
cellence horses today of four and of
five years at least the very peers OF
those who first made fame for the
American thoroughbred
But the present and it's possibilities
are of more concern than any futile
quarrel with a past that was splendid
in its generation. No man may stop to
break lance with a historian while he
may contemplate the struggle for a
glorious supremacy between Water
bury, the marvel of a year that was
exceptional in class; McChesney. the
sturdy Westerner. who has come to
roll back the star of empire in it's orbit.
and Hermis. the greatest little" horse.
the earnest and speediest that many
a decade has shown--a trio that would
make any year stand out among it's fell
lows.
Sufficient unto an all satisfactory
conclusion would the struggles of these
three be were none others to challenge
their right but we have a 4-year-old
division singularly high class. There
is Africander, the hero Of the Subur-
ban. in race that was frought out
most bitterly in going that would have
tried the heart of the stoutest Swear
old that ever was saddled: Irish Lad.
the winner Of the Brooklyn, after a
sensational struggle with one OF the
gamest and best mares seen since the
days of Imp: Dick Welles. greater in
the west than ever McChesney was.
and marvel in speed. who did all
things asked from him in superlatively
easy fashion-these and Others whose
performances in many another year
would have been sufficient to stamp
them with excellence. all are in readi-
ness to meet worthy foemen.
And. of the 3-year- olds, there Is the
champion. Highball. the sweet Futurity
winner, Hamburg Belle: Leonidas, al
ways factor where speed and stamina
figured: the sturdy Stalwart the ever
dangerous Orthodox, and dozen more,
any one of which would be a cham ,,
pion in an ordinary year.
This is but cursory glance at some
of the distinguished ones who will
make holiday for the public and the
very presence OF them insures not
merely some one great contest but
many of them. Every horse mentioned
has been doing everything asked OF
him. Only two of them--Waterboy and
into winter quarters
with question behind them, and both
of these. by their gallons to date haro