New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-11
DEAD HEAT IN HANDICAP.
COLONS4Y AND HELLO.
Daly's Horse Disqualifed-S Sheriff
Bell Wins Harlem.

It was reserved for Newton Benningtons Hello
and William c. Days COlonsay, two performers
with only modest pretensions to class or fame, to
provide the racing thrill at Morris Park yesterday
The pair starters in the last of the
day-a handicap at mile and sixteenth. over
the hill-and. although neither Of them was the
choice of the bettors. they separated themselves
from the chosen and racing head and head
nod for nod and stride for stride, through nearly
an eighth of mile they reached the wire stimuli
taneously, the whips OF Michaels and Phillips
falling in unison. The judges could not separate
them and the double zero up on the
Jockey board announcing dead heat between the
two. Before the red board affixed however
Phillips. who had ridden Hello. went into the
judges stand and lodged "A complaint against
Michaels. Phillips asserted that the latter Jockey
bore in him and seriously interfered with the
running Of his horse. The stewards allowed the
complaint and. to the chagrin Of the Sage OF
Gravesend and the JOY OF the Wall Street broker
poor Colonsay disqualified and placed last
Those who had not wagcred their money
Colonsay generally conceded that the disqualified
ton was justified The horse bore in under punish
ment. and both Hello and The Southerner, the lat
bumped and crowded. The disquahcation placed
Heuo nrst. The Southerner second and shorthGse
third The chestnut gelding Hiawatha was the
because Of the fact that shorthose was making
his public bow four-year-old. Top weight. 1875
Stable, and for time the winner OF last years
ithers and Tidal and incidentally the cause OF
the most unpleasant scandal OF last seasons racing
ruled favorite at even money. As there was no
evidence OF stable commission being distributed
through the ring. the price receded so that at
post time 10 going begging. The huctua-
ton in the quotations against certain horses is fire.
quenty taken index OF their speed. The
Southerner, in the mean time had been backed
from threes to TO >, and carried a tremendous
number of small CoonSay third
choice at threes. Hiawatha got away from little
Crimmins at the post and over the hill and
down the long stretch almost 10 the grandstand
before he stopped.
The Southerner showed prominently in the
over the hill and leading we'll into the stretch
When Colonsay and Hello. running side ny side.
caught him he already beginning stop and.
although he was pinched back, he had had probably
an the racing he cared for and would have been
beaten anyway.
The seventh running Of the Harlem Stakes over
tho Withcrs mile for tho older platcrs was the
only fixture on the programme. and although Ave
horses Wer" al IN" field u resulted In almost 10
Ioi san had been permitted - make the running
for brief space. Sheriff BELL and the old brown
Splinter lumasked went out and tried run each
other INTO the ground. Neither succeeded. but they
apart-with the Sherns tnken IN preference
the patched up cripple. Charles Elwc0d was m
odds-Ou favorite. hut was crowded in the back
stretch and Was beaten by Toi san for third place"
+. X Thomas's EeldinE TTepan. four-year-old
Of Top Gallant. surprised his stable by winning
n i've furlong sprint from Ave platers down the
Eclipse course. The EcdIrE's price went back
from 20 > @ 20 iT the last quotations because
Of heavy play on Ella Snyder and Elsie l. The
former tried hard, but Trepan outlasted her and
hv narrow margin, with Lord Melbourne
the carly pacemakcr third. J A. brakes Splinter
Ort Wells. at to . on. heat Mercury and n couple
of others about as he pleased IN ELK furlong
over tho Withers course Monadnock In a selling
race. at seven furlonEs. and Thirty-third in n
scramble for the Youngsters. wer. the other win
ners.