New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-27
CAIRNGORM IN A GALL0P.
WINS CUP PRELIMINARY.
artfuI Failed to Start-A Track
Record for BrookdaIe Ngmph.

Those who went to Frirhton Beach yesterday
in the hope of seeing Harry Payne Whitney's
great FLY Artful start in the Cup Preliminary
were disappointed. Her name in the overnight
list Of starters for the stake in itself suffl-
Client to attract hundreds to the Enclosure who
otherwise would have remained away. The
hllys failure to go to the post was keener dis
appointment, however, to John Rogers, her
trainer than It was to her most violent ad-
fnirer.
Early In the afternoon Mr.. Rogers had brought
her over from the Whitney Stables with the in
tention Of starting her. and Lucien Lyme, who
was to ride her, had weighed out for the race be-
fore the plans were changed. In its desire not
TO disappoint its patrons the management Of
the Brighton Beach Racing Association had even
gone so far as to have the track narrowed and
loosened UP in order that the risk Of racing Art
SuI over it might be minimi2ed, but all efforts
proved IN vain
Just before the first race Artful was sent out
for q preliminary gallcp. and pulled up SO stiff
and sore that Mr.. Rogers had other alterna-
tive than to withdraw her. 'T did not think it
wise TO start her on my responsibility he
explained, after the galIop. II expect Mr.. Whit
ney home tonight, and If he sees ct she win so
sn the cup on Saturday"
With the feet daughter of Hamburg out Of IT,
the Cup Preliminary. which is a weight for age
race, at one ana one-half miles exclusively TOT
horses engaged in the Brighton Cup dwindled
into a most ordinary two horse race between
Caughnawaga and Cairngorm. Oxford, the only
other probable starter, was withdrawn before
it became known that ArtfuI would not start
or James Mclaughlin would probably have sent
him out for third money.
AS the distance was supposed to be to the Xix
ing Of old Caughnawaga the public made him
odds favorite and played him at prices
ranging from Z to 10 to 13 to 20. Cairngorm
also found support-principaIly from his stable
and was backed from to 3 to IS to TO- Caugh-
nawaga is essentially a rater, and when the
barrier went up and Davis on Cairngorrn forced
Burns to make the pace the old horse was all
at and subsidized In d heap when the three
year-old collared him the end of a mile and
quarter. Flog him as he would Burns could
not get him to respond and he gradually dropped
back until he four lengths behind at the
finish. Cairngorm the and one-half miles
IN the fast time of 2:34.
Although the weather was cold and a raw
WIND swept over the course from the sea
the combination could not stop the thorough
breds from having Shy at the track records
and IN the second race-a sprint of five and one
half furlongs for two-year-oIds-the Meddler
lilly, Brookda1e Nymph, succeeded in creatins,
q new one by running the distance in 1:06.
The best previous record was !: O6 ID made bv
Whimsical last July.
Z. q. Stuttle's old campaigner Sidney G Love
came TO life in a handicap at one and one-sx-
teenth miles with q suddenneSs that shocked
everybody save his owner. The latter had
sublime faith in Sidney, and the money which
he caused to be sent into the ring hammered his
price from 40 TO TO 20 to L AT this lucrative
price the horse went out and beat TokaIon
santa Catalina and a lot of others in desperate
drive. He had TO run the distance in fact in
AS. which Is within thTee-fifths of a second of
the track record, to beat TokaIon by a nose
hrooAoaIe NyInph was the only winning favorite.