Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
Five Favorites in Front at
Benning Yesterday.
BELLS THREE WINS
JOCKEY DREAMER HAS A MAR
ROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
jackson and johnson Draw-Link
Threw Curtney-Billiard Cham
pion-Bowling Battles.

The racegoing public pretty nearly evened
up matters with the layers at Benning yes
terday. The horses ran so nearly to form
that favorite after fayorite scored, until
five straight had brought home the money,
while the only race, the last, that did not
fall to first choice, was captured by
heavily played second favorfte, leaving the
battered layers minus a good part of their
velvet winnings of the meeting. Several
of them. hit harder than they cared to
acknowledge, pulled up stakes and left last
night for "fairer fields and pastures new"
But they settled up every dollar of their
obligations before going.
a track that froze over night thawed
out bit in the forenoon, and was heavy
and 'pasty' during the racing, tried the
hearts as well as the legs of all but the
stoutest-wind horses. Under these con-
dtfons the regularity with which hackers
picked the winners was something remark
able -Four of these victors ran to public
form, one an unknown quantity justified
his private reputation, while the other win
ner, Cary, ''antici pal ed in spite of
his bad looking races up to date.
Many new faces mingled with the visitors
in club house paddock and stand Among
these were E. c. La Montague, Theodore
w. Myers and r. III. McCarter Potter of
New York, J. e. Widener of Philadelphia
and others. This afternoon should show a
representative gathering for the final scenes.
Miss Alice Roosevelt is expected to renew
her Thanksgiving day visit, and it goes
without saying that District admirers of
the sport in general will rally to the stand
ard of the Washington Jockey Clubs wind
up.
Zeala's Bleeding.
Zeala. the good mare that has won her
last two races here gave her many back
ers Jolt in the first race, when she was
pulled up above the last furlong pole
bleeding from mouth and nose. OF course,
her boy did not persevere with her. and
Mollie Donohue after a slight shaking
up, came away from the two-year-oId
Fancy Bird very cIeverly in the last six
teenth. Zeala has bled before but as she
has not done 50 in her last seven races il
was rather surprise, even to her trainer.
The two-year-oId Fancy Bird. showed
so well in the race that Owner La Mon
tague, who races under the nom de plume
of the Chelsea stable. was offered So 900
for the youngster after the race. While
this was good price for q gelding that
only cost his present owner $500, Fancy
Bird, to man that cares to speculate, is
likely to prove good betting PROPOSE
ton: Hence his owners remark that
$4,000 might not secure me as good a
colt so 1 Will keep him myself"
Jockeys Fall an Omen.
above the paddock while on his way to the
post for the first race many superstitious
people fastened to put a bet on the f1lly
after she had been caught and remounted.
For a matter of years it has been consid-
cred an omen Of success for horse to I'M
seat his jockey when the accident does
not hurt either by conclusion or d subSe-
Quent runaway, and yesterday these late
hackers of Fancy Bird landed their place
wagers and had a good run for first money
In the first Withers stake at Jerome Park.
New York, in 1874, Joseph Donohue's crack
colt Dublin, who was one of the choices,
fell in a false break and broke his jockeys
colarbone. His owner was given fifteen
minutes to get another rider, but was just
about to scratch the colt in despair when
he espied Pontin. Il bush boy who had been
riding upstate at Utica, Syracuse and va
rious county fairs. He put the boy Pontin
UP on Dublin and won the stake in great
style from the Lorillards, Belmonts, San
fordS MorriseS and other turf millionaireS.
So pleased was the late John Morrissey with
Donohue's quick-witted luck that he Nor
rissey) made Donohue a present of $1,000
out of the big winning made by Dubln's de-
feat of the cracks III MorriSseyS future
book made on the race.
About ten years later in tire same state
J. B. Haggin'S colt Tyrant won under some
what similar circumstances Jockey Patsy
Duffy was sent over Tyrant's head in
false start and the shake-up looked to in
capactate him. But after ten minutes
rest Duffy got UP again and won with Ty-.
rant in great shape. The Belmont sire, The
Ill-Used, was given this title on account of
his extreme bad luck in some of his races
through falls and being knocked about, etc.
Before being named The IIl-Used this horse
figured on the programs as the Breadalbane
colt simply In his second race as two
year-old at Jerome Park the colt and one
of Lorillards collided in a breakaway and
both went down. Then the Breadalbane
colt was caught and remounted and won
the race.