Evening star., 1905-11-08
Crack Runners in Dixie and
Vestal Stakes at Benning.
KIAMESHA COMM G
WESTERN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
SNOW UNDER BUSINESS TEAM.
Hounds Too Fast for Riders-Fitz
Signs to Fight O'Brien-Races
at Aqueduct and Pimlico.

NEW YORK. November s.-Kiamesha's
good race at Aqueduct the day before yes
terday was nice preparatory work for her
coming campaign at the Benning track. The
Esher mare needs outing now and then
to keep an edge on her speed for the Dixie
and Vestal stakes. and an easier place than
the Sea Cliff with Alvin out of the way,
cound not have been found for her. Kia-
mesha made no attempt to beat the milo
and a furlong record in the Sea Cliff. The
conditions were not propitious. The track
was trifie slow and the day was dull and
soggy. But she showed by the way she
submitted to the restraining hand of
Jockey O'Neill that she would stay
route. Harry X. Knapp and his trainer,
William Karrick. no longer fear that she
will not be able to stick out the mile and
half of the Vestal and the mile and three
quarters of the Dixie, no matter what horses
are sent to Benning to run against her
They have the highest respect for Santa
Catalina but they do not believe that Mr..
Oxnards little mare Will ever be capable
of giving weight to Kiamesha at any dis
tance. Santa Catalina will be the Esher
filly's most formidable opponent in the
Vestal. 1t looks very much as though AL
win and Oliver Cromwell may be the horses
she VIII have to beat In the Dixie.
Anthony L. Aste and Frank Brown both
say they will go to Benning with their
good three-year-old colts Alvin and Oliver
Cromwell are being rested UP for the trip
and they will have recovered their speed
before the opening of the Washington Jock
ey Clubs fall season. Alvin did not have
falr chance in the Aqueduct handicap the
other day. Walter S. Voshurgh weighted
him out of 1T. One hundred and twenty
two pounds was entirely too much for the
Handsel colt to shoulder in race in which
Bedouin was weighted at ia. No such
weights Will govern the Dixie. Aste has not
the slightest doubt of Alwins ability to run
one mile and three-quarters. The colt step
ped one mile and quarter SO nicely at
Gravesend when he was in against the best
handicap animals of the mature age run
ming, Aste believes he will carry his speed
any distance racers are asked to go.
Confidence in Oliver Cromwell.
Frank Brown believes that he has in
Oliver Cromwell capable a candidate
for the Dixie this season as he took to
Bennng last fall to try for the Washing
ton cup. Oliver Cromwell has run two or
three races this season, although he is
still a maiden, that were better than any
thing Go Between did last year. He is the
horse who made the doughty O1Seau do his
best in the Ornus colts preparatory race
for the Annual Champion. The distance
of that race mile and quarter,
and Oliver Cromwell had Olseau going from
the turn into the homestretch to the finish
Many close observers of form thought he
might have won had the distance been a
furlong more. Go Between was con-
siStent little platter pretty much all last
season. but he never ran any such race as
| that with a three-year-old of the first class
| Go Between was not cunning for the scalps
| of such Ort Wells and Stalwart and
| Delhi. Oiseau. according to the judgment
| of the Handicapped of the Jockey Club. was
| as good any of them. Mr.. Vosburgh at
| any rate, put more weight Ion the Ornus
| colt IN the Aqueduct than he assigned to
| taly emit nf fha not that tharo a
difference of year in the ages of the
| two colts.
| Before Oliver Cromwell did this stunt
with Oiseau it will be remembered he took
| the measure of Water Light, the Ornus
\ colts stable companion and a 3-year-
| regarded by many good judges to be second
| only to Sysonby. Brown has not been
| racing Oliver Cromwell lately because he
| wants to get nice edge on the Commoner
| colts speed. Oliver Cromwell is essentially
| a route horse. He is not an agile colt at
| the post, and he Is generally outrun even
| by the commonest horses In the first six
| teenth or furlCng. But once on his stride
| he wants to run all day. Oliver Cromwell
| is undoubtedly the best 3-year-old in train
ing. and 1t is not surprising to persons
| who realize what he is capable of that
| Brown did not care to let him go cheaply
| at the recent sale at Belmont Park. Brown
| has not yet decided definitely that he will
| do so, but there is strong probability that
| Oliver Cromwell will take a shy at the
| Washington cup. If he can win the Dixie
| he can come pretty close to taking the cup.
| The two races will this season draw prac-
| tically the same horses.
My Buela a Forlorn Hope.
| John Boden thought at one time that his
! mare My Buela might have a chance in
! the Dixie and the Vestal but that was be-
| fore 1t became known that Mr.. Knapp had
designs on the Washington Jockey Clubs
| best three-year-old specials with Kiamesha
I
| better races over distances of ground than
| she has shown in spr!nts. but not with
such Kiamesha and Alvin and oliver
I Cromwell. Mr.. Boden bases his theory of
| My Buela's ability to stay on her breed
ing. She is bred for route travelling on both
sides of her house. Her sire was Medder
| and her dam was a Bramble mare.
| There Is no stouter pedigree In the STUD
/ book. My Buela will go to Benning for
| ordinary racing. and IL she starts in either
| the Dixie the Vestal she will carry a
| sort of forlorn hope. Jimmie Mclaughlin
/ put oxford in the Dixie with the full IN
| tention of starting the gray colt. But re-
| Gently he decided that Oxford had had all
he needs of racing for one season. and that
| the time to put him away had come. Nc
| Iaughlin will not take the son of Faraday y
| to the Pacific slope this winter. Oxford
| raced at Los Angeles last winter.
| The horse Matt Byrnes is preparing for
! the Dixie Is the colt Master of Craft. This
| son of Parachute made an excellent impress
| sion three weeks back. when he run
ming In pretty good company. II he had
| been differently placed his people might
| have won big bet on him. Master of
| Craft will race at Benning because p S. 2.
Randolph is one of the Philadelphians who
| always like to make a good showing at
! the national capital. He generally does 1t.
/ Knight of the Garter. his knight of EAlers-
| lie horse OF a few years ago. was the hero
| OF several Benning fall meetings. Mr.. Ran
| dolph has another and a better Knight Of
| EIlerslie this year in Red Knight and Red
| Knight will be ready against the Benning
| opening to do his best. He is a clever little
| horse, who in ordinary handicap company,
| makes his opponents look pretty cheap time
/ after time.
RACES AT AQUEDUCT.