The Washington times., 1905-07-10
ARTFUL! !SySONbY
SPECIAL EVENT
Brighton Management Of
fers $4,000.
WILL Mr.. KEENE REFUSE?
Such Action Would Be Construed as
Fearing the Great Filly-Prize
Worth Having.

NEW YORK, July 10--In view of the
doleful wall that went UP earlier in the
season as to the collapse of the cracks
Of the mature division and the absence
Of class in the rising generation OF
three year olds horSemen have every
reason to congratulate themselves on
the brilliant performances the last few
weeks have brought forth, and on the
still more brilliant promise the future
holds.
Ort Wells and BeldaIle we're as good
a colt and hlly last year as any man
could ask to see race. There Is no rea-
son to believe that either has gone back
at all this season, anu the fair and
square defeat of both Of them by Artful
in the Brighton Handicap on Satur-
day stamps Mr.. Whitney's fflly and,
through her, stamps the year. as one
of exceptional quality from the racing
viewpoint. Best of all. there still re-
mains the supreme test-the race which
is likely to stand out as the one great
race Of the year-the race in which Art
full and Sysonby meet. with any other
of the first class horses whose owners
think they can live with the pair at
something like weight for age.
Offers $4,000.
1t is characteristic of the enterprise
| of the Brighton Beach managers that
Artful hardly had weighed in after
winning her race on Saturday before
| 1t had perfected plans for bringing
about this meeting, coming forward with
an offer to add $4,000 to a weight for
age sweepstake at a mile and fur
| long, provided Sysonby and Artful
would accept.
The date suggested Is next Thursday,
and 1t will be something more than
disappointment to those who love the
sport for the sports sake If the pro-
posed race falls through.
Artful had a comparatively easy race
on Saturday, and as she had been put
| through no arduous campaign previous
Iy to it there is no reason why she
should not be fresh and fit enough to
do herself full justice by Thursday. II
| anything, Saturdays race should have
set her even more on edge, for her rae
| ing experience this season has been
! decidedly light
4 Will He Refuse2
| A refusal on the part of SysonbV to
go would be Interpreted generally In
only one way-that his people are
afraid Of the flly. 1t Is true he has
/ rich engagements at Brighton Beach
which seem to be at his mercy. but
purely from the business point Of view
4 a sweepstake with $4,000 added is too
good prize to pass up lightly.
On the other hand, Mr.. keene cares faI
more for the honor and glory his horses
win on the turf than for the cash value
of the purses they carry OH, and VIC
tory in such q special race as tra1
proposed for Thursday would co more
toward establishing the fame of Syson
by as a really great horse than would
a score of easy victories IN Such races
as the Iroquois Stakes or the Brighton
| Derby, great though the distinction IL
which attaches to the winning of these
Doubt Sysonby.
It is, indeed, hardly too much to say
that certain doubt has been cast or
Sysonby's quality by his absence from
the Brighton Handicap. in which Art
full was the only horse to whom he was
asked to give any apprecite weight
Those who admire the Keene colt mos
| warmly would regret 1t keenlY II b.
were not allowed to meet Artful OIL
even terms under the scale now tina
the issue has been raised so definitely.
/ Though Artful was III receipt of ter
pounds from Beldame and five from Or
Wells under the scale on Saturday. hel
victory was decisive enough to silence
those who said she could not go dis
tance, and her winning of the Grea
Filly Stakes under 124 pounds last fall
: aftx her success in the FNuturity. ant
] of lie White Plains Handicap, under l5n
( / at Morris Park, seem to give q fai
guarantee tnat she can carry weight a.
well In the latter race she was g1vint
[ Dandelion thirty pounds and Cairngorn
twenty and the form of both thes
a horses more particularly that of Calrn
. gorm this season, is good enough I
strengthen the position Of Artful 5tn
further in popular opinion.
: Records in Danger.
q II Sysonby and Artful meet on fas
0 track existing records are likely 10 b
a liz danger, for both have shown the
o have a world of speed at the start, and
though neither has been asked the ques
ton in earnest. there is little doub
both can carry ii to the bitter end.
IL As to sending Sysonby abroad to NEE
/. | the English cracks, all ideas in thi
direction have been abandoned. as MI
s Keene realizes his colt would labO
under too many disadvantages with III
d short space OF time that would be at hi
Y disposal after the close of the Saratog
meeting