The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-25
Great Trial Stakes
Taken BY Security
Smathers' Horse, at Good Odds, Beats High
Class FieId-CIever Agile Passes Bel
dame in Advance Stakes.

SHEEPSHEAD BAY RACETRACK.
June 4--This was plungers' day here
Money madness extended from the club
house to the grandstand and from there
to the field. Fully 81, ooo.000 was wagered
during the afternoon.
twenty-five commissioners, headed by
Johnny Walters, who handled the COM
naissioneFs of the late w. c. Whitney,
piled between the clubhouse and grand
stand and the betting ring. A golden
stream poured increasingly into the
capacious Golfers of the bookmakers.
The Great Trial Stakes attracted a
heavy plunge from the clubhouse,
where Jesse Lewlsohn and Diamond
Jim Brady sent in one bet of $500 on
II. P. Whitney's entry, Queen Of Hearts,
Burgomastef, and Ironsides. at TO TO-
j. w. Gates and A. p. Hudson took
G. c. Bennett because he Is a West
ern colt, fo- 5000 each. at to i.
This was the big betting race of the
day. and 1t offered an idea of the i'm
mense amount of money now being
wagered upon the New York racetracks
OF, a big race.
Despite the tabooing of the grand
stand commissioners. the hundreds of
women in the stands found a way of
usual, they played in the wild specula-
ton of the afternoon. Their impromptu
escorts were kept on the jump all dur
ing the racing period.
Security Won.
Security opened at 10 to and receded
to 10 to l at the close. practically I'M
played except by the connections of
the stable and very lightly by Mr..
Smathers himself.
J. E. Madden's Timber, coupled with
Belmere. at to 1. ran second under
O'Neill, with G.. c. Bennett, the 3-to-1
second choice, third Dominick. just
from the West. rode Security Bohe-
milan was in the forepart at the Futurity
| course elbow" There something hap
| renet. i1r a scuffiing occurred. and
Queen IF Hearts. the half-sister to Art
fui. cunning along with Ironsides and
Burgomaster, as the Whitney entry.
was cut down badly. Davis pulled UP
and dismounted.
Domintck took the dry path at the
top, and, under a hustling drive. with
Security. outgamed Ironstdes. George c.
Bennett. and Timber, and won by a
| head Timber was just a neck IN front
| of George c, Bennett. Queen of Hearts
) is valued AT $50. 600, and was recently
! bought in by H. P. Whitney at the
Whitney estate sale for $4,000. She
may never race again. Smathers got
/ $4,000 from the race
Agile Beat Beldame.
The racing world sustained a bitter
disap continent in the renewal of the
s15. COG Advance Stakes, for three-year-
Odds and upward. The beloved Beldame
a 10-to-i favorite, was beaten by Capt.
S. S. Browns Agile. a 12-to-5 second
choice. by Il head. with the added entry
and only other starter, Graziallo. at SO
to /, third. Agile showed Improvement.
| ONeil allowed Beldame TO run In front
| down the back stretch to the turn into
the stretch, There Martin moved UP
with Agile. The great mare had Agile
at her throatlatch all the way through
the stretch. and commenced to weaken
a sort distance from home, when Agile
won right at the post Graziallo was
never contender
! Ii was & rather close fit at the finish
OF the Beacon Steeplechase. Sandhurs'
was the pacemaker most of the distance
but Hylas came up. and botfb took the
last jump together Sandhurst stumbled
when he landed, and appeared beaten
He recovered quickly. and in the run
, beat Hylas cleverly by length and a
half. GS.id Van fell in the first half
mile.
Hippocrates at 80 to I.
OF the other races. the chief points OF
interest were reversal of form by Hip
pocrafes In the last race. where he was
TO be had at 80 TO /. His easy win
shocked many.
The Summaries.
First race-The Beacon Steeple,>hase
fer four-year-oIds and upward; about
two miles and half, Sandhurst. 49,
4 Finnegan). II to ., won: Hylas. Ia
Ray), : to 10, second: Game Cock, 13i
tOwensl. TO 1, third Time, $40. Colo
Van fell.
Second race-Highweight handicap
'for three-year- ODDS and upward; six