Evening star., 1905-10-27
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.


Jockey wnlie Knapp won just one-haif Of
the racing program at Jamaica yesterday
three winning mounts. all of them favorites
making up hts days work. His winners were
Frontenac. in the first race. and Kiamesha
and Benevolent. for the Oneck stable. in
their respective trials. In other races Knapp
was once third and once unplaced.
Keator. the post favorites for the Ravens
wood handicap at Jamaica yesterday,
jumped on Aeronaut's heels at the turn Into
the stretch and then stumbled and dropped
out of the race himself pulling up lame.
Aeronaut was not seriously hurt.
George Wheelock. president OF the Metro
polftan Turf Association, the bookmakers'
organization which combated the race
tracks early In the season in the effort to
secure official recognition has stated his In
tention OF resigning his Office In the near
future. Wheelock Is said to have made q
profit of nearly a million dollars In the
single season of 1904. The stated cause of
his wish to retire is Ill health.
The race run by Kiamesha at Jamaica
yesterday. 1t has been decided by H. K.
Knapp, her owner. VIII not necessarily be
her last race of the season. as the iilly
seems to have just come CO. her best form
and IS fresh and full Of yigor. No definite
plans have been made but !. az Kiaimesha IL
entered in several stakes to be rua In the
early part of the Aqdeduct meeting. she
may have her last race of the season there.
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hind Kiamesha, in the third race at Jamaica
yesterday First Mason bolted with the ap-
prentice Jockey Sewell and went once and
a half around the course after having run
mile and q sixteenth. He threw SeweIl
at the far turn, but the boy hung to the
bride, and. after a long delay, got back to
the scales and made his weight, the official
decision being withheld until Sewell had
weighed.
Application has been made to the Jockey
Club by J. L. Holland and John Frank of
Albany on behalf Of the Island Park race
track. near Albany, for dates for race
meeting next year, twelve days being re-
quested. 1t is proposed by the cub -controH-
ing the Island Park course to give
meeting next season between the Buffalo
and Providence meetings and as the idea
of northern circuit as an outlet for the
excess of horses racing on the metropolitan
tracks has been approved by the Jockey
Club. 1t is believed that the plan of the
Island Park Club will be carried out.
The sale of the fast two-year-old Lotus,
one Of the sensational horses of the fall
season, by w. P. Burch to c. E. Durnell on
private terms was announced yesterday at
the Jamaica track. Lotus, a brown filly
by Watercress-La Fleur, Is the horse which
was sick at Saratoga and supposed to be on
the point Of death. and which Mr.. Burch
declined to sell to J. E. Madden for $1,000,
the offer having been made with the knowl-
edge OF LOTUS sickness, in the hope that
she could be bought for a smaller price
than the $4,000 set on her earlier in the
season. The price paid for the flly by
Trainer Durnell. who is supposed to have
acted for John W. Gates, was not stated,
but Mr.. Burch persistentIy has declined to
part with her for less than $4,000 and ru-
NOR has fixed the price at that figure.
The stewards of the Jamaica meeting yes
terday continued their inquiry into the rid
ing Of Jockey Shaw on H. B. Duryea's
three-year-old Dreamer when that horse
was beaten by Platoon and Grapple in the
first race on Thursday. The case win re-
a N n a haU diper
Duryea, who is absent on a trip to the
south. Shaw. in explanation of his riding
on Dreamer. made a statement concerning
that horses peculiarities, which he alleged
Mr.. Duryea would corroborate,- and 1t re-
mains for Mr.. Duryea to confirm this and
clear the rider Of suspicion. The stewards
have decided to suspend Shaw until Mr.
Duryea returns, and. as the owner Of
Dreamer had planned hunting expedition
in Mississippi Shaw will be on the ground
for an indefinite period