Evening star., 1905-10-23
JAMAICA TRACK RIVALS
BRIGHTON FOR SPEED,

NEW YORK, October 23-The racing
for the one week that the Jamaica meet
ing has been in progress has justified
amply the predictions made by the Of
hc1als of the Metropolitan Jockey Club
that. following the redressing of the
course. Jamaica would take rank with the
fastest of the mile tracks in the east. In
the first week of the meeting track rec
ords at three of the five distances run
were lowered. leaving the five and a half
furlongs and the mile and a sixteenth the
only distances over which races have been
run this fall for which old records stand
The best showing in the matter of time
at Jamaica has been at the shorter dis
tances. with the start on the back stretch,
and only 4 single turn to the stretch run
for home. Over this course. at six fur
longs. the time record at Jamaica has been
cut to exactly the same figures the six
furlongs course at Brighton Beach. which
long has been counted as the fastest mile
course in the east, and which for six
furlong races has an advantage over ia
mafca in a straight run through the back
stretch out of chute. On the six fur
longs at Jamaica the three-year-old Quad
rille simply romped in first under a pull
in 1:12 on Thursday. equaling the track rec
ord of Brighton, made at a more favorable
season. and which has stood for more than
year. AT five and a half furlongs the
last May still holds good at Jamaica, but
two year-olds only have run at that dis
tance at the fall meeting. and these have
raced very close to the tracks best figures
At mile and a furlong Eugenia Burch set
a new record on the first day Of the meet
Ing. and The Southerner made new figures
for the mile and quarter. Aside from
Eugenia Burch none of the Jamaica rec
ord makers of the fall can pretend to any
thing like high class, and the Improvement
made in the course therefore becomes the
moro apparent. and gives excellent promise
of fast races when Jamaica Is fortunate
enough to draw better quality of horses
than those which have made up the racing
of the fall to date.
1t is quite probable that If the weather
remains good this week a full set OF new
records will be made. for several stakes
that are on the program promise to bring
out horses Of a higher grade than have
raced at Jamaica so far this fall. Chief
Of these is the fast filly Kiamesha. which
is engaged in the Ravenswood handicap, at
six furlongs, 20 be run Thursday. Kia-
mesha's starting. of course, will depend on
the weight that the Handicapped assigns to
her. and In view of her race at Belmont
Park, when she equaled the world s record
for mile. it is not to be supposed that
she will get in anywhere except among
the top weights. 1t is the intention Of
the Oneck stable to send her at least one
more race this year, and unless Kiamesha
wood handicap probably will be the fixture
selected for the fast mares final appear
ance in public this season.
Two other stakes that promise to at
tract fields OF unusual class for the season
are the Cutchogue handicap, at six fur
longs, for two-year- olds, to be run on Sat-
urday. in which Security, the winner of
the $30.6G0 Great Trial stakes and conqueror
In that race of Burgomaster. Bohemian
George c. Bennette, Ironsides and other
star colts, and the fast and stout
filly Tiptoe are the most prominent entries,
and the Southold handicap, one mile and a
sixteenth. for two-year-olds and upward.
in which about all the best horses left in
training are engaged, these including Eu-
genia Burch, Dolly Spanker. Bad News.
Spring. Bedouin Coy Mald Ormond' S
Right. PretensioR and Grapple. The Ja-
maica meeting win continue through this
week and three days into the next week,
closing on Wednesday, after which the rae
ing will move to the Aaueduct track for
the last race meeting of the New York turf
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