New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-05
CROWDS GO A-RACING.
STORM HAS NO TERRORS.
Proper. Lady NaoarTe and Right
Roual the Stake Winners.

The Labor Day throng at Sheepshead Bay yes
terday was sufficient in its numerical strength to
demonstrate that neither famine nor mood can keep
the great turf loving public from needing the be-
vitching notes Of the bugle call that brings the
fhorouehbreds together. The rain that fell almost
necessarily Saturday night until noon yester-
day, worthy in itself to be catalogucd as
miniature deluge, and its effect upon the low
lands of Sheepshead Bay could not have been more
uncomfortable than that produced by real old
fashioned forty day -you-please food. Every
spot In the huge Enclosure driaped with the Wet
test kind Of wetness. and the lawns and the PAD
dock were almost navigable And yet the puoho
came-not I'm the usual Labor Day droves. II is true
hut in numbers that comfortably filed clubhouse
and srandstand and more than comfortably filled
the field inclosTe.
The programme opened by the Coney lslsno
Jockey Club contained the renewals or the ocean
ono in the series of autumn stake handicaps: the
Sapphire. for twc-year-olds. over five and half
furlores of the FI1turity Course. and the Labor
Day Handicap. one and half miles. on the
turf In addition to these stake FEATURES uieie
was a steeplechase over the short course, Whlch
brought about an entertaining. IL not brilliant
contest.
The stake races had all filled well ana con-
trary to the general Impression. the condition of the
track did not bring about as many WITHDRAWALS
as were expected. The field for the Sapphire IN
fact was materially increased by the addition.
shortly before post time of four youngsters whose
owners decided that the mud would help tneir
chances of victory. One of these four added
starters was the Pirate of Penzance FLY Lady
Navarro and her owner Charlie Ellison, made no
,nistake II, his calculations Not only did she take
into camp the ten young oEes that mace I'D tho
company for the Sapphire but she ran chnkns
good race which increased her own reputation not
q little and the bank rolls Of her Followers .asHs'
At post time she backed from 10 TO to IL 10
and her owner is said TO have won $1,000 on her
IN yxarers placed In every book that would accept
his commission. ..-a
The general public. however, preferred NoooIoiu
Claws Single Shot because of her good race IN the
Great FfIlv Stakes and she was made nrst choice
et nr,ces ranging around /. The daughter OF
Star Shot did not to her best FORM ana 'ooN
the mud from the heels OF majority OF her 'p
ponents from start to finish FROM tne oeNu -
the Fnturity Course to the finish the race was .-e
best OF the day. and 1t was not until the soal was
reached that 1t was possible proclaim the WINS.
with degree of eeTtaintyc e SnT fo have
matters - pretty much to themselves and both
jockeys were riding desperately when BuTns wv nl On
the outside and beat them both by head more
from as atS S raT ahs ths did the sapp i
also profited by two added starters-Goid Enamei
apo to fsn good mixers Had the going made
order il could not have So spea had paeed a
pounds on him. and as he has come to be looked a
overlooked the conditions and took Spring IL pref,
erence The result that Prepers price nu tuaSea
half poi 1t from threes Little Knapp capital
race on the Prestonpans horse, and after waiting
behind the pace set by Bedoun and Spring saved
a lot of ground at the stretch turn, and won the
race then and there Both Bedoun and Spring
hjezr nm with a report that was echoed feelingy
by their hackers. as they saw the two swallowed
up IN the ruck. Gold Enamel and Coy Maid fought
st out for the place the former getting 1t by a
head
NJ, l. Haymans Right Royal the guaranteed esei
good thing OF the afternoon, won the Labor Day
ade Possession quit and caught Leila in the last
stride. The Rapallo colt backed from SKIES TO
twos and closed a slight favorite Shorthouse.
The latter bad race and was never in the
hunt
succeeded in picking three successful favorltes be-
ginning the day with Ruth's Rather. which won
the steepechase from Pathmaster. Black Death
and three other '1eppers.''