New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-12
DELHI Is DISQUALIFIED.
KEENE DISCOUNTED.
Stezcards appeared to Hare No
Recourse in the Matter.

Interest in the days racing at Belmont Park
yesterday confined almost wholly to the
first appearance as a four-year-old of James r.
KeeDs's great spzinter Delhi The incidents at
tending it were sufficiently exciting and unex-
pected to overshadow every other contest on
the programme The colt which many good
judges consider as wonderful a miller as was
Voter, was named to start in overnight race
of seven furlongs on the main track for older
horses. AS the weight conditions let him in
with 1l3 pounds, owners Of all save two of the
of the ten other horses that entered
promptly drew out when it became known that
Jimmie" Rowe really intended to start Delhi.
The two left in were John E. Madden's three
year-old colt Hot Shot and Frank Regans
three ear-old FLY Witch Hazel.
As they were meeting Delhi at even weights.
according to the scale. neither layers nor play
ers could see why they were sent out 10 meet
the sprinting son of Ben Brush unless it was
for a work to gather in the small ends of
the purse. Speculation was restricted largely
to the 'pikers' who played the field against
Delhi in the proverbial hope that he might
fall down. He did not do that exactly, but he
disqualified, which served the ''pikers
purpose quite as well.
Shaw rode Delhi and for six and a half Of the
seven furlongs he appeared TO be winning the
race as every one expected he wouId-n COM
gallop. At the sixteenth pole. however.
Powers. apprentice boy who had the leg up
on Witch Hazel, sent the filly alongside Delhi
with rush as startling it was unexpected.
Shaw his danger and went to work on
Delhi in dead earnest. The instant be made
move TO draw his whip, however. Delhi swerved
TO the outer rail and, humping into Witch Hazel,
threw the FLY completely out of her stride.
This collision alone saved Delhi from defeat,
and as it was, Shaw just managed TO squeeze
him home three parts of length in front Of her.
Powers promptly went before the stewards of
the meeting and made a claim of foul against
Delhi. They called Shaw before them, and as
he admitted that his mount had swerved into
Witch Hazel. they had no other alternative.
under the rules OF racing. than to disqualify
the Keene crack.
As IS the case when one of the stewards of a
meeting has a horse in a race he temporarily
gives way to some one else, and yester-
day Mr. Keene retired from the stand
while the race was being run ana his
pace was taken by Harry Payne Whitney.
The two other stewards al the time were
Herman B. Duryea and S s. Rowland. When
they disqualified his colt, Mr.. Keene made
10 attempt to conceal the fact that he was ex-
trenely angry, and for time the clubhouse and
paddock were full of wild rumors of what the
master of CastletOn was going do about il
The story was freely handed about that he would
cancer the engagements OF all his horses at Bel
mont Park, save SysOnby's in the Withers to be
run on saturday Mr.. keene denied this en-
phatically but admitted at the same time to his
friends that he thought a certain amount of
animus inspired the stewards in making their de-
cision against mis- colt. The public, however. was
practically unanimous in its opinion that Delhi
had committed palpable foul. and deserved to be
disqualified As q matter Of fact the stewards had
little voice in the matter whatever after Shaw
had admitted to them that his mount interfered
with Witch Hazel Hot Shot was evidently far
from being in form, and could never raise a re-
spectacle gallop.
The Van Ness a selling stake for three-year
olds at six and half furlongs on the main
track, was Won by the outsider Jennie Mecca be
from half dozen fairly good platers The fiIIy
got of TOO well. but profted bv what
see to be her misfortune, and when the
field swung wide at the stretch turn Johnson
skinned the rail with her and, saving a lot of
ground, came away and by nearly three
lengths Black Prince beat Quadrille, the favor
ite, for the place.