New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-13
.JACQUlN In A DRIVE.
WINS NEW-ROCHELLE.
Colonial Girl Runs to Form-FOur
First Choices Beaten.

Only seven Of the seventeen horses that were
handicapped for the renewal of the New-Ro-
cheIIe Handicap at Belmont Park yesterday &C
scepted the in1posts Mr.. Vosburgh assigned, but
a heads apart finish demonstrated the astute-
ness with which the official Handicapped had
estimated the speed capacity and the weight
carrying ability OF the performers that hnaIly
went 10 the post for the seven and one-haf fur
long struggle With 10 pounds. Ormonde's
Right was the actual top weight, and gave nine
pounds 10 Joaquin, five to Buttling, one to Race
King and two to Sidney c. Love. According TO
the scale. the -year-old colt Flyback, with
an 3unpost Of 100 pounds. was compelled to give
the Ormonde horse Eve pounds.
Orrondes Right was ir one Of his bad
tenpers and when the barrier went up he re-
fused 70 break with his company, and was prac-
ticaliy left This. Of course. eliminated him
from the problem but each Of the others seemed
TO have a winning chance when the turn TOT
home was made. Joaquin, the favorite, was
leading but was firing rapidly, and Race King
always close up. threatened TO wrest the LEAD
from him at any time. F1yback and Sparkling
Star were also within striking distance, and
little Notter. Buttling, was saving his mount
for final effort He made it almost in the last
stride. when Joaquin. Race King and Sparkling
Star were all fighting it out. and, catching all
the distance been fifty feet longer he would have
beaten Joaquin.
Harry Payne whitney's two-year-old Meddler
eelding Ironsides one of a dozen starters in
scramble OF four and half furlongs for maiden
geldines and FLIES. did not show all the i'm
provement that was expected after his first
creditable performance. and ne was beaten by
August Belmont's St. Estephe Ironsides has
undoubted speed however. and when he finally
got going after ioundering all over the track ne
closed with an almost sensational rush, and was
galloping over horses at the finish. st. Estephe
was coupled in the betting with Film Flam, a
chestnut son OF Margrave-Fetish.
Frank FarrelPs King Pepper, in receipt Of all
kinds Of weight from Spring, Bureigh. Toscan
and other starters, in a handicap at six fur
longs on the straight, showed his heels to his
company and won. according to report the
regulation racetrack barrel of money for his
owner and his friends. They backed him gener-
ousy at to obtaining IN some instances as
high as - for their wagers. At the sixteenth
pole Toscan, away badly. seemed to be over
hauling King Pepper at every jump, but
stumbled at that point and, Odom could not get
him going again, although he beat Burleigh for
the place Spring. the favorite. after running
well for five furlongs. dropped back and finished
IN the ruck.
Colonial Girl ran the form she displayed
IN the Metropolitan, when she finished third to
Sysonby and Race King. With 100 pounds up
she made concessions to such useful horses as
Dandelion Preen and a number Of others. and
defeated them in handicap at one mile. Dam
deIion the favorite. He stood a long, hard
drive and ran a good race. Preen tired badly in
the run through the stretch, and was lucky to
be third after making most of the pace
sters, gave Merry Boy the odds-on favorite.
lively tussle in the fifth race, at FIVE furlongs,
and had him straight as a string at the finish.
Gold Sitter was the medium of tremendous
plunge and was backed from % to l to - to 1
at post time. -Four favorftes were beaten.