New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-15
THE CHAMPION FOR HYLAS
aWINS CHASE At BELMONT.
7lptoe and st. BeIlar,e Take Other
FIXTURES on Closing Day.

Hvlas won the Champion Steeplechase' at
three miles and half at Belmont PARK yester-
day for Thomas Hitchcock, jr- and incloehtahy
the big gold loving cup, valued at SSVV-'iie
most coveted cross-country trophy of the year
Ray had the mount and to his clever hanohhg
the victory was largely due. The race was 'iie
feature of the last day of the Westminster rae
ing Associations fan meeting at Belmont Fdrh
- 5av that viii be remembered with pleasure
by all who made the journey to the track 1t
was not the only good race on the programme
as the White Plains Handicap, won by I1ptoe'
and the Belmont Park Autumn Weight for Age
Paoe which resulted in an easy victory Tor 81
BeIlane were added attractions.
II YVES one of those rare fall days when sum
mar scanned 70 take new lease Of life. The sun
shone with almost July fervency from cloud
leSx sky while the foliage was tinted with
autr5Yun colors A perfect day for an out
ing would be hard TO conceive and those VINO
e,3ov = day at the track made the most of 1t.
s,he big Enclosure comfortably filled with
crowd numbering fully twenty thousand per
sons and II had every reason to go home well
satisfied with the days sport and the afternoon
In the open air.
The Champion Steeplechase was run as the
second race over three miles arc half Of one
Of the st3ffest courses in the country. OF the
eight starters sent out overnight Pagan Bey
was the only one to decline the issue The field
was good one. although Good and Plenty last
years champion. was not starter. In his place
Thomas Hitchcock jr.. depended on Hyias. and
he went TO the post the choice of the players.
largely because Ray. the best cross-c country
rider Of the year, had the mount. J. Z. WIG
ener's old campafgner Coligny was second
choice at 5 to l. while Jimmy lane, which ran
sn Mr. Cotton's' colors, and the T P. Phelan
stable wooIgatherer and Ben Crockett, had a
confident following. ". c. Hayes Grandpa,
which won the Brook Cup last Saturday, and
James JohnsonTs Gansevoort, with Mr.. Stone up,
were the outsiders
Grandpa was quickly eliminated. He took of
too short at the second jump and came a bust
err Heider, his jockey, was not hurt, AMI
Grandpa, not to be deprived of the pleasure Of
the chase, scrambled to his feet and took
prominent part in the running By SO interfering
with Coligny that the Widener horse also came
TO grief at a jump on the backstretch when go
ing easily within striking distance OF the lead
ers.
Gansevoort and Ben Crockett were the pace
makers for two miles, twenty lengths be-
fore the others, which were in close order. Pass
ing the stand the second time Gansevoort began
TO tire and was soon of the running, while
Ben Crockett went on, with Hy.as, Jimmy Lane
and Coligny in not pursuit. Going up the back
stretch the last time Coligny came his cropper,
Jimmy Lane began to show the effects of the
long journey. while Ben Crockett still in
front, with Hylas logging his steps. They came
TO the last jump neck and neck and then Hyias
drew away and rather cleverly by TWO
lengths The riderless Grandpa was third, and
then came Jimmy Lane, GanSevoort and Wool
gatherer with many lengths separating them.
A head and head finish. in which Tiptoe, Snow,
Bridgeman and Security figured, marked the
seventeenth running OF the White Plains Handi-
cap, at six furlongs down the straight course.
Tiptoe won for August Belmont while her stable
companion. BridgemRn, beaten a head by
Snow for the place. 1t was finish that brought
the crowd TO its feet Security, the favorite, and
Tfptoe forced the pace, and the former gave
IN first, although he fought on desperately
Tiptoe drew away to a length lead at the last
sixteenth pole and had enough left to stall off
the determined challenge of Snow and her stable
companion. Brookdale Nymph, well un in the
early part appeared to tire under the weight
The Belmont Park Autumn Weight for Age
Race at two miles and quarter resulted in such
easy victory for st. Bellane that it broughc
no thrills except to the followers of that par
ticuiar horse. For mile and half Ostrich led
his field by eight or ten open lengths He was
SO rank that Davis let him run rather than CHOKE
him, and he had nothing left to finish with when