New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-29
TRIUMPH TO LOTUS EATER.
WINS PH4RSALI4 PLATE.
MiJe Stake for Youngsters ProUes
a Success at Brighton.

II the initial running Of the Triumph at
Brighton Beach yesterday may be taken as q
basis on which to Judge its future renewals lhe
stake will become one of the rnost popular Oh
the autumn two-year-cld fixtures and Mr. F1tz-
geraId's experiment of offering liberal purse
and the Pharsafia Plate Of $1,000 to induce
owners to race their youngsters at the unusual
distance Of mile will not have been in vain
The Triumph is the first stake at a mile ever
put on in the East exclusively for two-year-olds
and while the seven youngsters which made up
tts field yesterday did not represent the cream
Of the -teso-vear-old division. they were fairly
REPRESENTATIVE lot, and from time point or
view gave an excellent account of themselves
raryv Payne Whitney entered his two Ham
bnvs- colts Battleaxe and Midas, and the pair
coupled tn the betting always ruled favorite
and were -bs eked from 6 10 3 to ! to 10
r-or 4tra.,-ouarters of a mile Midas showed
lo4 az snee6 and blazed the way for his COM
80, Al 9 reoe that had half of them Keeling
and beaten The Barbarity Stahlefs Galore colt
lotus Eater lad had a special preparation for
80 zts4e F4.t had worked the distance over
-,te o1,-rers pri vate training track in Maryland
a. 40 AS a consequence he had enough in
reserve 70 answer Burns's call at the head Of
tie stretch. and. coming on. overhaIled the
earl1 psceualzers and made them quiz Ano-
5srne however, wa 5 not SO easily disposed Of
aDd Burns had to rtde his mouEt out TO get the
decision Anodyne KAN a most creditsbbe race
considering the fact THAT she cut off at the
paddock turn and thrown completely out of her
stride. Hamilcar beat BattleaNe for the srnah
end Of the purse.
p T. DIVERS knight Errant whose morning
glory tendencies have Kept the railbirds broke
large part of the time, decided tn run TO his
work in a ha udicap at one and one-eighth miles
end made his field look cheap. on the strength
he aT1T1 lGd
record Tor one and sixteenth miles with l9l
pounds up Israeli1e was made the public favor
tie hut his iTapost of 119 pounds proved TOO
much Of q burden. and he had to be content
with secondary honors -,
The old horse Embarrassment earned MS
winter keep ana enough more to last him Well
into next summer in race at one mule ana d
sixteenth in which he met a number Of sup
pasediy good platfrs- His recent performances
had not been such as to entitle him TO much
esteem, and the ring posted 80 TO against ms
chances in the openjng quotations. Al posi- I Ilia
he had been pounded down ten points. Hippo
rates whose last "a &c the stewards of the meet
ing are still investigating, was an odds-on favor
ite but the best he could do was 10 chase En-
barrassnent home.
f.. H r Echaffer's St Estephe, a CASTOR from
the Belmont stable, took the measure Of lot
of selling class youngsters in sprint or IlVe ana
one-half furlongs. beating Optician, the favorlte
by safe margin. The latter was we'll up WIN
the leaders in the through the stretch, ana
was going so easily that his hackers thought II
was only q question of time before he would
take command When the sSnish came however
the colt was not there. The winner was backed
from Is to to u to l. Water Dog, at 40 to l.
beat the others.
The fly Kiamesha repaired the fortunes of
The followers of the Oneck Stable by winning
dash for three year-olds at six furlonss by as
comfortable q margin as her stable companion,
Optieian, had previously lost his race. The
brown daughter of EsheT was favorite the
half dozen three-year-ods that made I'D her
company, and backed from Z TO to 10 TO
10. O'Nei. on Ny Buela.-which was, Incl
dentally, the medium of a mild plunge-made an
earnest effort TO steal the race, and succeeded,
far as making the pace concerned, TO the
head of the stretch. where his mount stopped.
Chrysslite beat Zeala, the second choice for the
place.