The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-02
Special to The Globe

Special to The Globe
NEW YORK, April 1.-The Metropol-
track on April Is, where Beldame, the
queen of the turf, is scheduled to start
in the-Carter handicap on the opening
day This meeting will be followed by a
short session at Jamaica, where it APP
pears probable that Beldame and Hormis
VIII face the starter in the Excelsior
the scene will shift to the great new
track, Belmont park, out on the Hemp
stead plains, where millions of dollars
have been expended in constructing the
greatest racing plant in America
When Belmont park opens on May 4
the fashionable side of the sport will
class has waited for Morris park before
entering with any degree of animation
into the sport OF kings" and now that
the big track up in Westchester county
has been relegated to obscurity, for a
year at least the fashionable crowd will
turn to the. Westchester Racing associa-
tons new home.
In the rich Metropolitan handicap the
historic Belmont and Withers stakes and
the other important events carried from
Morris park to Belmont park, the mil
lionaire strings will completely eclipse
the memories of the sport at Bennings
Aqueduct and Jamaica as completely as
the plant itself will tower over those
courses: Climatic conditions are re-
sponsible for the fact that the highest
class of racing is not seen until the month
of May. The blue blooded juveniles.
sons and daughters of famous sires and
matrons; promising year olds and the
stars of the older division are too valu-
able to be hurried into condition for the
comparatively unimportant stakes of the
early meetings.
Belmont park will give way to Graves
end, where the 100000 Brooklyn handicap
Is one of the most popular on the
Metropolitan circuit because, of the high
easy, accessibility from any part Of
greater New York. Last year the run
ming of the Gravesend features attracted
the largest crowd of the season, and
with favorable weather conditions this
year it may again carry off the honors.
On June 10 Sheepshead Bay, the most
beautiful racetrack in America, will
throw open it's gates with the running of
the classic Suburban handicap as the
main feature. Brighton Beach. over
which some of the fastest contests ever
list, its opening day. July 5. being
marked by the running of the Brighton
handicap, at IL miles, with value OF
$4,000. In this race two years ago
James B. Haggin's Waterboy set new
worlds record for the distance, and last
year Capt; S: s.. Browns Ben Brush colt
Therefore the track by the sea is always
expected to produce sensational speed
contests, and with the class of performers
scheduled to contest this year, ii can
hardly fail to uphold its reputation.
August and Saratoga have come to be
regarded as synonymous terms with the
at the Spa holds undisputed sway in the
eastern racing world. Why the sport
should be transferred from the metropolis
at a time when a daily attendance of TO-
600 or 1900 men and women is regarded
as matter of course to track where an
attendance of 5000 is considered large is
a puzzle that has never been worked out
to the satisfaction of the thousands of
racegoers who are compelled to remain
inactive during the most pleasant month
of the year.
those who are fortunate enough to be
able to attend the meeting there. Its
handicap feature will have value of
$1,000, and this event will be reinforced
by the $4,000 Great Republic stakes.
which this year will see its second and
last running; the Special for year olds,
coo, the ls4 miles. cup event, ia previous
cummings of which Africander and Bel
dame clinched their claim to greatness,
and many other rich and classy races
The autumn meeting at Sheepshead Bay
will bring the runners back, and the tre-
mendously valuable Futurity will be run
they go again to Gravesend, Brighton
Beach. Belmont Park, Jamaica and
Aqueduct, ending up on Dec. at Ben
nings, when the flags will fall on the close
of the sport under the Jockey clubs juris-
diction.
In that eight months of racing nearly
$4,000 will be distributed among the
horsemen i'll stakes and purses. A glance
at the list of great horses Of years old
and upward that went into retirement
last fall is sufficient to show that the
stakes and handicaps designed for them
will be gioriously contested. Heading the
weight allotments in the Metropolitan,
Brooklyn. Suburban and Brighton handi-
caps, than which there is no truer proof
of horses claim to greatness, stands
Hermis,. the year old son Of Hermance~
Katy of the West. winner Of last years
Suburban, and as game and true a horse
as ever looked through a Bride
Back of the little red horse stands
Irish Lad. the year old Candlenaas colt
q champion among champions every year
since he first made his debut on the turf
Both Irish Lad and Hermis were retired
with a suspicion of unsoundness last year.
but they are reported to have wintered
finely, and to have entirely overcome the
apprehension that their disabilities were
more than temporary. OF Beldame the
greatest mare bred in America since the
days OF Firenze and Miss Woodford, and
perhaps greater than either of these. there
is no question. Winner of ten out of
twelve races in which she started last
year against the best horses in training
the daughter of Observation-Disclosures an
pears ready this spring to pick up added