Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-14
NEWS OF THE TRACKS
Tradition Ranked as One Of
the Best Fillies.
HER STERLING VICTORY
GAVE FIFTEEN POUNDS TO SCHULZ
ANTE AND COY MAID.
OF Forty Eight Races at Brighton This
Season Only Fourteen Have Been
Won by Favorites.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
| NEW YORK, July 14.-It requires no
| stretch of Imagination to place Sydney
| Paget's Tradition third. and possibly Sec
| ond, in class. place and ability among the
| three-year-old fllies Of the year. Her ster-
/ ling victory in the Oaks at Brighton Beach
| yesterday. under a weight arrangement
| that required her to give fifteen pounds
| each to Schulamite and Coy Maid. was
proof that except for Artful and Tanya
| none of her can be considered her
| equal. 1t was, in many ways. the best spot
| that could have been selected for the fine
| daughter of Goldfinch to establish her
| supremacy in the second division of fillies.
She had previously beaten Coy Maid In the
| Gazelle and Mermaid stakes, but the latter
| had not apparently reached her best form
| for those events. There could be no COM
| plant on the score of unftness yesterday.
| Coy Maids race against Merry Lark Tues
| day showed her to be thoroughly ready for
| a hard race
| Schulamite had not been tried out against
| Tradition prior to the Oaks, but her recent
races had also fitted her, and that this was
| the stables belief was proved in the ring.
| where enough support developed to drive
her odds from 3s to IL to 5. This backing
| enabled Traditions admirers to get as
| good to 10. and in some cases even
! money, against her chances, after opening
Il +.
| slightly because of track conditions, the
| top dressing being sloppy from rain.
In her other races, except the common
wealth handicap, where she lacked the foot
| to get to SySonby, Tradition has been al
| lowed to make the pace In the Oaks Davis
appeared satisfied to follow Schulamite from
| the break. and for the first half mile, while
she faced the mud thrown up by the lead
ers' heels, the general opinion was that
there was nothing doing" Then. however,
Tradition forged to the front and took the
lead on the upper turn. Hildebrand kept
| Schulamite going to the end but Tradition
needed only TO gallop to win by two lengths
Coy Maid was practically pulled up at the
finish line. So poor was her race that even
| the unsuitable going hardly failed to ex-
| plain it.
The race was an indirect proof of Syson-
| by's extreme class. When the keene B.
| year-old captured the commonwealth hand
| leap track conditions favored Tradition but
| Sysonby raced her into submission inside of
six furlongs. If Tradition is nearly the best
| of the 3year-o FLIES it be seen how
far removed Sysonby and his rival Artful
are from the general run of colts and FLIES
of their age.
Brighton form is still so uncertain that
the popular advice is to keep off the favor
ties Out of forty-eght races decided since
| the meeting opened only fourteen have been
won by favorites, and of these eight have
been at oddS-on, which is equivalent to say
| ing that they were unplayable by the rank
and file of bettors. On the other hand. ex-
IRENE outsiders have not been at all in evil
dence. Fifteen to one has been the outside
price quoted against winner at the meet
ing, and majority of the events have gone
| to second third and fourth choices.
Bas'ng probabilities on past runs of the
k1rd. 1t is expected that favorites will
shortly round to with a rush, and that the
meeting will end with the usual percentage
of winning first choices The extreme long
shots, too, are likely to connect with an oc-
"a ind nf hQ
session, as Brighton has always been par
| tial to horses that drop from the clouds, as
far as their public form is known. The
only favorites to score yesterday were
Phantom and Tradition both at such alb
| breviated odds that their success brought
no consolation to those who speculate
strictly on the form shown in public.
The most surprising defeat registered was
| that OF Whimsical In the closing race, an
| event for two-year-olds. at three-quarters
of mile. The Orlando-Kismet filly has
been rated as one of the best and her abil-
| tty to give away few pounds to the mod
crate lot opposing her was conceded. Those
who eagerly accepted 1 to about Whim-
| steal at the opening betting were quickly
uhdeceived when they found that Whimsi-
| cal was not wanted at any price by the
| educated players. Nine to ten was offered
at post time without any takers while
| everything else in the race found support.
Whimsical's race was quite in keeping
| with ring Indications: she broke we'll. head
| ed Esoteric for few jumps after running
| quarter of mile and then began to tire
as If he had not been worked in week.
| Esoteric kept on to win easily by three
lengths. while Knapp had to ride Whimsical
out smartIy to save second place from Fla
vigny. 1t would be interesting to the pub
| lie to know why Whimsical ran so far be-
| low her form. and why her effort
we'll mirrored in the ring.
| McChesney the champion of the west, Is
again back in active training, and there is
every promise that the horse which was
regarded as Waterboy's most formidable
rival In 1903 will be seen in public within
short time. The horse had his first fast
nove in months yesterday, when he
showed he had his old speed by gaIloping
a quarter easily in 0.25k.
The weights for the Rhode Island handi-
cap. to be run at Providence on Monday,
July II. as the feature of the Narragansett
Park opening have been announced as fol-
| lows: Claude. 1876; Dolly spanker. III;
| Red Knight. 119: Tokalon. lis; Toscan. ZIG;
Spring lis; Au Revoir, III; Buttling, III;
| Dishabille. liz; Elliott. -112: Oarsman. H.:
New York. H.: Right Royal, 10; Little
| no: Stroller. 100: Preen, 100: Ed Ball. 108;
Pretension. 1OS; Gamara, 106; James F..
106; Monet. 1o7: Sir Ralph, 109; Ostrich.
104; Stamping Ground. 104; Rosetint 1O4:
Pintaur 1U3; Silverskin. 102: Tommy Wad-
dell, 1922 Master of Craft. 100: ST. Resolute.
| 100; Gold Rose. 100; Royal Blue, 1CO: Jane
Cedarstrome, 81; Waterford, 81: Neptunus.
| 81; Flinders. DC; Bragg. %; Jerry c., 80;
| Weirdsome, 81; Mirthless. 30.
Depot, N. H., has progressed fast that
ut was announced yesterday it would be
| ready In ample time for meeting next
| year. The track is patterned after the one
/ Saratoga. n furlOn0