New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-30
A GOOD WESTERN COLT.
GEO. c. BENEFITS STAKE.
Stars of Other Years Beaten at
Grnresend Yesterday.

The tenth running Of the Manhahse' 9'Ne
at Gravesend yesterday gave the Nes'eI ie'
other opportunity TO show the ene'e EaS' mo
:, has NOT an unlawful monopoly on the thoI-
ouehbred The brown colt George = beiiIle'''
bv ossini-FIibberti Flibbet. and owned oS fieu
cook was the instrument employed TO orlns
about this demonstration
The voungster came out of the West with al
unbroken record of victories and so lusty were
the songs sung in his praise that tn" betting
ring hearkened to them and held him through
ont the period Of speculation in great esteem
Neither LAYERS nor players. however, could over
Ink New ton Benningtons Voorhees,, nor erase
from their memory his last excellent perform
ance and they made him the actual faVorlte
over Mr.. Cooks colt. voorhees, was known
nuantitv. moreover, while George c. Bennett
had 10 he taken largely on the somewhat duW-
Gus faith bestowed on Western whirt winds.
These facts probably did much 20 iniiueHce the
speculation.
The Manhanset is sprint Of FIVE and a nan
fur3onzs. and what the original field Of ten
Youngsters lost IN the withdrawal Of Green
Room. At Dawn and Cary partially re-
stored 10 il By the eleventh hour acceptances
OF Wate-bok and Vagabond In the group that
finally went 10 the post was the chestnut colt
Utopia by Sir Dixcn-High Degree, which
Captain S. S. Brown bought from Woedford
Clay q month or TWO ago for $1,000. 1t was
Fltopias first start in the East and evidently
not much was expected of him from his stable
And in this respect it not disappointed, as
he ran last all the way and seemed unable to
get into his stride in the cuppy going.
When II came TO actual racing George {. Ben
nett made VOORHEES, look a good deal like a
bobbyhorse left rocking alone in the nursery
He suffered the favorite to make most or the
running but he always kept within hal ana
when Nicol set him down 1t was all over. y Nell,
who rode VOORHEES,, perceived in the course oL
a sharp short struggle that he would nave 10
be content with beating the others, ana ne
ceased riding and finished three parts OF d
length behind Waterbok, which was once IN
Mr. Bennngtons barn, hung to his old stable
companion with good deal OF tehaclty' Dut
was outrun In the last sixteenth, ana just
squeezed home in front OF Osiris. The winner
went to the post at TO O. while the ring held
VOORHEES, al i TO 10.
Alexander carving the colors of Sydney Pag-
ct returned to the races as a fve-year-oid
and, although he was beaten, he showed the
public plainly enough that he still retains Tnucn
OF the speed that made him one or the pest
three ear-olds in the country. II he continues
as he has begun. there is little reason to doubt
that he viii win some good races A handicap
for the older group al one mile and seventy
yards served the medium for introducing the
Star Ruby champion. Withdrawa reduced the
number Of his opponents to a half-dozen, and
OF these ST Valentine made pronounced
favorite at l3 to 10 He had little difficulty In
winning, although Ananias made valiant efforts
10 steal the race. and succeeded in taking the
place from Africander. Davis did not make his
run on the latter until the stretch was reached
and the leaders had obtained an advantage that
could not be overcome.
In another handicap for mares at a bout six
furlongs, run as the first race, Hamburg Belle,
the winner OF the Futurity in 1903 made her
first public bow OF the year, and, like African
der, carried Mr.. Paget's jacket. She beaten
IN a rafting good finish by the Hastings f1lly
Marjoram which was also making her first
start in the East Irene Lindsey was the run
ner up. One lone favorite managed to reach
the Judges first