The Washington times., 1906-09-02
RACING SCENE is SHIFTED
TO SHEEPSHEAD BAY TRACK
Next Big Stake Event-the Fatbush for TWo-Year-Olds
Horsemen Predicting Great Prosperity for Crescent
CITY Parks-Sol LichtensteinS Illness.
b. ]. S. A. MACDONALD.

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NEW YORK, Sept 1.-The scene OK
racing activity is once again back upon
the heath at Sheepshead Bay, with TIA
Hong slx-furlong chute and smooth. level
mile and acknowledgements circular
courses.
with the Futurity over and past, the
natural concern of all breeders and fol-
lowers Of the form Of the twO-year-olds
Is for the coming Flatbush Stakes. II
a really great horse wins the Futurity
he is supposed to possess the caHbeT
adequate 10 taking up a penalty IN
weight and winning over the same colts
he met in the Futurity, which invari-
ably come back IN the Flatbush. II Is
one surlong further than the siX-fur~
long FutJrity. which means fairer
test.
Flatbush Stake on Saturday.
The Flatbush Stakes for two-year-olds
will be run on next Saturday. September
g. Il was hrst established IN 1854, when
Pierre LorilIard's Wanda won Il, and IS
today worth about $4,000 10 the owners
OF the first three horses home.
The Western colt Fountainblue which
did not start in the Futurity because he
was not eligible. will have an opportuni-
~ In which to establish his class and
Wanted superiority over the juvenile
Headers here in the Flatbush. Diamond
jim" Brady will start him and intends
to bet a peck of money on his chances
Martin will very likely ride this gangling
son OF OddfelloW -FerroH, while Miller
VIII have the leg on Gran, who was out
weighed in the Futurity.
As to be expected. the Keenes have a
strong hand here with Peter Pan, Gret.
ma Green. Grimaldi Ballot. and Vox
IPopuH, from which to select representa-
Irives. De Mund is TO have another
chance here TO exonerate the Messrs
Rainey from the onus OF stupidity In
paying $4,000 for him. Horace Z. may
/ also 20. while the real dark 'un" IS
/ Electioneer, a son of Voter, owned by
/ Billy Lakeland. OF this city.
Biggest Two-Year-Old Event.
This Flatbush is one OF the last big
] fixtures for the two-year-Olds Of the
year. and IL is always a keen contest
and a mighty brisk betting affair. In 1900
/ Tod" Sloan won the Futurty with
Ballyho Bey and came right back again
with the same colt TO take down the
Flatbush. RequitaI did the same thing
in his two-year-old form. Last fall
/ Ormondale won the Futurlty and the
Flatbush dropped 70 Yankee Consul
who died from pneumonia ten days later
while en- route TO his Kentucky winter
Quarters.
One of the visitors TO Sheepshead Bay
for the running Of the Futurity was
Mr.. Charles S. Bush, OF New Orleans,
LA, the builder and the Nestor OF the
/ Louisiana turf. He was stalwart
/ figure at the clubhouse. Between heats
he found time 10 discuss the coming
winters lay at New Orleans, where an
nuaIlv some 1900 professional racing
and sporting people find employment
and diversion over the period when the
/ Northern courses are under snow and
ice.
Great Season for Crescent City.
( According 20 Mr.. Bush. the Crescent
City will see the greatest racing car
nival in the history of the game IN
! Dixie Land next winter The war is
over. The Fair Grounds and the City
Park interests have arrived at an I'M
derstanding whereby each track will
Frank J. Bryan will be the steward at
the Fair Grounds. while Francis IRE
/ veIvan will act in similar capacity at
the City Park. Though Mr.. Bush did
not saw so, the fact of Ed Corrigan's
| virtual retirement from the situation is
generally understood. He il was who
/ bore the brunt OF the long-standing
/ fight. but in the final adjustment OF the
I trouble he has had little 70 say.
/ SOL" Lichtenstein, Americas best
! known bookmakar and one Of the most
popular sporting men in the New World
keeled from his high stool in the main
row OF layers in the ring al Saratoga
one busy afternoon last week in a faint
and was removed 20 the side Of his wife,
seated In a private box in the grand
/ stand.
Lichtenstein's Ailment an Example.
II NAV interest the sporting world gen
orally, and particularly the class which
burns the candles at both ends, TO learn
that nervous suppression was immedl-
ately assigned as the analytic instance
Iof Iichtenstein s ailmont So eminent an
authority as Dr. J. Grant Lyman
so stated. and from his technical de
scriptIon OF the malady the big gamb-
lers concurred in the experts conclu-
sion. This nervous suppression is
peculiar to the men who wage thousands
of dollars every day on the flash Of a
horse race. for they make not stir or
a move as an outward tap 10 their pent
lup feelings Of depression at losing or
OF elatiOn at winning.
| Considering the fact that day in. day
out. the whole year round, they are at
\ the gambling mill. this seemingly trifiing
hardship demands in time a terrible
reckoning After eight years OF IL
\ 'Pittsburg Phil" fell over in a dead
\ faint at Saratoga after winning big
bet TO Aristocracy when that colt came
home first in the Saratoga Special From
that day on the great operator was
doomed man. death stealing upon him at
Asheville. n. c.. two years later. Pitts
burg Phil" literally burnt up inside
for all those years until scarce fabric
of his nervous system remained in nor
} NAL tone.
Pittsburg Phil a Victim.
Then came the collapse. Nervous
suppression finished Phil and it is
going 10 take L!chtenstein," declared an