Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-18
OPENING OF THE
GRAvESEND MEETING

The fall meeting of the BROOKLYN Jockey
Club opened at Gravesend yesterday with
nearly 1900 persons in attendance. The
feature was the First Special, weight for
age, one mile and q quarter. A western
horse. Cottontown. a three-year-oid by
Captain Sigsbee-Lauretta Burke. surprised
the smart people by running a splendid race
from start to finish. He was q 10 to d
shot. L. Williams taking him out to follow
the pace set by the Newcastle stables Rum
ming Water. 16 to 5. At the end Of q mile
Cottontown moved up on even terms with
the Sir Dixon mare. In a drive Cottondown
outlasted Running Water. beating the lat
ter half length In 2.05 3-5. F. r. Hitch
cocks Tangle. 8 toll, who was hemmed in
On the rail greater part Of the way by
Go Between. to favorite. closed with q
great rush in the stretch. but could not get
up in time to be better than third. beaten
a head. With any kind Of good racing luck
Tangle might have won. Go Between ran
far below the form shown by him In his
previous race.
Momentum Takes Flatlands Stakes
Miller got Momentum, 16 to favorite
away running In the Ffatlands stakes for
two-year-otds. FIVE and half furlongs the
Newcastle stables colt breezing all the way
to the wire, where he had four lengths
over r. T. Wilson. jr.'s, Montford, to 1.
who got up in time to beat p. ]. Dryers
Royal Breeze to 1, q head. Frank Lord.
8 to l. was outrun from the start, while
Finn pulled Loring, 6 to /, up just after the
barrier was sprung. The time was LOT 2-5.
With Roseben scratched, E. r. Thomas
Lady Amelia was made a prohfbittve ia
vorite in the handicap for all ages, about
six furlongs. She was At. and with 1856
pounds up she just galloped out in front
from the beginning and won on the bit by
two lengths in Ito. DR.. Gardner, who was
played from to down to IL to g. was the
runner-up all the way. beating Arklirta, IL
to 1. by four lengths. Belle of Portland.
200 to 1, was second for nearly half mile,
and then died away.
The Piedmont stables Garter Knot, to
second choice. made all the running in
the steeplechase, winning by dozen lengths
in $50. A bad ride by Palmer on Com
mandant, to favorite. enabled Water
ford. to /, to nail the place from the lat
four tumbles in the race, Pollock, who rode
Bill Cozier. being carried ava in an am
bulance with wrenched leg.
Leonard Joe Hayman. 0 to favorite.
made all the pace in the fifth event. one
mile and a sixteenth. winning easily by
four lengths in 1.4S. Miller put up hard
finish on James Reddick. to I, who beat
Macy. jr., 4 to 1. neck for the place.
fteQ hnlBnt, & 10 L, was SlluC OIL, anu was
also weakly ridden in the stretch.
Start Killed Pierrot's Chances.
A bad start IN the sixth race. for maiden
two-year-olds. five and a half furlongs,
killed the chances of James r, Keene's
Pierrot. backed from down to ID to >
favorite, together with those of several
other horses. The winner turned up in H.
B. Duryea's Prince Hampton. to 1, who
came home in a drive length before Car
gantua, 6 to 1. George j. Longs Angelone,
10 to 1, was third, three lengths away. The
time was LOS.
G.. F. Johnson's Commodore Arson. II to
5. made runaway Of the seventh race.
same conditions. and won by three lengths
in ,1.09. e. r. Bradley's Troublemaker, 20
to l. ran into the place, with Oscar Lew
isohn's Princess Nettle, to 2. taking third
money under the whip. Four favorites and
a second choice got the money. the ring
losing heavily.