Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-12

The recent disqua1ifications of horses
have drawn renewed attention to the rules
of racing covering fouls-not alone by jock
eys, but by horses. For years the rule that
"a leading horse is entitled to any part OF
the course provided he does not impede or
Interfere with another horse or horses has
stood as originally worded. with no pro-
vision for contingencies such as "savag-
ing where the result of a race is affected.
If Broomstck had been allowed his own
way when he tried SO hard to sink his teeth
in Irish Lads neck during their crucial fin
ish for the Brighton handicap of 1904 and
by so doing impeded and interfered with his
opponent no claim of foul on behalf OF
Irish Lad would have been allowed under
the present construction of the rules, al
though II such action by one horse against
another does not constitute foul 1t Is hard
to see what does.
took place at the Sheepshead Bay spring
meeting of 1881 during the $4,000 match
between the Dryers Onandaga and Pierre
Lorillards Sachem, in which the former
jockey, George Barber. causing sachem to
swerve and lose the race thereby when he
had 1t virtually won. Barber naturally
claimed foul, but it was not allowed, al
though It changed the result of the race
Several years later Juggler, the big son OF
Jils johnson, on more than one occasion
beat horses by "savaging' them At Graves
end in 1880, reaching over at the post TO the
Jockey next to him, who happened to be
''Spider' Anderson, and grabbing him by
the Leg lifted him clear OF the saddle and
shook him as a big dog would rat. This
was in full view Of the crowded grand
stand.
Anderson was riding August Belmont's
fast mare Fides at the time and he was
at once taken to the club house ana doc-
tor called. After the latter had dressed the
a. lao he lott
Insisted on riding the race out and to make
a long story short he piloted Fides to vic
tory, amid the cheers Of 10000 people.
Onandaga, the speedy son of bennington
and Susan Beane by Lexington, always
was a savage brute from the days OF his
colthood up to his more mature years at
Milton Young's stud farm, where after Kill
Ing one of his attendants he was blinded
by the needle The operation, however,
was crudely performed and the horse
eyesight partially returned to him before
his death.
AS two-year-old onandaga was a good
bread winner for the Duyrea red and
blue" Beginning the season at Jerome
Park in the spring of 1881, Onandaga and
Pierre Lorillards colt Gerald fairly divld-
ed the two-year-old honors and their
struggle for supremacy was continued al
Sheepshead Bay.
In a discussion as to the merits OF the
pair Pierre Lorillard said he had maiden
colt that had never started which ne Wouid
Out of this bantering the match was made
for 5000 a side. the Coney Island Jockey
Club adding 5000 to the race, winner to
take all.
Then Pierre Lorillard named as his rep
resentation Sachem by War Dance-Sly
Boots, a full brother to Sly Dance, who had
carried the Rancocas colors to the front IN
many hard-fought struggle. Sachem,
while a green colt, had shown SO well IN
his trials that he was deemed better colt
than Gerald, the stake winner
When the match was made and the day
set for its decision the last of the Coney
Island Jockey Clubs June meeting II was
the topic of the hour in turf circles. For
while on the surface most people looked on
Onondaga's task as an easy one those VINO
were aware of Sachems work with Gerald
said that Pierre Lorillard knew what he
was about when he made the match for the
green colt.
matches, begun by that between Brambie
and Spartan, several years ago, had been