Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-04
Four Favorites in Front Re-
Warded Benning Betters.
NANCY HAD CLOSE CALL
Isidor Hirseh, at 100 to l, Just
Nosed Out.
A SENSATIONAL STEEPLEcHASE
Nationals in Fast Practice Game
Court Tennis Championship
Hoppe Barred Out.
A SENSATIONAL sTEEPLECHAsE


eidents held the attention OF the thousands
oil through the afternoon Favorites won
the majority OF the events, which sent the
general hubble home In the best of humor.
When an owner runs a horse in race
principally to get him used to his horses
and the bumps and knocks he is likely to
get not expecting the horse to make much
of a showing, the general public can be ex-
cused for leaving that horse out of most OF
their calculations merely viewing his pres
ence as an incident nothing more
Consequently, when the good-looking two
year-old Isidor Hirsch was trotted out yes
terday against such clever flly as Nancy
had shown herself to be few gave the hand
some baya second thought, as market move
ments showed that his people did not even
expect him to be in the money
But q few minutes later when this colt,
against whom as much as 100 TO 1 was on
offer finished at Nancys throatlatch ana
would have beaten the Belmont Ally In an
other stride two, the plungerS on Nancy
at / to had some anxious moments. And
racegoers made up their minds for the thou
sandth time or more that racing is very I'M
certain.
Isidor Hirsch had worked we'll at Ben
ming consequently was selected In this col
umn yesterday tosrun second to Nancy, Just
where he landed. And with stronger rider
the colt would have won beyond reason
able doubt. while as If to emphasize further
the irony of fate In this case, the colt 8
owner could not ride his regular jockey, C.
Morris because that boy had been engaged
for Nancy before Hayman engaged him per-
Iuanently. Had Morris ridden Hirsch he
would have beaten Nancy yesterday.
Nancy's Close Call.
At that Jockey Morris did not handle
Nancy any too well, his over anxiety to get
her to the front from slow break evidently
taking enough out OF her to partly account
for her hanging ali of the last furlong.
She ran the first furlong in the sizzling"
time of II As seconds. and then the effects
of this burst" told on her Nancy bore in
on the colt all of the last sixteenth, and
every moment II looked IL she would
foul him the next. Take the race as a
whole it gave most people all sorts of emo
lions, whether they had anything at stake
on 1t or not.
Daruna the California FLY, began the
day well for the bulk of the crowd scoring
an impressive success after looking beaten
at half the trip. but her jockey, Kent, was
wisely following waiting tactics, and as
soon as he called on Daruma i'll the home
stretch she ran over the leaders In the run
home, and was going away at the end.
Royal Window showed himself i'm
proved horse, coming from the rear after
meeting with interference and finishing
strong Sterling, who Is not a large colt.
ran to his last notch for half a mile,
"
to tell He had a pretty good package up
for understood threeyear-old such as he
IS.
one trainer. G.. C. Gray. trains two of the
starters IN the third race. ParkYille and
Hanover Hornpipe. As Parkville won with
and the Hornpipe horse finished third
at liberal show odds that barn was the
scene of much jolifcat ton during the rest of
the day. Parkville did not win race all
last year. but his second to Cannon Ball last
week made him favoriJe yesterday He
had nothing TO trouble BIN throughout.
Copper's Waterloo.
As indicated in this column yesterday the
green jumper Copper showed in the steeple
chase that he was the best horse in the
party. He had the foot Of his company
all through and the race in hand when he
stumbled on landing over jump, and his
Jockey fell off. A more expert rider would
have used enough care when the hoTsa
landed to have prevented his stumble, while
more than one now in the saddle would
have been able to have kept his seat. as the
horse did not fall inexperienced riders
over timber are often very costly expert
Inents.
Prince of Pilsen had nothing to beat after
Copper fell, and his jockey was able to go
over the rest of the course le.surely and
carefully. Saline who is in the Saportas
stable. from Lakewood beat the others, of
whom La DanZada. mare bred in Cali
fornia. after refusing ultimately got over
and finished third. Her gentleman rider.
MFR. earle, showed persistence and pluck III
getting the mare round at last.
II Starter Cassidy would yield oftener to
impulse IN taking advantage of a perfect
alignment, even If his horses have not
come to the regulation halt he would
meet with nothing but public approval.
however the ruling officials might view his
temporary ignoring OF the line laid out for
him. IN the seven furlong race yesterday
fifth on the card he sent the seven horses
away like a cavalry battalion, In perfect
order. after not requiring them to stop
short before he sprung the barrier.
This good work met with round OF ap-
plause from the spectators, and the public
would be glad 10 see Starter Cassidy act
on impulse" whenever he thinks II best
IN other words. have his own way In the
matter OF moving" starts against those
that now require the horses TO come to
stop. That system as now practiced is a
very unpopular one.
Water Dog Likes Dry Track.
The three ear-old colt Water Dog bellies
ais name for he is most at home on dry
track and not muddy one. Last week
on wet track. not TO hts liking, he ran
fair race. while yesterdays good going
gave him his chance and he beat his field
very cleveriy. Jockey Morris kept him In
front all the way and was able to stall off
all opposition at the finish.
As Indicated In this column, The Cure
fou0d the route 100 Ehr Tor MIN inc way no
was ridden. At that, Bell made his run
with him too soon ard the horse can do
better than he showed yesterday. He prob
ably needed the race Winchester ran very
consistently. while Workman closed a gap
80 land where he did. Old SAILS seemed to
find the track not to his liking. He evil
IDENTIFY prefers softer going.
very wide range of speculation m the
final event gave many Of the bookmakers
chances to make round books on the race
SO many horses were backed that at one
time 4 to ! on the field was the quotation
In the ring. Finally DR., Lyman's mare
Grand Duchess, WAS made the choice, go
ing to the post decided favorite.
But Fiat. selected in this column yester-
day as the form winner. brought home
odds of 10 to / In consistent style The
horse more than ran up TO his race OF last
week. as yesterday he had to run round
several horses on the home turn to get to
the front. Grand Duchess here came from
newt to last place and finished second. going
strong. She got in q ',scrmmage'' right
after the start and lost fully dozen
lengths
Today's Probabilities
The track at Benning was fast this morn
ing and horses that prefer to hear their heels
rattle will have the best OF Ii this after
noon. In the opening event Hyperfon