Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-06

Bingaman UP to the colt. Then Hughes on
the latter went to the whip, but while the
colt answered game as a pebble, Hayward.
with a regular Chifney rush. reached the
colt twenty yards from the wire and got
Bingamans nose In front. But JORDAN
with last game effort, got on even terms
again and they passed the judges with their
heads on the same mod" The officials
could not separate them, and second dead
heat was hung up.
A Third Dead Heat.
Cheer upon cheer greeted the two equine
gladators as they came back to weigh and
the horses were closely examined. But this
time both parties were anxious to have an
other trial and as there was no request for
a divide. the officials advised second rum
off Now, Binganan was the choice at
500, Jordan 500, 1T being argued that tie
young horse must sueeumb at the next trial
to his older and tougher antagonist.
~But these critics did not know the tough
little three-year-old from Chillicothe, Ohio.
Mart Jordan was game cock IN every
sense of the word and 50 well did he snow
at the post for the third trial. full OF vim
and animation. that many hackers of Bing-
aman went and bought pool or two on the
colt TO make themselves safe.
This time the ccIts people decided 10 let
their opponent SET the pace, which Binga-
man did at a somewhat faster gait than in
the second heat. For mile and quarter
it was nose and tail. the old TN and the
young IN. Then Jordan with rush drew
up to the old horse and showed half a
length in front. But Hayward, who had
thesrail could not see ii that way, ana with
a lab of the spur Bingaman drew up to the
colts neck and the two ran Tapped into the
homestretch.
Hammer and tonss they had it UP the
stretch. with $500 people almost rendinE
the skies with their shouts of encourage
ment At the furiong pole it looked IKE
Jordan. At the sixteenth pole Bingaman
had his head in front. Fifty yards from
home they were on dead even terms. And
stride for stride and nod for nod they
passed the wire neither being able to get
away from the other to any perceptibie
extent.
Another dead heat was hung up. amid
great cheering. and now most people ex-
pectod to the parties interested ger To-
gether and agree to divide the purse ana
bets But in those days of heat races horses
were expected to stand some pretty slFeh-
uous trials of endurance
The Ohio party. however, did send word
to the Bngaman people that they WCuid
agree to a divide, but now those behind the
old horse. after consulting their jockey. de-
cided to stand pat and would not near TO
the offer Of the western folks.
Race Won by Neck.
AS for the spectators they hardly knew
which horse to back in the speculation
atier the Inlfd uedu hedl- ZIG iitSN POSA"
saw the two horses sell at 500 each. Then
the Bingaman money grew stronger and
that horse closed the choice at 500 TO $3.50
for Mart Jordan. Both parties decided this
time to run at each other from the start. at
which game it was thought that the old
horse would wear out the colt
At drum tap the two horses went away
Tapped. and with Jordan a neck in front
they ran the first mile in so. the colt half
a length in front. On the back stretch
Bingaman drew up to the colt s shoulder
and lay there around the lower turn and
into the home stretch. The race home
again so close 10 the last furlong that a
fourth dead heat looked probable. but Hay
ward on Bingaman let out a last link at
the sixteenth pole and got his horses neck
in front.
Try as he might the colt could not get
on even terms again, and Biugaman beat
him home by a neck in a drive. Thus
ended a race never equaled In its unprece-
denied record of three dead heats by the
same two horses in this or any other coun-
try.
In England in 1855 the AmerIcan-bred
mare PrioreSs and the two English horses
FI Hakim and Queen Bess ran a triple dead
heat for the Cambridgeshire handicap at
Newmarket with twenty-five others be-
hind them. In the run off Richard Ten
BroeCk's mare Prioress proved the winner.
But the three dead heats between Mart
Jordan and Bingaman at Prospect Park
are a record in the worlds racing annals.
C. C. P.