The Washington herald., 1906-10-22
TRACK AND TURF NOTES.

TRACK AND TURF NOTES.
| Robert Buffers. the Pinkerton employe
who was injured by the teIescoping OF
race trains AT Belmont Park on Friday
died Saturday morning at ST. Mary $
| Hospital, Jamaica.
| superintendent German will make siren
uous Efforts next winter TO start a growth
| of grass in the infield at Belmont Park
so that in few years steeplechasers may
| gallop over the course without kicking
/ up as much dust rs the fat horses raise
on the skinned track.
! One of the visitors at Belmont Park
! Saturday was Lee Evans. of Warrenton
Va, the gentleman rider who was in
jured in a steeplechase. Mr.. Evans SUI
| fered a broken collar bone. but ne is
/ all right now. He expects 20 do some
/ riding at the Hunts Clubs meeting al
/ Benning. Mr.. Evans who has ridden
/ many jumpers for Thomas Hitchcock. jr
/ was warm believer in Hylas, and Dc
| backed the all-green.
! Henry Spencer. the jockey who rode
/ the celebrated Commando in his races
as two and three-year-old. has tanned
J trainer. Spencer, who is a very inteHi-
/ gent young man, has bought a small
string which he proposes TO race during
/ the coming winter at New Orleans Spen-
/ Ger has not been able 10 ride FOR two OF
/ three seasons He has grown so heavy
\ he cannot reduce 10 serviceable weight
without weakening himself To such an ex-
! tent as to endanger his health
| Charles T. DurneH was a bidder at the
sale held at Belmont Park Saturday. go
/ ing as high as $3.50 for HaudzIrra, but
Dave" Johnson bid $3.50. and she was
! knocked down 10 the owner of Roseben.
DurneH purchased Temaceo for S498.
/ Daring the afternoon a report gained cir
culati0n that Durnell had been engaged
/ 10 train a combination stable OF horses
1 for john W. Gates and John A. Drake.
This was denied by Mr.. Gates Durnell
VIII race "a stable of horses in California.
/ Willie Shields has announced his inten-
ton of shipping good-sized string to
/ New Orleans for the winter meetings at
| the Fair Grounds and City Park. I'm the
/ lot viii be Holscher the Lamplighter colt
I purchased from Col. Hugh Baker. HoI-
scher has developed into "a useful racing
tool this season. and will lac nominated
for number of Fair Ground stakes. in
/ Guiding the Bush Cup. Ben Holder is to
be left at home. lie has never recovered
! from the accident which befelI him in
Saratoga. and il Is doubtful if he is ever
sent to the post again.
Belmont Park time cannot possibly
serve as a standard for handicapping, be
cause Of the extraordinary fast going
Even without the aid Of wind horses run
faster at Belmont Park by from two
TO three seconds To the mile than they
do at any other track in the East or in
the country, for that matter. IT is a
poor selling platter that cannot step "A
mile IN 40. The sood ones do II in i.3S
or better. If Grapple had not been in
terferred with in the New Rochelle wnen
he began his run he would probably have
beaten the mile record OF Kiamesha and
Dick Welles by second.
Now that Hylas has won his second
champion he viii go into retirement until
next season. There are no important
Steeplechases at Aqueduct. and Mr. Hitch
cock believes his horse should rest during
the Hunts club meeting at Benning Hy-
las is still a young horse, as steeple-
chasers go. He is only five years old
It Is the intention of Mr.. Hitchcock to
take him TO Aiken, 5. c. and prepare
him for the early steepIechases next
spring. He viii be named for both the
Grand National and the Whitney Memo
rial, and if his celebrated stable com
panion. Good and Plenty. does not train,
he viii bear the all-green in those an
pOrtant races.
Lord Derby heads the list of winning
owners on the British turf, his winnings
now being in excess of &20.000 .dat.
Eustace Loder comes second, with APP
proximately e15,000 Others who have
won e10000 and upward are Col. Hall
Walker. the Duke of Westminster. Lord
Rosebery, and Mr.. i. NeumaH. Keystone
II and Bridge of Couny have been Lord
Derby's best winners. Spearmint and
Hammerkop have added the greatest
amounts to Col. LOder's score. Gilpin
heads the list of winning trainers. with
nearly $4,000, and Ladas the list of win
ming sires. with approximately e20000
won by his progeny. There has been a
lively discussion in the sporting papers as
10 the relative merits of Signorina. Scep-
ter, and Pretty Polly. Each Of these great
mares was supreme in her time and each
has her advocates for the title Of Queen
Of the Turf On the record the admirers
OF Pretty Polly would seem to have thc
best Of the argument Signorina started
eighteen times and won eleven; Scepter
started twenty-four times and won thir-
teen: Pretty Polly started twenty-three
times and won twenty-five. and she may
add to the score before she is permanent
~ retired