The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
WINNINGS on EASTERN TURF.
JLWES n. kEENE HEADS THE
list Ri 4 GOOD MARGIN.
captures ~ Races and sIO7 .sAJ In First
Moneys - z. Hitchcock. Jr.. Combining
~tevpIechssers and FIAT Runners. Tops
This Win - Races and sos. 5SO

~tevpIechssers and FIAT Runners. Tops
This WITH - Races and sos. ss0.
More than 81 ,O0O, 900 was divided among
,be owners of successful racehorses on the
Jockey Clubs tracks during the campaign
which ended at Bennings on December 1.
James r.. Keene heads the list, as he did in
1875, when Sysonby won nearly $3.50, boo for
him. II Sysonby had lived and had raced
ND 10 his best form be would probably have
enabled Mr.. Keene TO pass the $500 900 mark
this wear. But with the memorable son OF
Melton dead, the vice-chairman OF the
Jockey Club had to depend chiefly upon
his crop of two-year-olds, who showed much
better quality han those OF the preceding
year. In compiling the figures used in this
story THE U has taken into considera-
ton he mounts paid over to winners ex-
clusively. Mr.. Keene's horses won thirty
rvo races in all, which netted u total Of
500. sI7. Combining second and third
moneys this amount can be swelled to
more than $4,000.
Winnings on the fat count the most In
the calculations, and as Mr.. Keene won all
If his races in such events he is entitled to
the palm. But T. Hitchcock, DR., with fat
runners anu -JttPtcCudetTbs WOu u TdCt5
for a grand total of sios $50, or SIS, 965 on
,he fat and Sal, 765 through the field. MIR.
Hitchcock easily led the steeplechsse own
orr, while the bulk Of his winnings on the
dat were due 10 the prowess Of the cham
pion two-year-old. Salvidere.
James B. Brady, whose colors were car
RED by the s45 900 Accountant, won eight
races and ISL ,s7S. II. p. Whitney, who did
not have his usual good fortune, picked up
$40 i5 with 20 winners. The powerful
Newcastle Stable, with 81 winners, earned
SCI, 4SO, while an adjunct. the Ormondale
Stable. with 3 winners, picked up $40, $50,
or a grand total Of SOC, 900, and 80 winners
handled by trainer Thomas Welsh.
sydney PaEet, whose star was Water
Pearl. produced fourteen winners and re-
ceived s5s,357 as their shares of stakes and
purses. Aleck Shields, whose chief bread
winners were Go Between and Halifax,
earned s44 500 in seventeen races. william
Lakeland o two races, including the
Futurity with Electioneer, whose share
was $40, s45 and whose total winnings in
three events were s5l, ss7. August Bel
mont won more races, thirty-five, than any
other single owner and his share OF the
prizes was S3s, 7s5. Then Paul j. Rainey.
who paid $4,000 for De Mund, won only
eleven races and s2s, SIS. r. 7. Wilson, Jr..
cleaned up ss5, $50 with eighteen winners.
The other leading o wners were E.R.Thomas,
s29, $50. with twenty-five winners; Wood
ford Clay, t27, SS5, with thirteen; John A..
Drake, s27, O70. with nineteen; Oneck Stable
$50. 800. with twenty; Fred Burlew. SIS, 500,
with ten; W. S. Williams, SIS, 1880, with four;
+. X. Hitchcock, s24,e05, with nine, sndJ, w.
Fuller. $40, 1856, with five.
The biggest stake winner OF the year
was Accountant. the th~ree-year-old son OF
Filigrane--Reckon who was bred by the
late 5. S. Brown and was sold by W. Harry
Brown 10 Diamond Jim Brady during the
spring meeting at Belmont Park. Account
ant won several stakes for W. Harry Brown,
bur his greatest achievements were In the
Brady silks. Altogether Accountant won
So, 2i5 in stakes and overnight purses as a
winner exclusively. He captured the
Withers, which wal worth 90, 75O, while bear
ing the cherry and blue" OF the Brown
stable. But in Brady's name he scored all
Of the other successes. When Brady agreed
TO pay s45, 200 for Accountant some persons
said that it was an unwise investment. But
Diamond Jim. who had been studying Ac-
countant's stake engagements, figured that
he had a royal chance to win the most
valuable ones, with such great horses as
Sysonsby, Artful, Hermis, Burgomaster,
Timber and others out of the way. When
Accountant won the Tidal Stakes, there
fore, Brady got back $l4 $50 Of his original
Investment, includin q a good sized wager.
Then Accountant won the Lawrence Real-
Eation Stakes, which Melted $15.SS more,
and when be gathered in b Brighton
Derby Brady began to grin, as he had
Gil, $50 TO his credit. The Filigrane colt
proceeded to annex the Saratoga Cup,
which added 50, $40 to his string, and when
lie was victorious in the Annual Champion
Diamond Jim, with sis,7 a additional, made
the terse comment:
Il didn't know a thing, chr
Brady purchased the ~two-year-old Foun-
tainblue, but this was not such a bargain
after all in spite Of the fact that the colt
captured the Triumph Stakes and $3.50
in Brady's colors. But at that Brady had
a most successful year and will come back
again next season with more investments
and increased confidence.
With Accountant easily the best three
year-old colt, Flip Flap and Whimsical
were the leading FLIES OF hat age. Flip
Flap won only three races, yet her share Of
these stakes was SIT. $50. She was a hard
luck performer in other events, her failure
10 win the Brighton Cup from Holscher
being particularly hard lines. Whimsical.
considered by some to be a better mare
than Flip Flap, captured 1880 in three
races and was then retired. She will be
trained by Frank d. Weir next season and
may develop into a great performer.
Aleck Shields had the best stake winner
among the older horses in Go Between,
the Meddler stallion hat was purchased
hy Shields out Of a selling race in 1905 for
$1,000. Go Between won s37 $40 in first
moneys, his victory in the Suburban being
his best race. Shields only raced Go Be-
tween, Halifax, Diamond and stimulant
and after his entries were suspended fora
month because OF the discovery that Go
Between was a stallion, not a gelding, he
turned the son OF Meddler over 70 Z. r.
Thomas. Willie Shields, his son. developed
a good winner in the t~hree-year-old Hol-
scher, cast OF by Diamond Jim Brady,
this colt winning %. 900 in the Brighton Cup
and making practically n clean sW cen Of