New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-24
GRETNA GREEN'S STAKE
wTNS LIKE Il GOOD COLT.
choices Fare We'll at GrdUesend-
BaEeac Takes Chase.

.s p Keene's Gretaa Green won the Man
- stakes at Gravesend yesterday and gave
aoisa Of developing into a high class two
Gid. He showed speed. courage and
s-,ira The three qualities which go to make
pnod horse, as he was called on to exhibit
~ ,bree during the race. He had the speed to
-. tba pace in company with Tim O'Toole,
=. ceurase 10 respond TO challenges by Sewell
70 ronvine. after racing u. {. Johnsons colt
- submission. and the stamina to so five and
.-..bslf farlongs. the first race at this distance
= me season. Gretna Green Is a well developed,
- looking son of Ben Brush-Runaway Girl.
r. ran a good second to Golf Ean in his first
- on Monday and evidently needed that race
:, fighter him up. as he showed a much better
-.rfornance yesterday
The Manhanset stakes was run as the fourth
-, and seven horses went TO the post with
c.,reD which had beaten Curriculum in stake
=, Jamaica a pronounced favorite at TO 5,
Gina Green was the second choice. with Con-
lille and McCarter the best liked of the others.
= 2 Johnson tried TO make a small sized. killing
.s,h Tim O'Toole which was backed from 80 TO
/, n Is 10 !. and the colt ran we'll enough TO
4rstify It. He was in the thick Of the fight
an the way. racing in close company with Gretna
Green 10 The head Of the stretch and hanging on
vsr in the final drive. SeweI was outrun in
,ba early part but ran up strong around the
homo turn and Ct the last sixteenth pole APP
reared TO have a winning chance. He hung
bodly right al the end however. Conville was
,be one 10 force Gretna Green out. He closed
s--cnc and forced Kadtlze to a mild drive TO get
tbe Keeae geding home in front McCarter ap-
reared 10 be going easily at the head of the
stretch but was not equal to Miller's final call
and dropped out when he appeared TO hold third
money safe
Three favorl;es. one split choice and two we'll
hacked second choices won, so that the players
for tie second day in succession had much the
hest Of their daily argument with the layers
The winning fGT0rItes were Lady Amelia, Dainty
and Mabel Richardson. while Momentum divided
favoritism in the last race with Athens, Flow
away and PayJWls. The beaten favorites We're
SeWell n the stake and Phantom IN the steeple-
chase.
Phantom was beaten early in the steepIechase
because Of au unfortunate accident which put
hin out Of the running, due 10 no fault Of his
own. Coming 10 the liverpool the first time
Loney Haskell bolted and carried Phantom into
the wing Of the jump. Both jocllies got nasty
fall but both picked themselves up unhurt and
stood watching the race from the infeld as if it
vas quite the usual thing TO stare death in the
face
VEL played second choice. was able to win, al
though The Lad. closing fast at the end forced
Rosan 10 ride him out Commondae made
good Impression Tor his first effort through the
hgd He followed the fast pace closely and
fenced well. Balzac took up I65 pounds and
gave further evidence OF his being a jumper
q Ire first class He won race after race last
year and from now on viii not lack for followers.
sTsn With Hylas or Good and Plenty opposed
10 him.
Halifax played by many 10 beat Lady
Amelia in the high weight handicap first on
the card, nut q bad break. for which he himself
was largely responsible. settled his chances then
and there. LADY Amelia took up the heavy
inpost Of ~ pounds, forced the running ard
won easily. Glorifier and Bohemia had bitter
duel for the place. in which the first named
earned the decision by short head II was
Glorlher's first staTt Of the year and he will not
hck Tor followers the next time he goes to the
post
The other winners we're Dainty, Mabel Rich
aTdson and Momentum. Dainty. although some
what high in flesh, won the third race at one
nile and seventy yards in a way to indicate that
her long rest has done her a world of good. /.
Williams handled her well and she responded in
tn stretch with that courage for which she was
aEays famous. Cedarstrom ran one Of the best
rsces in his career and was second with 100
pounds up