Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-31
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

Tom Cogan owned by Thomas Hitchcock.
jr.. and entered to sell for $500 in the
steeplechase at Brighton Beach yesterday.
was bid UP to 81. 600 by c. Smithson. and
bought in by his owner for $1.00o. and
short time after the race sold on pri-
vate terms to James Blute
Ruby Star, owned by A. S. Snyder, and
starter in the first race at Brighton Beach
yesterday. behaved so badly at the post
that the stewards ordered that her entry
be rejected in future.
William Sims. the jockey who went to
England to ride for NJ F. Dwyer and Rich
ard Croker in 1895. has filed suit in the su-
preme court to recover from Mr.. Dwyer
$3.50. alleged to have been due to him
since that year. Sims says In his petition
that he was to receive 5000 year. but
only received 500, and that, in addition. he
leaned Mr.. Dwyer s.. 500, of which sum he
las been able to collect only $50.
The steeplechase jockey Dupree. who rode
New Amsterdam. and G. Williams, who
rode Flying Virginian IN the steeplechase
at Brighton Beach yesterday. were both
stunned by their falls in the race. and both
were removed on stretchers, the ambulance
being called for Williams. Both recovered
consciousness In short time. however, and
the physician who attended them said
neither was much injured.
Jockey Herbert. who was posted as the
rider of Estimate In the third race at
Brighton Beach yesterday. was so late in
going to the scales that the track offic ais
were on the point of ordering the FLY
scratched. when Herbert made his appear
ance. The boy was fined S25 for his delay.
The wind aided the poolroom agents in
their conflict with the race track police at
Brighton Beach yesterday by blowing down
the immense stretch of canvas spread on
the back stretch to shut Off the pool room
correspondents view of the track and
throughout the afternoon the signal men
on the roof OF house in the rear of the
1nf1a
of the results with an American flag as
their signal banner. The canvas screen had
been increased to such size as to top the
roost of the pool room men on the house
roof. and 1t could not hold against even
moderate breeze and 1t is not likely that
1t viii be raised again.
Under the ruling of the stewards of the
Jockey Club. suspending the stable of Alex
Shields from racing for thirty days. as
punishment for what the stewards consid-
cred carelessness in continuing the error
under which Go Between was raced as
gelding, the Shields stable Is not to be per-
toga Associations grounds until the full
term of the suspension expires. Stables
had been engaged at Saratoga by Shields.
as his suspension expires early in the Sara
toga meeting, and the action of the track
officials at Saratoga will put the Shields
horses at great disadvantage In their
training. as there is no other track avail
able for training there.
Jockey Walter Miller, the star rider of the
racing season, had his last mount for the
present meeting at Brighton Beach yester
day, as he is to go to Saratoga today with
Trainer Thomas Welsh, who this morning
ships the horses of the Newcastle stable,
the Ormondale stable and the other horses
he trains. to Horse Haven for a short rest
before the racing at Saratoga opens next
Monday. Miller will be missed greatly, and
many requests by horse owners who will
start racers at Brighton Beach this week
were made to have the boy left behind but
Trainer Welsh thought it would be better
for Miller to have vacation for few
days. as he Will be constantly employed at
Saratoga. where engagements have been
made for him already through the twenty
three days of the meeting.
Ten horses. selected as representative of
the shire" type of draft horse of England
from the breeding establishments OF King
Edward and Lord Rothschild arrived in
New York yesterday on the Atlantic trans
port steamer Minnetonka, under the care of
Edmund Beck. The horses. which still are
the property of King Edward and Lord
Rothschild. and were sent to North Amer
lea for exhibition purposes, are to go to the
horse shows at Toronto. Ottawa London
and Ontario, and then are to return to the
United States to show at the American
royal exhibit at Kansas City. There are
four stations. three mares. two geldings
and one foal, all the older horses being
prize winners of note at the great horse
fairs of England. The most famous of the
stations is Girton Charmer, which last year
won the championship in England for
shire" stations.