The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09

A. j.. Joyner led the trainers with abou,
seventy-fve winners, handling horses hA-
to Sydney Paget, August Belm' ont, !
Perry Belmont, Il. r. Thomas and hir Aself. !
James Row. who prepared the Keeny,
horses, led in point OF actual wiylniny a.
John w. Rogers, the Whitney %navher.
Thomas Welsh, handler of the New ,astle
static, and Frank d.. Weir. who pfa< tioallv
made Roseben the champion sp hylter and
breaker. were not grea'Ey exceled
in skill by either Joyner or JIowe. as all
splendid showings.
Walter Miller was easily I NJ beat iockev.
1t was during the Jamaica fan Meeting hat
he broke the worlds re- ord for the most
winning mounts in a " ar, previously held
by Hildebrand. Up to November 20 Miller,
since January l. has, ridden 344 winners,
with a chance to rF ch the 900 mark before
New Years, as he has gone to California
to ride for Tho mas H. Williams. On the
Jockey Cubs racks from April Is to No
vember 10 NJ .ler rode 2?7 winners, lSs sec
onos ana lUJ thirds, or a total of 421 mounts
IN the mo'iey. Far behind him in point Of
successful mounts came Radtke, Sewell.
Homer, Garner, Martin and Shaw. There
were three fata. accidents, the victims
pelIsg Sewell, Freishon and G.. Green, the
cc,fored steepllchase jockey.
Ii was the lot OF August Belmont. the
chairman Of the Jockey Club, to win the
first race of the Eastern season when
Lackey, a son Of Hastings, bore his colors
to the front over a muddy track at Bennings
on March 70. Mr.. lmont also captured
the Arlington purse on the same day with
Naancy, another of the get of Hastings.
Both OF these horses were at long odds and
treated the talent to a good EARRING in each
instance. Duke of Kendall, patched up for
the occasion, won the First Bennings Handi-
cap at 20 to 1. Five favorites were beaten
that day. but after hat the horses, for the
rest OF the meeting. ran remarkably close
to form, hfty-fve favorites in one hundred
and eight races proving successful.
Aleck Shields, destined to win the Sub
urban Handicap with Go Between, the
Meddler stallion that caused a never to be
forgotten controversy, captured the opening
event OF the local campaign with Diamond
at Aquedlct on April 10. The feature was
the popular Carter Handicap, worth $3.50
TO the winner, which was o in a hard
drive by Roseben, the top weight and favor
fte, who just managed to beat Southern
Cross. 10 to 1, by a head. 1t was in the
last race that day that the much talked
OF colt DE Mund, later on purchased by
Paul j. Rainey for s45, 900, made his first
appearance in Newton B~ennington's colors,
and won IN a common canter from what
afterward proved 70 be a very ordinary
lot. John ~ brakes oolors flashed 10 the
front for the first time when Yves captured
the Union Nakes, worth 81 ,O5O, on April II.
Two days later little Race King. who ran
a dead Lest with the lamented Sysonby
in the Metropolitan last year, turned a
mile tn I:39 As. and won a handicap at odds
OF 10 to 1. II was on The same day that
1 Frank J. tarrells eTratic keator. backed
heavily. managed to capture the Rocka-
way Stakes 10y the smallest kind Of = mar
gtn from Diamond Newton Bennington
also showed another victorious two-ycar-
old that afternoon in Conville, aftcrV ard
4 sold to T. Hitchcock, Jr.
RAMS HORN SHOWS SPEED EARLY.
f. r. Thomas's splendid mare Lady
Amelia, with whom an unsuccessful at
tempt was made this fall to match Roseben
in a sprint race, made her first bow of the
season on April 20. She was a prohibitive
favorite on that occasion and won eased
up, because Joyner sent her 10 the barrier
very fit. Farrell's Clark Griffith captured
the Arverne Stakes that day and won an
other big wager for his owner and David
{. johnson. Heralded as a star. W. s.
Williams Rams Horn, who died just after
] lie nAu captured tue A-DIbNO ndllutcdD dE
the Beach, made his initial appearance in
this part of the country on April II. when
he breezed home with the Queens County
Handicap, running the mile IN lS9 2-S.
This success was hailed by the Western
turfmen as proof that their horses were
superior TO those in the East, put when
Rams Horn was easily beaten by Roseben
on April rs, in the Sterling Stakes, al a mile.
in I:i1 i-5. all sorts of excuses were made
| for the son Of Butte-Aunt Tessa.
Ikalifay with "a mill in the VyRiUhta tnOk
the measure of Lady Amelia in a five and
a half furionG handicap on April - and
quickly demonstrated that he was one OF
the latest sprinters in trair ing. This in
cident marked the opening day of the ia
maica meeting OF April rs, the feature
being the Excelsior Handicap, one mile
and a sixteenth, 1850 to the winner. The
Excelsior incidentally attracted attention
to the fact that the newly organized New
castle stable IT. Welsh. trainer, and W.
Miller, Jockey was in line to cut a big
figure in the years events, as
Merry Lark. 10 to |, with the remarkable
midget in the saddle. was the winner; with
Ormonde's Right and Eugenia Burch
second and third, respectively. Roseben.
a 2 to 5 f~avorite, exploded in this affair
after setting the pace for nearly a mile.
j. W. Fuller's First Premium, one Of the
better class of three-year-olds. who had
done we'll on the winter tracks, made good
in the Dunton Stakes run on April 30 over "A
muddy track. The next day Accountant,
for whom James b. Brady paid S45, 900
later in the season, captured an overweight
handicap at six furlongs. and picked up
$3.50 for his unappreciative owner. W, II.
Brown. " wa at Jamaica also that the
two-year-old colt Sewell won his first
two starts and began to attract general
attention. Mr.. Drake's Grapple. always
a high class platter. began 10 show his best
form when ne ran of with the Newtown
Stakes, a six furlong dash, which was turned
by him in 1913 %.
Go Between who was purchased by
Shields out of u selling race at Sheepshead
BAY in 1905 for $1,000, made his bow on
Nav z when, with top weight, he captured
a handicap at a mile and a sixteenth in the
mud by a neck. IL was only the olev-
crest kind Of riding by Radtke that enabled
the Neddler stallion to get up in time to
beat Bats and M%asaniello.
uRAPPLE WINS FIRST DIG HANDICAP.
The first session at Belmont Park was
cut loose on May 10. The red letter event,
of course. was the Metropolitan Handicap,
at one mile, $40, $50 to the winner. There
were twenty-five starters, with Roseben the
choice at 7 TO ?. II was a race IN which
early speed cut a wide swsth. RosebeD,
who set the pace, backed up after about