Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-28

! showed himself a game youngster to win
! under the circumstances
Fair Play is the finest locker that sue
| ccssful sire Hastings has sent to the races
| this season. and may prove thorn in the
| side of Colin. Chapultepec, Friestone, SIAM
| ina and other stake winners before they
| get through with him. His future career
| will be closely watched.
on the same day Fond Heart, another
Hastings two-year-old, earned her maiden
honors by another win for the Belmont
stable. Quite rarity to the nursery
| COlors In front twice in one day, for al
though August Belmont Is an extensive
breeder, almost as much so as Keene
his horses are unluCky. and he has not
developed real good one for a number
of years
The western contingent here put over a
good winner Wednesday in the four-year-
old gelding Carthage by SerranO. Bred
| by Rome ReSpesS. the horse was raced with
| success at Latonia early this month, and
ran that wel-known campaigner, Phil
Finch, to a short head in one of his races.
Then the Phil Finch party, j. T. Williams
and son, bought Carthage from Respess
and brought him on here.
Veteran Jim Williams is no stranger to
New York, his horses Rams Horn and
Phil Finch having shown metropolitan
racegoers thing or two by cleverly won
races before Rams Horn died. So when
Carthage was started Wednesday. with
Kadtke up, the horse was heavily backed,
as his work since he got here has been
gilt-cdEed.
Carthage land ID Jim Williams and the
entire western delegation thousands of dol
lars by his clever victory in fast time with
Master Radtke sitting still on the horse
at the finish. HIS sire. Sercano, a
fast horse when on the turf. and seems
to have bred a better than he in this
one that is simply a wonder a muddy
or heavy track.
Duryea's Double Success.
Another Respess development, Dick Fin
mile record fame. also scored on the same
day and put the westerners on velvet"
He carried 119 pounds and defeated a good
field of two-year- odds in clever fashion. A
black horse. Finnell greatly resembles, ex-
cept in color, his famous brother and as he
seems to be improving with every race will
bear watching right along now.
RoSeben's form somersault Thursday left
an enormous amount of public money with
the bookmakers; but as the champion sprint
er defeated all his opponents except Ben
Ban, who carried only 81 pounds to Rose
bens $50 the latter was not disgraced by
any means The winner. owned by the
young millionaire Herman Duryea has gen.
orally been considered mud horse, but
his feather impost got him to the front to
the surprise of the crowd
The Duryea stable also landed the S. 600
Test handicap with Dreamer on the same
day. AS much as 10 to l was laid against
Dreamer, who ran the mile In the rapid
time of 1.3S 1-5. Fontainbleu. however. who
was a strong second, would probably have
beaten Dreamer had he got a better start:
but Sandy. the California Jockey, was
caught mapping the barrier rose and
Fontainbleu got away next to last, losing
his owner heavy wager.
John Madden's two-year-old colt Uncle
that won Thursday with 100 pounds in such
impressive fashion will now be backed in
any company. This son of Star Shoot was
detained fully twenty minutes at the post
with the others while Bolando ran away
a couple of times; but though this 122
pounds during this interval OF waiting must
have set like a 'house and lot on his back,
the colt just romped away from his COM
pany in the race.
One of the best green" jumpers In the
country graduated when J. w. Colts big