Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

about Pontiac's races at Ivy City. prior to
his Suburban success six months later. the
veteran said: I'VE don't get the class Of
horses nowadays at Washington that we
did then Why. in SO the Lorilards, Dryers
and all the leading eastern owners
brought their best horses to Ivy City. Iro-
quois. Miss Woodford. Parole. Drake Car
ter. George Kinney. Eole and Aranza all
raced here that fall, and Pierre Lorillard
won four races in succession one day al
most sweeping the entire program"
When the late Hugh Mcintyre was sec
rotary of the National Jockey CLUB in the
early sos he was the right man at the
helm in that most important respect-at-
tracing the best horses to the meetings of
the old club. And in 1888 he even got
ahead of the Maryland Jockey Club by Sc
curing dates early in October. prior to the
Pimlico meeting.
Such a stroke of management or diplo-
macy, or whatever one chooses to call pure
nerve, on the part of the successful sec
rotary of National and Brooklyn Jockey
Club interests secured for Washington not
only the crack stables, but seasonabe
weather we'll Not the too early and
late dates apportioned to Benning nova
days, but mellow October days, when out
door life was delight and the crimson,
russell and orange glories of the Ivy City
woods were beautiful enough to tempt even
a hermit to an outing
District sport lovers of the old guard al
ways will have tender spot in their hearts
for those inspiring days at Ivy City. And
well they may, for that narrow circuni-
scribed track rang to the hoofs of the only
American bred Derby winner, Iroquois, and
other horses of international fame well,
while the brightest stars of the American
turf also struggled for the mastery there,
cheered on by some of the most distin-
guished assembages that ever graced a
race course by their presence.
Horses of Great Fame
The middle of October, 1888, found the
National Jockey Clubs famous old course
the Mecca for the best racing stables In
the country. Jerome Park had closed a
few days before, and the racing clans had
ample time to come from the Hudson to
the Potomac. Not with only twentyfour
hours to make the jump. is usually the
time table nowadays but to be accurate,
three full days In which to make the trip
in leiSurey fashion.
All of which was favorable to the condi-
ton of the horses, and when the Ivy City
meeting opened on October 16 the stables
were filled with fresh material, not animals
stale from a long season jaded by a
hurried night trip on the cars.
While fields were not ponderous and over
balanced by numbers, so many famous ami
mails graced the opening days program
that the nations capital fairly emptied it
self that afternoon at the racecourse, while
the New York and Baltimore delegations
were also very large.
The night before auction pools had been
sold in town at the National Hotel billiard
room and at the track three kinds of specu-
lation were on tap-bookmaking, auction
and mutual pools The card was made up
of five events, of which one was over hur-
dies. and in each of the four events on the
fiat the stable of Pierre Lorillard furnished
the overnight favorite.
Before the first race some scratching took
place. and quite a few side bets We're made
at evens that the Lorillard stable would
win two races during the afternoon. Auc-
tioneer Bob Cathcart sold several thou
sand dollars worth Of pools at the rate of
to / that the Rancocas horses would not
win three of the days events.
But Al Smith of New York got the notion |
that the cherry, black cap, gold tassel''
would land the entire card of four races
on the flat-and bet Bookmaker James
Kelly of New York 5000 against 50 600 that |
they would do SO. AS such a sweep had
never been made on an American race
course up to that time. however, Smiths
friends all pronounced mis- wager as fool |
hardy.
A Heroine of Two Hemisphere.
One mile for all ages opened the day, |
and Pierre Lorillard's fve-year bay mare |
by Bonnie Scotland out of the !
great four-mile heroine, Arizona was the |
favorte at odds on. Two years before, at |
mare had been sold to I.orilard for S12, 900 |
by her breeders, Darden & Co. of Gallatin, |
Tenn.
Since then Aranza had won herself out |
many times over for the master of Ran |
cocas on both sides of the ocean, and only |
four months before her appearance at Ivy |
City had won a handicap at Stockbridge, |
England, just prior to her being loaded on |
the steamer that brought her and Iroquos |
back home. She had all her great speed |
with her at Ivy City and Sold n lie auc-
tons at $500. The field, $500.
J. B. Sherman's Ohio-bred horse Brad |
a five-yearold, by imp. Hurrah, was sec
ond choice. He had won at Jerome and |
Saratoga that year. w. p Burchs four
year-old mare Homespun and ex-Gov. |
Bowies filly FairvieW We're the other start |
ers. Aranza, with Ill pounds up, ridden by |
Jockey Shaner, led all the way, doing the |
mile in 143A. !
The Arlington stakes, for two-year-olds. |
at six furlongs, came next, and of the |
twenty-five subscribers seven colts and fill |
lies came to the post. The Rancocas colt |
Leo, white-faced bay, by the great Duke |
of Magenta-The Squaw, the favorite, |
as he had won his last two races at |
Jerome Park in impressive fashion. One of |
these successes was the Champagne stakes. |
The Dryers chestnut colt Ecuador, by |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dam of Luke Black |
burn, was second choice, with Wyndham |
Waldens Maryland bred youngsters, Tolu |
and Welcher, next in favor. A. j. Cassatt's |
filly Eclat, by Enquirer-Ivy Leaf dam of |
BrambIe), and c.. w. Medingers old Liz |
made up the field.
Leo sold in the auctions for $500; Ecau-
dor, $50; Waldens pair, $40. The field, $50.
Ridden by Walter Olney the Lorillard colt /
Leo won all the way Ecuador, a sour-tem-
pered colt getting off badly. Bramble's
half sister, Eclat, in the place, with
Welcher third. And those who had bet on
Lorilard getting two races had landed al
ready.
Parole as a Ten-Year-Old Victor.
OF the beaten youngsters in this race
Ecuador had sensational career, the next
year winning the $4,000 Omnibus stakes at