Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

who was imported with Wagner, afterward
sire of ver-to-be-forgotten Imp.
Richmond, as grand a looking horse as
ever looked through bride, qualified" by
hVe successive defeats at the Monmouth
summer and Sheepshead Bay fall meetings,
and was also eligible for light impost in
the great all-aged event of the coming
spring, while in the west R. G. Pate's
Monogram, by Buckden. was also qualify
ing for the same alluring prize by being
kept in retirement all year with red ban
dageS on.
Monogram was a good horse in 1882 but
was not raced in 1888 1884, his we'll
known owner couple of years ahead
planning big eastern coup with the horse.
The Pate blue and white had raced in
Mexico well through the west and
south, and had large public following.
Handicapped Turns Horses Loose.
SO Secretary Laurence that winter, after
entries for the second Suburban closed on
New Year day, had some hard problems to
deal with in the adjustment of weights on
horses whose form had been fully exposed
and others of whom the contrary was the
case, as with Monogram, imported Rich
mond and Pontiac. Handicapped Laurence
was not a mind reader, and in his weight
schedule for the great race that appeared
on February l he turned loose Pontiac
and Richmond at 100 and 1O2 pounds re-
spectively while Monogram was pitch
forked' into the race at the feather weight
of so pounds! Then the Lorillard, Walton
and Pate COntlngentS chuckled in their
sleeves and tackled the future books.
That spring Pontiac and Pierre Lorillard's
other horses were prepared over the home
training course at Rancocas. Imported
Richmond was trained at Eatontown, n. j.,
near the old Monmouth Park track, while
Bob Pates old veteran Monogram, then
six years old, was galloped at Louisville
Before any of the three had shown much
in work, however, they were backed in the
future books for fair amounts. The two
four-year-olds, Pontiac and Richmond, were
never at very long prices, 80 to l the high
est about either horse, but Monograms
oge and his two years absence from the
arena caused all sorts of odds to be laid
against his chances.
Lorillard's commissioners had to accept
% to l about Pontiac in the New York
market, and the local layers were chary
of accepting much money, either. Plunger
Walton got a shade better odds about Rich
mond, but the Pate movement in behalf
of Monogram was the sensation of the fu-
ture betting He got 200 to / for 500 with
one western layer and 100 to 1 from sew
eral others, and then accepting so to l
got enough on to stand to win cool $780,,
600 on the old horse.
Pontiac's Whirlwind Trial.
The money on in the books, training gal
lops were sharpened. By the middle of
May the Suburban candidates in the east
were pointing for the spring meeting at
JEROME fbIhs WIllc III the west Nasty Lie
had ended, Lexington was In the act and
Louisville imminent.
Monogram had started at Nashville, and
the easy manner in which he won a mile
dash gave the future layers all sorts of
emotions and virtually closed all the books
against the horse on whom his owner stood
to win fortune in the Suburban.
Pontiac had shown whirlwind trial with
Aranza at Rancocas. In the Suburban
Aranza had been awarded 115 pounds and
Pontiac 100. At Rancocas In the trial be-
tween the. two Trainer Matt Byrnes re-
versed the weights, putting 1l3 on the horse
And 100 on the mare
AranZa was at her best. vet Pontiac
smothered her in the trial the mile and a
quarter being run in the best time ever
shown over the deep track at Rancocas
All this was under cover. however, and
the secret of Pontiacs phenomenal form
did not crop out.
Knowing now that he had such great
horse. Pierre Lorillard made no further
movement to support Pontiac in the flu
ture books, relying on the tremendous
coup he had so long planned for the day
of the race. And to further keep the lay
| ers in the dark about the horse, he was
not started at Jerome that spring.
Waltons horse. imported Richmond, also
progressed very rapidly In his training
| for the Suburban and his owner gave him
| a public trial in mile and a furlong race
| at Jerome Park. Which he won in i'm
| pressive fashion. A grandly proportioned
| four-year- old. this horse became as good
| a Suburban favorite as anything after his
| Jerome success.
The Eve Of the Suburban.
BY his Jerome win Walton's Richmond
| incurred a three-pound penalty for the Sub
| urban, bringing his weight up to 105 pounds,
| at which weight Jockey William Donohue
| was engaged to ride the English horse.
! Donohue had won the race the year be-
| fore by the cleverest bit of riding seen in
40 m, N
| presence on the big Engiishman was great
\ ly in the latter's favor.
| There were two Richmonds in the field
| this season. Waltons horse and three
year-old of the same name by Virgl-Alert,
| belonging to the Dwyer brothers. This