The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-09
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NEW YORK June S.-A week from
fto.das'--or. to be exact. OH June 18th
Sihe $4,000 Brooklyn Derby will be rur
at Gravcsend. Here three year slds vii
tiake up full weight and gallop one anc
Stt half miles-surely n test of thorough
Tired speed and stamina. This years
derby is particularly Interesting, as !,
AwilI bring Frank Gill and Peter Pan
together again, both under 13G pounds
while Charley Ellison intends to start
Yankee Giirl, winner of the recently run
Ladies' Stakes and the City Park Derby
of last March at New Orleans, La. w.
s13. McDonough, of California. sends
down Oran while Harry Payne Whit
hey will give Paulnonok another
{ chance From present prospects it Will
Z be one of the real good thrce-year- old
specials of the season. There is little
doubt of Peter Pan having run the first
mile or the Belmont Stakes in 1855,
fiat on Memorial Day; the only reason
for uncertainty in the matter rests on
the fact of Timer Barrctto having miss
\ ed couple Of the poles and mistoolt
the exact finishing point. Hence there
IS no official time. but among dozens OF
experienced horsemen who caught the
fun mile the above figure Is accepted
as authoritative. This is remarkable,
for Dick Wellcs's worlds record is
clipped by two-ffths of a second.
Despite Peter Pans wonderful flight
of speed, many bookmakers will lay
against him in the Brooklyn Derby,
inasmuch as so big horse cannot get
around the sharp Gravesend turns as
easily as he did Mt Belmont Park In
the Belmont Stakes Peter Pan proved
himself the undoubted superior of
Superman, the Brooklyn Handicap win
ner In fact, he is really the best
three-year-o seen hereabouts since
sysonby's great year. This son OF
Commando Cinderella stands over six
teen hands, and weighs little over
$500 pounds. two facts which afford
some idea of his size. He is q hand
some colt, too. After his Belmont
Stakes race Decourcey Forbes said:
'"There is a colt we could take to Eng
land and France tomorrow satisfied
he would do to race against the Derby
colts over there The Watercress
three-year- old Paumonok is just as
fine locker, but Rodgers had not
frightened him up at the time the Bel
mont Stakes came to hand. predict a
big improvement in this horse from
now on. In fact. Paumonok may take
some beating in the Derby at hand
Now the steeplechase game is get
ting the tin pan. For ten days the
local press and the rncegoing public
what is described as the dumping
i game ring" all sorts of allegations
ngainst the Jockeys, trainers and pro.
fessional attaches Of the steeplechast
department. Of the metropolitan turf
being set UP. Worst of all. there
seems to be some iustifca ton in this
q circumstance which every true well.
wisher of racing must deplore, for as
soon as the public imagines It is being
mulcted by trickery Just so soon Is
the craft Of tho turf in danger OF
Beam splitting reefs The average
eacegoer does not mind losing bet
when fairly beaten but allow him tt
think he has been cheated out of hi.
money. and he returns home vowine
vengeance. bitter sentiment spring:
up, and 10! the structure Of racing /.
leveled In a night.
OF all the indiscretions charged
against Charles S. Bush the early
preceptor of the Crescent City locke,
Club at New Orleans. La, was not tn,
mistake Of temporizing with til,
steeplechase manipulators AS soor
NJ he found out that the New Orleans
stceplcchases were being utilized 10,
fraudulent betting ring schemes liz
dis,nantled the course and abolisho,
the sport inta jlfiX. In the winter o
1903 racegoers left the Fair Ground
one evening. and on returning tn,
next day they Were. surprised to fin,
the hedges. bars and course buoy.
cleared away. There has never bee,
q steeplechase run at the Fair Ground
since. One OF the pleasing spectacle
pf the racing was lost. but tho brcat
Of scandal was stiled in its incipienc,
The trouble here In the East jus
now was brought to climax in tn
running of the Whitney Memoria
6teeplechnse, stake worth $4,000
and rich enough ia ensure a true ru
race. Paul J, Rniney's II. s. Marti
won in n gallop, He Just tow-rope
his field all the way with as good a
to against his chances, the publ
losing q fortune on Good and plent,
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