Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-04
CLOSING WEEK OF
BRIGHTON MEETING
Outsiders in Front-Great Race
of DandeIion and Ballot.
Big Betting Coup.


closed today after nearly four weeks of
continuous racing. has been a strenuous
... Cor both hao Err and layers goes with
colo. saving. for both OF these great factions
%. r.. -tprt have had their ups and downs
'-1r generally even up matters by the sur
...u ui tie tittest-hnaucia!ly. Tn" first
rnr weeks results STA wed practically d
drawn battle. Last wc.k the public and
isr-smru hit the ho"kmabers so hard that
IL .,rc, number OF the knights uf the high
stools dropped ont on s;!N hunt for new
I4ak rolls This W x. however. thc tables
reagan turned. and the successes of rank
Drt-'a.rs in the betting have Ieped layers
w.t" took Tine money offered on tayorites TO
sam t.rir previous losses ana rGure. too.
.u too. the departure OF the Gates con-
t.ag. AT of plungers, Terc and fills. for for
t-Eu shores has helped layers this week.
Tor their heavy plunges. mainly on the
horses Of the Durncll-Dugau faction. com
ing under the head of "ciuCat d money.
Law" hIraSsed the principal layers to a
degree and completely wiped OUT many OF
the smaller fry who had the pucky temer-
lily To accept their big waSars. Now. with
Yates away, the bUokmak"JS left have got
their second wind and have knocked down
some pretty big plungcs In the last few
days.
\ track slightly hard. in spite of some
RAIN TINS week. has ais" affected some of
the results. that good -ycdr-Oid. Royal
Nanr. pulling up so lame after his race
with Older horses Wednesday that he had
TO bc sent to his stable at GraVesend in All
ambulance. while Or. Gardner has also
been iimping ever since his last race at
brighton Other cases of less prominence
have cropped Up. and horSemen will be glad
10 see the superintendent put more cushion
Oh the track by the October meeting. even
if at the sacrifice of trihe of its speed
Horses, like people, do not always take
kindly 10 such long meetings at one track,
to d noticeable extent, and hy another year
II might toe better to divide up BrightOns
allotted period of five weeks to three weeks
IN the summer, instead of four as now. and
extend the fan meeting to two weeks IN
stead OF one.
In spite of the exodus Of stables to Sara
tHGa. helds at Brighton this week, while
Lot so large as last. have been so we'll bal
aHc"d by horses of even Caliber that win-
u"rS. as noted. have been very hard 10 pick
successfully, and on several days the sight
OF long shots in front practically unhacked
las simply paralyzed public hackers. Such
horses as lroublemaker, Barbary Belle.
Sally X. Racine II. Wardine. Beardall and
others who had shown no class to speak
Of defeating winners whose previous form
had been good enough To intrust with small
fortunes, as many people did to their sor-
Baltimoreans' Big Coup.
jubilee. at 10 to l. and Sally r.. at 20 to
/. rccouped some of their early supporters
al Benniug this spring But not many, for
Jubtec's recent form has been poor or he
would not have gone to the post at such
long price. He carried 40 pounds, which
also helped to make the price. while adding
10 the merit of his performance. His
owner Fred Littlefeld, had just made up
his mind TO send the youngster back TO the
Maryland farm 10 rest up until fall, and did
not have d dollar him.
Sally X, on the other hand. had not run
since Benning and PimlCo. and she had
every right to support on her form at those
tracks, although a maiden. For she was
now meeting other mddens, none of whom
had yet earned brackets. But Owner John
, Madden let her run loose. as the best work
she had done for this race was six furlongs
III LIZ, whipped out. Yet, in the race. Sally
ran the first mile in la, and the mile aud
sixteenth in LAT. a good performance.
Frank Gardner, former partner of New
ton Bennington. and trainer for McCarter
Potter. pulled off one of the cleverest coups
Of the present season on Wednesday with
the four year-old gelding Racine II, by the
California sire Racine, now located at the
Potter farm, Pequest, n. j. Mart Jordan
of Baltimore had the horse last year, and
won some races with him, but IN very
moderate company.
This spring w. s. D:rendercer of Ralti-
more purchased Racine from Mart Jordan,
and turned the horse over to Frank Gard
rer to train. who saw in the geiding ma
teridl for killing. and when two weeks ago
81 Brighton. Racine was only beaten two
Hecks by SOnoma Belle and Flavgny, in a
fast race. at d mile and a quarter. Gard
ncr told Diffenderfer that he had a race
selected for the horse this week. and for
the BaltimOrean to send for his friends to
come on here and bet.
The race selected mile and half
and when entries closed Racine had oD-
posed to him such horses as Lancastran.
FIavgny. Red Friar. SonOma Belle. Brancas
and First Mason. But Gardner and his EN-
pioyer got the latter's friends from Balti-
more here just the same. and as few people
besides the "pikers' thought Racine could
win ,he Monumental city sports got as
good - to l for their money. backing
The geldtng down TO half those figures at
post time.
To the amusement OF most people Racine
just ran his field into the ground, running
the mile ard a half with something LETT. in
the phenomenal time OF , - 40. 1t was one
OF the greatest surprises Of the pres mt sea-
sou and the Baitimoreaus took fully SO 600
uUt of the ring but at that most OF the
bookmakers showed winning sheets from
tn large sums bet on the other horses.
Ballot a Great Colt.
Peter Pans setback Thursday from a
byu,ss | knee prevented the great son of
commando from me ting Charles Edward
and Yankee Girl in the $4,000 Brighton
Derby this afternoon. to the great disap-
po.utment of the management. we'll as
the general public for Charles Edward 5
great Improvement had whetted the pub
lie appetite for a meeting between him and
lie ktent champion over tf- DERBY route
=, mile and u half.
TIE k-euc stable up TO date has won this
season the enormous sum of S2J6.OO in
- lakes and purses-an amount TO the share
- on stable unprecedented In American
;urf history. And II Peter Pan RECEIVERS
from his mishOp tie sum already secured
viii be swe!lei to over $4,000 before the
close Of the racing year. At that, Ballot g
impressive performances last week and this
In III I:oguolS stakes and Invlncibie handi-
cap have shown the Voter colt as worthy
stable mate OF Peter Pan. And II Ballot
a@d Colin stand mp this summer and fall
they are very apt between them TO increase
the kerne winnings to the high water mark
named.
Coin is in the $4,000 Futurity stake run
At SherpShead Bay four weeks from TODAY
ard his success in that tIme-honored event
will enable his Topu ar owner To pass the
S'OO.Osp mark. But like Peter Pan he has
his own troubles In the shane Of a had
hook. and the futSrc of thorougAbreds NOT
entirely sound is always uncertain
just now John Madden's Star Shoot two
Near-o'd Uncle Is looked 5 the best n,
lis age here next to Colin. Notasulga Is al
Saratoga. and both Colin and Uncle havs
rer 10 reckon with in the contest for SUI
prenacy over the 7 Y. c. She and Colin
have never met, and Uncle has improved
much shat whatever NOfasuiga could a.,