Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-15
MEETING CLOSES At
THE BAY TRACK
Racing Shifts Tomorrow From
SheepShead to GraveSend.
Some Big Winnings.
Special Dispatch to The star.

heads last week. which closed today with
some Of the greatest sport of the entire
season has drawn out large crowds daily,
t8day,s asscmh!age being second only to
the Immense. IhrunE of FutuTity and Labor
days The Ioug-auticlpated contest for the
Annual Champion stakes OF $25.000 two
and "a quarter miles, acted as a drawing
magnet. as long races always do. And pub
lie enthusiasm over the victor In the Cham
piun. as well as over the successful horses
in the Great Eastern and other events,
showed how 10th rac"Epcrs are to leave the
Coney Island Jockey clubs beautiful track
For Sherpshead Bay race course. with a
proud record uf twenty-Scven years OF pub
lie approval il easily the most popular
track IN the metropolitan racing circuit, ana
the executive committee of the club. always
alive To retain its hold on the pubic atteC-
tons. will by another year enlarge tne
course from mile and a furlong TO mile
and a quarter. which will also give addi-
tional room for improving its SteeIltChaSe
course and Strengthening the Chutes-
The Concy Island Jockey Club gives an
uually more liberal stakes and purses than
any Of it's competitors in this country or IN
any other Its Futuritics. Suburbans.
Champions. Realizations. Centuries. irwin
Cities Great EaSterns and many other
prinCely endowed annual events have large
~ contributed toward the leviathan amount
won by James l.. keene's horses his year
1886. 500 up to the last of this week
This almost wOrld's record for the whlte-
blue spots" has been exceeded only once,
by the Duke Of Portland's sS5s,O00 year In
1883 NJ Edmond Blanc. the famous French
turfman reached $4,000 in one 81 Ason on
the French. English and continental turf
But Mr. Kecne has now passed the French
man. and is closing fast on the English
man. And II his great horses now In tram
ing Till the rest Of their engagements this
fall they are almost sure to place their
popular owner on the proud pedestal OF the
worlds greatest winning owner
Enthusiasm Over Keene Horses
Public enthusiasm over the successes OF
the two great colts Colin and Ballot
reached its height during and after their
victories for the Flatbush and Century
stakes. Congratulations without stint were
awarded their owner. who said about the
tyo-year-old: Colin is great colt. but
that ne is better than Sysonby l am not
yet prepared to say until We see what ne
does as a three-y ear-old. Sysonby l loved,
and also Domino. both as dear 10 me al
most as IL they were human. l never for
get old friends even OF the brute creation,
and this young friend Colin am very
proud OF"
handsome black will doubt be even
better three-year-old than he 1s two
year-old He ran the seven furlongs or the
Flatbush stakes in "a 4-5. a new record
for the distance. and carried 10 pounds.
and could doubtless justify the extrava-
giant opinion OF admirers who declare that
he can right now take up even weights WIN
itnseben and outrun him in sprint. or
with any older horses in training and beat
them at a mile or more. -.--N
Among those who warmly Congratulated
Mr. Keene was John c. Fol!ansbee. who
had lust returned from his ranch in New
Mexico. And then he told hard luck
story. He had got back east just one day
too late to profit by the success of Blue
Book at - to / Bred by him at his farm
in Virginia Blue Book was such little
runt that he gave him to his present train
er Steve I.awler. But this season Blue
iplurpXed greatly, and Mr. FOL
lansbee for sentimental as we'll as financial
reasons would have followed Lawiers ad-
vice to his friends to bet on the cot IN
the mud, which was responsible for his be
ing added to the list OF starters In the
Reapers stake at the last moment. But
when Blue Book followed this up by VIC,
tory in the September stakes from a still
stronger field the Follansbee commission
was a solid one at 20 to l.
Yeager's Warm-Up System.
That picturesque punger Joseph Yeager.
on the other hand has succeeded in sue
cessfully wooing that tickle jade. Dame
Fortune of late by the "warm-up" system.
Particularly is this useful on muddy tracks.
where a horses liking dislike for the go
ing is frequently indicated IN his ante post
gallops. Before her recent victory for the
$4,000 Great Filly stake. Keep Moving.
John Madden'S tWO-year-Old filly, went past
the stand In the preliminary at a slashing
gait showing that the sloppy mud had no
terrors for her. but quite the contrary.
OF the hundreds of persons who saw the
flly's siashing move, however, few had
pluck enough TO go into the ring and &C
cept any part OF the H to l offered against
her. Not even her owner. John Madden.
who let her run for the S13.n6 stake. But
among them Plunger Yeager. who. after
looking over the filly's record and finding
good race to her credit In mud. went
round the ring and backed her down to u
IN \ a
her victory variously estimated at from
twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars
On Rialto the following day. Yeager alst
followed that colts clever warm up witt
complete success. landing $4,000 wager
over the race. The two wins put him or
his financial feet again. after an unusually
long slump for him. OF course the system
OF playing horses that warm up impressive
ly Is not new. II is as old as the hills with
spectators on racing events. But 1t has
Its advantages. especially in mud. as indi
eating the horses ability for that sort o:
going.
Felix Ishman OF Philadelphia. owner Of
Electioneer. also landed $4,000 wager
when last years Futurity winner staggered
home only a head In front of that other
three-year-Old disappointment. Kentucky
Beau. Last year this time both Of these
colts were looked on very near the tor
~ their age in merit. This season Elec-
t!oneer has won only this single race by
the skin OF his teeth. and Kentucky Beau
has yet 10 finish In front. Race horses de.
velopment from two to three years OF age
is an uncertain problem.
Dandelion Is Consistent.
William Dubois has partially made up fol-
his recent disappointments with Charlie.
Edward and Nealon through sellne
platter. the two-year-od Running Account
bred at the Walden-Idttlefeld farm ir
Maryland The yougster had won FOL
others twice when Dubois secured him fol
$500 out of selling race. and then en-
tered him right back for the next day
where he got good . TO 1 against hi:
colt and cleaned up $1,000 on the race
Since then he has won again at 5 TO l.
II the first win this fall of a two
year-oh among older horses, and the sue
cess OF Running Account will doubtless anC
other youngsters in all aged fields from
now on. John Madden's wo-year-old Den
mis- Stafford tried it at a mile a few dayi
ago with keator and Arimo and though
he did not win he ran a creditable race b.
the way he hung to Keator at the finish
after making most of the pace
John Madden had another field day earl,
in the week with his two-year old colt Nee
lick and five-year-old Dandelion trained b,
him for Frank Hitchcock. DandelIon's vic
tory in the Ocean handicap. at Il mile show
that this consistent son OF Hamburg cal