New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-31
FAV0RITES TN DEFEAT.
FIVE FAIL THE "T4LENT."
Bad Ne5cs Wins the Nautilus Stakes
an Fast Time.

The defeat Of five heavily played favorites at
BRIGHTON Beach yesterday came as 4 distinct
shock 10 those who. flushed with success Of tba
last week or ten days. had regained the conf
deIce lost at Sheepshead Bay. The choices have
been winning so consistently at this meeting
that the players had grown careless. and they
accepted prices yesterday in at least tr7raa
cases that were hardly justified by the form
Of the horses. This was particularly true in t,a
ease OF Won Tronlp. always a bad betting nro-
ostion. and Acrobat. while Woodlands nrica
was hardly 2 fair one all things considered
Please. a split choice with All Alone won the
fifth race, and this was the only consolation the
favoTite players got. or at least those who ac-
cepted the price against her in spite of Robin
son. Jockey absolutely unknown 10 a majority
az those present. Robinson. however. handled
the fly Ike veteran. and after waiting be-
hind the pace 70 turn for home gave Please her
head. and she came away TO win easily by three
O. four lengths. All Alone. which receded in
The betting from 6 TO ) 10 TO / rushed into a
contending position from bad start but tired
badly in the stretch as # in need of a race.
The trouble began in the first race. when
Halifax after leading into the stretch nv three
c- four lengths. tired and Barharv Belle com
ing from far back. got up in the last stride 10
win by q head. She was quietly backed from II
- to 10 10 l. 50 that some, at least, profiLed
well Halifax pulled NJ slightly lame. while
Royal Vane, which ran disappointing race
me
looked as Il he had broken down
WOODLAND was the odds on favcrite in the sec
or5 race but Rosjnliro raced her into submits
sion rounding he turn and came away 10 what
looked ike sure victory. Booker rode a weak
finish however, and Jubilee. closing with A rush
On the outside, got up in time win by q short
head a. the lucrative price Of 10 TO l. Jubilee
was played Tor a killing on Monday. hut ap-
peared 70 sprawl in the going and finished bad
third. She was started right back yesterday in
site of the fact that she had all the worst Of
the weights a. compared with WOODLAND and
entirely neglected by those who had bet on her
50 confidently the day before. furnished what
was to all appearances a form somersault Of the
worst kind
You Tromp was The odds-on choice IN the
third race. after ten of the original sixteen en-
tries had been withdrawn. He might have Won
Tony Bonero, wei handled by Miller. won easily
by TWO Or three lengths. Herman carried Won
Tromp wide Al the first turn. causing him t.
Jose $50 az three lengths and not content with
this bumped him badly and knocked him back
aEaiu turning into the backstretch- Won Tromp,
4 ways q whimsical fellow. appeared to sulk in
The next quarter of mile. 50 that Tony 30
nero opened up 2 gap which he could not over
come.
Bad News won the Nautilus Stakes AZ one
nile and sixteenth in the fast time of
~ A.. which was only one-ffth Of 4 second
behind the track record. made by Israelite. IN
1903. Pretension acted like ono possessed be-
lind the barrier in this race, and his temper
vas not improved by the free Use Of bull whip
= the hands - the assistant starter His pres
nee in the field was distinct menace 10 every
fher horse. as he kept rearing and plunging
nd flashing out with his heels. The start was
reasona bly, good one when il came, and Pre-
ension made most of the running, and only
apituated in the last sixteenth. when Bad
Iews wore him down and won going away.
Acrobat was backed from 10 ! 70 even
money in this race, while Hyperion II also had
strong following. Acrobat followed the pace
loosely for seven fUrlongs and then stopped,
While Hyperion u ran so far below the form he
howed in his last race that the stewards might
yell make an effort 10 solve what will ever be
riddle 10 racegoeTs. MOonshine had a stormy
Quincy, and would have been second with better
uck-
After Please had galioped home an easy win
Ter in the fifth race the majority Of the favor
e players took fresh hope and plunged on Eas-
on in the last sending him 20 the post at even
money The days sport wound up badly, how
.ver. as Easton. after racing Ecatarna into
submission. could not Withstand the determined
,hauenge of Sally x. In the last sixteenth, and
lad To be content with second money Sally Il
ras a. last graduated from the maiden class,
,ut Judging from her price John Z Madden ana
lis friends did not have much confidence IN her
Is she had disappoinred 50 many times.