Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

used to ride the great four-mile heroine
Fashion.
Said Green Morris, stronger and more
vigorous than most men twenty years
younger: why. the same case occurred
to me at ST. Louis when my horse Loben-
gula ran dead heat with StiCkney's
Prime Minister. We agreed to a run-off.
and notified you turning to me), as pre-
siding Judge. Just before It was time for
our two horses to go to the post Stickney
came to me and wanted to divide. L said:
No, you are too late Then he went to
you judges, and was given the same an
swer / had given him. that he must start.
Finally, Stckney fatty refused to start,
and you ordered him to remove his horses
from the Fair Grounds which he did"
Jacob Pincus then turned to Morris
with: Yes, Green, in our younger days
officials We're ironclad in their ruling on
cases like this, unless one of the dead
heaters should go lame or meet with an
accident In the interval. Why, l saw moro
dead heats at Saratoga in 1875 than ever
occurred at any American meeting Of the
same length"
Attilla and Acrobat ran their famous dead
heat for the Travers, with Steel Eyes and
Brgand only few inches behind them, and
a run-off was agreed on. Their owners
however. would have received very little
official satisfaction had either one of them
asked a divide after half the interval be-
tween had elapsed. Attilla won the run-of
and an immense sum in wagers for Pierre
Lorillard.
The Saratoga cup dead heat between
Preakness and Springbok came next. and,
If memory serves me, 1t was the only dead
heat run in this country in the last fifty
years and more at such long distance
two miles and quarter In England Rich
ard Ten BrOecks AmeriCan-bred mare,
Prioress. won the Cesarewi-ch twi miles
and a quarter, after a triple dead heat with
~ Haktn and Queen Bess, Prioress winning
the run-off in a heavy thunderstorm
But the Saratoga cup of 1875 received
such a high-class entry that it aroused un-
limited discussion for weeks before. and
drew to the Springs most of the prominent
racing men in the country, while working
up the interest Of the general public TO "a
degree. Won since its inaugural in 1865
by such great horses as Kentucky. Mug
gins, Lancaster, Bayonet, Helmb0ld Long
fellow, Harry BaSsGtt. Joe Daniels and
Springbok, It now brought out field every
starter OF which was a star Of the first
magnitude
Each owner and trainer thought his horse
could not lose. and as late form warranted
this. belief in each case, the public was
more or less at sea as TO the outcome Of
this great struggle.
The club subscription room the night be-
fore the cup was crowded TO the doors, and
although auction pools We're sold on every
event of the day. the cup was the attrac-
ton for spectators. Seven horses were
posted. Mcdaniel & Co.'S Springbok, r, ia
NJ A. LittelIs Wilddlc. 8. III; a Belmont's
Olitipa, 3. 81; II. p McCiraths Aaron Pen
nington. 4 los and Puryear & Co.'S pair,
Rutherford. T. los and Grinstead, 4. los
Grinstead had only a few days before
beaten Sprnghok, Oltpa and Mate at
mile and a quarter IN record time. Spring
box had won every race he had started for
that season up to his defeat by Grinstead.
Olitipa had also won all her races save the
Grinstead defeat, while Aaron Pennington
had Just captured the Monmouth cup from
Balankeel. Preakness had won the Balti-
more cup. and Wildidle and Rutherford had
won races at three and four miles.
Here was the highest class lot OF horses