The sun., 1908-04-26
GOSSIP or The RACEYRACK
yoRE TURFMEN READY TO con-
IrDE JACK ATKINS GREATNESS.
MANY smart Operators Unwilling 70 be
lle,e Trainer Brandt Before Yoster.
DAYS VlctOry-Defeat Of Thlstledale .
mig surprlse-MusGFaye sun Active.

Same of the shrewdest horsemen at Adue-
40, Yesterday refused to entertain the BELIEF
Il s.Iore the running OF the Queens County
/ u,cdirap that Jack Akin could pick up I24
n,,,od. and beat such horses a. Riheman,
sSooper and Rest gouche at a mile. Although
t,cg akin raced all the winter at New Or
,..,s and then won the Carter Handicap In
.ai,rdd stve he was beaten by RestiRouche
I, tbe Freeport Handicap a week ago. In the
,.,er event II will be recalled that he carried
d, mounds and after being interfered with
,,d rIt on Just after the start he was unable
,,o,sr'4ke RestigOuche, who was on running
I'D 'sI all the way. Restigouohe packed OF
,,,rF. In that affair and took up seven pounds
moro IN Yesterdays event. while Jack Atkin
,bolldrrcd three pounds less.
EiyYr.ug that Restigouohe would run
r.'ar race, therefore, the smart men made
Nm, nynrte, backing him down to 2 10 /,
,brs Iar, Atkin openingat to 2, an equal
n,orttpVI'h Mr. keene's Relding and spooner.
,sr,.np 10 {. only TO be reduced to TO at the
a., moment. Az Trainer Tom Welsh said
d,, Spopner fast three -year-old by Peep O.
nav rirrinecr, was hardly ready for
smelling race In his first start OF the year.
no fr..a repedrd TO 9. but II. +. Carman and
o,hsr .hrevd operators went to Riheman,
backing him from down 10 10 to5.
-Iap, uun cannot give twenty pounds
md a heating to nldeman, said the paddock
bsrp. as the horses we're summoned 10 the
,osr hnt lack Atkins clever trainer, n. Il.
s,ardi told h- friends that the Sain colt
soud fool everybody. lie won at mile
,,d over a. New Orleans he declared, and
nth heavy weights, too He was never
betrer n hi. life and he will prove to-day
hsf he 4. one of the greatest horses in training
Al this stance.
Whom the race was under way Jack Atkin
.to.pd his greatness by running kestlgouohe
completely OIL his feet in three-quarters Of
mile so that the son Of Commando curled
90 in the most amazing fashion. Then when
be oyfrhau.pd Spooner, who had terrific
burst of early speed, the crowd broke into
enthusiastic cheers,
The remarkable feature Of Jack Atkins
psriorman,e was the fact that he ran down
be long homrs,retCh in the teeth OF a gale
mat blew m from jamaica Bay. with such
burden 20 carry the Sain colt never faltered
i3r an instant and when his time, $50, was
hing out. the experts took OF their hats.
though once supposed to be hopeless Grip
pl- Jack Atkin il now n typical iron horse.
" has Nf'I NIdlFl III Nlllo AbAullAh bNANAN 'heN
many hor,emen believe that the San colt
may prove worthy rival Of the mighty
go,ebcn IN the handicap sprints this year,
md after Yesterdays superb race the asser-
ton was repeated with increased emphasis.
IN. Queens County Handicap was run in
Il lpa! for the frst time, Margraviate winning
Nus mile and seventy yards in i4e Yellow
Tail won in 1908 in laj l-5. After that the
u -. y,,tIn ha VUln
s-ss Rosptlnt in l2l Is; 81. Valentine, in
80 -i Rams Horn, in i:30 rs, and W. II.
Carey, in i.tO.I Jack Atkin therefore hung
W new record for the race and was one
ycond behind the best time for the track,
lV made by Orthodox, lO8 pounds, in 1904.
Mu.grave. who rode four winners on Friday,
handled three more yesterday. His ride on
lack Akin was a beauty and he came in
'or much praise after he left the scales. The
toy also won the fifth race with Sadler and
he sixth with j. II. Reed, both Of whom had
much speed that Musgrave merely sat
STILL lie was unplaced with Hayre in the
ortning event. g. Burnss ride on Rineman
the Queens County Handicap caused
.ome criticism by those who believed that
10 took his horse too far back from the early
poe Itis true that the pace set by Spooner,
ttk Atkin and Restigouche was too fast for
hheman. but Burns allowed him to drop
back to last place on the far turn, and when
ht hit the head Of the stretch he was probably
I dozen lengths behind the leader Rifle
mans subsequent run 70 the wire showed
hat he had not been underestimated, and
here we're many who declared that II Burns
bad made his run sooner the Pessara colt
nigh, have made It decidedly more interest
ng for the winner
The defeat Of J. W. Colts Thistledale in
j the Glendale Steepechase was an uneG-
tec,ed blow for the public. Tbls noted tim
bsr topper carried the crushing impost Of
lS pounds and when Stone took him to the
ront to make all the running IL was quickly
predicted that Thstledale could not stick it
out H. had gone a mile and half when he
bsgsn to show signs Of weariness. and when
sampson cut Rocket loose the latter was
POSSIBLY twenty lcngths hact But Rocket
lad the speed Of whirlwlnd and In the next
half mile he had caught and passed Thistle
dale who finally staggered up TO the last
ump and fell from sheer exhaustion An
odd feature Of the betting on this event was
that the two stables, Colt and Hampton.
Vtre coupled IN the straight prices only. In
he place odds Thistledsle was quoted at
to 3, while his stablemate, Economy, was
hken at to 2 Rocket meanwhile was to ?
'or The place, with jim McGill, an added
starter. quoted at evens on the same propo-
Hdcn Both stables opened at 0 TO 10, but
he to.t entry WAS hammered down 70 4 to 5.
Nl'f the other receded TO even mOGcy. T.
EDcrCock Jr's, Hot Shot won this event
sS year
IruerGcorge Odom and his friends cleaned
up N'h Fonuie kelso in the first race. The
Wisrh0r galding was backed from 10 down
bj the layer, geaing pretty fair scorching.
he form players made James Delaney 5
Tom Reid hv Marius H.. n hot favorite in
hi race, backing him from even TO to 10,
4 j. joyuers Eamble meanwhile opened
second 0n favor at 3. but went upto O, Paul
Ranev vas not al the track and did not
have dollar IN his flly fhetis, by lnheNihle
-thec,gm.te. who ran into the place At 80,
10 and ..
T. II. NcCornicks Saylor was supposed
70 be in when he started in the third race
lld AZ ol the smart operators backed HIM
nom 10 to to TO- But Import was also
bot tip and received enough backing to
Ill bis price from down to ~ to-. Imports
'1iner h j. JONES' the former Jockey, who
'ah to well known horseman before the
Hcs.
1 Import cannot lose. lie was bumped
hs last race and will do much better this
He viii you bet $50 for me?"
certainly was the reply. 'But ] think
NyIor !, a cinch" The horseman then put
0oVh the small wager for the trainers and
N"n' biz one to the ring on Saylor. Sumter
uA not handle SayloT with the best Of judg-
ueat, he Ogden geldng is a free runner
Nc generally makes the pace. But Sumter
4 wy h.m under a choking pull in the run up
zoe bacs,'rctch so that he had nothing left
wen he Was finally let down, owner MoCOr-
n's lost substantial wager on Saylor, for