The sun., 1908-05-15
BON HOMMB WINS THV MAIDEN
'FORSTTHES COLT. AN ADDED
STARTER. BEATS STATESMAN.

PrlScllllan and ZlenAp Capture the HAndI-
Caps-Tenaney by Courtesy, Personal
and TileIng Take the Other Races
Over . SLOW Track at Belmont Park.
There was big falling on In the attendance
| at Belmont Park Yesterday a. was expected
after the great crowd on Wednesday; but at
that 1900 persons enjoyed the sport. The
stake feature was the Maiden for two-year-
olds. Ave furlongs, straightaway, which was
| the medium for a killing with +. A. Forsythe's
/ Bon Homme, a speedy colt by OddfelloW-
/ Belle Of ST. Louis. FOrsythss High Private
was scratched and Bon Homme was an added
I starter. lie was ridden by Shreve and was
/ backed from 10 down to . TO 2, the quotation
just as the barrier went up. Once away from
the post Bon Homme made all the running
but at the end he was pretty we'll extended
to win by half length from +, 4. Gardner's
Statesman, to favorite, X. T. Wilson,
Jr s, Eschau, s to I, was eight lengths back
The race was run over q slow track, Bon
II Homme's time being lOi 2-6,
August Belmonts Priscilllan, 3 to favor
Ito, ran a bang UP race In the handicap, at a
mile aud sixteenth. T. Dugan took the track
with him at the start, tho son OF Hastings,
with III pounds, making a runaway Of It all
the way to the wire, where he had margin
OF three lengths in lH Is. Berkeley. backed
down a point to S. was the runner up always
and took the place from DArkle. 90 to 1, by
three lengths. Mark Antony H.. to /, quit
badly In the stretch. Dandeion. who went
up TO to /, was last all the way. shaw being
unable to make him raise good gallop
/ienap, reCedng to 10 to ;, was SUCCESSFUL
In the handicap for mares and files, at mile.
BeCkon a red hot favorite. showed the way
to the middle Of the turn, where she ran out,
finishing last Then q. Burns took command
with Zienap, who had TO be ridden out to beat
Royal Lady, to !, by length and a hall.
Complete, to z, was poor third, while
BeCkon was last The time was lt2 is.
There were nineteen starters In the open
ing event, for platers, at six furongs, straight
away, Tenancy by Courtesy, is to /. led
pract ically all the way and won gallopIng by
three lengths In iI3 S-5 Pontoon, backed
from so to 20, closed In the last furlong and
nailed the place from Crack Shot, backed from
20 to s, by head Sandal, Senator Clay and
John Mars, the public choices, we're easily
With sixteen starters in the fourth event,
for two-year-ods. at half a mile, Personal.
a lukewarm favorte, came away under
drive In the last furlong and won By length
and a half from Lucille R.. backed down to s.
lrma, reduced to 10, while ETHEREAL, a 300 to
/ shot, was half a length out Of the money.
Aronette, TO /, led for more than half the
TieinR, 8 to 5 favorite, was pounds the best
in the last race, a selling AFFAIR at mile. +.
DuRan did not get him away we'll At the start
but he rushed him to the cOntendng position
before he reached the turn, where Zal,S to 2,
was leading by seven lengths Al the head
romped past Zal and beat him In a gallon
by three lengths ZAl was hard pressed
BY Park Row, reduced to TO- who was beaten
scant half length for the place. In the run
up the backstretCh Faust was jammed to the
rail by Troublemaker and fell Jockey Flynn,
however, was not seriously hurt. There
was a delay before the red board went up, as
the accident on their own hook. The time
was I:l0 2-5 Three favorites won and as the
other winners we're all we'll backed the LAYERS
on the whole quit losers on the day, The
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