The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
GOSSIP OF THE RACETRACK
KING JAMES IS LAME AND RE.
TIRES FOR THE SEASON.
.8iIldreth's Hard Luck Is stiii In Evidence
Nature. n Meddier Ftliy. Causes
Much Anguish-Whip Top Is Boosted
In Retaliation for q Previous Claim.

Mature, a Meddier Etlly, Causes
~ Much Anguish-Nhip Top Is Boosted
In Retaliation for q Previous Claim
III IS. c. Hildreth's hard luck still pursues
! shim.9Hjs great three-year-old colt King
1 Flames, who was beaten a head In the First
4 lSpecial by Fair Play on Saturday. will
not saee .asaiu, this year.. Although king
!Janes- cooled. out nicely after. the Special,
she developed acute lameness In his near
lkfore leg on Sunday. Hildreth made an
Examination and can't to the conclusion
that the colt had stepped on q stone during
the running Of the race. Rather than
stake any further chances with him there
fore Hildreth decided yesterday TO throw
liking James out OF training. He will be
taken to California with the rest Of Hill
! dreth's horses. but no attempt will be made
I to train him again for II long time. Hill
fdreth came East with Uncle and Meelick.
! both crack three-year-olds which he had
4 purchased from J. +. Madden, bu. both
y ofhthcm soon went wrong. II Looks now
Jas II Hildreth would have to depend almost
wholly 6h Fitz Herbert to win races for
y him, on the Coast until the season there Is
well under way. Hildreth paid si2,ooO to
4 Madden for King James and also agreed
1 TO hand over one-half of the colts win
: snings at the Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend
i fmeetings, He paid $50. 900 for Uncle and
/ 9siG0o0 for Meellck. both of whom he won
out later on. however.
OF all the sure thing tips that have been
I 4 circulated in the paddock this year. that re-
4, lating to j. L. Widefer's flly Nature. In
4 the last race yesterday, was the hottest.
! Nature Is by Meddler. out OF the great race
9 mare Correction. and as 1t was said that
she had outworked Walliower. also by Med
dler. the oral bettors seemed TO be crazy
I to back her. In appea rance Nature did not
! look like a world heater when she came out
OF the paddock, but that made no difference
I with those who had the feed box informa-
( tion. Hut when it came to actual racing
Nature was the biggest kind of a d%isappoint-
/ ments She did not break away from the
! post with the alacrity OF a stake winner
: I and then showed little or no speed. She
Z finished 50 far back In the ruck that her
: followers gave up the task of looking for
! her at the head OF the stretch.
MIR. Beimont's Golden View. who won this
: race. is a full sister to Fair Play. being a
chestnut llfy by Hastings Fairy Gold
Her real form was SO well concealed that
few or the shrewd fellows gave her a chance
Al hnother bitter pill was Mr.. Keene's FLY
I q atthng, by tMeddIerr Rotha ii. Many
/ 1 belle we'd that she would win in 4 gallop. and
! khe booked TO ,havesa royal chance as she
! ran close behind Golden View to the head
! of the stretch. But after that she gave II
Sip as. X she lacked heart. tRosslare. who
ran third. ls owned by james McManus.
ahe former California street car conductor.
II Mr.. sWhitney's Blue Grass. a Ally by Ham,
! burg odt Of the noted Blue Girl. another
. starter liz this race. did not run up to her
best form. g..
~ When Whip Top won the fifth race her
owner, W. X. Midgley. who claimed her
Il out OF a race the other day from II. b. Dur
| yea. quickly learned that he could not
! do such things without expecting retalia-
! lion. The FLY was entered to be sold for
. sstt9o and when she was put up at auction
Willie Grcaves. said to be i'd ntifed with
the Duryea stable. boosted the price to
1000. Then Midgley bid an extra IS and
retained Whip Top, but the run up cost
hlpfthe purse.
The Pinkertons were extremely active
yesterday in, preventing, the settlement
sol wagers at the track They led S&o
who were paying wagers made on Satur-
day to the gates and then proceeded to
taae the names Of other alleged cashiers
who were said TO be doing business. There
twas much faultfnding as a result. for the
SPECTATORS declared that according to
! abe court decision under which oral bet
7tiIug is carried on just now there is nothing
! 10 prevent the payment Of wagons after the
! races. An appeal was made to tho track
] 3nana gers. but the result OF 1t was not dis
4 Nlosed. t S'
SsBs waterspeed was In rare form yesterday
4 she not only won the steeplechase In q
/ .bfallop but she cut q full second of the track
e:tfecord. $50, hung up by Foxhall p. Keene's
s.Gock Robin in 1899. and which was equalled
\ us Locked Out in the Brookwood last year.
J ksretcr ounces defeat was probably due
10 the weight he carried. lie undertook to
s.~e eighteen pounds by the scale 10 DE
Afund, s~venteen to Tom McGrath. twenty
nN L. a. H. In am 90
Jeanne dare, twenty eight to Delirium.
and so on. still the a n and file thought
that he would win in n gallop.
8 Although on his recent race with Fitz
Herbert Wise Mason looked like a sure
thing In the third event. many sharp specu-
,lators laid against" him. believing that
) he was not much of a colt after all. In the
Z absence Of Tom WEIGH Wise Mason was
.prernred for this race by John Hynes. II
looked as IL he fouled Nauviette at the head
Of the stretch when he crossed over in front
81 hef, but the latter's Jockey made no pro-
test. .s.,,.
just what was the trouble with Brook
dale Nynlph nobody seemed able to explain.
~ on her previous race she was regarded as n
: moral certainty, hut she never had q hi:
OF speed and was disgracefully beaten.
~ Following the custom Of I. J.. Watts horses
TO win at long prices Noonshlno scored at
u 'luOlpu price 'Hdt Was a. i'uts' IN ~ " j,
HE had II null in the weights, receiving
thirty bounds by the scale from Spooncr
and seventeen from Far West.
Before tho fifth race was run there were
all sorts OF rnmorS about Gretna Green.
The gossips insisted that he was in the
can" but owner Simons told his closest
friends that the former Kcene gelding
would win. The smart set. however. went
: to Whip Ton. hut they had all kinds of
piaheart disease until the wire was reached
Paddy Sullivan's horse Samuel u, Harris
after a. long absence came back to the
race in fine trim and would have won In
Nail proba bility II he had had another race
under his belt. .
- Enoch Wishard the we'll known trainer.
TowHi lea We for California to-day with the
horses belonging to 4. u. Spreckels. H.. +.
fovell will go to the Coast next Monday
with Thomhs n. Williams's string. includ-
ina Firestone. Big Chief and others.
Word comes from the island of Jamaica
that a new race course will be built there
=. ana that q hundred days meeting will be
!. held next year with special inducements
for the presence of American fine
Owing to a death in the family Ed Peters
was unable to saddle De Mund for yester-
days race. so that duty was performed by
George 0dom. De Mund, who had been
badly beaten In previous races, suddenly