New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-01
CLOSE FINISHES RULE
COLD AND RAW At TRACK.
Sententious Does Double Duty, bit
Fails to Hin al Jamaica.

nj finishes
,,sscs Yesterday and this feature Of the spoI'
80 ~ an mart for the cold bleak weather Inc
biggest crowd OF the meeting was IN a'teiua
but this was rot saying much, and haFois - -
thar fifteen hundred persons were on manu- ioi
ia<+ satrrdav's racing CT the season IN the Hle'
.,,.- sfs.-sc. The meeting at Jamaica has only
two more DAYS 10 run-Monday and Wednes"aS
snd then the curtain WY be rung down On
son that has been s.e most disastrous Iot az
various associatioss ~ he history Of the sPoi' "
this state .-
T.te ,7incrs the oldest trainer in this country
,yte6 once more 10 make Sententious earn ner VIII
ter keep but in vain He started her IN '"O 60
lest Tuesday. when she finished thlrd anu 60
.na respectively. after she had been peateh ~
me first race yesterday the old fellow was hot sd
,sea6 ard sent her 10 post again in the tourtn
raoe It was use. however. foT "hio ~
Dublin fly ran into third place she oouiu 10.
set within striking distance OF NaponOCd oho
Wise Mason Strange to say Sententious is not en-
,s-e5 IN a,v race tomorrow. but 1t would not
rs surprising 10 see her doing double DUTY agar"
Wednesday
snauhor,nd heat Jeanette NJ. 8 short head in the
first race after long drive through The iast lul
long Golden Legend raced Sententlons lhlo SUI
mission and looked all ever the winner "heh
straighrened cut for home. hut ne tired IN the lat
sixteenth and had 10 he satisfied with tlru oileS
Bird Of Flight II was keen CONTENDER lot IN
furiongs hut he failed 10 come on in the sueOch-
Trois Temp got away from Yorke on the way TO
the post and ran away a mile. he showed q lou
Of speed in the race. and might have won II ne
had net been ambitious before the start
Rockstone was the best horse in the second event
but Bad News beat him by the width Of a hand
as little King VINO had the mount, no match
Cor Herbert although the latter is anything but
star jockey. The two horses raced head ana heau
all through the stretch, but Herbert rode much the
stronger finish and this counted Sanguine swerved
over 70 the rail the last sixteenth when ne ap-
reared 10 have < winning chance Faust, the colt
that made the running for mis- stable companion
NeaIon. il the Suburban Handicap Of 1907, won
by the latter is hardly shadow OF his former
self He helped force the pace for six furiongs
and then dropped back beaten
Fancy ran out rounding the paddock turn. carry
ing Nombssss with her, in the third race, and
again at the turn for home. and in spite Of this
was beaten only scant length by lmitator. on
which Creeyy rode 6 careful. well judged race
nounbassa could not overcome TIE handicap Of
losing I'VE or six lengths, but Bergen perseYered
with Fancy. and the FLY closed such big gap
and finished so resoiutely that her followers had
the cold comfert Of knowing that she was the pest
horse in the race. even If she did not win
after E1fendi had shown a fash OF speed in the
handicap fer woyear-olds, Walsonoca raced TO the
front AID opened up a gap that Wise Mason, try as
he would under &otIer's whipping nnish. colld not
overcome FliIlcreea was whispered about as a
good thing in this race, but he could never get
within striking distance Of the leaders
Jack McGinuis thought Notasulga would win the
nth race and SO advised his friends, while Albert
sirnoas was equally confident with WOODLAND and
Frank Weir with Cressina- All three were beaten.
however. as Royal Onyx. after being last al the
t;rn for hcnle. closed with rush and won driving;
fv 3 length. Woodland had .ot to 90 in racing
first Cressina and then Notasulga into submis-
SIGN ana could not Withstand the winners chal-
lenge-
After falling time and time again, RaQuel finally
won a purse for julius Bauer when she was grad
mated from The maiden class in the last event
Jorn Z. Madden's Queen Lead wore Florence II
down al the last sixteenth pole and appeared to
be winning but Raquel got up in the nick OF time
so the judges decided.
Stud Of Colonel Milton = Young was discussed in
tbs paddock by a number Of horsemen- The neces-
sfry wrzo1l- LED the sale was dePlored, but It's
success. under present conditions. was cause fo1
CONGRATULATIONS Il turns out that Colonel Young
offered the full consignment Of 5I9 head at private
sale some tine ago for something under $1,000
The grand total auction vas $3.50 clear gain
70 Colonel Young Of over $4,000.