Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-11
BACKING THE YANKEE
COLTS IN ENGLAND
Mediant and Sir Martin Well
Supported in Big Handi-
cap.

quiet owing 10 the dDSeHCe OIL tHc hiuSs
| the Newmarket race meeting last week
has provided capital sport. the results
Of which have caused an alteration to
be made in the list of winning owners.
for the Duke of Portland, by the success
Of his three-year-old colt Phaleron In
the rich Jockey Club stake. makes a big
jump from fourteenth to third place in
the list.
Phaleron's victory completed a fine
performance for the Kingsclere trainer,
w. Waugh, who, having previously
brought off a double for his young
American patron. w. Astor. on the same
afternoon with Lester Jim and Winki-
pop, thus accomplished the hat trick
1t is curious that Gilpin should have
done a similar thing last Tuesday. but
the race won by the master Of Clare
haven included nothing approaching
the value of Thursdays big event.
Famous Horses Have Won Stake.
The Jockey Club stake has in. the
past been won by such famous horses
as Isinglass. Persimmon. Cyllene. Fly
ing Fox, Disguise II and Scepter, but
none OF the ten competitors in this
years race were Of this class. Yet the
event pTOuuCoO ndSnlHCcnI HHlSIl Uc-
tween two horses, one Of which, Carlo
WITT. although he had twelve pounds
the best of matters according to the
weight-for-age scale Counting, at any
rate. from the LIST Of October. which
was only nine hours distanD, and al
though he had previously shown STAN
ina and winning ability. was surely a
poor sort to be backed down to I to l
for contest of this kind. considering
that he won selling plate no farther
ever. that this figuring at such a short
price was due to the we'll known ten
dency of the bookies to give nothing
away in the case of horse with the
least bit Of support behind him.
An event of this kind is exceedingly
handy from the point of view of own
ers SO we'll placed as the Duke of
Portland and Col. Hall Walker, for
while the advantages of a pacemakcr
are obvious. there is the additional IN
centive of 1900 sovereigns to the sec
ond and $50 sovereigns to the third So
the Duke Of Portland landed first and
third prizes, and he might have been
second. instead of third, with Primer
had not the latter swerved rather badly
after having taken up the running soon
after the descent of Bushes hill was be.
gun. Primer, however, has always been
a difficult horse to ride, and nobody
understands him better than the Kings
clere apprentice Earl.
Col. Hall Walkers Royal Realm was
said to be amiss. and reports from his
training quarters gave little encourage
ment to back him. Yet he was one OF
the four joint second favorites at to l.
while his stable companion, Sir Bold,
languished at the outside price Of 20 to
l. Perhaps both were started on the
Off chance of getting second or third
money.
Queer Work With Big Weight.
In any case, the policy pursued with
Royal Realm was amazing. Why. sup
posing that there was any reason for
the short price at which he was quoted
he should be rushed along at the head
of his field, with 1874 pounds in the sad
die, for more than half the journey
passes comprehension. Equally 1t is
dihcult to understand why he should
be sent out on a pacemaking mission
on behalf of Sir Bold, with the latter at
20 to l. Anyhow. both failed egregious-
ly, and Sir Bold finished up in front Of
his stable companion. King Edwards
Princesse de Gales ran as If she had
little taste for racing. There you have
the whole story. except the most i'm
portant part Of 1t, the head-and-head
race between Phaleron and Carlowitz
throughout the greater part OF the las.
furlong and half. But that had to
be seen to be properly appreciated. At
what appeared to be the psychological
moment Carlowitz got the best of mat
ters. but Dillon. on Phaleron. by dint OF
a superb effort, drove his mounts head
In front not more than three strides
from the box. A useful sort Of jockey
Dillon. especially when sheer strength
is necessary.
The Duke of Portland has presented
his wife with q diamond horse in COM
memoration of his great victory Every
time his stable Is victorious he gives
one of these costly trifles to the duchess,
who now has quite stud of them. The
duchess is known as an ardent lover
of animals. She makes quite a hobby
of the Home of Rest for Horses, and
curiously enough the same papers which
recorded the dukes big win contained
an appeal from the duchess on behalf
of that institution. Both the duke and
duchess pay unwearying attention to the
welfare of horses, and are entirely at