New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-19
H|LDRETH HORSES SCORE
Win Three Races, Including Two
Stake Fixtures.
LIGHTNING PLAYS FRANKS
Hits Number Board and Ploughs
Up Turf at Sheepshead
Bay Track.

6 c. HIIcrefh won three races at Sleeps
head Bay yesterday. with Montgomery
Hestigouche and Hampton Court. and was
one OF she few who went down TO the
track who rad no quarrel with the weather.
even though 1t played all sorts of pranks.
The storm which swept over the city in
the middle OF the afternoon struck Sleeps
head Bay in all fits fearsome force. and
changed the bright sunny Gay into dark.
creepy night. The good sized crowd hud
died in the stand. not knowing what to eN-
pect. out. on the whole. behaved well as
the lightning flashed with striking intensity
IN the gloom. the thunder ratified and the
rain came rushing down like small Nj
asara.
Several women tainted. and the historical
sohs OF Others could be heard here and
there when ball of fire came sizzling
down almost az their feet The bolt hit
the number board. which two men had left
2 moment before twisted out a, strip OF
splinters. and then. jumping IL two direc-
tiaus. plouEhed up d piece OF turf and
clipped a few slivers off the rail in front
O. the stewards stand. 4 moment later
another bolt ripped up a big strip OF turf
In the infeld and scorched the grass for
twenty or thirty ieel on Sacn SlCe
The storm rushed out to sea and did not
last many minutes. but, measured by the
feelings of both men and women, it seemed
6 long time and everybody told everybody
else. 1T was the worst I have ever seen. :"
Most everybody was right
The women. OF whom goodly number
were in attendance. had more 70 worry
about than the. men. once the excitement
was over. as getting home presented a
problem if gowns and feathers were 10 be
saved. Boys with umbrellas did rushing
business and the ''cabbies'' prospered.
Mr.. Hndreth was not satisfied with Mont
somerv's disa appointing effort over the turf
course in the last race on Friday and de-
cided to start him right back in the second
race Yesterday, and with better results
The onetime good handicap horse took UP
Us pounds and ran the mile and furlong
over the dead track in the fast time, under
the conditions, of 1:5S.
He looked hopelessly beaten at the turn
for home. as Shilling was hard at work
with the whip. while Frank Purcell was
sailing along three or four lengths IN front
The old hol Sc responded, however with a
COURAGE for which he is famous. and his
persistent Flooding had its reward, as
Frank Purcell tired well inside the last
sixteenth and stopped so suddenly that
MONTGOMERY made up three lengths in
dozen strides
When the Coney Island Handicap. at SIX
furlongs, was run the track was little bet
ter than a running stream Only three
horses faced the starter and 5. & Hill
dreth's Restigouche turned the tables on
Sir John Johnson for the defeat on
"Wednesday at GraveSend, when they met
at exactly the same weights. The sudden
change in form was anticipated but was
even more striking than looked for Put
II down to the mud was the suggestion
offered by one disgruntled man, who could
not understand the striking difference in
the two races. Another excuse for Sir John
johnson could be had in the fact that he
appeared to be all tangled up at the start
and lost two or three lengths which it was
impossible TO make up.
Mr.. HiIdreth scored his third success in
the Bay Ridge Handicap, at one mile and
2 sixteenth on the turf. Hampton Court
jumped out in front like a scared rabbit
rounding the first turn. and made his field
look cheap Harry Payne Whitney's Sea
Cliff. which was doing duty for the second
day in succession. chased him for six
furlonss, and then retired. soundly beaten,
allowing Superstition and Zienap TO fight
Il out for the place.
Round the World proved once more that
she is a FLY Of the highest class by splash
ing her way TO easy victory in the Spring
Stakes. The comeIy daughter of Dackford-
Nellie bly, threw mud in the faces OF her
opponents. a fairly useful lot, from start
TO finish, and won as her rider pleased.
Judging by her two races here. she viii
more than hold her own in much better
company. and some horsenen go so far as
TO call her the best two-year-old FLY shown
TO date, not excepting Bashu and House
maid
The Daisy Stakes. at five furlongs, fell
20 R F. Carman's Horizon.
With the success Of the Hildreth horses
Shilling, Of course, earned the jockey hon
ors, as he rode all three E. Dugan pressed
him closely by handling two winners
Uncas Chief and Horizon.