New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-09
Prefers Defeat with Clean
FetlOcks to Victory
with Muddy Ones.
DAVID GIDEON'S
LUCK HOLDS AGAIN
Little Dipper Races Through
When Cochran's Filly
Falters.


moods, rather than muddy ner feet
lost a race at Belmont Park yesterday
afternoon.
The aptly named daughter OF Voter
Belle of Ashland had the race for
two-year-olds at four and a hall fur-
longs practically won when she saw
spot on the track fifty yards from the
winning post that had been wet down
a little more than usual. Her dainty
instincts were too strong. she
propped, staggered, almost fell and
swerved 10 the outside rail. Then Da-
vid Gideon's Little Dipper. which was
beaten horse up to that moment,
came on and won, while Miss Puzzle.
from the Butler stable, closing with
rush, made the place.
Feminist, in spite OF her untoward
actions, got her number up third.
1t was as weird a finish as Belmont
Park racegoers have seen in many
day. And most of the crowd In
the grandstand laughed, even those
who had something on" Clifford Coch-
rams FLY. Feminist has all the ear
marks of another Tranid. She kicked
Miss Puzzle the last time they went
to the post together, and her swerving
and bad manners at the barrier nave
called forth not a few harsh words
from the starters.
Prince of Como, stablemate, did
the same thing the other day In
race, but as he was out OF the money
at the time il did not matter. A few
of the disgruntled ones said that II
Lilley had gone to the whip in the last
sixteenth Feminist would not have
been looking for mud spots on the
track.
Nine two-year-olds, the biggest field
of the day, went 70 the post in this
race. with Miss Puzzle the choice.
There were many that favored the
daughter Of Astronomer, named after
one of the major consultations.
Little Dipper broke well and went
out in front with fine turn OF speed.
She looked the winner till Feminist,
which had been on her better behavior.
came rushing up. David Gideon's luck
has long been a byword on the TRACKS
II held good yesterday.
There were more good racing ana
tight finishes. although the fields were
rather ordinary.
Perhaps the highest finish of the
day was in the closing race, for NO
year-old maidens, which Blue Rock. by
| Tran Rock-Sly Nun, won by the pro-
verbal eyelash. Clifford Cochrans
Devonshire Dolly, an odds-on favorite'
/ was lust nosed out in this four and a
half furlong sprint.
/ There are evidently more than
dozen ways of pronouncing the wor1
! v-i-r-i-l-e. At least one could hear
that many as the chestnut son OF stat
wart-Cherubim raced through the
stretch and beat II. c. Hallenbeck's
Blue Thistle in the Quogue Handicap
at one mile and a sixteenth.
Mrs. Payne Whitney sat in a box and
seemed delighted with the perform
ance.
Wooden Shoes, with McCahey up, is
evidently combination hard 10 beat.
The chestnut son of Burgomaster-,
Breakdown came back yesterday ana
won as easily in the mile selling race
as he did the day before. The hght
was for the place and Andrew MIXERS
Bac beat Fenmouse for that.
Morys and Etruscan won brackets
handily in the mile for maiden platers,
the Thompson horse winning In COM
mon gallop over Sam SLICK, stable
mate up to last week.
There was only one scratch IN the
card yesterday. The new rule seems
20 ba working we'll. Whether T. y.
Iemaire will have 70 pay the penalty
for his deed no one seemed 70 Know.
There were five horses named Tor tho
race.
With the ten days taken over from
the Empire City meeting, Belmont Park
will have all the racing days that 10
can have under the state law--forty
in all.
lanes Buffers Kilkenny Boy pulled
nm lame after his workout yesterday
morning. so Dick Benson will not send
him 70 the races for some days.
The Finn. which Is named TO starr
In the Excelsior Handicap on Thursday
at Jamaica, worked mile snd SIX
teenth in 1:5l yesterday. II. c. Haiien-
heck received a telegram from the
stewards at Latonia asking II he was
Going 70 start the son of Ogden In the
/ Derby there. He wired back that ne
was not. Incidentally, Hallenbeck Is
biohIv pleased with the work OF byrne,
his stable Jockey; at least he was TIL
the fourth race yesterday.
stromboli and Sam McMeekin, both
candidates for the Excelsior hhna,eaP'
worked we'll in their trials yesterday
lanes Butler and Andrew Miller sent
.ho;r stables 10 Jamaica yesterday.
The general exodus will probably como
to-day.
Apropos Of small fields, the selling
race for three year-olds and upward
that was the last Of the card failed 20
iii. but Ellocker had no difficulty IN
getting seven good horses for SIX