New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-19
EASTERN TRACKS
GAVE MILLION IN
RACING PURSES
Sum Distributed to 46l
Horsemen During the
Past Season.
II. p. WHITNEY HEADS
WINNING OWNERS
Dominant and Thuuderer Capt
ure More than $4,000 and
Lead All Others Easily.

Racing vas a LITTLE more worth wni.e'
at least from monetary point, iss'
year IL the eight months long sea
son that began al Bowie and ended
about three weeks AGO at that Mary
land track the assoc, atoms under the
jurisdiction OF the Jockey CLUB dls-
tributad more than a million dollars IN
purses 81 03l. GA. 20 be exact.
u. p. Whitney again led the list OF
winning owners. although his horses
raced under tho colors OF l.. ). Thomp-
son. His string won the tidy sum OF
s69.G-t. Second on The lis; was August
Belmor. chairman Of the Jockey CLUB,
,yi.h e5O.O03. while r. T Wilson was
third with S40,S90.
These three stood out from among
he other 1913 owners who shared IN the
distribution OF the prizes. Twenty
owners who Hon more than SlO,OOV
gathered IN S4ll,932, leaving S6Zo'sSo
for the little fellows.
With the exception Of August Bel
mont's Strombo.i. which won the Metro,
politan and Suburban hsndlcaps and
S15753. two-year-olds we're the biggest
money winners.
II. p. Whitney's Dominant, which
won the United States Hotel Stakes,
the SARATOGA Special and the Hopeful
earned his feed bills with sls,9Ao'
Thunderer. winner Of the Futurlty, was
? close second with sl7,3s5. These two
good ores from Brookdale Farm con.
fributed more than half 20 the total OF
the Whitney stable, from which almost
forty went 70 the races.
Some of the other stakes 20 the
f.-b fhR
Champa2ne. won by Chicle, the Eng
lish bred youngster; the Saranac'. oyy
the unbeaten Regret; the Municipal
Handicap. by Borrow; the Lassle ana
Greenfield, By Regina; the Bclalr ana
Philadelphia handicaps, by Slumber H.
and the Autumn lightweight HANDICAP
by Harmonicon.
Rcsmer did not have so good a sea
son this year as last, when he swept
everything before him and put Andre"
Miller ~ the list of the winning own
ers for the year This year Roamer
won Sl4,520, and the Miller total for
the season was S22,3l0, fifth on the
list.
Friar Rock and Fernrock, the former
with the Whirl Stakes and Adirondack
Handicap ~ his credit, and the latter,
which was first in the Suffolk, Csnarsie
and Trenton Selling Stakes, and Mis-
sion, winner of the New York Steeple-
chase and the Grand National Steeple-
chase Handicap, shared the honors with
Stromboli in paying some OF the oills
at the Belmont barns. Most OF the
others, although consistent performers
started in overnight handicaps or sell
ing races.
Tartar Montressor and 0rmesdale
the wo-yesr-old which showed so much
promise when he won the heene Me-
mortal Stakes and the Great American
Handicap, were factors in adding 70
r. T. Wilson's total Of S40,39O with
more than $4,000 apiece.
The Finn carried off the lions
share Of the purses in the Withers, the
Belmont Stakes, the Southampton, HUI
ron, Manhattan, Baltimore, Ellicottt
City and Dixie hsndicaps 20 the sum OF
S13,S55, more than half Of the S23,3oO
won by II. C.. Hallenbeck.
Others besides tho racing associa-
tions and horsemen benefited materi-
ally by the season that just closed in
Maryland. Thirteen thousand dollars
was turned over TO charity By the
tracks that operated the pari mutuel
machines.
Another shipment of English thor
oughbreds, some of those purchased at
the recent Newmarket December sale,
will be shipped from London within
the next fortnight. The lot probably
will include the fifty mares bought by
John Sanford, Senator Camden, A. B.
unnnnrL and " Z Zoe