New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-28
Twenty-six Thousand Sec
Belmont Horse Scamper
to Victory.
DRIZZLE LETS UP
JUST IN TIME
Pebeto Captures LaurelS in the
Hampstead Steeplechase-
Capra Wins Handicap,

A larger crowd than witnessed 'he
running Of the Metropolitan Handicap
on Thursday last assembled yesterday
10 watch the six events arranged by
the Westchester Racing Association for
the entertainment Of It's paying guests.
Before the barrier had been sprung on
the first race Of the afternoon more
than $4,000 persons had made their
way down TO Americas premier hip
podrome and were busily engaged in
placing friendly wagers or discussing
the relative merits of the bangtails.
August Belmont was the big winner
on the day, for his imported colt Hour
less scsmpered home in front OF eight
other youngsters in the Juvenile,
fve-furlong stake race, which was
guaranteed 90 net the victor at least
$4,000.
A thousand at least of the $4,000 at
tended the auction sale held m the
paddock before the races began; but
An were in their places calling en-
couragements when the first field came
laundering down toward the winning
post.
Jupiter Pluvius, being a cranky old
6eitv, with little use for juveniles,
dispatched a May drizzle to the race
course, with instructions TO hamper
the fortieth running Of the KID clas.
sic" and dampen the enthusiasm OF
the spectators.
But either the drizzle took compass
SION on the exuberant gathering or the
nd galrOhf epnf SQUAD
of reserves TO Belmont; for never was
there a prettier twO-year-old contest
than Yesterdays Juvenile, and only
once in the last nine years has the
time made by the winner been eXcelled
bv winner of this feature.
Even the fact that rank outsider
an English importation of almost IN
known lineage leading the close
hunched field as il pounded down the
straichtaway could not eXtingulsh the
enthusiasm Of the great crowd.
Truth 70 tell, eight Of the nine
Youngsters that participated IN the
chase were running so evenly up 10
the last hundred yards that there was
scarcely a man or woman IN the crowd
but thought that his or her cholce
was about TO burst to the fore and
capture the prize. A..
Rut blood VIII tell. y lOOh INV N'N
record of the winner discovers HIM
10 be the grandson of great forebears,
chief among which was Plaisanterie' a
famous French mare, which won so
many stakes in France and England a
few years ago that her owner stopped
keeping track of them.
A Corking Field.
Hourless took the measure of cork
ing field. too He set a pace entirely
too swift for such willing speed-burn-
ers as Breeze, James Buffers prize
winner: Jack Mount, another Engish
colt. which has already made a name
for himself in this country, and Juila-
Icon. the flly upon whom u. W. Lott,
The candy dispenser, has pinned his
homes of turf honors in the two-year-
But the son Of Negofol- Glass
II was equal TO the test. One word
from his rider. Jockey Haynes, and ne
tore away from the pack, whizzing
across the line fair length anead OF
Buffers Ivory Black, which hnished tne
same distance in front OF Mr.. Lofts
ontrv for the second position.
Exciting and close as was the 1910
Juvenile. IL was no more spectacular
race 10 witness than was the Hemp
stead Steeplechase, the NTH event on
the davis programme. This two-mlle
Gallon over brush and turf was con-
tested by a octette Of comely hunters