New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-19
The Brook Just Beats Out
Crest Hill Over Steeple-
chase Course

Efforts are being maze 10 diia"sS
for two races during the present meet
ing at Aqueduct, which will add great
ly to the importance Of the fall session
of sport. The first proposal is con-
test between II. c. Applegate's ola
Rosebud, Harry Payne Whitneys Re
eret and Andrew Miller's Roamer in
handicap race of a mile and SIX
teenth or a mile and furlong, with
the ton weight to be l26 pounds. IL Is
proposed, if possible, to have this race
next Saturday, and there will be $4,000
added if it is arranged.
Andrew Miller has already expressed
a willingness to start Roamer IN sueh
a test. and it is expected that the other
two owners will agree. Trainer James
Rowe. who handles the horses of Earry
Payne Whitney, was not at the track
Yesterday and he could give no answer
for Regret.
Race Would Settle Supremacy
The other proposal is that Omar
Khayyam. the Wilfred Viau winner OF
rho Lawrence Realization, meet August
Belmont's Hourless in race or mile
and a half. Trainer Hildreth has said
since the defeat of Hourless that the
Belmont colt would have won had But.
we'll not lost his whip at the head Oh
the stretch. This should make him
eager for another meeting, while ootn
Mr.. Viau and his trainer, Richard r.
Carman, have always wanted match
with the Belmont three-year-old.
II this race is arranged 1t will be for
October 6, the last day Of the New
York racing season. The colts have no
engagements in common now, and both
are TT and ready. There will be s2,0oO
added for such a meeting II 1t IS ar
ranged, and there should be a much
better chance now than early In hu-
gust. when the other special between
the two was first suggested.
The prospect of these two races
rather overshadowed the days racing
down at Aqueduct, though the sport
that was offered was first class and
there was big crowd on hand for the
entertainment.
The stake Of the afternoon was the
Glen Cove, framed for selling platers,
ard it lost some of its interest when
tie field was literally scratched down.
1t resulted in an easy victory for the
imported colt Courtship, from the Ken
lucky stable. Incidentally it was
most marked improvement over what
the same colt has been showing IN all
of his recent efforts.
A Thrilling Finish
The steeplechase brought thrilling
finish, when Mrs. 7. J. Donohue's The
Brook was Just up to beat out Morton
l.. Schwartz's Crest Hill. In this run
ming Norman Kennedy, who had the leg
UP on Crest Hill, was guilty of rough
riding when he bumped the winner
right at the gap into the stretch and
almost carried him beyond the opening
Even with this advantage he could not
win, but had ne finished in front he
surely would have been disqualified for
the very palpabe foul. After the run
ming he was suspended for six days for
his rough riding.
In this steeplechase there were three
Harbor Hill candidates. Town Hall,
Crack O. Day and Melodrama performed,
and Of the lot Town Hall, who races
for W. K. Coe, gave evidence Of being
of true Harbor Hill quality. Melo-
drama was the only one that did not
finish. He did not fall, but when he
stumbled badly, almost unseating Nick
laus, he was pulled up.
The time for the two-mile course -
4:l2 established new record for
the course, so that it made the per-
formance of both Town Hall, who was
fourth, and Crack o. Day, who also fin