New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
Two Winners
Beat Record at
Belmont Track
Trompe la Mort and Prin-
ceps Clip Corn Tasscl's
Figures for / l.16 Miles
By w. J. Macbeth

A whole lot Of real racing was seen
at Belmont Park yesterday afternoon,
IT time is any criterion of class of
competition. Two different winners
ran the mile and a sixteenth faster
than it had ever been run before at
Mr.. Belmont's reverse English merry
go-round.
In the Searingtown Handicap, with
$1,000 added, which was the feature
of the days programme, J. F. Widener's
imported four-year- chestnut colt,
Irompe La Mort, raced the mile and
a sixteenth in l AZ Is. In the very
next race Sam Hildreth's four-year- old
colt, Princeps, equalled the perform
ance of Trompe La Mort.
Of the two performances that of
Trompe La Mort was the more worthy,
as we'll as the more popular. The
Widener colt, which conceded twenty
pounds or more to the three others in
the field, was forced to pick up 11S
pounds. This was one pound more
than r. 7. Wilson, jr.'s, Corn Tassel.
five-year- old, packed on May % last,
when he set the former record at
1:44 2-5, with Buddy Ensor in the
saddle, beating such good ones as Be
Frank and Trompe La Mort that day.
King Plaudit Nears Record
But Trompe La Mort and Princeps
were not the only steeds that felt
their oats as a result of the baking
hot sun and the still, muggy day so
very conducive to the best physical
form. The Brooksde Stables three
yearold brown colt, King Plaudit
turned q very clever trick for Larry
Lyke when he galloped home a win
ner of the mile second race in ! SO As
just one-ffth second slower than
Stromboli's record performance of
September 7, 1914.
Trompe La Mort and King Plaudit
were both odds-on favorites. so, of
course, their victories were very pop
ular with the big Monday crowd. Prin-
ceps also opened favorite. But there
was such a heavy play on Bolster al
the last moment that this gelding went
to the post a hot favorite
Bolster had one of his sour days
He couldn't, or wouldn't, run a lick for
Wessler, and it was seen at the end
Of the first furlong that he would have
to wait for some other day. As tc
Princeps, Eddie Taplin got the Hill
dreth colt off winging and tow-roped
the field. He won by eight or ter
lengths, pulled up to common cante1
through the final sixteenth.
The Searington Handicap was almost
Widener colt was never fully extended
though he threatened to spread-eaglt
his field in the first half Pastora
Swain closed with great rush through
the stretch, but at the sixteenth Fair
brother shook up Trompe la Mort {
bit and drew off as he pleased again.
Luck Against Favorite
George W. Lofts Sweepment, which
won the mile third, had all the luck
John Z. Madden's Jeweller, which Sc
the pace to the half, bolted to the out
side Of the track. The favorite, Carpe'
Sweeper, was as good as left at the
post in one Of Cassidy's very worst
starts of the season. All down the
backstretch and around the turn Car
pet Sweeper was in one mess after an
other. Callahan did not appear strong
enough to pilot his mount out of trou.
BILE, and finally, when he hit the
stretch, he could not get clear in time
Torchbearer and King Plaudit, odds
on favorites of the first and second
races, respectively, were good invest
ments even at the short odds.