New-York tribune., 1920-06-02
Brooks Gets I'd Money:
Decisive Is Disqualified;
Lord Brighton Wins
Rv w. !. Macbeth

ne Greentree Stables Square
.I neA!er won won the International Steeple-
chase Handicap. the feature of YES
I5efcay racing program at Belmont
Davis's brooks, which brought up the
rear Of the field of three, took sec
ond money as Decisive was disquali-
ned TOT leaving the course 1t was the
Hrst disqualification of the Eastern
season
AS feature this years International
was little over which to boast. Usually
the $1,000 added money attracts a
more repres sentative lot of the tim Der
sfp s9fppers. One is forced to the con-
clusioA, after witnessing the cross
country races that have been held so
Tar, mat the Belmont course is un-
popular or the jumpers left in this
part OF the country are a poor lot It
seems mighty difficult, anyhow. to coax
out more than two or three at time
yesterdays racing developed some
interesting competition in spite OF the
lace that 1t was an unusually poor lot
OF tnoroughbreds generally that per
formed. After the loud hurrah of
Memorial Day one might be tempted
10 call the sport coursing rather than
racing. But many of the fields were
SO rank that the balance of class was
well esta bllshed, and it is matter of
class IN omparisons that makes horse
racing after all
More Distance Races
One Improvement was noted. There
were more than the customary num-
Der Of distance races. Two of the
trials were at q mile and the last
event was at mile and a sixteenth.
There was only one dash over the
straight course, which is decidedly
unpopular with the race goers. On
the main course, and especially over
distances of ground, the crowd gets
lts best view OF the competitions On
the straight no one can tell what is
gong on till the field gets a quarter
Schooled horses refuse to run straight,
never learning what the straight
chute is all about
AS to the renewal of the Interna-
tlonal Steeplechase Handicap. it seemed
the universal opinion that Square
Dealer had but to stand up TO win, and
he commanded chief attention in the
play at 3 to 5. Brooks was not with
out following But there was no
market for II. W. MaXwells Decisive.
IL was about as pretty race as
could be expected under the cIrcum
stances. Brooks and Square Dealer
took one turn of the field in close com
pany. Indeed, on the far side of the
held they took the fences together
Vincent Powers, just before the final
turn, let MS mount down for the first
time and Square Dealer quickly raced
away from Brooks Decisive at this
time moved up fast also But he ran
to the outside Of one of the beacons
IN making the last turn, and for this
was disqualified
Square Dealer, after clearing the last
fence scant half length in front of
Decisive, simply sprinted away from
the other in the final run over he
fiat. Brooks fenced we'll all the way,
but appeared short this first time out
and tired badly in the last quarter
mile.
Odds-On Wins Freeport
Sam Hildrech's Lord Brighton was
another odds-on favori.e that made
the Big mid-week crowd happy by
landing the brackets This four-year-
Old colt won the Freeport Handicap, at
seven furlongs, which was the sec
ondary feature, worth $1,000. R. T
Wilson Jr.'s Hannibal, which made his
first start of the season. commanded
respect but never had an opportunity
10 make Lord Brighton extend himself
Hannibal was pulled UP before the
stretch was reached, as ne bled very
badly.
There might have been different
story 10 this race, or at least 1t n ght
have been something more than Just
an exercise gallop for the odds-on
favorite, had Charles A. Stoneham's 5
The Young Cavalier been closer to the