The New York herald., 1922-11-12
GREAT RACE MARES,
OF YESTERYEAR
,Artful Beldame and Other
Turf Queens Recalled by Fill
lies Out This Season.
BY O. j. FITZGERALD.

in the Nig stake racing features of the
seen more, good young mares under col
ors than at any time since Artfui, Bel
dame, Hamburg Belle and Tradition
were making turf history. renders a
backward glance at the performances of
this galaxy Of great mares most In
teresting.
| That Sally's Alley, Blossom Time and
How Fair, the heroines of the recent
| Pimlico Futurfty, are good fillies no
| body doubts, ner were Edict, Cresta
and others of their sex barren of Glass
| during the middle Of the season. but
| they all must do Snore than they have
accomplished to ds.te before they can
| be acclaimed the equals of that great
quartet which flour lshed in the early
nineties and won their races against
some of the best horses the United
States has ever KNOWN.
Beldame and Hamburg Belle were
foaled in the same year, 1901. the former
at the Nursery Stud of August Belmont
and the latter at the Elmendorf Stud
of James 3. Haggin. Hamburg Belle,
a daughter of Hamburg, out OF i'm
ported Isiac by Rosebery, achieved great
distinction as a two-year-old by win
ming the Futurity Stakes in a field Of
eighteen. defeating select band of
performers, which included Leonidas,
Highball, Audience, Broomstiek. Lady
Amelia and Delhi She ran in the col
ors of Sydney Paget. who leased her
racing qualities from her breeder. and
she was trained by that clever horse
man. A. ]. Joyner.
Beldame. a spanking daughter of
Octagon and imported Bella Donna, by
Hermit, won three out of six starts at
two under the silks of her breeder Her
victories included the Vernal and Great
Filly stakes. and it Is interesting to
note that among those she defeated in
the latter event were Audience and
Mineola, the former the dam of Whisk-
broom H.. while the latter a daughter
of imported Meddler, has given the turf
Johren and other good performers. Sem
ator Pat McCarren's Ocean Tide was
second in the race, beaten q short head.
BeIdame's Brilliant Campaign.
AS a three-year-old Beldame, which
had been trained by John Hylau, was
| leased by Newton Bennington and race
goers are still talking of the briiliancy
Of her campaign in 1904, when she was
| trained by Fred Burlew and ridden by
Frankie O'Neil, the idol Of tho French
! turf of to-day. She won every race in
which she started as a three-year-old,
except the Test Handicap at Brighton
Beach, where she carried '115 pounds to
Hermis's 1873, the latter a five-year-old
and just then a star of the first nagni-
tude. Beldame's victories included the
Alabama Stakes the Saratoga Cup. in
which she beat at weight Dor age the
best distance horses of the year. :nclud-
ing Africander., The Picket, Caughna-
waga and Major Daingerfield the
Dolphin Stakes. September Stakes, de-
feating Ort Welles, and the First and
Second Specials, at one and quarter
and one and a half miles respectively.
In the former at weight fog age she
trounced such stars as Ort Weiles, Stall
wart and Caughnawaga, while in the
longer event she carried 112 pounds to
Broomstick's 10 Cloth being three-year-
cids). Others beaten for this prize were
McChesney and Africander, crack four
year-olds, each with 121 pounds UP.
Goodwin's guide has the following COM
nlent on the race:
"The favorite romped in front tho en-
tire distance"
Beldame raced in the colors OF her
owner the next year. but her subse-
quent form, while good. was never as
dazzling as in 1904.
Hamburg Belle as a three-year-old
won the Brighton oaks, the Fall
Handicap. in which she carried l2O
pounds to 124 on the smart five-year-
old Alan-a-Dale the, Flight Stakes,
beating Mineola and others. and the
Hunter Handicap, with 125 pounds up.
She won the Flight Stakes the
Brighton Mile and other features be-
fore retirement and was considered
great mare.
Two OF the best that ever stood on
iron were foaled in 1902, the game year
as Sysonby and other stars of the great
est brilliancy among the colts. These
were Artful by Hamburg, out of Martha
H., by imported Dandie Dinmont, bred
by William c. Whitney, and Tradition,
by imported Goldnnch, out Of Reclare,
by Reform, who. like Hamburg Belle,
first saw the light at Elmendorf
Trained by Past Master.
Artful was trained by that past mas
ter, ]. w. Rogers and while she ran
but seven races during her entire career,
she will always be hailed as one of the
sensational mares OF the American turf.
Because of the death of Mrs. Whitney,
Artful raced In 1904 in the name and
colors of Herman 3. Duryea. She was
second in her first two starts, to stable
companions. and the public got no
glimpse OF her real capacity till the Fu-
turlty Stakes, for which she met Sys-
onby, Tradition and other cracks. She
had an allowance which made her weight
ia to 1877 each on Sysonby and Sra
dition. She won In a canter, and fol-
lowed 1t up by winning the Great Filly
Stakes, with 124 pounds In the saddle,
and the White Plains Handicap under
the crusher of 130.
AS a three-year-oid Artful made her
great reputation by winning the BriRh-
ton Handicap with l03 pounds up. beat
ing Ort Welles and Beldame each with
125 pounds. and number OF other good
ones. Sysonby was at his best at the
time The Brighton Beach management
tried 10 arrange a match between the
colt and filly, offering purse OF So 900
or $4,000, IL necessary, for a race at
mile and a furlong, or a mile and
quarter. Mr.. Whitney was abroad at