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bKU(3KLYN"FOR G. t SMITH * Rplmcir thp C nit An Added Starter, Coupled with I.J 1 1 1U1 LI 1^ V_> WU Was at 3 to i, and Carried a Bale of Money. His Owner Alone Ret $20'000.The Race Won Almc)st from "End to End" in 2:09 3-4, Over a Heavy Track, Before About 20,000 People. <^x$x$x«x$><$x3xgx«xSx«> <; By Julius Chambers. the Handicap started, great masses of a spurt, and, doubtless, so Sims regarded An Race to Ride. clouds were constantly in liis path. the effort. <^> Easy was cottonny It was one of the easiest races I THE eleventh Brooklyn Handicap "Tliey Are Off!"' During the supreme struggle the two y won at Gravesend by ever rode. I had the best mount yesterday The group at the head of the stretch, horses ran free of the group, The Swain Howard Mann a bay colt which had where track is broadened by the turn, being crowded back to fourth place by I got a bully good start, Tod Sloane horses, colors. Careful study through a good glass that the,pace was too rapid for that point -and ran second off on Belmar pretty winner. Lake Shore Volley, told me that the horses were more tract- 1 n the race, the grand horse almost stopped, getting nearly T even with me. I had the front for a and third. able than usual on such occasions. Indeed, iind for an instant the thousands of T. ._ .,V, +V, /, 4> little bit, but I let The Swain take < were away on the third break at were astonished to see the McLeau to they got spectators the pace as we went the second featherweights, on a muddy track, got When Starter ( by the end of eight minutes. antry running second. I the front promptly and stayed there. furlong post. took second place < Pettiugill dropped the flag the glint of That sight broke the heart of < * and it The result recalled Eurus's "Suburban" seen 4> kept right along. My horse spurs and the splash of mud could be .He showed the true Hanover blood * ' and II.'s Brooklyn successes. It Handspring.< > was running easy under me and I Castaway from the grand stand. I hr rHvinc nn Olrl TTnnnvpr hirnsplf Tvrmlrl anew the uncertainties of the X felt all along that he was going to < emphasizes Almost i'Htantly The Swain, with his have done the same thing. I never turf. stay with the bunch. As we were < chocolate-faced ran to the front, to have seen him win a race after he <|> Here is the the eleven jockey, remember < > coming up the backstretch Sir Wal- ^ way candidates followed his companion on the was headed.no matter what closely by fairly might ter showed a good burst and had me lined up at the head of the stretch, ready outside of the track, Howard Mann. Nearer be the of the that did X for the flag.Handspring having the pole lineage quadruped 2,. scared for a few seconds. Hand- < the rail was Handspring, a prince among it. Any steeple climbing goat could make 4> showed of or inside position: Sims held the spring, too, signs waking 4 so ma My untitled steeds. him quit; but get him off in the lead, then and I was a lament X up, little anxious, but \ horse's head as in a vise, and, I to let him alone and he was a world beater, a X when I '2 2 p until felt the big fellow stretch 4 say, continued to do the same thing record breaker and a streak of money "himself under me I knew I had 'em < lost to him. The <$> the race was hopelessly lown the track! I didn't have to raise my - ~ horse was the heavily i ^ £ 2 big Dwyer only Now we were about to see another Sbeat. or so much as kick him in the >.Sk.r to % had to do was to sit in the saddle X 1.. i * i Walter and Belmar were behind everything i was famous his 1i- .h he and harne willmomentt and hold him in I didn't ^ Shore. place. 2 except Lake I ive as long as the American turf endures know until an hour before the race and swaying where the mud Struggling .his name is Howard Mann. Beyond the that I was going to ride Howard « y The Training of Howard Mann. ¥ was deepest, horses and riders came to the * three-qharter pole lie never was headed. y Mann. Mr. Smith engaged me to I on Howard The parade through the quagmire-like first Thrilling as was the scene, *' began working ¥ quarter. From that point the featherweights came ride one of his entries some time % y Mann in All of track hardly elicited the usual amount of impetuous as was the pace, the crowd along February. '-y nto play again. The race to the turn was ... ago, but I didn't know which one it f his was done at Morris enthusiasm. Cheers were heard for the showed uone of the iooked-for madness training ! i series of spurts on the part of King <$> would be. It was easy sailing, Park. I had in hand at the Dwver horse. Handspring, which had been that steeds evoke. Almost in ^ ¥ l^im ... galloping Arthur II. (of whom much was expected, though, and of course I'm glad I same with favorite until twenty-four hours before the Swain still like a 'J:' % ¥ time Belmar. Mann be- ¥ with The running silence,?ven the last was now had the chance of riding such a game race, when the Smith stable had divided moment). Volley % <| X gan to show good form early in }' deer, the large field of ilaced with .. mount. ¥ horse of unusually good temper, ¥ Dn^ like a weight-carrier's day. Races have <§> Winning Jockey. the hothouse of the the purple and yellow of "Pittsburgdeicribed but a few weeks ago he became t Possibly humidity been run before at Gravesend, and the Phil." £ atmosphere had a depressing effect upon very ugiy. Then he got all right ¥ quitting time of the sprinters was now Whether he was Belmar or Howard most of the 20,009 people on the damp uses men make of their voices! again, and I was satisfied that he looked for with more curiosity than fear. as crowd contrasting backers. Every roil ef thunder the cushed through the bunch from seventh to rider are covered with mud. by race was concerned. artillery of Heaven the hlrd place, couldn't catch him. The finish was a on the rest X which Mann started.a mile and a X during long, rainy Belniar Comes l"p. painful joke night had been a tip on1 Volley and his Thlf! rush of Sir Walter was the of the field. Apparently the Unknown won quarterhe won in a canter, beat- < > Belmar ran up'with a rush that implied thrilling class; every splash of the shower had plsode of the turn into the so that little Martin the some horses. His trials leadership, pressed Handspring into second hemestretcli. easily adopted y lng good y the handicap of the light-weights.betteredIt was watching carefully with a glass that Garrison trick of looking back at his T over hefe were all by himself. When position, and thus, for a furlong, the ^ was a day in which anything might nabled me to his old he went of a mile In .> was: The study gallant face, pursuers. three-quarters for tho*igh the sun came out before Swain, Handspring,rearrangementnstantly I thought that he was about Lake Shore suddenly a '*> 1:16 on I knew he was happen.Howard Mann, Belmar, Loki, Sir Walter, to developed Saturday y epeat the history of last year. burst of and passed from far in fit to make a race, and would hold Jefferson, King Arthur II., Ben Eder, Lake speed remarkable% ^ What a mud-goer he Is! Ridden to the rear, round and outside the group of his own with the best of the <», Shore and Volley. In this order the run <§> by Doggett, Sir Walter yesterdayper'ection,horses ahead of him and seized second y bunch. The Winner did not come y round the turn was made. "y ore through the bunch of horses directly place from Loki at the same moment that X up to expectations, and last night, n his path with the license of a Volley dashed up to and passed Loki at when we saw that it would be backers of the favorites. Their projectile 4> positions ^'elt to be coming but not to be obstructed, the inner rail. Thus they finished amid y heavy going, we decided to put y .seemed well assured. Hadn't the unknowns a silence that was in a Hanc Howafd * 'sot a foul was the horses deeply felt many was no The Finish of the Heap, Mann v made, because Mann in. It to Brooklyn had their 'f surprise y Winning, romp? in one side and the other as he reached pocket. The favorite, Handspring, was a me to see him come home in front, Not A turn of and y if West Ausitralian (Melbourne. yet! the kaleldescope t hem could be seen to give way to the past bad fourth. The others nowhere. He's a good, game horse, and won Mowerlna, by . Howard Mann developed prismatic colors tnaster of the once winner of this The race was not started with the net, !/ t 'Australian ' turf, on his merits. Young Em11ius. quite unexpectedly. j so Howard Mann did the great act without A Emilia ., landlcap. % WILLIAM SMITH, : Persian, by . No sSoner hftd the long back-stretch one. He is no mere acrobat. No horse can S j_ Fairly squared off for the finish. Sir Wal- <$> Trainer of Howard Mann. y Weatherbit Sheet Anchor, been entered than a splendid struggle for win this great race and remain . I t\ ^ er was third, a length behind Loki, and yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy U ^ Miss Lett.v, by . precedence occurred. Instead of surrender ait lpnst it lifllf lpntrtli In front of TTnnil- As happened to Exile and others of a !*Cicily Jopson so Cestrea . Faugh-a-Ballagh, iiig to his stable mate, Behnar, Howard s pring. Apparently the blue ribbon was parentage, comes nobility to plebeianthe E ; Mare by Liverpool. Belmonts were Mr. and Mrs. * Mann victor of and to his box near the «w boldly challenged Handspring. The j,tW the and yesterday progeny. f again. But, alas, purple In Mr. and Mrs. * Don showed a of furious in The time (2j09%) is within three seconds Alexandre. others Sidney rago .... John, ^ J glass furlong riding, n colors of "Pittsburg Phil," like thosecaary Staten Scandal, by Seline. one of the record. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, of Scotland Tpl J| ^ which the horse with race to his credit 0 f the star-spangled banner, "were still Handicap «' ^ Bonnie ^ Van Rensselaer j Mr. and Mrs. H. _ tson.ocU this year gradually outfooted and passed Island: ® 2 Queen M arT Gladiator, J there".in front. were «f | Mare by Plenipotentiary. son of Hanover. It Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. Hunnewell tke appeared to be only The Bast Agrony. WHO WERE AT THE RACE. ^ with a little ^ n ...... Einilius. to party. Ui Sovereigi Many people then began realize what Not Out in but Mrs. F. Beckel, who had a box, Fleur-de-lis, by Bourbon. Benjamin ..... Society Force, Many a Sister to Buric.. , Qbservers through good glasses had known was Eve Dr. Saw the accompanied by Miss Beckel, Levity . 'Trustee. ;' or a minute, the of People WeilKnown Vandals. o r^' quarter supremacy Woodward, George Foster antl Baron Dam, by "Tranby. »