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ALBKKTVA132 JARS THE TAI.KNT. i The racing at Harlem yesterday was ordinary and over a track that was fetlock deep in sticky mud. A big crowd was cut. The air was far . better than the going. j One of the bisgest surprises of the local season was furnished by Albertvale in the third race at three-quarters of a mile. He was in with such speedy horses as Montgomery, Meddler, Lucky Star and Pauline J., and seemed to be outclassed. But he fancies sticky going and the ring went to insolence when it laid 100 to 1 against him, Montgomery was the natural favorite and heavily played at about even money. Meddler had second call at 3i to 1, acted badly at the post and caused a delay of about twenty minutes. Meddler waB away flying and he, Montgomery and Pauline J. went down the back stretch at a tarrific pace. The trio raced in a close bunch to the stretch, where all had enough of it. For a few strides Lucky Star seemed to to be winniog, but about the eighth pole Albertvale bsgan to move up to his horses and, going at an easy gait, he ran over them as though they were fixtures and won off by himself. That "Bob" Tucker has a good useful colt in Deering was demonstrated in the fourih race, a dash of a mile. Deering won his last race on a hard track easily. Knowledgability declared that bo could not run in the mud and beat such a good horse as Hobart. Consequently the ring made Hobart an odds-on choice and offered 2 to 1 against Deering. The latter ran like a mudlark of high degree. Ho went to the front on the first turn and led all the way, winning well in band by an open length. The timers bobbled over the speed. They bung out 1 :48 instead of 1 :53. Racing Fokms representative called their attention to the error and it was rectified, but not until after the official time had been sent out as 1:481. Before the last race James Dunne, a newcomer to the turf, made some idle talk about Home Respasa running his horse Maceo in sell-iug races too cheaply. Maceo was entered for 800, and Bespass, in a joking way, said to Dunne: "You can have him for the entered price and the purse." Dunne thought he was getting a bargain and jumped at it, paying Respass 1,200 for the Sir Dixon Vassar colt. Bespass. reserved the right to run the horse in the last race for himself. He then bet ,000 of he purchase price on him at even money. Res-rpass made a good sale all about. He lost the horse, but virtually got ,500-a royal price for him. Maceo is not sound, and Respass seemed well pleased over his sale. Prestomo was the natural favorite for the opening race and. cleverly handled by Rutter, he won a nice race from Phallas and Azua. Branch, at the liberal price of 16 to 5, got off in front for the mile and seventy yards race and won all the way. He is almost a stake horse in . heavy going, Brigadier General McQuigan brought his en-tire family and the neighborhood out to see hia colt Dick Furber win the fifth race. The visit-ing bunch bad a co-operative bet down on i Furber, and when the colts white face showed in front in the stretch it made enough noiBe to t jar the top of the new stand. The colt which is i at his best just now won off by himself.
