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AGAIN AT HABIGSI. The local racing- scene ehif ted yesterday from "Hawthorne to Hailem and, as is almost always the case before horses get accustomed to a change of tracke, there were some form variations. Egbarts and Brigades raceB yesterday were good examples of this. It was a hot, sultry afternoon but the card offered by Secretary Nathanson was a V6ry attractive one and a crowd of over 3,000 sweltered in the grandstand and betting ring. Garneros good race, Brigades bad one and Egbarts form somersanlt were the main features. Carner o, who is naturally a horse of high class, but baa been a cripple for over a year, i was in the fifth event at a mile and one-sixteenth, along with a pretty good lot, which, included John Baker, who was made favorite over the field at 8 to 5 and less. That Carnero is once more athimself he clearly demonstrated. He trailed in behind his horses until the stretch was reached and then went to the front on call. Carnero ran the last mile in 1 John Baker xan a fair sort of a race, but had to be contented with third place, Monk Wayman beating Mm three-quarters of a length. The Brigade race had a bad look and will be likely to get someone into trouble. The horse .looked like a sure winner in the fourth, a mile condition race, and 9 to 20 was the best price ever offerad against him, and it seamed then that the pencilers were giviDg away their money. Brigade got away fourth but had no speed whatever, and down the back stretch dropped ten lengths back of the last horse. Flick, who rode Brigade, seemed to be hunching and urging the horse for all he was worth but it was of no use. He plodded in behind the bunch until the head of the stretch where it seemed for an instant that he was going to display some speed but he never did. After the finish, Espionage having won easily from Pay tha Fiddler, an angry mob gathered around the judges stand and for an instant a sta mpede looked possible. The judge3 called Flick up and also Owner 3. ft. Bradley, but neither could explain the horses bad showing. In fact, Flick was crying so bitterly that he could not talk at all. Brigade did not carry either whip or spur and the judges were at sea as to what action to taka. They finally declared the race no contest, bat will farther investigate the matter. Esrbart, with 116 pounds up, finished fourth to Bon Jour, TJarda and Einstein in his last oat, which was at Hawthorne last Friday. The raca was at a milo and a sixteenth and was run in 1:48. Yesterday Egbart was in at a mile and an eighth and with ten pounds less weight he won in a romp in 1:551. Einstein in the same raca finished a bad fifth. The Harlem track is evidently Egbarts choice. Still he has the reputation of being a bad horse and a rank in and outer. This considered, the horse was backed from 2i to 1 down to 2 to 1. Graziella showed her heels to a fast lot of sprint9rs in the third race. The talent always overlooks this filly and she wont to the post at 5tol. Mathews rode her, and waiting in a good position until the stretch was reached he then made hii move and Graziella responding like a good race mare came on and won by two lengths from Cancva. Tho first race furnished an accident and also a big surprise. The accident happened to Erla dOr wht got tangled up on the far turn and went down with jockey A. Booker. It was a bad looking fall, and Booker was lucky in escaping alive. The surprise was the fact that Willie Newcom rode tho winner, Zaza. It has been about a year sinc3 this jockey finish ed in front. Tho last race went to Maggie Davis. This filly is very spdedy and by getting a loDg lead early she managed to last long enough to win. Following are recent new arrivals at the Harlem track : Redfield and Wallenstein with Great-lands and Pell Mali II; W.H.Rogers with Richard J Our Gertie, Kensington and others; W. H. jlay with seven head, and J. G. Cahn from St. Louis with his entire string. "Virginia" Bradley has at last put what possibly may be the laBt nail in Boney Boys coffin. The honest little "iron horse" puiledup very lame in his laet race, and the veterinary says he has broken down. It was about this time last season that Traverser dropped dead. This may teach Bradley a lesson in humanity.
