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; , , LADI ELITE AGAIN. What th9 racegoers in this vicinity have wanted to see for several day3 past was another meeting batween the two crack fillies, Lady Elite and Unsightly. Yesterday Secretary Nathanson had a condition race on the card where the pair met at equal weights and at a suitable distanca for two-year-olds, at this time of the year, five aud a half furlongs. This race proved a great attraction aud an enormous crowd was at the Harlem track. The race furnished a beautiful contest and a stirring finish. It aleo proved beyond a doubt that Lady Elite is Unsightlys superior. The formor won after a desperate drive for nearly three furlongs yet she just managed to get up in time to get the verdict from Merito to whom she was conceding weight. The race was hardly a fair test of Unsightlys ability, as srhe was off in a tangle and never really got straightened out. Still she had no more bad luck in the race than did Lady Elite. Beauchamp rode the latter and took a desperate chance to squeeze through on the rail in the stretch. Jockey Mathews, who rode Merito, thought ho won the race, and when he got back to the stand to weigh in and saw Lady Elite inside of the ring, that is always made for the winner, a look of amazement came over his face. Track Superintendent "Billy" Myers had a big surprise in store for the army of handicap-pers and close observers who thought that after such a heavy fall of rain the night before -the track could not halp but be muddy. The truth of the matter is the rain, with all the attention the track got after it fall, was just what the course needed and it was in excellent condition. Wagner and Webar tried to burn up the ring in the first race with their Kingston Carmen-cita colt, Jake Weber, and came very near doing it. The youngster opened at 15 to 1, but under a steady play his price was cut down to 2 to 1. At this figure he went to the post. That the men who played Jake Weber knew what they wero about is beyond a doubt. He proved, a fast breaker, and, getting away in front, immediately started to make a runaway race of it. The first eighth was run in Hi- and the quarter in 23i second. This put Jake three, lengths to the good, and swinging into the stretch he appeared to have everything his own way. Suddenly he tried to run out, losing quite a bit of ground. Hill became a trifle nervous and went to the whip. This seamed to frighten tho colt more than it did him good, and below tha sixteenth post both Lomond and Decoy had him beaten. Tho lattar wobbled in the last twenty yards, and Lomond, running game and true, won by three-quarters of a length. Prince Blezes. roughly ridden by W. Jones, won tho second race in a very hard drive by a length and a half from Deoring. Jones bumped everything within reach of him on the first turn, and repeated this performance again on the far turn. He evidently frightened the other riders, for they pulled out ana let him through. - Nick Halls useful and consistent filly Canace .. proved the best in tho third event and stopDing tho throe-quarters in 1:14 flat she won off by herself The fourth atone mile and twonty yards went to Lord Zeni, tho natural favorite, and tho sixth also at one mile and twenty yards, which had eighteen starters, was won by McAlbert, a 30 to 1 chance. The judges, after investigating tho Brigade race, came to the conclusion that the horse and not Jockey Flick was the cause of the miserable showing made by him in his race Monday. They notified owner E. R. Bradley that his en-tries would be refused at Harlem hereafter. The jockeys of Harlem and Hawthorne are to give a grand ball at Williams Hall, Madison and Harlom ave , Saturday evening, July 29. Jockeys Nutt, Bloss, Tabor, Hill and others are on tbe reception committee, and an evening of enjoyment is promised.
