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CANOVAS RECORD RACE. V Harlem offered a firat-cla33 card yesterday and that feature together with fine weather and a fast track served to attract a bi? half- lioliday crowd. Secretary Nathansons mile and twenty yards handicap was cartaiulf a beauty and although only five started they were bo evenly matched and weighted that speculation on the event was lively, and the race itself was an exciting one to look at. r W. K. Clevelands closest friends as well as -a majority of the "knowing ones" told him that he was insane to start Canova at Buch a distance . He laughed at them and in return told 1 them they had batter have a bet down, that 1 Canova was good and would certainly win. So confident was be of the colts ability that he bet Patsy King 5 bsfore the race that he would break the track record. He won his bet for Canova came home gallantly in 1:411 which is a second better than the distance has ever been run before at Harlem. It did not take starter Dwyer long to get the small field away, with Monk Wayman in front, Canova second and Tony Licilzi third. Flick took Canova to the front on the first turn and rated him cleverly there. He did not go out and try to make a runaway race of it, bat sat still and let Canova gallop under mild restraint for the first? three-quarters in 1:15. It was a very evenly paced race. Tho Eeven furlong3 were run in 1:271 and the mile in 1:40 ilat. There was quite a lively bit of contention at the end between Canova 8nd Harry Nutter, but the latter was in clo3e to the rail and Flick took care to hold him there. In doing so he caused some interference, but not enough to call for judicial action. John Baker, who lay second all the way, quit at the end, finishing third about four lengths in front of the 9 to 5 favorite, Monk Wayman. Our Gertie, fresb from St. Louis, beat Helens Pet and Benneville in the most hotly contested race of the day. The trio met in the fifth ovent, which was at three-quarters, and the betting waa confined strictly to them. Benneville was favorite at 7 to 5, and it was about 21 to 1 each the other two. Helens Pet jumped out in the lead at the start and set a merry pace down the backstretch with Onr Gertie in close pursuit. About the half mile post Bisping started to move up with Benneville, butquicker than a wink he was sharply shut off, and to keep from falling had to pull up the horse almost to a stand-still. This, of course, de-stroye d whatever chance he had of winning and left the race strictly between Our Gertie and Helens Pet. The latter led by a length and a half into the stretch, but about the eighth post she began to weaken and Our Gertie slowly but surely caught her. The letter is none too stont-hearted, and for an instant after she got to Helens Pet she hung, bnt under Jenkins strong urging with his hands tho filly responded and staggering and all oat, managed to win by a short head. It was a good race for Our Gertie. She carried 107 pounds and ran tho six farioDga in 1:131. Some of the fastest two-year-olds at the track weie entered in the first race which was at four and one-half furlongs and it was 21 to 1 and b3tter take yoar pick. After a delay at tho post of fifteen minutes Dwyer got them away but none too well, with iDlook in front. He and Oconee stepped the first quarter in 231 and the three-eighths in 351 and then both wero ready to lie down. Lady Elite, who wes slightly out-sprinted in the first part of the race, came along ia the stretch at a good even stride and passing the tired oneB in front, won easily from Avon-stoke. Tho latter was poorly ridden and badly pocketed in the stretch. V r 1 1 What made Egbart 3 to 1 in the second race was a mystery. He appeared to b on form much the best horse in the race and proved to be such. Flick got away fourth with the old horse but at once went to the front and setting a pace to suit himself ho won pulling up. Gun Metal, Finem Ro3pice and Bon Jour had a hard fight for second and third places, finishing as above named. Like the second, the third race was aiso at a mile and a quarter. Gadsden won this in a drive from Hanlight in three-quarters of a second better time than Egbart ran in. The closing mile race went to Newsgatherer, who got away in front and led from start to finish.
