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HAKLI RACING. It w as a fine afternoon yesterday for racing, and as Harlem offered an attractive card there was a record breaking Monday crowd at the "track. Interesting racing and fast time was the order of the day. Fonr favorites won and taking everything in consideration the public started in on the new week well satisfied. The ring got a drubbing it will long remember over the vi ctory of Algareta in the last race. This filly is back in her two.year-old form and evidently her owner was well aware of that fact. She belongs to Q. B. Havili, one of Chicagos oldest settlers. He is not a heavy bettor, bat he has a son-in-law, Harry Morris, that is. Mr. Morris never stopped betting on her until the ball rang in tlfe ring telling the bookmakers 4,they are off." Algareta opened at 2 to 1, and despite the strong play on Flora Louise and Canace, her price waB forced down to 6 to 5, and a round sum was bet on her at that pries. The race was a smart one from the drop of the flag. Algareta broke second but immediately went to the front and she and Flora Louise set a terrific pace down the backetretch. The latter is a stout-hearted filly herfielf but -was not stanch and true enough to stand such a pace and stay with Algareta. The result was that when the stretch was reached she was done and for an instant Algareta had things her own way, but about the eighth post aloDg came Canace and getting to Algareta put her to a drive. The latter faltered for an instant but when Jenkins struck her with the whip sbe responded with rare game ness and at the finish was a full length in the lead and was going away. After the race it took Harry Morris until dark to cash his tickets. Whan he had finished he pocketed the coin, and, bidding the track good-bye, said in a joking way: "You will not get this back, I am off for New York." Tht exact amount Morris won would be hard to learn, but according to his own statement he took an imposing sum out of the ring. Either Jockey Jenkins is a bad rider or the otu er boys have it in for him. He had the mount on Deering in the mile race for three-year-olds and had the colt not been far the best he coald not have won. Down the backstretch Jenkins rode into a beautiful pocket, and when the field rounded the upper turn ho was pinched off an J had to pull up and go around all the oshe-horses. It was precisely the samething that hi ppaned to the bjy oa Cherry Leaf when he to le him last Thursday, only the Cherry La if disast er o:currel oi the stretch turn and Jsnkias refused to take him up and go around Teaby . Judging from the way Jenkins ridea at all time3 it was not the lack of skill or judgment that got him into bad place3 with Cherry Leaf and Diering but was simply spite work on the part of his follow riders. There wa3 a big field of 00 selling platers in the first race. Nineteen started and a greater part of these were almost thrown at the start owing to Wiukfields careless riding on Loyaletta. He broke seventh in about the middle of the bunch bat he at once cut across the track to the hnide, and in doing so interfered with everything near him. This practically eettled the question as to who would win. Loyaletta was about the only horse in the race that did not meet with interference soODor or later, and "with a clear path all the way she Bailed home a very easy winner. After the race Judge Hamilton fined Gray, who rode Tenole, 5 for rough riding. Ho probably got Gray mixed up with Winkfield for Tenole was in a good position all the way and did not appear to interfere with anyone. Rosa Diah at 12 to 1 came from behind in the stretch and won a good race from Oconee and Thrive. The latter was backed almost off the boards and ran a fine race but was handicapped by the send-off Jenkins accepted with him. The third race, at a mile and a furlong, went to Rome Respass useful horee Frank Thompson. He was the favorite at 13 to 10 and was cleverly handled by T. Knight. The fourth was the Deering race, and Fay the Fiddler beat a very ordinary lot at one mile and seventy yards in the fifth event. Jockey Crowhurst got in from the east yesterday and has signed a contract to ride for Tom-linson and Co. He will pilot Cherry Leaf in the handicap today.
