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MAY BEACHS 1UKN. Early thia summer "Rome" Re3pass pur-chl eed Gold Fox from Mart Jord in at a fancy price. Ho has carried him some time and yesterday at Harlem in the fourth race, a dash of a mile, was where he aimed to win him out. It was a selling race for three-year-olds and a very ordinary lot started, so it seemed reasonable to infer that Gold Fox might ba a "good thing." He opened at 8 to 5 bnt was hurriedly "backed down to even money and less. Homor "has it that Repass and bis friends bet altrge amount. If they did they must have experienced a eerias of cold chills down their backs before the judges hung the numbers out. Gold Fox won all right enough, bnt it was only by a narrow margin and at the very last stride. His win waa also one of the met lucky ones ever seen on the Harlem track. At the Lead of the stretch, or in fact at any time in the stretch, it was dollars to doughnuts that Ed Tipton would win. This individual rounded I the turn for home with a comfortable lead of ! two lengths and teemed to be going well in j hand while Gold Fox was under pressure. IKnipht on the latter wont to the whip at the i eighth post, and, unCer punishment, the colt swerved clear across the track and lost a lot of ground. When Winkfield, who rode Ed Tipton, saw Gold Fox swerve he thought no more of him and became carlosB and lot hiB mount loaf. This proved a fatal mistake, for when Knight stopped puoishicg Geld Fox with his whip the latter t ok a, notion to run again and, coming like a fl.sh throush the last eixteenth, he managed to get up in time to win by a nose. Had Wiukfield gone on about his business, Ud Tipton snraly would have won by a length or more. In the third race May Baach turned the tables on Onr Gertie in a surprising way. With practically the same weight up, the Rogers filly had beaten May Beach easily Saturday at Hawthorne in l:12t, but in this race May Beach won ff by herself in l:13r. Such reversals of form are bound to happen among horses of -nearly equal speed and there seems to be no way of preventing them If there conld be, racing would lose its -glorious uncertaipty." The judg-8 questioned Jenkins, who rode Our Gertie, but they gained no knowledge from him. He simply sUted that he had ridden to orders. They were to wait on May Beach to the 6tretch and then come on. The boy said he found it easy enough to wait, but the "coming on" was a different proposition. He did the best he knew how and perbapB the filly did too May Baach was backed heavily at 3 to 1 and less and she never gave her backers one bit of anxiety. She got away in front, set a pace to suit herself and eventually won under a stout pull by two and a half lengths. She is a good fl ly. Over the win of Sam Fnllen the ring and out-of-town poolroomB suffered. This youngster has started on y once before, bat he ran a fine rf ce, and sitci then has worked fact enough to beat almost a ything. He U3ed to beloig to Wood Hoffman, but "Bob" Tocker has him now and, j dgmg from this race, he is a coming crackajack. Beauchi.mp xode him, and, getting away well, was never bothered, winnii g as he pleased by a length and a half from Wig and Satan Ou. of the second and fifth races came very close finishes. The Bondman, cleverly ridden by Beauchamp, won the second by a uosb from Jim McCieevy, and Lo only baat Bion Dick a abort head for sec md plncf. As tLe race was ruu Jim McG eevy a far the bast, ana ridden by a capable jockey he could not have lost. As it was Master Stewart got shut off several times and as a last resort he pulled out and went aronnd the entire field. It was jockey Jess Everett and Decoy that came home with the purse in the fifth race. This was at five and one-half furlongs, and eleven two year-olds made up the field, and apparently alt of these were well backed. Everett had some bad luck with Decoy early in the race, bat he got straightened out all right enough before the stretch wa3 reached and when headed for home he was a length in the lead. The colt is none too stout-hearted and all through the final furlong he wanted to stop, but Everett kept at work on him and by clever hand riding and coaxin? be succeeded in landing him a winner by a nose from Clara Wooley, The last race went to Harry Thoburn. who, j considering his last race, should have been a j well backed choice. He was, to a moderate extent, but at that closed at 12 to 1 He got away second and always being within striking distance he passed Flora Louise, the odds-on favorite, and Garland Barr in the stretch and at the finish was going away. It was reported that Louis Ezell claimed Florizar out of the last race at Hawthorne, Saturday. This is not true. Flor zar still be-lor gs to Mr. Scoggan and the latter says, the rumor that ,500 or any such sum had ever been offered for Florizar is also a "pipe story."
