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FLY BY NIGHTS ILLINOIS STAKES. Good-natured, big-hearted, popular Barney i Schreiber won the ,000 Illinois Stakes yesterday at Harlem with his Candlemas— Flibbertigibbet gelding Fly by Night. The gelding carried 113 pounds, jockey Ruiz, and also a ,000 commission of Barneys. The Illinois Stakes is a three-quarter-of-a-mile sprint, and seven fast horses, each with pretensions to good class, were carded to start. Schorrs candidate, W. Overton, hurt himself on his way over from Hawthorne and for this reason was withdrawn, leaving six — Headwater, OConnell, Hermoso, Goebel, Fly By Night and Dr. Walmsley— as contenders. Barney Shreiber thought Fly By Night was a "good thing" and told all of his friends so, incidentally making the largest bet he has made so far this season himself. This naturally made the gelding favorite and his opening price of 11 to 5 was cut to 7 to 5 by post time. Ruiz, a "native son" whom Barney brought east with him, rode the gelding and handled him to perfection. Ruiz broke from behind and made the start for Dwyer, but instead of going out and racing his horse into exhaustion with the leaders he laid away with him, thus avoiding the early pace, which was terrific, and came with a well-timed rush in the stretch, winning with the greatest ease. There was a lot of speed in the race and Hermoso, with 114 pounds up, set the pace, stepping the first half mile in 494 seconds. This was as far as he could go at such a fast clip and when well straightened away for home he stopped almost to a walk. Dr. Walmsley, who was always keeping as close to Hermoso as he could, collapsed at about the same time that Hermoso did, and for an instant, before *Icel»erg" Ruiz let Fly by Night down, old OConnell appeared to have a winning chance, but the gallant old sprinter has bad legs and at just at the critical point they seemed to hurt him, but the old warrior hung on gamely to the end and finished third, a half length behind Headwater. When W. Oliver is good, he is awful good, and right now the popular eastern turfman seems to be at his best and manages to take down a purse or two each day. Mauga came home for him yesterday and over her success Oliver won handsomely. The filly was always at 2 to 1 or better, and well ridden by Caywood, she spread-eagled her field, winning by five lengths from Fred Hessig, who nosed St. Bluff out for second place. The latter is a rugged looking youngster by St. Blaise — Pretense, who closed an enormous gap through the stretch and can probably win soon over a longer route. Tom Barretts Barrack, with 109 pounds up, won the third race like a good colt from Lomond and Barney F. Barrack did not beat much, but he won so impressively that after the race Barrett stated that the colt would be a starter in the American Derby. Boland rode Barrack and handled him well. The colt is a loafer, but as game as a pebble, and Boland let him have his own way until the stretch was reached, then he burned him up, and quicker than a flash Barrack shot to the front. Donna Rita was an odds-on choice for the initial race, which was at one mile and twenty yards, but this notional old mare was on her bad behavior, and try as Knight would lie could not get her to running until the stretch was reached. Then she made a very weak effort and finished third. Mitten, at 25 to 1— a false price — won the race easily. The Cuban Girl was in front all the way in her race and won without an effort. Behind the winner, however, six youngsters were so , closely bunched that it waB a difficult matter to separate them. i Pat Civill took the last race with Insurrection, who was at a long price and well backed. The filly was ridden by Buchanan, who shot her to the front in the stretch, easily disposing of the heavily backed favorite, Frangible. All reports about His Excellency being on the sick list are out of line. As a matter of fact the colt is doing well and will start in a race soon. Harry Robinson lost The Cuban Girl at Harlem yesterday after the fifth race. The filly was in to be sold for 00, but Pat Corrigan obtained her for 00. The judges called Narvaez into the stand after his win on The Cuban Girl. He was warned against looking around, and told that a repetition of this offense would cause him to be punished. Albert Simons has sold Cinera to O. Hess. Terms private. Pete Clay, the famous colored jockey, arrived at Harlem yesterday from the east. In future Clay will ride for J. D. McMillan. T. H. Ryan, owner of Flaunt, entered to run in the second race today, is talking of sending the colt to Latonia to run in a stake event there. Malcolm H. Macfarlan, secretary of the Memphis jockey club, was a visitor at Harlem yesterday.
