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MUDDY AT HABLEH. The warm Sun that shone all day yesterday rendered the track paety and holding at Harlem end favored those horses that like the deep, sticky going best. The racing thongh made np of 88 purse s throughout wbb fairly good bnt lacked exciting features except in the first and fonrth races, which vers keenly contested at the end. Probably the beet Arid of horseB that went to the post was that of the second race, a dash of five furlongs for two year-olds. The talent picked the right horse in this race, backing Harry New from SI to 1 to 8 to 5. To the surprise of maDy present Coacoa awakened from her last dicmal effort and dashed to the front as if she intended to make a runaway affair of the race. Bbe led by two lengths at the bead of the stretch from Harry New, who was two in front of Lucien Appleby. When well etraighteced for home Coacoa began to tire Harry New picking her Tip abont the eighth post. The latter finished faBt and strongly from here to the wire, winning easily by three lengths from Lncien Appleby, who passed the exhaneted Coacea in the last fifty yards, beating her out two lengths for second place. Emathion was beaten twenty lengths by actual count at the finish. This race should be totally ignored in future calculations, but the going was probably unfavorable to him. The steeplechase over the short course was a farce, three of the ftur that started fallicg at different parts of the run, and the winner being compelled to make two attempts at the last ob stacle before he coold finish the conrse. To a fair start Seintly dashed into the lead closely followed by the other three. Both Dick Furber and Captain Conover went down at the second jump, leaving Saintly and Mbzo to finish the race out. Saintly led by a big margin up to the seventh jump, where he went down in a heap. Mazo had only to gallop over the course after this, but be refused the last jump. Lloyd took Mazo back and he took it at the second trial. The ether three were remounted and ridden over the couree, Captain Conover finiehiDg second ana Dick Fuiber third. Captain Conover was then disqualified for not taking the course correctly. This moved up Dick Fuiber into second place and gave third money to Saintly. It was the most complicated cross country affair that has occurred hereabout in some time. The first race, a dash of Fix fnrloDgs, resulted in a rattling close finiEh between C. B. Campbell, Lady Idris and The Butcher. Lady Idria closely attended by The Butcher, Bhowed the weynp to the head of the stretch where she swung wide, carrying The Butcher with her. This lost her the race aB she lost several lengths before she got well straightened for home. Along about the last eighth, C. B. Campbell, who had saved ground by skinning the rail at the head of the stretch, csme strorjgly, and in a hot tilt he beat her out by a short head with The Butcher lapped only a neck back. Canova was right there all the way and was only beaten length all told at the finish. He is ready to win through the same kind of going. The others were never contenders. The entire eleven that started in the fourth race, a dash cf 6ix fnrlougB for three-year-olds and upward, finished in fairly cloee order, there being hardly tix lengtls separating the first and laBt horses. W allenstein, cloBely attended by Queen ODay and Pupil, Bhowed the way until well Btraighttned for the wire, where there waB a general closing up, and about the last eighth poet it appeared to be anybodys race. In the closing strides, however, Emma C. L. moved out from the bunch and seemed to be the winner, but 1 Ghor came like a shot out of a cannon in the laBt few strides and beat her out by a half length going away, while she beat Oliver He. a length for second place. Wallen-stein grew tired rapidly when a sixteenth out, as did also Pupil. Delia Ostrand, badly outrun in the early part of the dash, was running fast at the end. Queen ODay had enough by the time the last sixteenth had been reached. Uuresca.on her known liking for a muddy track and her brilliant win over Jack Battlin the day before, was supposed to hold the fifth race a scramble of five and a half furlongs for two-year-olds at her mercy, but she failed to show that great burst of speed ehe has often displayed hereabout, and although she led by a small margin for a great part of the way, wae completely spent by the time the last eighth post had been reached. Bag Tag, which had always laid up close with her, moved up fast here and had no trouble in passing her. It appeared as if Bag Tag would win easily in the last one hundred yards, but Santa Teresa came with a rush in the laBt few strides, caueing her to be driven out to the limit to win by a length. Santa TereBa beat the exhansed Murosca five lengths for second place. Dodie 8. and Lye-beth showed well for four and a half furlongB and then fell away beaten. Pay Me, a long shot, sprung a surprise on ring and talent alike in the last race, a dash of one mile for thre-year-olds. The good thing in thiB race was Zack Phelps which wae backed heavily but the best he could do was to finish a dismal fourth. At flag dip Pay Mo darted into the lead closely pressed by Amoroso and Audio but once straightened down the backstretch he easily moved away from them and remained in front thereafter to tho end. He won without much urging by three lengths from Basselas which beat Bortie the same distance for second place. Basselas cloEed fast and strong in the last eighth but had no chance to beat the winner. Sortie was dying away at the end. Zack Phelps closed seme gronnd in the last quarter. Audie quit badly by the time the head of the stretch had been reached. Elmer L. is of no present account either on a dry track or through the mud.
