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KINGS DAUGHTER IS FAST. BUT NOT AS FAST AS THE ANNOUNCING MACHINE HAS IT. Sheepshead Bay Officials Hasten to Explain that the McDowell Fillys Performance Is Not a Record-Breaker. New York, June 22. Twenty thousand persons were nttracted by the perfect summer weather and the really good card to the Sheepshead Bay race course this afternoon. The appropriately named Daisy Stakes, on the grass course, and the Coney Island Handicap, bristling with sprinting possibilities, were the two brilliant features programed. A two-year-old selling race, at five furlongs; a race at a mile, for tbree-year-old maidens; a mile and a furlong handicap, and a mile and a sixteenth grass selling race, for three-year-olds and over, respectively, made up the remainder of this interesting card. Thomas C. McDowells crack western filly. Kings Daughter, favored at the start of the Coney Island Handicap, proceeded to tow-rope the best fiejd of sprinters in training, including the champion Roseben, and for a brief time the big crowd, in blissful ignorance that an error had been made, was congratulating itself on having witnessed a unique and record-breaking performance, which the time 1:11, mistakahly hung out directly after the race, indicated. The correct time. 1:12, was made known later, with the explanation that the figures first shown, were all awry, due to a breakdown or sudden disarrangement of the mechanism of the electric time announcer recently installed. Several prominent horsemen. Including J. W. Rogers, trainer of Prince Hnmburg. which finished a close second, remarked that there must have been a mistake and agreed that it was more than a second out of the way. In the meantime the fame of the exploit had penetrated every portion of the country. The westerners who had received a serious financial set-back on Kentucky Beau, backed Into hot favoritism for the Daisy Stakes, ignored completely the pretensions or even the existence of Kings Daughter In the following race. The layers were left practically with clean sheets. Bed River showed amazing speed over the grass course in the two-year-old fixture. Nothing ever got within hailing distance of tills wonderfully improved Fatherless colt, but then the supposed contender In Kentucky Beau was practically left at the post. Shaw had the mount and was caught napping. Bed Biver was one of the fastest yearlings ever shown in this country, according to his trainer, Tom Henley, who added that lie came honestly by his speed. His dam, Lizzie II., being a full sister to the great Morello.
