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ARCITE WINS AT 100 TO 1. GEORGE J. LONGS GELDING TAKES THE MEASURE OF SOME GOOD YOUNGSTERS. Rams Horn Wins Bay Ridge Handicap Gets a Competent Ride A Day of Upsets at Shccpshead Bay Some Sales. New York, July 0. Todays program at Sheepshead was a bulky and top-lieavy one of seven races. Tlie closing race, at a mile and three-quarters on the grass course, was run In a heavy rainstorm at a later hour than usual. The immense attendance was augmented by numerous arrivals of horsemen and racegoers from both Buffalo and SalcT. The success of two favorites encouraged the specula lively . inclined, but their joy was of brief duration, Rains Horn ran for the western contingent. Comedienne was overlooked completely. Umbrella was anchored by I lie Daly hoodoo and only the select, the initiated, few warmed to Angler. The greater the volume of money flowed to the coffers of the layers on Lancastrian, the more liberal their prices. The Ellison horse ran a poor race. It was lit and proper that, something out of the common should mark the closing days of the present Sheepshead Bay meeting, so hopelessly awry on public form, so the success of a 300 to 1 shot, a 20 to 1 shot and the running second of a 100 to 1 shot fails to excite any unusual comment. George .T. Long.s chestnut- eolt-Areite, by. Alves-cot Lsi Gaseogne, vanquished a big Held of good two-year-olds in commanding style at odds of 100 tJ J and at one stage in the betting there bad been ."00 to 1 about him. . There were eight youngsters of suposed stake caliber in this race, McCarter, Royal Breeze, Marathon, Eddie Ware, J. C. Core, Okeuite, Botanist and Montgomery and they all had some support. Not one In a thousand gave bought to the despised outsider jthat eventually look his band of alleged lurf stars into camp so easily. Willie Applegae, however, is reported to have cleaued up on the westerner. There were many bets registered on bis program calling for ,000 to 0. "Humming Bird" Tyler actually laid one astounding wager of 1906.sh,000 to 0. George S. Davis ran away the full course before the start and was eliminated as a factor. A long delay resulted. Itams Horn, ably piloted by Shaw, reversed bis running in the Commonwealth Handicap and administered a sound beaiing o a good company of handicap horses in todays feature, the Bay nidge, at a mile and a quarter. The pace was fast and even throughout. It was the first time in weeks that one of the big fixtures resulted in a true run race. A quick sale was made of T Amour, the winner of the two-year-old selling race, sixth on the card, Joe Jlarroiie acquiring the chestnut gelding, by Golden Garter out of Amourette, for ,200, at private sale. The youngster was entered to be sold for 00, but elicited no bid. Umbrella, the tremendously backed favorite, in the aforesaid race, ran in the colors of W. C. Daly. This was not discovered until the parade to the post revealed the fact that the filly was no longer owned by J. It. Keene. .Immediately there took place a wild stampede to the ring by her backers in an effort to "hedge." Nobody for a moment believed that Umbrella had a chance to win at such short odds. Not within he memory of man, it is alleged, has a horse starting a favorite been owned by "Father Bill" won a race. Umbrella need no longer be considered except perhaps In muddy going. George W. Laugdon parted wih J. 0. Core to Tom Welch immediately after his fiasco in the third race.
