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BELMONT IS AFTER THE DERELICTS. New York, July 25. It was reported at the track that August Belmont had written a letter to the National Hunt and Steeplechase Stewards that if they could not find time to attend the tracks on days when cross-country races were to be contested, lie would take the jurisdiction of the steeplechase events out of their bands and turn it, over to the " regular stewards.