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LONG SHOT DAY AT THE BAY. KEENE ENTRY AT 1 TO 10 IS DEFEATED FOX THE GREAT FILLY STAKES. Killaloe, at 40 to 1, Makes Court Dress and Pope Joan Look Cheap Inquisitor Takes Flying Handicap Koerner Is Left on the Favorite. Now York. September T. The racing at Sheeps-head Bay today was marked by a series of disastrous upsets. Running Water, at a prohibitive price, was the only successful favorite. Temaceo captured the opening number at 8 to 1. The second went to Running -Water and the talent braced up only to be stunned by one of the biggest fiascos of the year when Killaloe cantered home in the Great Filly Stakes at odds of 40 to 1, with the Keene pair, Court Dress and Pope Joan backed to 1 to 10, trailing in disgrace. Nest Inquisitor earned a head victory in the Flying Handicap nt 5 to 1, thanks to Millers, brilliant . jockeyshlp. ,MIss Crawford, at .TO to 1, lieat a first-cjass field of handicap horses,, including Co Between, Inferno, Froper, Angler and others, nt a mile and a furlong in the fifth, and Sir Ralph, at SO to 1, wound up a disastrous and bewildering days racing by nosing out Onatas, a superior performer on the grass, which carried limit wagers at odds-on by the entire plunging contingent in vain endeavors to recoup. Killaloe made the Keene pair look dirt cheap in the Great Filly Stakes, shootlug away from Court Dress nt the end as If Bhe was anchored and beating Tope Joan, the sensational runner-up in the Futurity, away. off. There, were several incidents that nroused. bitter comment- atnong the spectators, chief among which was "the leaving at the post of Brookdale Nymph, the favorite for the Flying Handicap. Koerner, who has been left many times on favorites in the past . had the mount on the Whitney Ally and is again held responsible. The stewards are investigating the matter. Starter Mars Cassidy and. Robert Pinkerton were summoned before them immediately after the race and the same sinister rumors are current that nt leu led his- being left at the post on Puritan Girl at Saratoga . and on Victoria B. at Brighton. Close observers at the start declared that Koerner deliberately pulled up . with .Brookdale Nymph and he only permitted ber to canter the journey thereafter, tactics exactly similar to those he pursued jvith Puritan Girl. The ring won a tremendous snm on the day. The Cella books are reported to have cleared 5,000, Maxey.Blumenthnl 8,000 and others in proportion. One notable wager was ,000 against 5,000 on Go Between, made by J. W. Gates in person witli Cella, who then offered to htinch the price for nn-othpr ,000 which the Croesus declined. J. C., -Cooleys two-year-old filly Saghalien died today of spinal meningitis.
