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NEAIONS GOOB SHOWING. RUNS ONE MILE AND THREE-EIGHTHS IN 2:19, WITH 122 POUNDS UP. Best Time for the September Stakes Kentucky Beau Wins Waldorf Stakes and Woodford Clay Buys the Dinner. Now York. September 12. Barney Schreibers Xenlon won the September Stakes at Sheepshead Bay today, making the great western colts third stake victory within a week. lie picked up stake weight, 122 pounds and heat the famous three-year-old fillies Running Water and Tangle, the former an odds-on favorite. In decisive fashion. Xealons feat over the trying one mile and three-eighths course In 2:19, the best time for the race, was pronounced high class, and race-goers are now acclaiming him the best three-year-old of the year. A claim of foul made by Miller against the winner was not allowed. The card, which was made up of an equal division of stake fixtures and overnight purses, developed some of the best racing of the meeting. John Sanford won his first stake of the season, the Belles, over the five and a half furlong Futurity course with Kennyetto. In the Waldorf Stakes Kentucky Beau stunned the spectators with a ridiculously easy victory over the crack pair, McCarter and Conville. Woodford Clay, consequently, is "feeding the bunch" tonight. Hot Toddy, another western three-year-old, distinguished himself by taking some of the fastest milers in training into camp in the mile condition lt4inir-li-Tripel that---HortrccJirE spread a tlooT in the running of the Autumn Stakes yesterday, which explains the colts sharp swerve midway of the far turn, so noticeable in the race. The injury may shelve him for the season. In preparation for the Annual Champion Stakes next Saturday, Accountant worked a mile and a half at Gravesend easily in 2:372 and Bedouin one mile and five furlongs handily in 2:54 at Sheepshead Bay.
