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BIG BAY FOR WESTERNERS. GET ALL THE MONEY IN GOLDEN ROD STAKES AND TAKE FOUR OTHER RACES. Dr. Gardner Is Regaining His California Form Fropor Takes tho Omnium Handicap Miller Makes a Mess of It With Lancastrian. New York, September 14. This was a field day for western horsemen at Sheepshcad Bay. Their burses wpn live races in succession, including the two big stake fixtures. Barney Schrelber led off with an easy six and one-half furlong victory for Dr. Gardner. This colt is fast regaining his brilliant California form. Touremie, Ethon and Arimo, representatives from the stables" of P. A. Forsythe, George C. Bennett and J. J. "Walsh, filled the desirable positions in the aptly named Golden Rod Stakes at six and a half furlongs over the grass course, incidentally defeating the In and out running Kentucky Beau. This last was the most talked of happening of the afternoons racing. Then W. B. Jennings finally broke the ice in the .Omnium Handicap at a mile and an eighth with his old war horse Proper, -which was for the first lime this season attended with ordinary luck at the start. George C. Bennett profited in the fifth by the advancement of his two-year-old Pungent, when the winner Bariugo was disqualified for bumping Eu-dora on the turn. The last named, a heavily backed favorite at odds-on, fell on the turn. Amos Turney scored the fifth consecutive triumph for the western men, taking the mile condition race iii easy fashion with his good four-year-old Martin Doyle. The closing two-mile and a sixteenth race over the grass course developed into a farce. ,The- jockeys on each of the three starters had evidently been plied with waiting orders to the extent that they all overdid it in burlesque fashion. Francis, the least experienced of the trio, lacked the vigor to overdo his Instructions as completely as the other two with the result that he won a fluke victory in spite of himself ou Huntington; the least considered of the field. Miller made an awful mess of his ride on the favorite Lancastrian. The Ellison horse receded from the beginning of speculation ou the race and his defeat created a lot of talk, but it is altogether probable that weakness of the market about the favorite was due to the soggy condition of the turf.
