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HARRY PAYNE WHITNEYS "BAD YEAR. There is now little chance that Harry Payne-Whitney will be among the owners winning more than 00,000 at the end of the present season. To date this year his horses have won twenty-two races, been second nineteen times and third thirteen times and won 3,410. For the corresponding period in 1005 this establlsment had taken twenty-four races, thirteen seconds, twelve thirds ami 28,872, closing the year With thirty-three wins, seventeen seconds, sixteen thirds and 70,447. Xo racing establishment or similar magnitude has had quite so much liaoi luck this season as has. that of Mr. Whitney. Therein hardly a horse in the stable that has Hot been niliug at some time in the year, but the going wrou bf Burgomaster was the most serious blow. This son of namburg, which at the outset of the seas6ij gave -promise of ending the year as the champion three-year-old, made only two starts, in both of which be was successful. lie won the Carlton Stake: at Gravesend May 20,. and "the Belmont Stakes at; Belmont Park May 30. These two victories netted jbB owner ?20,y30, nearly two-thMs f tUe en tire amount won by the establishment this year. Here is a recapitulation of the earnings of the Whitney stable to date: Track. 1st. 2d. 3d. Amount. Belmont Park first meeting... 2 2 2 $ 2;3G0 Gravesend first meeting 1 0 2 5,180 Belmont Park seeond meeting .201 2G.800 Gravesend second meeting.". 0i5 1 2,000 Sheepshead Bay spring meeting ft 4 3 11,823 Brighton Beach spring meetg :S 2 0 S.120 Saratoga 3 4 2 :!,235 Sheepshead Bay autumn meets 12 2 13,115 Gravesend autumn meeting ..1 0 0 775 Totals .22 1! 13 3,410