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SALVIDERE THE CHAMPION. BELVIDERE GELDING EASILY WINS EICH STAKE FOR JUVENILES. Shows His Heels to Dc Mund and Water Pearl Will Be Retired for the. Year Tho Second Special a Farce. New York, September 22. Salvidere, owned jointly by Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. and John Madden, today met and defeated the best two-year-olds in training in the Junior Champion Stakes at Graves-end. The defeated ones, including the two renowned juveniles De Mund and Water Pearl. The splendid youngster, by his easy victory in this rich fctakc right on top "of a succession of recent and-convincing exploits, clearly established his claim to the championship of the two-year-old division of 1100. His owners announced after the race that the invincible Belvidere Sallie or Navarre gelding would be retired forthwith. Unusually heavy wagering took place on Salvidere and De Mund by the respective partisans of these two. J. W. Gates commission on the former is said to have approximated 0,000, while the Raineys are credited with an enormous plunge on their own entry, backing him down from 5 to 2$ to 1 and less at post time The Second Special only attracted two starters Running Water and Tangle. Its running was a farce and, with a ridiculously slow early pace, degenerated into a quarter of. a mile closing sprint, which exactly suited Running Water, tho ultimate winner.- Had Tangle forced the pace "from the outset the result would have been reversed. The steeplechase produced one of the best contests of the Season. Hylas, the odds-ou favorite, was beaten because he was short. Incidentally, the Hitchcock horse was the only first choice defeated during the afternoon. Keator at evens won the first and then, beginning with the third, favorites swept the card. Miller distinguished himself by riding the winner of the two stakes, also .another winner and a third. There was a steady rainfall during the afternoon. The dismal weather failed to act as a deterrent in the matter of attendance, fully 20,000 turf devotees being present. Jockey C. Ross, who was badly hurt yesterday in the accident In which Frcishon was killed, was still unconscious today at the Reception Hospital, Coney Island.
