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COY MAID WINS OCCIDENTAL DAUGHTER OF KINGSTON SHOWS HER HEELS TO SOME GOOD HANDICAP HORSES. Garner Rides Three Winners C. Ross Gives Graves-end Race-goers a Surprise Roseben, with Shaw Up, Works Three-quarters in 1:12 3-4. New York, September 25. Fifteen thousand spectators saw. Coy Maid win the Occidental Ilandicap at one mile and an eighth at Gravesend this afternoon. Among the good ones finishing behind the winner- were Dandelion and Go Between and the two western turf stars Nealon and Cottontown. Not one of this distinguished quartette was placed, the runner-up and third horse being respectively Dolly Spanker and the suddenly improved Good Luck. John A. Drakes apprentice rider, Garner, displayed brilliant form In the saddle, being successful on Frank Lord and Lady Prudence in addition to Coy Maid. Miller took the first with big "Tim" Sullivans Are High at odds of 15 to 1 and when Frank Lord won the third the Sullivan "clan" celebrated a double-barrelled victory. One of the interesting incidents that cropped up during 1 lie afternoon was the unexpected reappearance In the- saddle of C. Ross and his subsequent win on Ed Ball in the second race at a mile and a sixteenth. Ross, who was supposed to have sustained fatal injuries in the mix-up that caused the death of Frelshon last week and who did not recover consciousness until last Sunday, or forty,-eight hours after the accident took place, gave the ,publicanef..tb..biggest, .surprises of thetsensouby-his exhibition of vigor, alertness and nervel Interest in the match race between Lad Amelia and Roseben was increased this noon by a smart trial which the big gelding had over this course. His owner, Davy Johnson, was on hand to witness the workout. Roseben had a big package of weight up and with Shaw in the saddle was sent six furlongs in 1:12J. Shot Gun barely scratched home from a big field in the selling sprint, Penrhyns forward running astounding the race-goers. Thomas H. Williams and Adam Andrew, respectively president and vice-president of the. New California Jockey Club, were visitors at Gravesend this afternoon.
