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AIRS SCORES.AT LONG ODDS. JOHNSONS GOLDCBEST FILLY TAKES THE HURRICANA STAKES AT 20 TO 1. Dr. Gardner Wins Highweight Handicap Belmere, Omitted from Entries, Triumphs in Last Race Miller Is Suspended. New York, October 10. Ideal weather conditions prevailed at Belmont Park today and a-large crowd was on hand to witness some first class racing. Two stakes adorned the card, the Hurrieana, a selling affair for two-year-olds at five furlongs and the Bronx Highweight Ilandicap at six furlongs for all ages. Notwithstanding the seemingly muddy track conditions and consequently difficult going, remarkably fast time was recorded in several of the races. The brilliant Missouri-bred three-year-old Dr. Gardner, recently purchased from Barney Schreiber for 5,000 and running "for the first time in the colors of T. I. Sullivan galloped away from high class field of sprinters in the Bronx. The minimum of effort marked the big Bannockburn colts grand achievement, despite the big weight concessions to his opponents. The victors feat was of such a convincing character that horsemen and public alike began to sit up and take notice. Messrs. Belmont and Keene, who were acting as stewards during the afternoon, looked the westerner over with renewed interest during the cooling out process in the paddock after the race. A moderate lot competed for the Hurricana. Airs, at 20 to 1, from the -Johnson stable, won all the way, making the first and only upset of the day. The -Wonderfully Improved Far West vanquished a good teldih;lhelne? The"rfime, I:88and was extraordinarily fast and places the big Montana four-year-old nearly at the top of the handicap division in" training. Harry Payne "Whitneys Prince Hamburg, at 111 pounds, was dropped into, a soft .spot in the opening handicap, and backed to win a big stake, he was able to gallop away from his mediocre opposition throughout. After that, with the exception of Airs, short priced favorites swept the card, in Toddles, Far West, Dr. Gardner and Belmere. The last named, owning to an error in the secretarys office was not included in the entries sent out yesterday. His owner insisted that he had regularly entered the horse and appealed to the stewards, who upheld his contention. It was rumored that the owners of Belle of Jessamine, which finished second, intend to protest the purse. An aftermath of scandal has cropped up regarding the race won by Bad News last Monday, in which the odds-on favorite, Martin Doyle, ridden by Jack Martin, was beaten. The claim is that both Bob Tucker and a relative of Jack Martin bet heavily on Bad News in that.-race. It is alleged that Tucker wagered as much as 6,000 on the winner. There may be nn investigation started. Both Itadtke and Miller will ride in California next winter, alternating between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Joclcey Walter. Miller was yesterday suspended for one week by the starter. The rumor- was current yesterday, but was considered so improbable that no newspaper printed the fact.
