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ROSEBEN SIMPLY CANTERS. DAVY JOHNSONS CHAMPION SPRINTER. WINS THE MANHATTAN AND A BIG BET. Hot Toddy Scores An Easy Victory in the Dixiana Stakes George S. Davis Upsets the Talent Coup with Optician. New York, October 12. Indian summer resumed its sway at Belmont Park today and, with the splendid card, materially contributed to the. big crowd that journeyed to the magnificentracecourse7 Two interesting stake features were down for decision, the Dixiana Stakes, at a mile, and the great sprinting -fixture, the Manhattan Ilandicap, In which the champion Itoseben was engaged. Davy Johnsons fortunes are so much improved that he was able to buy back his favorite and the others of his stable from L. O. Appleby and Roseben, running in his colors today, brought home a big stake in winning wagers. The market was skillfully manipulated and wonderfully lucrative odds obtained for the owners 5,000 commission. At the beginning of betting on the race several thousand dollars were thrown away in bets on Suffrage. The layers took afright thereat and laid an abnormally high price against Roseben, with the result that Johnson obtained an average of 13 to 10 against a 1 to 2 chance. Dr. Gardner was a conspicuous absentee from the Dixiana Stakes. Hot Toddy, however, maintained the western prestige in grand style by defeating his opposition with great ease. Those were the, only two public choices that were successful durlug the afternoon. The notorious iu-aud-outcr, George S. Davis,-furnished a lilg upset In" the secoudT5w1iTch Toddles, the prohibitive, favorite, met unexpected defeat. Harry K. Knapps Optician, backed down from 20 to C to 1, won the last in a canter. A lot of money was taken out of the ring over his victory. Mose Goldblatt bought two racehorses today at private sale. The western horsemen paid Jack Baker ,000 for Adbell and 2,500 to F. E. Gardner for the two-year-old Gargantua. Both are. intended for winter campaigning at New Orleans. G. Burns, the midget apprentice rider, brother to Tommy Burns, will ride at Oakland the comiug winter iu the employ of W. B. Jennings. Alex Shields will spend the winter in California.
