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OXFORD LOWERS A RECORD. RUNS SIX AND ONE-HALF FURLONGS AT BEL-MONT PARK IN 1:18 1-5. Ginotto Makes It Ten Victories in a Row Vail3 Sets a New Track Eecord Oleroso Wins the Steeplechase Stake. New York, October 15. Gorgeous autumn weather, a line card of six races, including two stake fixtures, productive of high-class racing and fast time over a fast track, with the important adjunct of a big attendance, were the conditions that prevailed at turf headquarters today. The withdrawal of Rose-ben from the Westchester Highweight Handicap at six and a half furlongs, considerably lessened the interest in that event, yet experts freely expressed the opinion that the mighty sprinter dodged a probable defeat by so doing, when 1:18 was hung out as Oxfords time. This is a new American record for the distance and the ease with which the "grey ghost" won the race astonished the spectators. The pace set for the first three furlongs, :32j, is the fastest ever recorded in a race in this country. The American record for three furlougs is :33i, made by Atoka at Butte, Montana, September 7 last. The previous best record for six and a half furlongs over the main course of any racing association was 1:181. Mineola as a two-year-old, with 103 pounds up, ran In that time at Sheepshead Bay, July 5, 1904. This was equaled by Martinmas, then four years old and carrying ninety-one pounds at the same course, September 7, 1904. Then, in the Westchester Highweight Handicap, the race won by Oxford today. Aeronaut, three years old. and carrying 107 pounds, equalled the time at Belmont Park, October 9 of last year. The best time for the distance over a straight course is Van Ness 1:18, made s:t Sheepshead Bay, September 11, 1903, with 107 IKiunds up. Van Ness was then four years old. Ginette, the invincible little French niare, scored her tenth successive .rictory when she gave .weight; nrila beating to the formidable Sprinting combination. Dolly Spanker, 102 pounds and jockey Walter Miller in the mile condition race, third on the card at Belmont Fark today, run in the wonderfully fast time of 1:38. In sixteen starts this year Ginette has won eleven races, been second once, third twice and unplaced twice, one of the latter being a disqualification. Mr. G. Smith, a gentleman rider on Oleroso, distinguished himself in the steeplechase stake by defeating the crack professional rider Nat Bay ou Orthodox. The smart set which filled the clubhouse enclosure to repletion on this occasion, bestowed the most enthusiastic applause on the winner. Walter Miller, after four days absence from the saddle, won his first essay on Hardshot, the favorite, in the six and one-half furlongs straightaway race for maiden two-year-olds. The Sanfords uncovered a good two-year-old in Vails in the opening race. She won the race unexpended in the fast time of 1:05, a track record for the five and one-half furlongs. Harry Page, the gentleman jockey. Is on crutches, the result of Pure Peppers bolting through the wings in his last race through the field. Two Pinkerton men are guarding the wrecked structure used by poolroom lookouts that was dynamited by unknown persons last Friday night. Two men were arrested inside the track during the afternoon having in their possession a number of big numbered placards which it is supposed were to flash results to outside confederates. Jim Grant left tonight for Oakland to take up his duties as superintendent of the New California Jockey Club track.
