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THREE FINISH HEADS APART. BELMERE THE VICTOR IN PIERREPONT HANDICAP AT JAMAICA. Metropolitan Jockey Clubs Meeting Opens With Bis Crowd and Interesting Racing Sewell Wins the Handicap for All Ages. Xowyork, October 22. The Metropolitan Jockey Club opened Its fall meeting of eleven days at Jamaica tils afternoon with an attractive card and an attendance of fully 10,000. The weather was gloomy and the track was bad, but the racing, was of a high order. In the featnre race, the Pierre-pout Stakes, a handicap for all ages at one mile and an -eighth, George C. Bennetts great mare, Dishabille, Just failed lo get up, sustaining an unlucky nose defeat by Relmere, due to Garners foul riding on Angler at. a critical moment on the hist turn. Good Luck, another westerner which was accorded persist ent public support, performed much, below par, and both horse and jockey were severely criticized. Sewell redeemed himself in the six1 furlong handicap by a brilliant and convincing victory. It was mere play for the. western youngster to canter away from a lot of older opponents and concede them lumps of weight. The" success of four favorites and a well considered second and third choice at good odds afforded gratifying results to the speculatively inclined. Jockey Walter Miller was thrown under the feet of Sally Preston while atthe start in the first race, but was extricated from his perilous position with-ont a scratch. Judge A. W. Hamilton, of Ascot Park, and Secretary Martin Xathanson, of the Crescent City Jockey Club, were visitors at Jamaica today. Jockeys Lowe and Harty were suspended for three days by starter Cassldy for misbehaviour at the-post In the first race. The failure of J. W. Henning, stock broker and owner of a string of thoroughbreds, Iucluding Glen-ham, racing on local tracks, was announced today in Wall street.
