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THE END NEAR AT JAMAICA. CHIMNEY SWEEP REVERSES HIS TACTICS AND WINS AFTER BEING HEAVILY BACKED. Miller Fails to. Ride a Winner Voorhces Wins in Surprising: Fashion Sewell Ignominiously Beaten Departures for California. Now . York, November .1. Cold, but clear weather prevailed at Jamaica today. The card was light, but good racing was enjoyed despite the uncertain conditions of the track, for thirty feet out from the inner rail it was muddy and slow, the outside going was dry and fast. The fag-end of this seasons racing lias developed unusually heavy speculation. Some of the biggest plunging known to local racegoers took place today on a race of the cheapest variety, Chimney Sweap lelng the medium of a sensational killing. One commission alone of 0,flflOwas sent into the ring on the Curl Brothers entry. Frank Farrell risked .fS.OOO; Davy Johnson as much. In all a great sum was invested on the erratic Buck Massie horse ridden by an unknown and inexperienced stable lad named Drolette. The general public wonderingly stood aloof, recalling the inglorious recent performances of Johnstown and Bragg from this in-and-out stable. Chimney Sweep won In the manner prophesied by his shrewd contingent of backers and literally pulling his rider out of the saddle, finished in front of Lin-dale by twelve lengths, pulling up on three legs and barely able to hobble back to the judges stand, hopelessly broken down. Loring, neglected in the betting, won the Packer Stake? , for twoyear-flid fillies at five and a half furlongs. A big plunge developed on Barbary Belle, which; started-iirst favorite.TJiebigfetreKS Ally led by a wldo streak of daylight for five furlongs, but showed the white feather when Challenged by the late Captain S. H. Browns game cast-off. leaving the latter to win as her rider pleased. Sewell, the crack two-year-old, hacked for a fortune at oddsron in the first race, tired so suddenly after a half mile of pacemaking, that bis jockey Shaw, nearly tumbled out of the saddle. No one took todays effort of the Brownleigh Park Stables two-year-old star seriously. Many thought that be bad been indulged of late, as he quit with his mouth wide open, quite an unusual proceeding for this, hitherto gamely tried son of Cesarion Ora Bailey. The rejuvenated Aoorhees forced the running for a great part of the journey in the deepest and most difficult footing and won out in wonderfully game fashion from a couple of horses of the bulldog variety. This was .the first day in weeks that Miller failed to put one over the plate. It is not definitely decided whether Dick Dwycr or Jake Uoltman will open the season of starting at Oakland on November 17. Nealon has been extensively entered in the New California Jockey Club stakes, including the Burns Handicap, the Waterhouse Cup of two and one-quarter miles and the Thornton Stakes, at . four miles. O. E. Durnell will ship another carload of racers at the close of the Aqueduct meeting, inclnding liis ;? lo.OOO beauty. George Rose leaves for San Francisco next Wednesday. Sam Shaen will book for him on opening day. Bob McGibben starts for California next Tuesday and Jim Scanlon next Sunday. It is rumored that Davy Johnsons Roseben is in soak again. A number of books paid off on Halifax, third, yesterday before the mistake In prematurely hanging up bis number was rectified.
