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PHILANDER A GOOD STAYER. RUNS AWAY FROM THE SPEEDY RUNNING WATER IN ELECTION DAY HANDICAP. Greatest Attendance in the History of Aqueduct Racing Miller Rides Four Winners and Keene Wins Three Events. New York, November 6. Continuance of the Indian summer brand of weather and a big card of seven races bristling with stake features attracted fully 20,000 racegoers to Aqueduct this afternoon. This was the last really big day of metropolitan racing for the season of 1905 and the largest crowd in the history of the track was there. The new and commodious Held stand was packed to suffocation. Transportation facilities wero taxed to the utmost. The crowd came early and almost swamped the Long Island railroad trains. The splendid program included three stake fixtures, the Election Day Handicap, Babylon Stakes and the Rushwick Steeplechase Handicap. The old adage that youth will be served even in an equine way was forcibly illustrated by the commanding victory of Philander, the .T. H. Keene juvenile in the big race at a mile and a furlong. The two-year-old Ben Brush gelding vanquished the flower of the older division of the metropolitan stake horses in present training with supreme ease, winning off from the splendid Ally Running Water. "Wizard" Miller rode the ponderous Keene two-year-old Zambesi to victory in the Babylon Stakes at six furlongs and repeated with the same stables high class Ally Veil in the last, making threo important successes on the day for this owner. The steeplechase proved an easy spot for Expansionist, the added starter. The Brokaw horse was barked for a good thing at 3 to 1. Tlie withdrawal of ihb sprinting star .Lotus "from Uo ilrit rnee disappointed the public. A. winning combination in Miller and Edna .lack-son amply tilled the void however and the lettors nearly backed it off the boards.
