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ST. JOSEPH WINS BUFFALO FEATURE. Defeats the Poorly Ridden Tom Dolan by a Head for Clinton Selling Stakes. Buffalo, N. V., Juno IS. There was a great improvement in the card at Kenilworth this afternoon and with tills came keen finishes. The feature event, the Clinton Selling Stakes, furnishing a stirring contest, in which M. J. Dalys St. Joseph beat Tom Dolan out a head. St. Josephs victory was a lucky one, for, with a more competent jockey, Tom Dolan would have won. The track was probably in better condition than ever before, with the result that the time mfule in a majority of the races was very fast. The record for six furlongs was lowered to l:12g, when Tom McGrath won the fourth race. George S. Davis ran his first mile in the second race. In 1:38J and Please in the opening race, ran four and a half furlongs in 543. The Schreiber stable was again very much in evidence. Tom McGrath, which is owned by Schreibers trainer, H. K. Brandt, and the horse himself a product of Schreibers Woodlands Farm, capturing the fourth race, while isehreiber furnished the winners in the fifth and sixth races in Chief Hayes and Chief Desmond. Favorites won four out of the six races ami Ibis meant that the books did not lay up anything, as Buffalo race-goers are, as a rule, strictly favorite players. In tlie Clinton Selling Stakes eight of the nlifo canted, went to the wst, Betsy Binford being the only absentee. On tits splendid performance the day previous, when he beat presumably better opponents with more weight up, Tom Dolan was made tie favorite and heavily backed; this too, in spite of the fact that he was ridden by a newcomer in these parts. Rosen is an apprentice sent here by August Belmonts trainer, John Whalen, for practice. He is a likely lad and will eventually develop into a rider of some merit. As yet he is a bit green and his ride on Tom Dolan was an injudicious one. He made entirely too much use of the colt after he had a commanding lead on the backstretch and when St. Joseph made his challenge in the run through the homestretch, Tom Dolan, game though he is, had nothing left to stall it oT. The beautifully bred Tom McGrath, by Sain Miss Marlon, showed sensational speed in the fourth race, a six furlong sprint, for which lie was an odds-on favorite. Tom McGrath carried 11S pounds top weight in the race, and ran the first half in 46B and finished out three-quarters in l:12g, which was one-fifth of a second faster than the previous track record for the distance, made by Dr. Spruill. The stables of H. W. Waldcn, E. W. Lagerroth, Thomas Clyde and Thomas F. Presgrave arrived this morning from Montreal. The lirst two strings were in charge of It. W. Waldcn, while Albert Weston trains the latter two. The horses shipped well.
