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1 ; ELLICOTTS WHIRLPOOL HANDICAP. Track Records Are Lowered at Buffalo Question Over Placing in First Race. Buffalo, N. Y., June 22. The Whirlpool Handicap, the feature race at Kenilworth this afternoon, was easy for Eilicott, the Buffalo Derby winner. Only four of the thirty-two eligibles went to the post with the top weight, Martin Doyle, always the choice with the betting public. A wretched ride ruined whatever chance Martin Doyle might have had. Anderson rode him into a pocket on the first turn and, while going down the bacljstreteh, he messed bis mount about and was cut off and interfered with several times. In the meantime Ellicott was out in front setting a fast pace witli Brown making every post a winning one. He won by a couple of lengths from the Seagram colt Deuce. Martin Doyle faltered in the third and was a beatnu off third. The mile was run in 1 :!, or two-tilths of a second faster than the previous track record for the distance, made by Atl Itevoir July. 8, 1005. The track was at its very best. In the second race the three-year-old Spion ran live and a half furlongs in 1:052, or one-fifth of a second faster than Pat Bulger ran the distance a couple of years hack. In the liftli race George S. Davis ran the mile In 1:;!!, or one-fifth of a second faster than did Eilicott in the fourth race. Kvcnly balanced fields went to the post in a majority of the races and exciting finishes resulted, the winners in three being hard ridden to win by small margins. In the first race there was a question as to whether Stanley Fay, the winner, should not have been disqualified. At the furlong post Stanley Fay. which liad set the early pace, took a tiring swerve and to those in the stand it looked as if he struck the favorite Win. II. Lyons. At all events, McCarthy took the latter back. The finish found Stanley Fay under a hard drive to stall off Shirley H.s rush. Wm. II. Lyon, in next to the inside rail, appeared to have lasted long enough to stall .off Pedigree and beat the latter,, QUjM.heaL for third money and considerable surprise was expressed when Desideratums number was displayed as finishing third. Desideratum was In close pursuit of Stanley Fay until straightend out in the homestretch, where lie began to tire and at the finish was beaten off. Judges and stewards were positive, however, that Desideratum had finished third, although It was hard to find any one on the ground to agree witli them. The closing race resulted in a dual between Thistle Do and Marster. The pair raced like a team for the entire trip with Marster having a slight advantage until in the last half dozen strides, where Thistle Do managed to poke Ills head in front. Shirley It. ran in the name and interests of M. B. Spauhling, who purchased the filly of Tommy Grillins agent previous to the first race. Canopian, which was claimed out of a selling race at Toronto by Jack Sheehan, ran in the colors of W. Walker, his old owner. This race, however, went to N. Strauss, in whose interest the horse ran. K. M. Mitchells Margaret, which was jumped on and cut down in her last race, is mending and it is probable she will train again. Jockey W. Dugan, who rode Ncalon in the Suburban Handicap, returned from New York this morning and will ride, at Kenilworth for the remainder of the meeting.
