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FANCY WINS YENUS STAKES. F ADRIANA, HER STABLE COMPANION, IS SECOND; HALF SOVEREIGN THIRD. S Ij r Keep Moving Rears at Post and Falls Upon E. Dugan Roseben Wins Sprint l; Steeplechase to Essex II. t i New York, July 17. Tin Whitney stable scored a double triumph In the Venus Stakes with Fancy 1 ami Adrlana running Into first and second places at llie end of an exciting five and n half furlongs struggle at Brighton Beach this afternoon. During the early stages neither of the pair appeared to ! have a chance. Kaleidoscopic changes, however, j took place in the stretch and Fancy and Adrlana got up at the end in a bewildering display of speed. The finish between the first three was very close and so sudden and unexpected were the changes rung in on the spectators that not one in a thousand could have named the winner, much less the second horse. Fancy and Adrlana coupled were favorites at 2 to 1, receding from the opening of 0 to 5, owing to the tremendous hacking that developed for Keep Moving. The Hitchcock filly behaved badly at the post and fell on her rider, E. Dugan. It was at first resorted that the boy was disabled. He plucklly remounted, but she did not cut an important figure in the contest. The time, 1:00?, was considered fast. The tabled history of the Venus Stakes follows: Year. Winner. Wr. Jockey. Val. Time. 1900 Sweet Lavender. .110 Litllefield .,200 1:072 J!0l Oiinllre 107 Shaw 2,225 1:00J 1902 Gravlna 90 L. Jackson. 2,22.", 1:004 . 1903 Iroquois Belle 00 Wilfcerson . 0,500 1:01 i 1904 Tradition 124 Hildebrnd . S.S50 1:01 1!0.-, Cousin F.va 10". T. Burns... S,S50 1:00 1000 Mentha 107 Radtke 5.S50 1:07? : 1007 Fancy 107 Gamer -5.S50 1:005 At five-eights mile between 1001 and 1004 inclusive. Despite his enormous burden of 147 pounds the , wonderful Itoseben ruled the favorite in the first : race. Only nine of the original nineteen accepted the issue, and they might as well have dodged todays . meeting with the mighty sprinter for all :the , contention they furnished for first place. It was j Itoseben by himself all the way, as he led from the first stride to the last without ever being fully extended. Smoker injected a little interest into the running by Ills brilliant flight of speed. He was the runner-up throughout. The jumping race was a thrilling affair from first to last. For two miles the entire field ran so closely bunched that those behind the first three or four were unable to see the olisiacies until they were right on top of them. Bayonet, the favorite, came to grief because he was so closely and completely hemmed in that he could not see to take off at the seventh jump on tin; hackstretch and fell, throwing his rider heavily. It was thought that Stone was seriously injured, lie lay so still for quite a. while, but he came to with a few scratches and a bruised face. The half-bred Essex II., at 15 to 1, scored a sensathmal victory over Caller and Dr. Keith, both at long prices In the Ivettlng. The layers were practically left with clean sheets when Jimmy Lane, the second choice, hied and pulled up a half mile from the finish. E. Dugans exercise of skill aided Lancastrian, which carried a lot of money, to victory in the mile and a quarter selling race. Boidnioore, the favorite, was unlucky in beating the barrier. It forced him to make the running until Miller, taking him back at the wrong time, caused him to be immediately surrounded and put out of commission. Miller had an easy task to pilot Estimate at odds-on to victory In the fifth. J. A. Bonnet made a big clean-up with Amundsen in the last race because Miller took a nap on the favorite ijcallop during the last furlong of the stretch. The weather was insufferably hot, yet fully 20,000 persons were present. Three favorites, a third choice and two extreme outsiders accounted for the excellent card of six races. , Starter Richard Dwyer was at Brighton this afternoon. He will resume work at Fort Erie next Monday. C. J. Casey, trainer for C. T. Ilenshall, arrived today from Seattle.
