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USURY SAVES THE DAY AT FORT ERIE. Favorites Are Defeated in the First Six Races Much Bumping. Buffalo, N. Y., July .".0. Usury, winner of the seventh nice, saved backers of favorites from a complete Waterloo at Fort F.rie this afternoon Speculation was heavy and the bookmakers laid up enough to offset some of heir losses. The racing was clean, but this does not mean that the best horses won. Large fields and the narrow track were in the main, responsible for the defeat of several horses that were beaten. In the fourth race Doubt met with repeated interference from the time he got off until well inside the filial furlong. In the sixth race Frescati, the winner, knocked Tom Shaw sideways just opposite the sixteenth post. Many expected a disqualification and then? was some surprise expressed when no ollieial recognition was taken of the Interference. Martin, who had the mount on Frescati, was unable to keep the filly straight and all through the homestretch she kept bearing over toward the inside and finished with her head pulled sideways. When Prince of Orange was given preference over F.dwin H. in the opening race, the wrong horse was favored. Edwin II. ran a phenomenal race, coming from last place, and won going away by a length. In the early stages of the trip Edwin II. appeared hopelessly out of any chance. The steeplechase furnished its usual mishaps. The heavily backed Manzano made a bad landing and jockey Ford fell off. Judge Nolan fell at the eleventh jump. The winner tinned up in Roderick, which fenced in faultless fashion and held the others safe at all stages. Boyle had him under restraint for the first time around, but when Ingot ready went to the front and won under a pull. Edward Trotter this morning added the three-year-old llaber to his string. He purchased the colt at private sale froni K. P. Shipp through J. 1. Clayton. Jockey Goldstein arrived from Chicago this morning and will resiiiuerhling Thursday, when his employer, Edward Talley, -will roach here. Talley had obtained a new contract on Goldstein which had another eighteen months to run. I. M. CiviUs useful colt Halliard is down with fever and is in a bad way. James McLaughlin, Jr., has fired the two-year-old filly Helen Green and will rest her up until late in the fall.
