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WINNER OF THE RICH TWIN CITY HANDICAP AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. NEALON, BROWN COLT, 4, BY SAIN SISTER JOSEPHINE, WITH W. DUGAN UP, Nealons victory in the Twin City Handicap at Shcepshead Bay yesterday was his. fourteenth out of sixty-two starts in three seasons and his net winnings foot up 52,350. As a two-year-old he .won three races and ,050; last year he took six. races and 5,450 and to date this year he has won live races, been live times second and three times third in twenty starts and has earned 4,850. Nealon was bred by Barney ScUreibecat. his.. WjvdlaiusSttl in Missouri and was raced by his breeder. until. last winter, vyhen C. E. Durnell bought-a-half intercandt in hiiii on a valuation of 5,000, took him Into his own stable and won a couple of overnight handicaps with hint at Oakland before shipping him to New York. Nealon made his first start in the east lit Duhiclls colors, when he iinlshed second to Dandelion in a handicap at Belmont Park, May 13. Then he was third in the Brooklyn Handicap, third in the Cosmopolitan Handicap and second in an overnight handicap. Then he won the Suburban Handicap at Shcepshead Bay, running the mile and a quarter in 2:00s. I" the race for the Brighton Mile he was interfered with at the start and finished unplaced and in the running for the Brighton Handicap he was crowded out of it and pulled up. Iinlshed In the ruck. At Saratoga, August 1-1, he won an overnight handicap for Durnell and two days later was sold by public auction to William Dubois, owner of the Patchoguc Stable, for 1,000. Dubois started him in the Saratoga Cup arid hi finished second to Running Water. That was his last start prior to yesterday and it may be said that he has already paid his way for his new owner.
