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DANDELION WINS MENTAL UNDER NICOL THE HITCHCOCK HORSE RUNS A FAST RACE. He Beats Running Water and a Crack Field In Record Time Please Takes the Flat-lands Three Favorites Score. New York, September 1C. TIic opening day of the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs fall meeting was marked by perfect track and weather conditions, extraordinarily large attendance and extremely satisfactory sport. It was a record-breaking off day in the history of the old Oravesend track. The two stakes, the Oriental and Flatlands, were both productive of lirst-class racing, as, in tact, was the rule throughout the immense card of seven races. Dandelion achieved a nose and what experts thought was a fluke victory in the Oriental in 2:0ti. It shattered the track record for one and a quarter miles, and also by one full second lowers the best time for the same race made by f!old Heels in 1901. Miller permitted Kunning Water to loaf with the winning goal in sight, and lost the race in a sensational manner in the final strides. Please negotiated the sharp turns and short stretches of the course with more facility than any of her opponents, and captured the Klatlands quite easily. Outsiders continue to monopolize racing honors. Three favorites. Caller, Please and Dandelion, the latter closely pressed in the betting by Running Water, were successful today. Veil, favorite in the first, was kicked by KingV Daughter before the start. It may have affected her speed. Barney Schreibers .Tack Atkin is in brilliant forhi just now and won off. Barney Schreiber has engaged jockey Musgrave to do his riding in the east for the remainder of the season. Jockey Notter was unable to ride today. He is still suffering from the injury sustained when kicked while exercising a yearling on Sunday. Thomas H. Williams. Adam Andrew and Samuel Heaslip were three distinguished turf magnates from the "west and south who saw the racing at Graves-end this afternoon. . Ed TlelTncr bought Okenitcat private sale "during" the morning. Jockeys Swain and Burns were set down by the staricr for one week for misbehavior in the third race: The horse, June Time, entered here today in the fifth race, was barred in starting because he had participated in the meeting at Jamestown. Buxton was reprimanded by Cassidy for getting left with James B. Brady in the lirst race. Buxton is not making good in his new jolt. His work on Tom Dolan was beneath the level of an inexperienced stable lMty. The best authorities ridicule the talked of Colin-Boseben match and say there is no chance whatever of a meeting between these two. The assistant starter held Hyperion II. at the post in the fifth. H. B. Duryea wrote his check for 8,500 and gave it to Tom Welsh for Running Water today. The great mare leaves the Welsh stable tonight. He saddled her for the Oriental and was supTemely conlident that she would win. "W. A. McKinney has resigned the position as trainer for C. K. Durncll. J. K. Madden has entered six yearlings in the Grand Prix de Paris, to lie run in 1009. Steeplechase jockey Stone has purchased Barney Schreibers star jumper. Dr. Logan, by Sain Miss Howard. Jockey Walter Miller has been offered ,000 per week to ride a horse once across the stage every night at a Broadway theater in a play n Mined "The Futurity." His engagement is to commence right, after the close of Bennings. Three millionaires were represented by the three maiden two-year-olds which finished lirst, second and third in the sixth race today. John B. Madden lias sold bis half interest in Dandelion to F. R. Hitchcock, who is now the sole owner of the Hamburg horse. T. Hitchcock. Jr. lias sold Golf Ball, by Plaudit, to W. A. McKinney, Durnells ex-trainer.
