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GRETNA GREEN IS BEATEN. .NARROWLY SUCCUMBS TO FAUST IN THE SOUTHAMPTON HANDICAP. Suffrage Wins from Sewell in a Fast Race Chullta Fails Confident Backers-Favorites Fare Badly. New York, October IS. Two first-class attractions, the Southampton Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth aud a sprint handicap, both of which engaged high-class racers, were provided for racegoers at Jamaica toiay. In addition the card contained a maiden two-year-old affair and three selling races for horses of moderate caliber. Four heavily supported favorites went down to defeat, the two exceptions being Marster, which won a lluko victory in the mile and an eighth selling event and the promising juvenile Carrollton in the last. Faust scored a lucky nose decision in the stake fixture over the favorite, Gretna Green. Don Creole, which finished third, ran a remarkable race after bolting and nearly falling down on the first turn. There was a sudden chance in the temperature over night, with the result that it was one of the balmiest days of the year. The track was fast. Indications are for rain tonight or tomorrow. Jack Atkin -was the favorite for the first race of the day, a six furlongs sprint, with Suffrage second choice. Jack Atkin was practically left at the jHjst and. seeing it was a hopeless case, Nicol lid not abuse him in what would have been a fruitless endeavor to get up. Suffrage followed Sal Volatile for a half, then went out in front aud won in a style decidedly suggestive of returning to her best form, but with little to spare, Sewell finishing at her saddle girtli and Lad of Langden but a head farther back. The two-year-old Number One was a close-up fourth and going fast. Danos-oara ran along in the middle division all the wav and never tlattered her admirers. The second race was won by the favorite, Mars-ter, in a brnisiug finish with Samuel II. Harris, the two selling platers lighting it out at the end like stake horses, and Marster only prevailing liv a short head. Flavigny, after being in the rear division, came on with a rush in the last half and was a fast-going but not dangerous third. The outsider, Frank Lubbock, showed sufficient speed to render him worthy of consideration in such company hereafter, but old lhil Finch, third choice in the betting, ran like a sure enough has-been. Two-year-olds under selling conditions, at five and a halt furlongs, contested the third race. With Miller up, CliulUa was deemed unbeatable, and went to the post the greatest favorite of the day, but to the dismay of her backers she was beaten out by both Arasee and Youthful. Chulita has been a decided failure in her campaign over the Now York tracks. Arasee had an evident chance to at least finish in, the first three, but Youtbfuls race was unexpectedly good. Blacksheep ran a good race here and seems eligible to win soon. ISallot was scratched from the only stake race of the day, the Southampton Handicap, at a mile aud a sixteenth, for three-year-olds. His stable mate. Gretna Green, was promptly made the favorite, but it was an open betting race, and nearly every starter had more or less supiort, Monfort being undeservedly the outsider of all. Gretna Green set the early pace, but Don Creole passed him on the back stretch and carried on the running to the home stretch, where Gretna Green again look command and seemed the winner. Faust had been in the rear for nearly a mile, but came along at this stage with a rush lM-fitting a son of Imp, and in a hurricane finish finally defeated the Keene colt by a head, with Don Creole a fairly good third, lapped out by Monfort. Sea Wolf was a well-backed second choice, but ipiit and finished last. The tabled history of the Southampton Handicap is as follows: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1004 Dolly Spanker.. .111 Kcdfcru ...,47n l:4Si 1105 Ganiara 99 1errine 1,C.!I0 11 WO Hot Toddy 117 W. Miller.. l,r.0r. l:48i lt07 Faust 00 G. Burns .. 1,530 1:17 Some useful three-year-olds contested the fifth race, a selling dash of a mile and a sixteenth. Zipungo was the favorite and Ramrod a good second choice, but both were much knocked about in the race and neither had anything to do with the finish, Lord Stanhope, at long odds aud lucky In the race, winning in a tight lit. with the unlucky Kilter and George S. Davis finishing a close up third. Zipango ran a good race under dilticulties. Maiden two-year-olds contested the last race of the day and the finely-bred Carrollton made it a ruituway, winning away off by himself in a canter from Onatassa, with Miraniur a good third. Ihsio Ilammersehlag has transferred his Knicker-lwcker Trust Company bank account of 0,750 to a fellow layer named Al Hauf for ,000 cash. This transaction took place just before the ring business lcgaii in the first race. The stewards questioned jockey Xicol regarding bis getting left on the favorite. Jack Atkin, in the first race. Xicol is reported to have said that the hors.e was sour and unwilling to break. George, Hose left for Chicago on the Xew York Central Twentieth Century train at three oclock thin afternoon. The ollicial time for starting the first race every day at Jamaica is now 11:11 p. m. Henry Flittner. u partner in Tom Shaws book, will depart for San Francisco next Tuesday. Shaw himself will book at Baltimore next week. Enoch Wishard and the string of horses in his charge belonging to A. B. Spreckcls, will winter at Savauualt, Ga. One of the meu from the battleship Connecticut, a machinist of the first class, was at the track today and wagered ,000 against 2,500 with George Boles on Gretna Green in the fourth race. He and his mates, for whom he acted as betting commissioner, were nosed out of ,500. Andy Blakeloy finally put. one over at good odds in the third. The winner, Arasee, was named after Itiehard A. CanHeld, It. A. C. Steeplechase jockey Donohue has suffered a relapse and was taken to the hospital again today. Donohue arose from a sick bed to ride Coligny to victory in the Champion Steeplechase at Belmont lark last Snturday. The fact developed today that Davy Johnson won 0,000 on Whip Top in the last race yesterday. This afternoon the big plunger backed three winners. Suffrage. Marstcr and Arasee, and wound up with a wager of 0,000 on Carrollton at an average price of 7 to 0. His betting operations are the talk of the race track. It is rcporlcd that AVm. Garth will no longer train for K. A. Kainey. Robert McKeever will nice a couple of the hitlers horses, includlug Horace E.. at Oakland this winter. All the Cella books have dropped out of the local ring, Several of them will go on at Latooia. It Is said that a half million dollars belonging to race track men are involved in the Knickerbocker Trust Company failure.
