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FAUST WINS A STiKE RACE DEFEATS LIGHT WOOL III THE KINGS COUNTY HANDICAP IN A HARD DRIVE Enntpufle Wins Easily Monfort Has a Hard Time in Defeating Zal Jockey Shillings Suspen ¬ sion Costly to His Employer Now York May 8 Hie suspension of jockey Shilling undoubtedly cost It L Thomas i race to ¬ day Shilling was suspended by starter Cassidy Thursday although it did not become public anil Mr TlmiiiMS was forced to put Garner on Light W Wxil xil in the Kin s County Handicap the feature of the card The track was just to Light Wools liking and his impost was only 101 pounds With Shilling tip he seemed best and even with Garner in the saddle lie was favorite in a SIMM hotting event Light Wool is a very hail actor hut Shilling generally manages to get him away well This Carner failed to do and Light Wool which is essen ¬ tially a front runner was beaten around the first turn the speedy Spooner making the pace When Light Wool moved up on the backstretch he was cut off by Spooner and was bothered to some extent until the stretch was reached Here Spooner re ¬ tired and the lightlyweighted Faust which had been a keen contender all this way hooked up with Light Wool It was a rattling struggle all through the stretch Faust had Light Wool In close quarters next to the rail and in a desperate linish got the decision by a head headThe The tabulated history of the Kings County Han ¬ dicap is as follows Year Winner A Wt Jockey Val Tim IIO The Musketeer 120 Hoar 1880 li5J li5Jl0t l0t Florham 4 li Hildehrand 180015 180015ISior ISior Itapid Water 4 120 Lyne 1085147 1900 Jsrafcl 3 W Miller 1540147 1540147II07 II07 1483lltOS Buttling 5 314 Xotter 1 KM 1483 lltOS Faust 4 SS Sumtcr 1480 148 148Kun Kun at t mile in 1 0 0Shilling Shilling is unable to get along with starter Gas sidy and this suspension is the third for him since the season began Unless he and the starter can mine to terms there appears to he small chance of liis fultilllng the predictions made for him last win ¬ ter in California that he would be the leading rider of the cast this year a prediction that was well justilied by his work there Shilling might also have won the opening race for Mr Thomas with Father Stafford Koerner was put up and got tho horse away well but allowed him to go unnecessarily wide on the stretch turn and was of little help when It came to a drive driveG G Hums emphasized his return fo riding after a liveday suspension by bringing Kight Sort home an easy winner Kight Sort was much butter than his stable believed as he went to the ost unbacked at 50 to I It is a rare thing for one of Mr Car ¬ mans horses to slip him as Kight Sort did didPantoutle Pantoutle demonstrated that she is now in her very best form by her easy victory in the sprint handicap After Colloquy and Kaqucl had made the pace to the stretch Pantoufle ran away from them Colloquy evidently docs not fancy muddy going or she docs not like to be carried along as she KaquelAfter was today by Kaquel After overcoming n lot of interference Monfort an oddson favorite got up to beat Zal by a narrow margin for th third race Xal showed the most speed and when Monfort apparently sulked after Icing bumped at the far turn appeared all over tho winner and it took Dugans best efforts to get the favorite home homeMadrileno Madrileno the 50 colt galloped away with the fifth race There was some support for Conaro a new starter from the Whitney barn but he was never prominent in the running However he is a giM d looking youngster and one that it may do to follow in moderate company Golden companyGolden Pearl A T Joyners halfbrother to the illfated Water 1carl had no trouble to graduate from the maiden ranks in the closing race and may fulfill formThe the promise of his early twoyearold form The running of the handicap shows Spoomr to be nothing but a sprinter Favored by the going he could not hold his opponents for more than seven furlongs and it seems that this distance or a mile at most will see him at his best bestFausts Fausts victory was in the nature of a form re ¬ versal although he was favored by the going and weight Garner who rode Light Wool went in the stand after tho race and gave tho backers of Faust a scare But tho red board had already gone up and it developed that his complaint was against Nottcr who rode Spooner and who Garner said deliberately cut him off in the backstretch backstretchThe The weather was bad again hut the rain held off until the racing was over The track was heavy and there is no hope of improvement for tomorrow
