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BBLMOST HORSES IN FRONT HALF SOVEREIGN AND BLACK OAK WIN RACES FOR JOCKEY CLUBS CHAIRMAN Thomas H Williams Buys the Crack Colt Big Chief Chieffor for a Long Price Big Crowd to See Brighton Beach Racing New York July 1 Racing by the seashore started out on Its second week today with improved prospects of success The patronage was sufficiently large to insure good profits for the meeting the crowd numbering not less than 0000 0000The The card sent out overnight was very promising marked by both quality and quantity Wholesale withdrawals however seriously impaired its ex ¬ cellence Eleven or nearly half of the original en ¬ tries dropped out of the first race three each were scratched from the second third and sixth Seven declined the issue in the feature race and only three out of seven starters were left in the steeple ¬ chase The card originally puzzling in the extreme simplified as the afternoon wore on Still it was an upen one and its running abounded iu attempted coups successful and otherwise otherwiseProbably Probably the biggest scare of the day from the standpoint of the professional layers developed when the horse named Joe Stanley was projected into the market iu the third race The tip on this animal was so torrid that rumors of his being a ringer and belonging to the notorious John 1 Kyan circu ¬ lated with rapidity through the inclosure The un ¬ easy bookmakers w ye not long left in suspense the other horses in the race leaving the unknown quickly quicklyNotwithstanding Notwithstanding that favorites two of them at odds n were able to account for half of the pro gram the general public had no share in the profit ¬ able victories of Half Sovereign Black Oak and Elllsdale Elllsdale1hillp 1hillp J Dwyers Grauin a receding favorite scored a popular victory Until the present season the famous colors red and blue sash of the presi ¬ dent of the Brooklyn Jockey Club had been in almost total xclipse for a decade and the unexpectedly full measure of success which is attending them this year has enthused the presentday racegoer into an unusual outburst of applause whenever a Dwyer horse shows to advantage advantageThe The principal race of the day in which Question Mark Tourenne and four others made up the field was chiefly remarkable for the bungling ride and overdone waiting tactics employed with Lakelands colt and for the bad showing of Forsythes horse which was second choice in the betting It seems that Tonrenne is alilicted with a big growth or swelling oa the left ankle of the foreleg which Is thought to handicap him seridusly in running on a track like that of Brighton Beach or Sheepshead Bay In proof of this the trainer cites his wonder ¬ fully fast trials at Beluiont Park when running the reverse way wayThomas Thomas II Williams president of the New California Jockey Club furnisned racegoers sub ¬ stantial evidence of his confidence in the future of racing in New York and California by pay ¬ ing the large sum of 12000 for Big Chief at Brighton Beach today The Pontiae Madelaiue threeyearold is a mediumsized compactly built horse of brilliant speed rare stamina and is a regular bulldog for tenacity and courage While possibly not in the very first flight of horses of his age tliisi season it is generally conceded that not one of the firstraters could take any liberties with Mr Williams new purchase Big Chief has so often and so sensationally snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat that next to Colin he is easily the most popular racer on the inetropolltan turf turfThe The big Williams racing establishment was de ¬ prived of the services of Sammy Sweet its crack apprentice jockey on Colonel White in the last race oufiig to an injury to his left knee received from being violently crowded to the fence with Prudent during the running of the second race But for the nccident referred to Prudent could not have finished worse than third Sweet will probably be laid up for a few days daysKlllsdale Klllsdale the winner of the last race had worked i mile and a quarter over the Sheepshead Bay course as long ago as May in 205J but his races were so bad that James B Brady practically gave him away and he now belongs to the Southwell Stable in whose colors he started today todayThe The poice are unusually quiescent these days There were no arrests 4his afternoon for violation fit the AgnewIlart antibetting law lawJockey Jockey Notter leaves for Saratoga next Wednes ¬ day and will not be seen at Brighton again except n special occasions occasionsThe The major portion of Harry Payne Whitneys siring were shipped to Saratoga today todayThe The four reopened stakes of the Saratoga Asso ¬ ciation will close at midnight tonight
