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KEENES GOOD DAY AT EMPIRE CITY Melisande Wins the Demoiselle Stakes and Footpad Captures a Purse Race New York August 17 Jam R Keene shipped Melisande and iFootpad from Saratoga to Youkers overnight for the purpose of winning the Demoiselle Stakes and a maiden twoyearold purse race decided there today Each performed tle task assigned with foiiTJluiug ease The Castletunbred cracks vere inoted at oddson and both made good in conform ¬ ity with the betting bettingThe The card was very good containing besides the two races for twoyearolds a handicap t one mile and threes selling races sit six furlongs one mile and mile and a sixteenth The firstnamed race engaged good handicap ihorses besides one three yearold of stake pretensions in Faleada On the strength of his sensational effort In the Yonkeif Handicap on Saturday Tony Bonero was made equal favorite at 7 to 5 with his younger opponent The start played an important part in deciding the race From i dubious beginning Faleada uulcklv estab ¬ lished a contending position under Dtigans alert and skillful horsemanship and it enabled the top welghtcd Wilson colt to just get home in front of hlSt Inadequately riddeu and unlucky rival whicn ran a sensational race after having been virtually left at the post Tames postTames B Brady in the sprint and Rockstone in the closing race were the unsuccessful mediums of two misguided plunges Both were backed down to un ¬ naturally short odds and the money forthcoming created a veritable panic among the layers the ma ¬ jority of whom refused absolutely to accept a bet at any price about either one of them for nearly live timeWoodcraft minutes preceding post time Woodcraft and Golden Shore at 5 to 1 and 3 to 1 respectively upset the good things duitc handily ami everybody wondered From a form standpoint the closing market quotations almut the winners and the runnersup in these two races should have been reversed reversedGowan Gowan in the fifth race was the one good thing of the afternoon that went through without a hitch James Caffreys filly Is said to have worked a mile in 140 lint for todays race and won her race In a way that confirmed that rumor rumorThe The Kinpire City Associations second day of rac ¬ ing was well up to the metropolitan standard in the matter of horses and extent of patronage despite threatening weather conditions and the increased and unnecessarily oppressive police restrictions in force luring the afternoon to prevent violations of the antibetting law Many more uniformed police were in evidence than en the opening day There was a resumption in a mild way of the police tactics that disgraced the work immediately following the enact ¬ ment of the HartAgnew laws at Gravesend in Juno Intending bettors in quest of information as to odds were told to move on by police ollicers whenever liny of the latter overheard any queries as to what was the price on so and so Otherwise racegoers were not molested molestedOne One man Joseph II Thonette suspected of regis ¬ tering a wager was however arrested The two men arrested on Saturday just before the sixth race were discharged Sunday after a trial before a Yon ¬ kers TMilIce magistrate Chief of Police Wolf an ¬ nounced during the morning that lie would enforce the antibetting law in accordance with Justice Gay nors recent decision and intcrpretaiou of it No single instance of any member of the Metropolitan Turf Association being molested cropped up today Todays new repressive measure seemed to be di ¬ rected exclusively to the layers formerly known as the outlanders which included all those who oper ¬ ated In tlo field Inclosure Nolan a newcomer in the bookmaking line was actually prevented from doing any business Thonette the only one arrested today is an employe of Joe Bluiner the big field liookinaker liookinakerJockey Jockey Sammy Sweet with a fracture of the skull Is doing as well as can be expected at the St Joseph hospital He will recover according to the doctors lint will hardly be able to do any more riding tlds season Snmter the other jockey injured in the fifth race last Saturday escaped with a bid shaking up and may be seen in the saddle before the close of the present meeting Caterer meetingCaterer McGrath says he did his biggest and most profitable days business on Saturday since the anti racing crusado began on June 12 last W lastW J McCloskey has iust arrived from California He sails for France on the La Tonraine next Thurs Iay where he will resumo his former vocation of shoeing race horses McCloskey did all the shoeing for Eugene Leighs stable previous to 1007 Dr 1007Dr Gardner fell lame so badly in the fifth race that It Is thought the former great race horse sold bv Barney Schrciner to T I Sullivan as a three yearold for SluOCO will have to be retired for forCotytlo Cotytlo in finishing a closeup second to the fleet Melisande displayed a glimpse of her real form The Solitaire filly was the highesttried yearling that A B Sprockets Xapa Stud farm has ever turned out outMr Mr James Butler declared himself perfectly satis ¬ fied with conditions as they have been these two ays past Everything was going on smoothly and If the average of attendance keeps up for the re ¬ maining ten days of the meeting there will be no deficit to make up upClarence Clarence II Mackay has donated iOO to the fund which is being raised for the purpose of defraying ilie expense Incidental to the big reception to be glvfn to the returning Olympic victors victorsPerseus Perseus looms up as a dangerous Futurity candi ¬ date He gets into the race with all the allowances allowancesThe The Sanford stable will be missed at Yonkers the oversight to nominate in the stakes there was unintentional Mr Sanford thought there would be a full meeting at Saratoga so overlooked the Youk r program believing it would clash with Saratoga tils owu camping grounds
