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GOLDEN PEARLS GIFT RACE HESSIAN IS PULLED UP TO ALLOW HIM TO WIN THE WHIRL STAKES Trance Resumes Successful Racing After a Lone LoneRest Rest Attorney Elders Presence Disturbs DisturbsYonkers Yonkers Patrons of Racing New York August 24 The closing week of the Empire Citys midsummer meeting began auspl loiisly for favorite players as the betting choices made a clean sweep of Hie card From first to last the racing was extraordinarily formfnl the weather and track conditions perfect and the 5000 race ¬ goers present would have Jong remembered it as a day of ideal sport Imt lor the disquieting presence of Acting District Attorney KIder of Kings county who arrived just before the fourth race His pres ¬ ence distracted the attention of the spectators from the afternoonAll sport for the remainder of the afternoon All that Mr KIder could be induced to say for publication was this Mr Parsons o the Coney Island Jockey Club has given out a statement as to what his associates AVill do at the Sheepshcad Bay meeting If be does as lie says there will be no occasion for mv Interfering If he doesnt make good Ill get busy thats all allThere There were present a half dozen of Hughes pri ¬ vate detect ivos busily engaged in taking data dur ¬ ing the afternoon It is known that twelve warrants had been Issued In the morning but none of them was served One arrest took place a man by the name of Michaelson for alleged recording of a wager wagerThere There was no betting oral or otherwise going on in the clubhouse inclosiire today It was In fact practically deserted Almost everybody had gone out on the lawn in front of tlie grandstand to enjoy the racing racingThe The 2 rate of admission and the field alK lisbedfor Sheepshead Bay and ill ltln other tracks for the remainder of the season has been practically decided upon uponA A J Joyner had three horses entered in the Whirl Stakes Hessian Golden 1earl and Kialto but as he expressed it it seemed a shame to take sli three moneys and therefore I scratched Rialto In the race Golden Pearl and Hessian ran lirst and second the former occupying the pride of place at the end on sufferance Magazine made the pace with Golden Pearl and Frizettc close np and Hes ¬ sian trailing The latter was scut alongon the back stretch challenged and disposed of the pacemaker fill the turn and drew out with a long and canter ¬ ing lead In the stretch Then Dugan sat down and patiently waited for Coldcn Pearl to come along When he saw the latter single out from the others In the last furlong with a safe lead for second place he turned around and signaled Itutlcr to come on and win which he did Hessian in the meantime being pulled np to almost a standstill to enable the declared one of the pair to do so The soThe second race at live and a half furlongs was the medium through which the wonderful filly Trance was reintroducetl to metropolitan racegoers after a long retirement of nearly three months Al ¬ though she was opposed ly a rare good trial horse Royal Captive the daughter of Ben 15rush Fall Vision emerged victorious under circumstances so sensational as to warrant her being acclaimed almost the equal of the renowned Maskette Trance whose flight of speed AVZIS dazzling and whose sameness was something to marvel at in view of her prob ¬ able lack of condition has had a busy twoyearold career She began racing at Oakland in January several months before she was actually of age She has traveled to California nnd back to New York besides several journeys between Los Angeles and Kan Francisco in all probably 10000 miles while being severely campaigned at all three points She triumphed repeatedly over the lower of her age and sex in the east and retired only to come out in the near fall of the year better than ever The everThe opening race was started hv C II Pettingill Mr Cassidy did not arrive at the track in time owing to the breakdown of his automobile S automobileS C Ilildreth gave out the belated information today that Fitz Herbert had been pricked to the iiick white being shod shortly after he passed to 1 is and Maddens possession Fitz Herbert is work ¬ ing along satisfactorily but will not be ready for the Futurity Whats the difference anyway ex ¬ claimed his owner It would IK wasting time and nergy to try to beat the Maskette kind kindP P L McGinnis will send home his horses includ ¬ ing Frank Gill next Wednesday Mr McOinnis deprecates all the talk of a match race with Pinkola and hud no intention of entering into anv such an affair
