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THE SQUIRES CLOSE CALL ONLY WINS THE SEABREEZE STAKES BY INCHES IN A DESPERATE FINISH Lawton Wiggins Scores Again Fort Johnson Wins Mr Sanford His First Race Since the Saratoga Meeting Now York September IS The Seabreeze Stakes was the special feature of a good offday card at Gravescnd this afternoon and it resulted in one of Hie most thrilling struggles for supremacy between two game thoroughbreds that lias l een seen this season Tlie finish was so close between The Squire and Araseo that very few of the spectators had settled convictions as to which one of theiair should be awarded the race raceA A G Blnkeleys inadequately ridden Arasee was clearly the best and suffered a lluke defeat by inches where he should have won off by himself Dugau outnianeiivered and onttinished Sweet throughout the racu in the most aggravating and tantalizing fash ¬ ion By getting his mount shut off by the leader when lie had the whole track to himself Arasees jockey accomplished a feat that is probably unique In riding hereabouts Autaens Black Oak and Fri zette llnlshed beaten off third fourth and liftti respectively the last named being virtually elimi naled from serious contention at the start startThe The condensed history of the Seabreeze Stakes since 1100 is as follows Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time Time1KX 1KX Greonocl 10 T Burns 1210 14J 14J1HOI 1HOI Ethics 1 H II Coehran 1155 148 Andv Williams 114 Odom 14 Ti 147Z 147ZltKl ltKl Wild Thyme 105 ONeill 14455 l4 i i1MM 1MM Dick Bernard lOti Travers 14SO 148 148JJNir JJNir Dr Spruill 1M T Burns 1405 141 1411SXX5 1SXX5 Tipping 91 Garner 1K55 14SR 14SRJJNI7 JJNI7 Discontinued this year year3iOS 3iOS The Squire 100 E Dugan 1150 l53j l53jWas Was formerly run at one and onesixteenth miles Numerically the strongest field strove for turf honors In the Introductory sprint Lawton Wiggins the best equipped horse in the way of a jockey van MUlslied the Uikers dozen of twoyearolds opposed t y him with ease Ragman and Footpad his sup ¬ posedly most formidable competitors were handi ¬ capped Hi various ways Both had slow jockeys and the former seemed unable to stride over a straw from soreness Spellliound the fullbrother to the ruinous Mesmerist finished a respectable fourth and qualified Jor an early success successStamina Stamina scored a lluke win over Moquette in the luindlcap nt one mile und threesixteenths and in Mentally established a new track record of two minutes liat The runnerup again played in hard luck being beaten In a race he should have won com ¬ fortably Shillings riding of Moquette bordered on the ludicrous as he attempted to ride every horse lit the race besides his own The race was really lost when he took Moquette nearly to the outside stretch turn fence in an endeavor to put Pius and Needles out of commission commissionThe The Sanford colors were carried to the front in the Imndlcap for threetyearolds for the first time since the close of the Saratoga meeting After knocking olden Pearl almost to his knees just before making the turn into the stretch Fort Johnson came on to win as his rider pleased from Delirium with Golden Pearl third Nimbus the favorite ran as if water ¬ logged Thomas II Williams Creation displayed a glimpse of his best form when lie landed a close up fourth fourthIt It remained for the fifth race to climax the pres ¬ ent seasons sprinkling of joke races To begin with Juggler apparently stripped too sore to be moved out of his stall Bed Friars trainer declared that it wns 100 to 1 that his horse would not circle the track and it was assorted and generally believed that Mllfords bowed tendon would not survive the strain of another race This left Wild Refrain the only sound horse in the field and J L McGinnis his owner was beguiled into the placing of a good wager on him In the running Juggler simply played with the two remaining contestants after Bed Friar had refused to budge at the start No amount of persua ¬ sion would induce th old rogue to proceed faster than a walk and it took quite a long time before lit was cajoled into leaving the track The presence of Duke of Itoanoke a Whitney en ¬ try In the closing race injected considerable in ¬ terest Into what would otherwise have been of no in ¬ terest Mr Jovner told his friends that the three yearold Hamburg gelding had worked a mile In 1 4Ufr at tlie farm just before Mng shipped to Sheepshead Bay This tip caused a big plunge to center on Duke of Koanoke and as he had nothing much to beat the Brookdale debutante was able to make good goodTlie Tlie day was summerlike and the attendance cx eellent Some of the recently appointed female sleuths were on hand to have another trv for vio ¬ lators of the HartAgnew law but beyond exciting many curious stares they did not accomplish any ¬ thing For the first day in three years the names of the Jockeys riding In the different races were jiromptlv posted on the jockcv l oard oardG G M Odom is going to California with his string of racers including Trance Nimbus Higgler and others and will ship early enough to IK there for the opening of the winter season racing in Novem ¬ ber berFootpad Footpad was reclaimed from the first race for C II Fleisclimann by J 1 Hyland acting as agent The claiming price of the Keene castoff which ran In S F Ilymans colors today was llKiO Thomas llKiOThomas Welsh will sail for France tomorrow on the Atlantic transport lino steamer Minneliaba He Is taking James Casey along with him for company Mediant came out of her last race a trifle sore Hiis has disappeared and she worked seveai furlongs yesterday hard held in 1JO for tomorrows Junior Champion Stakes StakesHarry Harry C better known as The Lord McManus one of the bestknown characters on the American turf died on Wednesday night after an illness of several months monthsGeorge George A Whcclock has 10000 invested on Chanlers chances for governor at evens and is ac ¬ commodating all comers at the same price Tom Shaw bet S OoO with Henry Harris the latter taking the Hughes end Robert Angarola made two wagers during the morning of 5HXI and 7 OO on hauler and lias iOOO more This is probablyBig Tim Sullivans money The majority of these bets were booked at the track this afternoon afternoonIt It developed today that the reason Governor Hughes was not invited to speak at the annual Westchestor County Fair and Horse Show now being held on the White Plains fair grounds was because the trotting men declared that they would not race their hores If the governor was present
