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DUGANS RECKLESS RIDING BRINGS INJURY TO OTHER JOCKEYS AND MAY RESULT IN SEVERE PUNISHMENT Angelus Runs One of His Good Races and Defeats Firestone and Master Robert Juggler Takes Another Race New York September 2 The racing at Graves end today was marred by a terrible accident which resulted in the possible killing of II Smith n col red apprentice rider In the service of the Oncck htable and seriously injuring another jockey by the name of It Yorko 1 esides maiming the horse DialMate so that he had to he destroyed and also rendering useless for racing purposes the grey Kara lay gelding Mlramar The frightful lixup in Which the two horses fell with their riders occurred While the fifteen Iiorses composing the big field of starters in the third race were running closely bunched in the first sixteenth of the homestretch and was caused by the swerving of the leader Shadow Glance under Dngans incessant whipping The letters reckless disregard of the other torses in the race especially those on tlie inside was directly responsible for the catastrophe Shadow ilnncc which cjiine on and finished first finally was promptly disqualified Wliile B Dugair the offending Jockey in addition to being suspended for the Jneeting and ihavlng his case referred to the Jockey Club with a recommendation that his license lie revoked was lined the limit of 200 Tlie mixup was indescribable and raised a great vloud of dust Dialplate fell directly in front of a closely massed bunch of ten horses and Miramar came along a moment after and t timed a complete somersault It seemed as if every one of tlie ani ¬ mals in their onward rush to tlie finish must have trampled on the prostrate iMxlies with their hoofs That both lads were not cnished into unrecognizable shapes was miraculous Smith was picked up limp and unconscious and a hasty examination was given to him which showed that he suffered from con Mission of the brain Yorke escaped with a broken collarbone and will recover One of Dial Klates legs snapped and his back was wrenched so lie was quickly imt out of his misery Miramar was one mass of bruises All of his front teeth were knocked out The injured jockeys were taken to the hospital It is thought iDugan spent a bad marter of an hour in the jockeys room immediately iiftcrwards where his fellow riders met him with menacing looks and such threats of doing him phy j jJcU JcU injury that lie lied the place in consequence Despite the strong c Hintcr attraction at the hall grounds or the final series between tlie Cubs aiid the i hints Gravesend showed no appreciable falling off in the attendance from the day lMfore Tlie lMforeTlie card was fully up to the standard of excel ¬ lence established by the Brooklyn Jockey Club Its one outstanding stake feature was tlie Oceanview Handicap at n mile anil an eighth with Angelas lirestone Master Robert Stamina and Royal Tour ¬ ist as starters As a racing spectacle it proved inly second in thrilling interest to the memorable struggle in the First Special Curiously enough Master Kobert again played the role of a game but unavailing pursuer of two Heeler opponents in An geltis and Firestone and like the other race a track record had1 to he smashed to beat him After Mary Alleens runaway with Swret up in the race just preceding the running of the Oceanview Dr llowell found it expedient to substitute D Mc ¬ Carthy on Firestone The changing probably made no difference in the result as Angelus stripped in superb form and ran one of his occasional sensa ¬ tional races At Unit he only got np to Mr Will ¬ iams gixxl colt in the last few strides to win in the remarkably fast time for the one mile and a fur ¬ long of I51s I51sFollowing Following is IK condensed history of the Ocean view Handicap since 11100 11100Year Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time 100O Killashandra 12O Turner 1S10 14S 1K 1 Aiitollght IOC OConnor 1205 147 lM 2 Hermls I2 nice liEKi 11S 100 Rostand 102 II Michaels 1780 l4 Vj 1471O5 1001 Dolly Spanker 112 Kedfern 2400 147 1O5 Alwin KKI L Smith 2O4014S 2O4014S3MM 3MM Belle of Iequest M C Hoss 20OO 147 3007 150WOS Monfort 1O2 K Dugaii 2045 150 WOS Angelus 10 c n Shilg 1875 151 One 151One and onesixteenth miles previously previouslyThe The usual cracking good twoyearold racing for which the present Reason has been noted was again present in a handicap with a field of seven starters including Joe Madden Uncle Jim Lawton Wiggins Erbet Tom Hayward Petticoat and Sandy Hill Joe Madden materialized very unexpectedly and actually succeeded in making his opposition look cheap in the running A pretty and exciting strug ¬ gle develojKd for second place between Uncle Jim Lawton Wiggins and Krbet the former getting up in the last stride strideJohn John K Madden was at the track and two vic ¬ tories eamc with a rush During his absence all of last week his turf successes were few and far between Mr Madden was awav renewing acquaint ¬ ance with his old and first love the trotters lie followed the circuit for nearly ten days Immedi ¬ ately on his return Saturday preparation was begun for the shipment of Sir Martin Kaycttc Lady Bed ¬ ford and possibly others to England which will take place within the next ten days Juggler daysJuggler continued his present excellent form with a convincing victory in the mile and threesixteenths selling dash Milford iMiwed tendons and all beat the notorious jade Miss Crawford nearly ten It ngths for second place Dardens mare performed ignominlouslv as she generally does when a short priced faovrite faovriteSpellbound Spellbound a full brother to Mesmerist and Hat IIMXI took the twoyearold selling dash He was ridden by the apprentice boy Ural whose father rode long before him and achieved a notable victory on a horse called Crcenland in the first Metropolitan Handicap ever run J L McGinnis colt which WHS entered for a paltry 500 failed to elicit a bid although he ran like a coining good one In any year but this 10000 would probablv not tempt his present owner to part with the young ¬ ster sterMomhassa Momhassa wound up a good afternoons sport witli a runaway win in the sixth race Thirteen horses started and the long overdue Nasturtium filly closed a hot favorite in the betting bettingGeorge George Rose of the Los Angeles Racing Associa ¬ tion arrived from California today He did not come to tlie track but sent word that the opening of the meeting at Santa Anita which had been originally scheduled for November 14 had been postponed 1o I lianksgiving day Mr Ros is re ¬ ported to have said that President Thomas II Williams the supreme turf governing authority west of the Rocky Mountains bad refused to sanc ¬ tion the appointment of Joseph A Murphy as judge at Santa Anita and that this explains whv he was turned down for that position positionTom Tom Shaw announced today that be bad 0 000 to 000to lay against Hughes at even money The west ¬ erner a man by the name of Nolan who took lo fclOO of it last Saturday has not shown up with the nsli vol volFred Fred Binlew and Frank OXeill will sail for France with their resl eetive families on the Oceanic to ¬ morrow Shapdale the last horse in their joint ownership was disposed of yesterday to former jockey Sammy Greenfield for 000 He is destined for racing at Oakland OaklandDx Dx Riddle and C E Rowe will ship their com ¬ bined strings of horses to Douglas I ark tomorrow tomorrowLatest Latest reports from the hospital concerning the condition of the injured colored jockey Henry Smith nre encouraging Tlie doctors say that lie has a good lighting chance for his life that he had survived a critical surgical operation and was gaining strength though not jet conscious i
