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IOGGY DAY AT GRAVESEND SEA MIST COVERS THE COURSE AND PRE ¬ VENTS CLEAR VIEW OF THE SPORT Arascc Vanquishes The Squire in tho Speculation SpeculationStakes Stakes Golden Pearl Wins from L Gowan Gamely New York September 24 The racing at Graves end today was attended by acutely disagreeable jvojither conditions The atmosphere was thick and iiitmid almost to the stilling point and after the third race the fog came in from the nearby ocean and prevented the spectators from seeing a consider ¬ able part of the remaining races the horses being invisible from the grandstand except at the start ind finish of the fourth and fifth and completely ob ¬ scured from view in the last until the running of the final sixteenth Small fields ruled throughout the Hfternooii only thirtysix starters all told par ¬ ticipating in the six races What the card lacked in piantity it amply made up in quality as quite n number of nearly highclass racers started startedThe The solitary stake fixture the Speculation Stakes at one mile and a furlong under selling conditions was contested by a quintette of platers of good vlass in Arasee The Squire Monfort Tony Konero and Marathon Arasee led the others from start to finish but was lieing driven out to the very last ounce at the end to beat The Squire which is one of the most Improved horses in training On some of Ills past performances Monfort completely outclassed the two leaders yet they held him safe all through the running in which he finished a belated third thirdThe The tabled history of the Speculation Stakes since 1900 is tabled below Year Winner A Wt Jockey Val Time 1900 Potonte 5 111 Spencer 1405 147 1901 The Regent t 88 H Michaels lr5 1488 1JKI2 DC Reszke I IK J Martin 1870 l47j 1HK5 Daisy Green 94 Higgins 1G35 l49j 3904 De Keszke 5 KM Hildebrand 1585 149 3905 Right Royal 10S Perrine l 5 149 i90l True Wing 4 18 Garner 1795 148 1907 Rye 4 WI W Miller lCSO 15U 1908 Arasee 97 Sweet 1100153 1100153Run Run at one and onesixteenth miles previously From a purely racing standpoint the stake race racewas was of secondary interest and importance The first one decided had a fine field of sprinters including 1iter Quince Mr Hildroths highpriced colt once Ttiore failed to run un to bis brilliant Sheepshead Kav and first week Gravesend form being decisively outpaced and finally l cflteu off tmlay by tnith De ¬ lirium and Besom The winner Harry Payne Whit ¬ neys beautifully bred Sandriiighani gelding has all the earmarks of a stayer and may develop into a Teully go l horse horseThe The second handicap at a mile and a sixteenth was really the big race of the program It would not be easy to muster a much lietter field of horses under present conditions than were engaged in that race including as it did at least three or four turf luminaries of nearly the highest class in Frank GUI Dorante Tourenne and Golden Pearl The start found the favorite unprepared and pulling up and a hopeless trailer when the others led by Golden Pearl disappeared into the fog on the first turn Nothing more was seen of the race until the horses emerged out of the thick mist midway of the stretch whore Toyners threeyearold was still in the van with Gowan and Dorante second and third respectively and the remaining six beaten off offEtherial Etherial romped away from an inconsequential opposition in ithe closing dash at odds of 1 to 10 Had this favorite not emerged out of tlc fog in the final sixteenth with the expected big lead over The others that lie did the occasion would probably nave been marked by a number of casualties from heart failure failureJimmy Jimmy Lane added another steeplechase victory to his already long list of the seasons crossconn I rr successes The old campaigner was ridden by Allen a newcomer In these parts who wore the Hitchcock colors of green jacket and cap binrowed for the occasion K Tuiupkiiis the owner of Jimmy Lane had forgot ton to bring his own colors to the track The winner was bid up S200 over his en ¬ tered selling price of 1OOO by Harry Ruck who waH anxious to pay S12OO for Timmy Lane if he could be secured at that figure figureXack Xack Forst a wellknown betting commissioner created a scene on the lawn when in attempted to lodge the service of subpoena The court officer npproachod him with the paper and he walked the length ItTwo of the lawn refusing to accept It Two Chinese All Fong and Sam Lung appeared JifTmv the grand jury this morning and told what they know of horse racing at Gravcsond and what chances they have of speculating on the results of raws TlMv were siibitoenaed yesterday and the papers were apparently from the office of the district attorney
