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SOFT GOING AT AQUEDUCT BEN BAN SCORES HIS FIRST VICTORY OF THE YEAR IN THE WOODMERE STAKES Xive Wire Is Favored by the Track Conditions and Wins a Good Race Footpad Tails His Supporters New York September LII Herman B Duryeas 3rn Ban won his first race of the year in the S1H 0 Woodriiere Stakes at Aqueduct this afternoon Though unp of the luckiest and most frequent of handicap winners in 1007 the Hen Strome geldiug has been singularly unfortunate this season He stripped in his most brilliant form the best and Vastest private trial of his career having preceded Todays race At Slieepshcad Bay last Sunday he worked one mile In 1 39 the first six furlongs in 112 and a fraction He rewarded his backers in no uncertain fashion his opposition proving weak and unavailing when the closing half mile of real racing xvas on A former stable companion of Ben Ban Whip TOP was the runnerup and Star Gowan fin ¬ ished third thirdThe The tabled history of the Woodmere Stakes is is follows followsYear Year Winner A Wt Jockey Val Time 1273JJXtt 1 02 The Musketecr4 lit J Martin 1000 1273 JJXtt Sweet Alice 05 OBrien 1140127 15104 Gay Boy 5 IIS T Burns 11S5 127 1005 Jocund 4 US ONeill 1240127 1240127IflOfi IflOfi Jacobite 11 Sewell 1125 125 125JDO7 JDO7 Grapple 5 1 5 W Miller 1050 1 27s 1008 Ben Ban 5 113 1 McCthy 050129 050129Trainer Trainer John J Hylahd saddled two youngsters for he first race Footpad and Bird of Flight II and the least considered one of the pair the halfbrother U the famous Kings Conrier was returned the win Jior The public choices Uncle Jim and Footpad iiuished third and fourth respectively Obdurate as well as Bird of Flight II passing them in the closing furlong of the race C K Fleischuiann the owner of Footpad and a cousin of Mayor Julius Flebch maim of Cincinnati backed the colt well despite his known distaste for anything but a fast track trackTrack Track appearauces were deceptive and fooled every one It had dried out on top under the intluences T the 8un and wind and left the going wet and uppy underneath Tlie track conditions suited frsiiiguirie and Uve Wire to perfection Both rev t l l in tlie stiff going nnd led their opponents home JW the most impressive ease Dardens hitherto Oisappointing threeyearold galloped his opposition pK tary btftfr3i Jialf of the mile journey bird be covered which left him to come on and win off The withdrawal of three overnight nominations to this raiCj In Montgomery Dandelion and Tileing de ¬ tracted seriously from its value as a racing attrac ¬ tion tionThe The remaining two races were aptured by George W Lebolt and Shadow Glance which were both odds 011 favorites A report before the second race that Transvaal formerly in James II Keeiies stable out starting today iu the name and colors of S W Htreetr was miming in heavy shoes caused the odds against skyrocketingTuoma that horse to go skyrocketing Tuoma II Williams president of the California Jockey Club saw the racing t Aqueduct this after ¬ noon This was Mr Williams first visit to the race track since his arrival in the east Jockey Uptons apprenticeship expired last Friday TUoinas Welsh cabled his safe arrival in London today aiul that he would leave for Paris tomorrow Steeplechase jockey T OBrien will sail for Ire ¬ land tomorrow where he will ride during the winter inuntlus This has been his custom for the last half dozen year yearAccording According to Paddock Judge J I Hall and Judge Frank J Bryan a forty days meeting for New Orleans beginning in January is assured Walter assuredWalter Millers connection witli the big Califor ¬ nia sttblo of Thomas H Williams has been severed John K Madden is reported to have told aii inti ¬ mate friend of his plans to spend the winter with his two boys iu California CaliforniaHarry Harry Payne Whitneys arrival from England last Saturday was accomplished in such a quiet fashion that the general and racing public is still unaware of liis presence in America He has not visited the trielc nor been near his stable Mr Toyner said that Mr Whitney would probably show up at his Shcepshead Bay training stables in the morning Henry morningHenry Smith the recently injured colored rider is still in a precarious condition Excepting for a few lucid intervals he has not recovered con ¬ sciousness His left side is wholly paralyzed and it was thought at one time that lie was threatened with spinal meningitis but that fear has disap ¬ peared pearedDetective Detective Laugan of the private detective agency employed by Assistant District Attorncv Eider with Mich harmful results to racing during the Brighton meeting was at the track today for the first time since the Empire City meeting He said that lie had received a letter from Dr Laidlaw of the Law and Order League to the effect that wholesale viola ¬ tions of the antibetting law were taking place every day at Aqueduct and that he was expected to get busy in the premises premisesJf Jf Dab trainer for J W Colt wired Thomas Itoderick tonight at Hamilton Out permission lo dcstror the horse Ariau AriauW W L Oliver has engaged passage on the Maure tania which sails for England next Saturday Jlr Oliver who intends to spend the winter in the British Isles will carry with him a personal letter of introduction from James K Keene to Lord Durham chief steward of the English Jockev Club The Queens County Jockey Club course was favored with the finest brand of weather imagiuable today A clarifying northwest wind followed the rain of last night and all the smoke fog mist and murky at mospurrc that have enveloped this vicinity for nearly a month have disappeared as if by magic magicThe The best iortes are wanning HO frequently the rauku of the layers are sadlv depleted and only a remnant of the once formidable Mets is now doing Iwslness All eyes are turned towards the racing Mecca of the country California
