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RESULTS ARE SATISFYING FIRST EXTRA DAT AT GRAVESEND MARKED BT PAYING PATRONAGE. Alfred Noble Wins Most Pretentious Offering of the Card in Close Finish with The Squire i and Question Mark. New York. June If!. — Gravesends first extra day nf-jM. -iuii resulted satisfactorily, both from the standpoint of good BP01 and paying pall — II Perfect weather was an important contributing factor to this phasing state or atVairs. Scratching robbed the principal feature of tlic card, a handicap at a mile and a sixteenth, of much interest. Live Wire betas one of tin- conspicuous absentees. The race developed into a hotlv contested finish between Alfred Noble. The Squire and Ouestion Mark. They finished in the order i. Mined so closelv aligned that the proverbial blanket would have covered all three. The winner was at all times the preferred horse in the betting, owing to a sensationally fast trial at Xhecpshead Bay on Monday. The result was in doubt until the last stride, the favorites filial rush lieing as electrical like in its swiftness as his jockey. J. Butler, was slow in making his bid for victory. Alfred Noble had the distinction of being acclaimed one of the best two-year-olds of his year, principally on the strength of one solitary success. Since then the gigantic sou of Garry Hermann had signally failed to live up to his easily acquired reputation. From a speculative viewpoint, todays results were probably unsatisfactory to the public and plunging contingent alike in that of the three favorites quoted jit odds-on only one. Lad of Laugden. proved profitable. Backers of Evening Song, which dead-heated the opening dash with Hildas Sister, lost inouey by the transaction, while Harrigans defeat by Prince Oal spelled great loss to the big bettors. Although pronounced public choices, backers of AJrfred Noble and The Wrestler received good returns when they made good in the fourth and fifth races resiiectively. The iast race, which was marked b* the heaviest speculation of the afternoon, resulted 111 a sensational upset with the success of the 13 lo 1 Lucetta. wholly neglected in the betting. It liad been a ease of the east against the west. Cindy versus Dominica. Thousands of dollars were wagered on each. The backers of the former failed to get a run for their money because the Duryea filly wa» repeutedlv kicked on her right foreleg, which »i rlppled her that she was virtually eliminated as a m rious factor. George J. Longs filly failed to run *tp t** fcp*?ctatioTt« and was barely able to save .second place from the fast -finishing May Florence. Dixie DlJon. a hot tip in the race, ran in the nam. aijd color* Of A. L. Aste, the filly having changed bind* during the day. The late II. G. trickmores timepiece, a ye mm from famous Captain Billy Conners. was raffled off .todav bv order of S. S. Howland. the administrator » f the estate. It became the property of jockey K. Mcl aniel. It has transpired that jockey Eddie Dugan. who rode Joe Madden in the Brookdale on Tuesday, was Kiiillv of rough, riding in that race, with resultant serioiis injury to jockey Glass, who was up on Affliction. Blakeleys riders left leg was badly gashed .from contact with the fence.
