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FASHION PLATE WINS SWIFT FITZ HERBERT WITHDRAWN AND ULTIMATE WINNER IS GENERALLY OVERLOOKED. Roscben Shows a Flash of His Old-Time Speed, but Pulls Up in Poor Condition California Campaigners Prominent. New York. July 1. Threatened thiindersqualls failed to keep the customary week-day crowd away from Shecpshead today. A highly attractive midweek card was offered ly the Coney Island Jockey Club, the principal attraction lieing the twonty-lifth running of the Swift, a seven-furlougs race for three-year-olds. Tlie field named over night comprised litz Herbert. Fashion Plate. Ktherial, Practical and Koyal Captive. .S. C. Hildreths great threc-year-ohl was :i conspicuous absentee. being withdrawn, to the general disapKintment of the public. Of the remaining quartette of starters Fashion Plate, the eventual winner and recently a well-backed third choice in the Suburban, was practically ignored in the betting, most of the support centering on Ktherial and Royal Captive. The Oneck Stables good colt was thought by experts to be the dominant factor in the race and everybody wondered after It was all over how lie could have been over looked. Ktherial. a high-class two-year-old, has been in poor form this season and the plunge that ileveloiicd on the KIkwood Park Stables representative in the Swift Stakes was the sensation of the afternoon in a speculative way. Ktherial was kept out of serious contention so long that no one gave him a thought for half the journey. His closing effort was as late as it was impressive, and it Is predicted that lie will be, an important factor from now on in good company. Dalmatian furnished the means .for jockey Powers to show what a superior horseman he is. The western jockeys powerful finish brought victory for the Hildreth. colors in the Surf Stakes. For the entire length of the long stretch Dalmatian, Sandrian and Schoolmarm battled for supremacy. They finished as they began, inches apart, witli the 7.000 spectators cheering them on in. a frenzy of excitement. Powers riding and the demonstration that followed was a conspicuous feature of the afternoons sport. The tabled history of the Surf Stakes since 1100 is as follows: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1000 Watercolor 122 F. Littlefld$.",,:;20 1:074 VMM Smart Set 122 Shaw ::,0S0 1:075 1002 Mcnte Carlo 122 Odom 4.013 1:10 1003 Inflexible 120 T. Burns .. S..SS.1 1:07 1001 Sparkling Star. ..114 Shaw . .....i.-l.iai 1;0S lIHC, Inquisitor IIS J. Martin .. 3.020 1:07? 1100 Peter Pan US Radtke r.,010 1:07 1007 Mombassa Ill Mountain .. 4.8S0 1:00J lOOS.SufTragetto 115 Xotter 3.070 1:07 lOOSrilillnjatinn 122 V. Powers.. 330 1:08 The card was varied and attractive from first to last. California campaigners cut considerable figure, with Follie Jvy, in the Mellsande introductory dash, and Maltbio. in the Priscillian. over the grass course, worthily representing the Golden State. Koseben. the great turf luminary of other days, showed a glimpse of his former incomparable sliced in the early stages of the seven-furlongs selling race, but finally retired in favor of the odds-on favorite. Nimbus. The "Dig Train" led for six furlongs witli all his old-time impressiveness, then faltered and stopped. He hobbled off the course seemingly a complete wreck, to the regret of all true sportsmen present. A steward of the Jockey Club remarked today that "nothing could be more convincing of a successful future for the turf than the sale of yearlings which began yesterday. The confidence of the buyers is almost a guarantee that tl: sport is going along about as well as the most optimistic could expect." The Newcastle Stable is being strengthened and promises to be a formidable factor In racing this season. Francis C Bishop is again Imsv witli horses, together with his partner. Andrew Miller. Chief of Police Wolf and Captain Brady of the Y tinkers ixilice force were visitors at Shecpshead today. These otlicials will have supervision over the coming I in ii it- City meeting, and were engaged in making personal observations as to how betting on the races was conducted under present conditions. They expressed themselves as satisfied with the manner In which the law was being respected, and declared that they apprehended no trouble at Yon-kers. IteiMirt lias It that William Lakeland has sold his promising two-year-old. Kverett. by Goldcrest Fran-colin, to James K. Gaffney at a fancy price. High Kaugc was acquired today by Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. for jumping purposes. High Range is a three-year-old brown colt by Galore Matterhorn, and lias been running in the colors of J. Garson. Among late arrivals from Canada are the Dymcnt brothers and R. Boyle. The latter brought Detective,, a colt lie recently purchased from Matt Allen, to run in the Realization Stakes. At Shecpshead Bay today Fayette worked a mile and a quarter as follows: 25, 50. 1:1.1. 1:41. 2:9S. Hilarious went the same distance in 2:21. fighting for his head all the way. Fltz Herbert worked a mile and a quarter as follows: 25. 50. 1:16. 1:4",?. 2:10j. He was slowing down to a walk at the end. Sweep. In company with Affliction, went six furlongs as follows: 12. 2::;. 35J. 48. 1:00J. 1:143. The mare was practically lieing pulled up to her young stable-mate through the last furlong.
