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ALFRED NOBLE WINS EASILY JAMES GAFFNEYS RECENT ACQUISITION TAKES HANDICAP AT SHEEPSHEAD. Araseo Wins Over Turf Course and Harlem Maid Graduates from the Maiden Class Poor Off-Bay Card Attracts Small Attendance. New York. July 9. James E. Gaffneys gigantic racer, Alfred Nome, was the particular turf luminary engaged In todays racing at Sheepshead Bay. This was the second extra day in the schedule at this tract and the card was of the off-day variety and devoid of stake features. The attendance was the smallest of the meeting. The his Garry Hermann gelding, at prohibitive odds, disposed of his Inconsequential opposition with ease in the Briga-dier Handicap, at one mile. He ran the distance in the fast time of 1:.!SB. with 125 pounds np. Considering the weight carried. his feat was of conspicuous merit. Alfred Noble is announced as a certain starter in the Empire Citv Handicap next Wednesday. With Fitz Herbert. King James. Celt and Hilarious probable absentees, Alfred Noble looms up as a formidable factor in the race. Owing to a collision between two race track specials just outside the track gates, the starting time of the first race was delayed fifteen minutes. Jockey Grand narrowly escaped serious injury when Lucetta fell just as the barrier was sprung in the tirst race. Crossover and Madeline L. figured in a hot "drive through the stretch. Dugan, riding like a demon, prevailed in the last couple of strides with the former. St. Dunstan found it easy to win the second, a five and a half furlonis dash over the grass course. Nieol rode the colt to a bad defeat in his previous start and has not ridden here since. Iiion. ridden ly Scovllle. and one of the hottest tips of the season, came to grief early in the running, being crowded into the fence and eliminated from contention. Sco-villes left leg was so badly bruised from contact with the rail, that he was unable to till his remaining engagements. In the succeeding race Gridiron, another heavilv backed favorite, went down to defeat. It is said that the showing of Dunlops horse in this case was due to a partial breakdown. Arasee, the second-best horse that paraded during the afternoon, was not required to extend himself to beat the slow-going quartet ho met in the long- distance race over the grass track, while Harlem Maid scored an equally easy victory in the closing affair, at a mile, incidentally graduating from the maiden class. The Coney Island Jockey Club announced that the Futurity and Realization for 1911 would each have ,000 of added money.
