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BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD FITZ HERBERT MAKES NEW MARK IN WINNING THE LA WHENCE REALIZATION. 7 . Contest Not So One-Sided as Had Been Looked For, Olambala Pressing Winner Closely at Finish Kentucky Beau Also Hakes New Record. r Now York. July 13. . C. Ilihlreths Fits: Heritor t won the Lawrence Realization Stakes :it Sheops-Ja-ail Ray today, anil incidentally created a new American record for a mile anil live-eighths. He traversed tlie distance in 2:15. which was a fifth if ti second faster tlian tlie record held by Africander, made in winning the Lawrence: localization of 1003. As two of the champions opponents. Olambala ami Detective, came from western and northern racing ioints. interest in the nice was enhanced more than would have licen th case had only eastern horses competed. Fayette completed the Miiartcttc of contestants. Everylioily. excepting possibly tlie immediate connections of the outsiders, expected that Americas richest three-year-old fixture would prove a one-sided affair, with the one to eight favorite dominant at all stages. While this was literally true, there was enough of contest injected into the nice to keep the 10.000 spectator in a state of suspense, uncertainty and excitemen; from start to finish. Jen-key Towers was instructed to ride a waiting race on Fitz Herbert ill front, but overdid his instructions. ... . ., The earlv pace was abnormally slow and the horses ran in close order for a mile before any of them showed sinus of weakening. Simultancously with the accelerated pace. Detective dropped to the rear. Olambala and Fayette were expected to do likewise. On the contrary, they thrilled the crowd by following the leader closely throughout the long aiid trviug ordeal. First one and then the other of the pair sought to wrest the lead from Fitz Herbert with challenges so menacing as to leave the issue continually i:i doubt. Fayette, running in bar plates and with heavy shoes in front, was engaged in alternately striving for tlie lead or pulling up for half the journey and furnished keen contention until the last lifty yards, when the western wit swept past him into such a courageously closing second that Fits Herberts jockey hastily prepared to use his whip if needed to ward off defeat. Several prominent horsemen, including J. E. Madden, declared that tin; Kthclbert eolt was fully extended to win. Hildreth himself ridiculed these statements. James Ii. Kceno evidently coincided with Fitz Herberts owner, for lie again congratulated Hil-orMU on possessing such a great horse. To superficial observers Fitz Herbert seemed to be doing his best at all stages. Expert analysis of the early fractional time. i::?.. 25J. 375. 50. 1:03. 1:10. 1:20, 1:42. for tlie mile, led to a different conclusion, however. Fitz Herbert either ran far below his real form today or all the running was choked out of him in the lirst mile. Olambala. which could have been purchased for ,500 last season and is not at present for sale for ten times that sum. created a sensation by his brilliant performance. Some averred that had Musgrave displayed greater skill and patience, Olambala would have been the victor. Musgrave made an amazingly fast and premature run from last place into shrp contention for the lead on the far turn. Everybody agreed that it was a wonderful and spectacular turf struggle, possibly the best that lias taken place in the twenty years of the Realizations running. After the race James It. Keene xi id that he was more confident than ever of Mask-ettes ability to beat Fitz Herbert. Another feature of importance was the second half of the Double Event, ill which seven supposedly high-class two-year-olds, including Lovetie. were engaged. The Hancocas-bred youngster, hacked with supreme confidence at odds-on by the public, narrowly escaped defeat at the hands of Jacquclinn, a lilly of uncertain moods. The victory of Lovetie. erstwhile conqueror of Sweep and hitherto acclaimed a juvenile star of the first magnitude, was attended by questionable jockeyship. Diigan resorted to his foul tactics at a critical stage of the running ami Kocky OBrien was the principal sufferer, Because Itutwell. on the latter, showed no inclination to lodge any complaint and was walking away after having weighed out. Schuyled Parsons signalled an attendant to order him to appear before the stewards. Dugan was also sent for and questioned. After a lengthy delay the original placiugs were officially continued. Tlie net results of the running of this afternoons two big fixtures leave both Fitz Herbert and Love-tie with diminished reputations, and forces good judges to conclude that this Is a year of indifferent two-year-old material and that no really great juvenile, with the possible exception of Sweep, has as yet been seen In public. Tlie steeplechase developed plenty of action, reprehensible and otherwise. G. K. Tompkins started his own horse, an unruly animal named Selectus. Tompkins is also the trainer of Kentucky Beau and saddled that horse for todays race. Clays gelding was heavily backed and succeeded in winning, while Lucas, on his stable companion, took care of Reginald and Touchwood. Reginald has liolting tendencies and Lucas, on Selectus. humored him by carrying him wide on the first turn and. as was expected, he ran out. On the same turn the next time around the combination repeated their foul tactics and prevented Touchwood from winning. Kentucky Beau reduced the record for the steeplechase course of about two miles from 0:55 to 15:54 In winning the race. The following notice was issued during tlie afternoon by assistant secretary Algernon Daingerfield: "The stewards having investigated the runnius of the horso lleauclere. and being unable to obtain proof of fraudulent practices, have decided to take no further action." This- amounts to an exoneration of trainer Tully Coulter.
