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DONAU WINS WAKEFIELD WILLIAM GERSTS SMART YOUNGSTER BEATS GOOD JUVENILES IN EAST. Nimbus Takes Handicap Feature of Empire City Card at Short Odds Ida D.. Sir Neddam and Bobbie Kean Are Winning Outsiders. New York, July 22. Douau, William Gersts Rood two-year-old, captured the Wakefield Stakes at Yonkers. today and incidentally ran the fastest live sind a half furlongs registered during the meeting, when he covered the distance in 1:07. This robust youngsters long and uninterrupted campaign of six months culminated on this occasion in the most brilliant effort of his extraordinarily busy career: Including todays race, Donau has started twenty-nine times since he began racing in January. lie lias been contending with the best of his age in training at the various tracks where he has raced, and his record to date is 12 firsts, 0 seconds, 8 thirds and 4 times unplaced. Notwithstanding the exacting nature of the campaign to which be has been subjected, the Wools-thorpe colt stripped bigger, bodily, than when he "began racing. Donau was opiMsed in the Wakefield Stakes by the pick of the Juveniles in local training. Including Fauntleroy. Reybourn, Charlie Har-grave. Chcrryola. Dullcare. Foursome and Firebox. He dominated the running with such convincing ease that race-goers began to wonder what manner of a horse The Fad could be to have been able to run away from Donau at will, as he did iu their previous meeting. The Wakefield was not truly run. The start was straggling. Dugau, astride Dullcare. being unprepared. The pair immediately became conspicuous by cutting obliquely across the track from the outside to the inside and fouling every horse within reach; The Belmont colt ran literally amuck throughout the first half mile, knocking his opponents alnmt like tenpins.. Fauutleroy and Foursome were the chief sufferers. James McLaughlin, the owner of the former, said that he would make formal coin plaint against jockey Dugau before the stewards. He attributes the loss of the race wholly to Dugans foul riding tactics. The winner outbroke the others so decisively that it made the start look much worse than it was. Despite the interference, Fauntlerov finished a close-up second, with Iteylmurn a length" away, after having run out on the last turn. Dullcare was separately timed the first three-eighths in Xii seconds, which is phenomenal speed for the slightly uphill course over which the race was run. The tabled history of the Wakefield Stakes is as follows: Year. Winner. A. Wt. Jockev. Val. Time. 1107 Llllio Turner.3 102 CIIShllling.,4G0 1:5;! 1008 Footpad 112 Xotter ... 3,030 1:00 1009 Donau 113 V. Powers. 1,203 1:07 Handicap at one mile and an eighth for three-year-olds and over. Uniformly fast time was a marked feature of the afternoons racing. The cantering mile victory of Nimbus in 1:40?., in the secondary feature, with 117 pounds up. was" considered impressive. May River and Nimbus, lndh quoted at the prohibitive odds of 1 to 2. were the only favorites to materialize. The remaining four races wore won by well-backed horses at good odds. Sir Neddam and Bobbie Kean were both the mediums of betting coups on an extensive scale. Yankee Daughter, the supposed contender and second choice in the opening dash, was started so palpably unfit that the crowd showed its -displeasure by hooting and hissing Zimmcrs mare as she staggered home many lengths lKdiind her opponents. E. It. Bradley was confident of winning a double with Black Mary and Bad Ncws in the fifth and wixth races. In upsetting the stable coup In the former race. Ida D. again showed herself to Jie one of the most consistent in-and-outers on the turf "Bad News had worked a fast mile in preparation for - his nice, and Mr. Bradley told his friends that he would not Have to extend himself at any "stage to lieat the lot opposed to Jilm. Bad News, however, lias grown cunning with advancing years and failed to do his lest. The card was .more than ordinarily attractive and the usual big midweek attendance was on hand, despite cloudy and threatening weather. A. G. Blakeley shipped his stable of fourteen racers to Saratoga today. Tom Shaw, the lookmaker, was arrested for auto speeding and did not get to the track until after the third race. Shaw employs an army of helpers under present conditions.
