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BED WELL TAKES HALF CARD WESTERN HORSEMAN FURNISHES THREE WINNERS IN ONE DAY AT YONKERS. Nadzu, Tony Faust and Joe Rose Carry Colors of Clever Trainer to Victory Stanley Fay Wins Handicap with 126 Pounds Up. L New York. July 23. Entries from II. G. Bedwells western stable won just half the card at Yonkers todny. Track conditions served Bedwells trio of starters well. Nadzu, this years hero of the renowned Thornton Stakes. Californias four-mile contest, began the sequence of Bedwells successes by defeating six opponents of moderate class in the second race, at a mile and an eighth. Tony Faust and Joe Rose, two Schroiber-bred horses, followed with equally decisive wins for the Colorado turfman. Jockey Taplin rode all three winners with rare skill and judgment. The real racing feature of the card was the handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, iu which William Walkers Stanley Fay was a contestant. Race-goers were surprised when they learned of Mr. Walkers determination to start his small, but smart, horse with 120 pounds up iu muddy going, for which the Canopus four-year-old is generally supposed to have no special liking. This opinion was reflected in the ring, the odds against Stanley Fay receding steadily from the opening price of 1 to 2 until 4 to 5 Was reached. Plenty of support was forthcoming at the latter quotation and the horse closed at 7 to 10. He was opposed by two horses of vastly inferior class, Iins and Needles and Zienap, loth of them notorious for their shortcomings in muddy going. Intertst in the race was sustained from start to finish for the reason that while Stanley Fay led the small procession from first to last, the pair of lightweights behind him were always within striking distance, too close for comfort, in fact. After the first few strides it was plainly apparent that Stanlev Fay was not striding as freely as he should, and many doubted his ability to last the journey nndr the big burden. Vincent Powers, however, nurse-i the California horse carefully, picked the best goins: and fairly lifted him home three parts of a length in advance of the fast-coming Pins and Needles. Mr. Walker said that he had fully decided to scratch Stanley Fay the night before, .but that he bad changed his mind when he arrived at tle track in the morning and found his crack colt engaged ii kicking his stall in an effort to let off some of his surplus energy. The opening dash was marked ly a sensational disnlay of speed on the part of Zacatecas. a Wilsosi castott. Tin; youngster ran an eighth in 10J, a quarter in 22$ and three-eighths in 35s, which was mar-velmlsly fast, considering track conditions- The winner backed up badly in the final- sixteenth,, the entire ilsitahce. rive and a half furlongs, being traversed in 1:10. The second two-year-old affair proved the best contested and most spectacular race on the card. George J. Longs fine filly. Cellaret, getting home a head in advance of the inadequately ridden Kadiuni Star. The runner-up was one of the best backed horses of the day and should have won easily, some said. Inclement weather and the resultant bad track nfj fected the attendance to such sin extent that the crowd was the smallest of the meeting, but what was lacking in numbers was amply made up in enthusiasm.
