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ARONDACK EASY WINNER MLAUGHLIN FILLY CAPTURES VALUABLE YONKERS HANDICAP AT EMPIRE CITY. Rose Queen, Shipped from Canada, Continues Her Victorious Career and Now Has Record of Seven Firsts Out of Eight Starts on Eastern Tracks. New York. July 24. The :500 Yonkers Handicap was tin- big racing feature of the Empire City Associations attractive half-holiday card today. Unfavorable track conditions caused the withdrawal of four conspicuous overnight nominees, iiit-lntliiijr the great Jack Atkin and .Malthie. winner of last Saturdays richest stake of the meeting. The quintette of remaining contestants promised a iirst-class race and the 10.000 racegoers present were not disappointed. Tin; field was composed of Arondack. Fashion Ilate. Alfred Noble. Half Sovereign and Tony Bonero. It was an open betting race and as high as 3 to 1 was obtainable about anyone of the starters at certain stages of the speculation. Arondack, running in the name of Mrs. James McLaughlin, wife of the former jockey, and probably the best backed contestant in the race, disposed of her formidable opposition with ease. Unfortunate at the start, the shapely daughter of Hastings Astoria succeeded in overhauling the pacemaker before half of the mile and a sixteenth journey had been covered, and from then on increased her lead as the race progressed, to win by four lengths from Fashion ilate, the actual post faorite. Alfred Noble, only a shadow of bis former brilliant self, staggered i.i a distant third, under pressure to beat Half Sovereign. Tony Itonero. outpaced from the start, was distanced by every one of bis adversaries. Arondack bad attracted a tremendous public play and her victory was exceedingly popular. The winner enjoys the distinction of having run a head-and-head finish in the Toronto Cup with King James, the greatest horse on the American turf. The short history of the Yonkers Handicap, first run for in 1907. is as follows: Year. Winner. A. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1007 OM Honest-. 3 114 Crimmins. ,580 1:43 1108 Frank Jill... 4 11! Lang 3,355 1:47 1!HK Arondack ...V. !2 McCahey .. 1,925 1:51"; At 1 mile- and About 00 yards. Heavy backing materialized for The Fad in the following race. Tbe crack youngster from the west never left the issue in doubt, taking a commanding lend in, the ilrst half dozen strides and maintaining his advantage to the end under a pull. Colinet. palpably handicapped by the difficult going, finished a lagging but game second after withstanding Fauntleroys usually irresistible end challenge in a manner that stamps the brother to Kentucky Ileau :i real good one. Scratches had reduced the field for the juvenile feature to four starters, such prominent absentees as St. Dnnstan, Fighting Bob and Ueybourn depriving the race of considerable interest. Miss A. M. Marrone was another woman owner who played a prominent part in the results, winning two races with Frank Purcell and St. Joseph. The former was a neglected outsider in the betting with ns good as 00 to 1 obtainable against him. AV. H. Tiumioiis was the only man on the ground who took the colt seriously and he acted from sentimental reasons, having formerly owned his dam, Koselaml. It is said that Joe Marrone was so chagrined over his failure to back the youngster that he allowed the older horse to run for the purse only; Nethermost ran a remarkable race in the three-yrar-oid selling affair. Though crowded to the rear and: pulling up last on the first turn, the Sir Dixon maiden recovered the lost ground and got up in time to beat Dandy Dixon and other supposedly good things. Uose Queens debut on the local turf was an outstanding feature of the afternoons sport. After her brilliant victory in the sprint handicap, the Ben Brush filly was acclaimed another Lady Amelia, and. xcenting Maskette. probably the fastest of her sex on the turf. It was her seventh victory out of eight .starts since her arrival in the east from California. The banner crowd of the meeting saw todays racing.
