view raw text
STANLEY FAY IS BEATEN. WILLIAM WALKERS HORSE FAILS TO SUCCESSFULLY HANDLE 127 POUNDS. Tony Boncro and Juggler. His Only Opponents, Both Lead Him at Finish of Handicap at Yonkers Sudden Rain Upsets Calculations. New York, July SO. AVilliam Walkers diminutive racer. Stsmley Fay. carrying the crushing Impost of 127 iwmds. sustained his lirst defeat of the meeting at Yonkers today iu the handicap at one mile and a sixteenth. Tony Bonero and Juggler, his oniy opponents, both led him home with extraordinary ease. Strenuous pursuit of the lightly weighted Sain horse, which forced a fast pace, left Stanley Fay so exhausted that Juggler swept by him iii the stretch. This old Hamburg gelding is right now at the top of his form ami is well worth consideration in good company. .Mr. Walker remarked after the race that lie timed Stanley Fay separately the first mile in 1:3S. and that lie was exacting his collapse long liefore it occurred. Trainer J. J. Hylands charges were prominent during the afternoon. Itesides winning the feature with Tony Bonero, he took the mile condition race .with Kthcrial and dominated most of the running of the maiden juvenile dash woir by Bion, with Oxer, a good-looking Toddington colt that would have won i but for trying to bolt the course at the stretch turn. Chief Hayes, a new-comer to metropolitan tracks, luaugarated proceedings by defeating seven fast horses In the opening nice. The winner was bid up by an agent representing William Walker from 1909.sh00 to ,200. but the horse was boujrut iu with the customary advance. Interest in the race was materially enhanced because of the presence of Earls Court and Queen Marguerite. The pair had finished heads apart on Wednesday in a race that it was declared the tillv should have won. The previous running was reversed today, notwithstanding, that Austin, an inferior jockey as compared with Towers, was astride Queen Marguerite. Tills tended to confirm the general opinion entertained at the time that the crack western rider had not done his lest. In this connection it has just transpired that three or Tour of the most prominent jockeys riding on the local track, including Powers. Dugan and Walsh, liave been under strict surveillance during the past ten days by the Pinkertons by order of the stewards of the Jockey Club. It is alleged that they have been seen in the company of Alex" Smith, wiio was ruled off at Saratoga several years ago .for alleged undue intimacy with a jockey. Ethcrlal was the first odds-on favorite to win. His ttrcsencc in the second race under ninety-three pounds caused wholesale withdrawals, and biit two inconsequential opponents. Casque and High Range, started against him. The running was one-sided. The reverse, however, was the case with the next Mlds-on public choice. Won. which won a head, victory in the succeeding race. A wind and rainstorm culminating in a cloudburst occurred just before the fifth race. The wind and rain swept the grandstand and few of the occupants escaped a wetting. On account of the sudden change in the going from a fast and dry track to a sloppv one. the betting on the two-year-old dash shifted amazingly. Responsful. the odds-ou favorite, wound til last in a field of four starters. Shapdale. particularly well served by the footing, succeeded in sproadeagling his ooposition in the closing mile and a sixteenth event. Hans, the lukewarm favorite, although palpably handicapped by track conditions, finished second. Desnite the almost intolerable heat and humidity, the attendance was up to the average, about 3 000 persons being at the hilltop course.
