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ARRESTS HAVE NO EFFECT YESTERDAYS ATTENDANCE AT GRAVESEND 1 LARGEST OF MEETING, REACHING 12,000. No Further Warrants Served and Betting Goes On as Briskly as Ever Mexoana Wins the Junior Champion and Sir John Johnson the Culver. Now York, September IS. The arrests in the betting ring li.nl "o deterrent effect on the attendance at Gravesend this afternoon. The crowd numbered 12.110 and was the largest of the meeting. Everything pasted oil quietly, no further warrants were served and speculation on the races continued as brisk as ever. The weather was perfect for raving and an unusually good card was offered. There were three big features the Junior Champion Stakes. Culver Handicap and Brookwood Steeplechase. Mexoana triumphed over formidable opposition in the Junior Champion Stakes. Candle-berry was withdrawn and the Alontnelier Stable placed its entire dependence, on the beautiful daughter of Mexican llanoaua. Among others, the Held included Livonia, the sensational juvenile development of Sheepshead I!ay racing and the meeting between the pair aroused intense interest. The remaining starters were all colts, consisting of Shannon. Faunt-lerov, Chickasaw, Joe Morris and Naughty Boy, Chickasaw being an added starter. Alexoanas victory was impressively clean cut and decisive. With Livonia, she singled out of the ruck like a Hash soon after tlie barrier went up and. racing head and head, the nair established a big lead in the first quarter. Shannon was their nearest pursuer, six lengths away, then came Fauntleroy. Chickasaw. Naughty Boy and Joe Morris, the last-named trio being hopelessly out of it from the start. The tremendous pace told on Livonia and she uit in the second quarter. This left Mexoana with a commanding lead. Shannon and Fauntleroy. however, improved their positions so rapidly in the closing three-eighths that they finished almost lapped on the winner passing the wire. Fauntleroy, just failing to get up for second place, was running on like a streak and. had the distance of the race been fifty yards farther. McLaughlins gaunt-looking racer would have won. Mexoana, however, demonstrated her Immeasurable superiority by surviving the heartbreaking early pace and set the seal upon her fame as the two-year-old filly champion of the year. This was her eleventh start this season and made her record one of nine viotorlcs. one second and oiice unplaced. In her first attempt at Pinillco early in the spring she finished second. Her other defeat occurred in a race at Belmont Park in which it subsequently transpired that she had suffered a collision at the start and was as good as left at the post as a result. The Culver Handicap, though of secondary value, was thi; overshadowing feature of the program and was contested by the greatest sprinters of the American turf, including Jack Atkin. Sir John Johnson, Rose Queen, Kings Daughter. Besom, Half Sovereign and Harrigau. Every one of the contenders was extensively supported. Sir John Johnson, after lunging through the barrier a dozen times and delaying the start, profited by a Hying send-off and was never beaded. When Itutwell on Rose Queen found that be could not pass the leader, he took a patient hold on the filly, reserved her speed for a final stretch effort and was rewarded with second honors by a narrow margin over Jack Atkin. winch broke well under jockey Mclntyre, but. unluckily placed on the inside, was iiockoted and impeded so frequently that lie could never get into serious contention until too late for his effort to be effective. The racing began and ended with long-shot successes. Alanarka and The Turk, quoted respectively at 100 to 1 and at ,r0 to 1 in the betting. The latter of these winners was making his debut anil both were wholly neglected in the betting. The victory of McDowells filly was a tluke. It was just the reverse in the case of the last winner, which ran like a coming good one. The Itrookwood Steeplechase was captured by the odds-on favorite. Andrew Hummers. Mrs. W. G. Wilsons horse dominated the running throughout. The" Brookwood Steeplechase was instituted in 1907. Jts history is as follows: Year. Winner. A. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1007 Locked Out .A 130 M. Henson.,410 :t:.r.O 1008 Waterspeed ..4 132 Davidson .. S50 3:49 1009 And. Summers.4 134 McAfee C10 3:45 High Irivate was scratched to permit jockey Glass to take the mount on Lad of Langden. The stable connections backed the gelding heavily, despite the short odds, and he was awarded the decision in the final stride of the closest finish of the meeting. Creevy, the Montpelier Stable apprentice, carried off the jockey lienors with two firsts and one second. J-peaklng of Creevy. trainer T. J. Healey says that he is the only jockey in the east who will ride according to instructions. Healey says that he does absolutely as he is told. James It. Keene himself made the belated announcement today that Sweep had been retired for the season. It transpires that the indisposition which prevented Sweep from starting in the Flat-bush Stakes was more serious than at first given out. The Futurity hero was au exceedingly sick horse, lint is now on the road to recovery. Andrew Summers equaled the track record in the Bteeplechase by running the about two miles course In 3:4.-i. Greenbridgo was claimed out of the fifth race on Friday by Woods Garth.
