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BELMONT PARKS OPENING 1 i ATTENDANCE GOOD, DESPITE COUNTER ATTRACTIONS OF HUDSON-FULTON FETE. j I i Radium Star Wins the Colts End of the Matron Stakes for R. T. Wilson. Jr. High Private t Creates New Track Record. New York. September 2S. Notwithstanding .the counter attraction of the Hudson-Fulton historical parade, the Westchester Racing Associations autiliim inn-ling of twelve days was today ushered in successfully at Belmont Iark. As usual, members1 of Hie society and limiting set were, conspicuous. Uaiu. which fell during the preceding night, iiroduce.l slushy going, but marvelously fast time was nevertheless made. In fact, a new track record of 2:U for a mile and a quarter was established by High Private, one of the winners. The star racing attraction was the tirst hair oC the .Matron Stakes, bavins a cross value of .l7u. for two-year-old colts and geldings. This important juvenile fixture, over the six furlongs straightaway, was captured by Radium Star, with his more highly considered stable com-liauioii. inileberrv. set-ond. Inches separated the pair at :the llnish. ;Kcky OBrien, conceding .re-siicctivflv eighteen and seventeen ihiiiihIs to the two leaders, -finished third five lengths away, after having loomed up n threatening factor at the beginning or the final sixteenth. The aield included the eight named overnight ami an added starter. Naughty Bov. Tho almost prohibitive odds quoted against the entry seemed acceptable to the speculatively inclined, but it was Cauillelierry. the Futurity runner-up. that tin; piddle was supporting. Creevy. the stable jockey, had lieen superseded by Orand on the preferred one of the pair and felt aggrieved over it. Creevv rose to the occasion and won the biggest vaee of his career on the secoml-best horse, there was less of bumping and swerving in this race than in any other contest of like1 character and im-lmrlnnce in the history of the famous straightaway course: Tho winner practically! dominatel the running rrnm first to last, licing j ined bv Cnndleberry only in the last half-dozen strides. Tlie lieu Brush colt was outpaced early and seemed unable, to stride " ireely m tlie going at the llttHli. although he was closing stoullvj Because; of the muddy track conditions the attractive card was, VmsIdcrably depleted, by scratching arid small fields contested the xomain- illKon!iwTng is tlie tabled history of the Matron Stakes for colts since 19C: lilOO Beau Gallant ...,125 Biillman ..0.29. 1:101 ItlOl I Ieno Odom Jvo V-ltt 1902 liVev Friar 124 N. Turner. 12,180 l:llft llMirj The" Minute Man. 117 V. ONeill. S.U35 1 :1S 1104 Bedouin II-1 .Shaw 12.i2.. 1:09 1905 Burgomaster 124- Lyne 10,4i.. 1:12J 190T, Ballot 1-"- Uadtke ... 10.2.pl 1:12 11107 Cojin 129 W. Miller. 9.340 1:12 JitOS Helmet 124VN6tter 9,025 1:12r 1909 Radium Star 114 Creevy ... S.SWo 1:14 Run at Morris lark prior to 1005. R. T. Wilson. Jr.. scored smother popular success in the fifth race with BnisWiroom. a grand-looking llroomstick colt. Horsemen ronouueed the gigantic jiiTpnile a first-class three-yar-ohl prospect after his casr victory, Form was !well maintained, with three favorites and three second choices monopolizing the honors. Thirty-five otlicers from visf.ting Italian warships were guests of the Jockey Club during the afternoon. , , ,, The sheriff of Nassau County and twenty deputies ; were on hand to see that the anti-betting law was 1 not violated. . . . , . T. E. Mannix shipped his String last night to Richmond. Va. lie will race kit a couple of the ; southern meetings and be on hand for the beginning at Baltimore October 23. Mannix lias a useful 1 string of horses now. including German Silver. Democrat and fjeneral MacGregor. all of which lie recently claimed out of selling races. Woods and William Garth will ship their horses to Baltimore today. Theodore Coles will take ! Juggler to Belmont lark and the balance of the Sniithson horses will go to Baltimore witli the - Garth shipment.
