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KLNG JAMES MEETS DEFEAT HILDRETH CRACK VANQUISHED BY BEAUCOUP IN AQUEDUCT HANDICAP. Son of Plaudit Not Quite Keyed Up to a Hard Race — Maid, a Filly by Broomstick. Takes the RosevaJe Stakes. Now York. May ;. S. C. Ilihlreths Kins James made his initial appearance of the swison at Aqueduct tliis afteneaaa an. I. though lie ran an tKMMl race, ho was beaoca by B. I. WDM*, Jr.s Bcnu-• ■up. II was a handicap al seven eighths nf a mile anil King James was rv. Hired t » take up l-IO pounds In lo7 mi Bt-aucoiip anil ins on Fashion Plate. Kin;: •lanies forced a last pan- to net Fasliion Plato into submission ami 1 nne on gamely at the e:i J. but .inM larked lning tit n .ugh to stall off tile rush of Benucoup. wliieh won in time equaling tin- track record. Kins Janus is one of the Hildrcth eligible* for the Metropolitan and is top weight in all the big handicaps for which weights have lw-en assigned. His ran of todav will undoulitedlv do him good and lie is sure to come hack oli se to the top of the handicap class. The ltose.lale Stakes, for two year-old fillies, was the feature and resulted in a surprise when Maid, a chestnut daughter of Broomstick and Esteem, won like a good one. Golden Agnes, the favorite, drew Ihe outside ]M»st position and. swerving badly all through the running, failed to finish in the money. The condensed history of the Hosedale Stakes is ns follows: Year Winner. YVt. Jockov. Val. Time. IMS Julia M 1o7 II. Cochran. .77.~. l:oU 1MM Suzno Rocainora.109 Fuller 1.8.15 :•" ! • MM Lady Valentine. .107 T. Burns .. 1.01.1 :.V»J 1908 Dollie Hollars ...107 Kadtke 1.701 1:01* P.W7 rrizette 107 Garner 1.S70 1:93] l»OS Trance 114 Musgravc . . 1.70.1 :.14J 19 HI Not run Tills, veal ltllo Maid 103 G. Burns .. MM :14j! Bun at .Is in HHi;:. 1906 and 1907. White Wool, favorite in the first, was liadly handled by jockey Iingan and the race went to Agawam »4i tin; Way. Jockey Crcevy. who had tlve-moimt -on . -Agawam. also iiiloted Beaucoup. which took the measure of King James. In the mile and a sixteenth race for selling platers jockey McGee rode a re-urarkablo race to have Bonnie Kelso returned the •winner. Tlie horse was apparently Ixiiten a furlong from tlie tmish when MoiJw found an opening and rushed him through from third place. All of the two year-olds in the stable of James R. KeeiH are suffering from an epidemic of influenza, ami it may keep some of them from racing until late in the si-a-nn. Hie older horses have not been a fleet i-d.
