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ONAGER CONTINUES TO WIN JUVENILE OWNED BY R. T. WILSON, JR., SCORES SIXTH STRAIGHT VICTORY. Berkeley Takes the Harlem Selling Stakes as an Outsider — Naushon. Stable Companion of Onager, Wins the Gaiety — Keene Racers Recovering. Now Yolk. Mnv 1!». — Berkeley was tlio winner of tin- Harlem Selling Stakes, todays feature at Belmont Park, for which Pretend was an ]1 to 20 favorite. Tile race was narrowed to four starters. Berkeley made all the pan- and. when apparently lieatcn in the last furlong by Norbitt. he came again right at the end and was an easy winner. Pretend, after tieing weakly handled all the way. could tiuish only as -lose up as third. Tlie tahulated history of the Harlem Stakes is as follows: Year. Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1S9S lychmau 7 115 T. Sloau . .$ BM 1:45J 1S99 Kovsterer :i 93 Odom 835 1:44 1500 Kiimikinnic ...6 110 Spencer •■- 1.055 1:42 1901 Hammock 4 10t OConnor .. 995 1:43ft 1902 Dr. Hiddlc 5 111 T. Burns... 1,280 l:41j 1X03 Highlander 4 111 T. Burns... 1.400 1:41 J904 Sheriff Bell 4 lOti Cormack ... 1.580 1:412 l»il5 Little Em 1111 ONeill 1.5S5 1:41 MMl 5 MM earner 1.950 1:40ft 1!* 7 i. nipple 5 111 J. Martin... 2.105 I::** 190*. Grapple 0 111 Shaw 2.040 1 :39ft 1909 Arasee 4 103 I. Glass UK1» IMS Berkeley 6 116 E. Dugau .. 660 1:38 Hun at Morris Park prior to 1905. Scratching marred most of the races and four of tile winners were of the odds-ou variety. An outsider besides Berkeley to aeare was II. P. Whitneys Sea "HIT. which raced in England last season. He caught Hum Oueeu tiring H the end of the six furlongs handicap and outgauied her. K. T. Wilson. Jr.. took hoth of the two-year old races when Onager made his score six straight and Nanshon. the half-brother to Gunfire, scored easilj in the Gaiety. Both were hot favorites. The history of the Gaiety Stakes since 1900 is given in the table below: 1ear. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. »W K»wl Lavender. .112 Littlctield ..,400 :48J ]901-J,a -ili»e 112 Mitchell ... 1.40O :.-,:: HKtt Mary Street 11- OConnor .. 1.670 :.VH HMKt Dovecote . .. »...«! 1ft lajmuou .... 1 .0-V. :52 19«4 Czaraphine 112 Lync 1.S70 :.-,2i 1905 Tiptoe 122 Odoin 1.590 :5H IWtti Court Dress 122 Radtkc 1.H00 :52ft l!Hi7 Half Sovereign. ..112 Mountain .. 1.S70 :54 1 90S Trance 122 Musgrave .. 1.785 :51ft 1909 Shannon 114 J. Mclutyre. 4 »0 :5:;j 1910 Nausbou 114 Butwell ... 470 :54» Mellowmint. Tlionias Hitchcock. Jr.s green jumper, scored in the steeplechase after Diopit had forced all the pace ti tiuish second. Jeanne dAre was ihM of the sprint at the end of the card 1 1 on Kacijuet, one of the best -backed horses of the day. James It. Keenes two-year-olds liave so far recovered from their recent attack of influenza as to have lioon able to get out on the track today. Sweep was given a* slow gallop, but will be reserved for his engagement in the Belmont. Thirty si horses, twenty of them two-year-olds, the property of Mrs. L. A. Livingston, have been sliip|ied to Toronto. James Hever has purchased the three-year-old Charlie Hargrave. Sweeps temperature is still high, but he is improving steadilv. and trainer James ltowc expects i bat lie will have the Ben Brush colt back at the rnces l efore long. He will not hurry him. though. The others in the stable are on the road to recovery as well. : i
