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YONKERS MEETING IS OVER F0LLIE LEVY WINS FINAL FEATURE AT THE EMPIRE CITY COURSE. Mexoana Runs in Fashion Indicating Return to Her Good Form — Big Crowd of Turfmen Off for Saratoga. New York, August 3. — For the last day of the successful meeting at Yonkers the feature was the Arrow Stakes, a selling affair at threejoartera of a mile. It went to Follie Levy, which filly was on her good liehavior and, after .rating behind the pace in the early stages, easily dis| osed of Mexoana through the stretch. The race run by Mexoana, beati u only a length in 1:11*. gives promise of her lieing well worth while at Saratoga, where she was shipped later. TuIkM and Galley Klave were the only other starters in the Arrow, and they cut absolutely no figure in the running after the first three-eight lis. The handicap at a mile and twenty yards was also contested by a small field, when only Nimbus. Superstition and Apache raced. Nimbus was made an odds-on favorite, but he finished last, the race being won from end to end by Superstition, the longest-priced starter in the field. The performance of Nimbus was so far below his real form that it is suggested he is far from lieing himself, while the winner showed decided improvement over his previous race, in which he was lieaten by Black Mate. Star Charter beat a good band of two-year-olds In the fifth and at the end of the card Nethermost surprised by a CHiitering victory over some ordinary selling platers. This race was not a truly run one, for right aflei the start Stargowan humped his way through and in doing so put Gliding Belle and Sail Vlto hopelessly out of the running. Big Stick was an easy winner in the opening race nnd John E. Maddens filly Ivabel emerged from the maiden class when she made a show of the big band that started in the second race. The special train that left for Saratoga after the meet carried a record crowd to the Springs, while for more than weeks every Albany and iroy boat lias been called apofi for reservations of all their staterooms by the followers of the turf. Kvery indication is that the meeting at Saratoga will be the best since the prosperous times of the turf in 1906 and 1907. Little doubt now remains that the Futurity and Great- Filly Stakes will be decided at Saratoga, though the officials of both the Saratoga Association and the Coney Island Jockey Club have refused to confirm the current reports.
