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FRIAR ROCKS BROOKLYN HANDICAP. Mr. Belmonts Colt Runs a Remarkable Race in Defeating Crack Older Horses. New York. June 24. — Before a crowd so dense that locomotion in any part of the grounds except the infield was difficult. August Belmonts good three-year-old. Friar Bock, won the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct today and reduced the track record by three-fifths of a second. It is estimated 20,000 jiersons were in attendance. The horses had no sooner reached the starter than they were dispatched and Sand Marsh took a flying lead on the second division, which consisted lif Pennant. Slumber II.. Churchill and Achievement. Friar Bock was four lengths behind the leaders in the first eighth and Short Crass a bad last. There was no change in positions until rounding the turn for home, except that Friar Rock had closed up ground and had joined the leaders. Half way down the stretch Sand Marsh tired and lenuaiit. Slumber II. and Boamer moved into prominint contention. Every jockey went to the whip in the last eighth and lennant appeared like the winner when a sixteenth out. Boamer was done at that iniint. Out of the scramble came Friar Bock in the last hundred yards and, challenging lennant, got up to win in the most sensational manner. Considering that Pennant hud not lieen out for two years he ran a remarkable race, as did the winner, which at one time was easily ten lengths behind the leaders. The time was also remarkable, the fir»t three-quarters Iieing run in 1:11 and the mile in 1:37—. B. L. Bressler has purchased from J. E. Aladden the two-year -old Merchant at private sale, this betas the second two-year-old he has obtained from Mr. Aladden. Sky being his former purchase. H. D. Brown was an arrival today from Cincinnati. Charles F. Crainger was also a visitor. Frank Alidgley will sail for Newmarket England, within a short time to bring back the mares Last Jug and Ouair with their foals. «;rant Hugh Browne will take the same boat to attend the sales of yearlings in England. That veteran horseman. Jacob Pincus. was an interested visitor at Aqueduct this afternoon. Speculation was of immense proportions during the afternoon, the lawn being crowded to capacity. "Friar Bocks victory is naturally most pleasing." said Air. Belmont, after the finish of the Brooklyn Handicap, as he made his way to the . paddock to see the colt cooled out. "I must confess that I was prejudiced against him as a two-year-old because f his unattractive neck and shoulders. Then. too. he had a half-sister that showed bad temper and that helped some. But he has improved uiarvelously this season, and he will go to the Nursery Stud when he is through with racing. He is of the size that I like bast in a race horse, 15.3 to 16 hands and he has that balance which all good race horses should possess. Jle represents my ideal in blood lines and the 8,000 I paid for his dam was money well spent. She has produced me some good horses." Harry Payne Whitney was loud in his praise of Friar Bock, but had a good word for Pennant and trainer Rowe. "1 think Howe did wonders with Pennant to bring him to the i ost in the condition he did after his long retirement," said Mr. Whitney,
