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FRIAR ROCK ALWAYS BADLY BEATEN. Chicle Wins the Brooklyn Derby from Start to Finish, with Star Hawk Second. New York, June 2S.— The most surprising result attended the running of the Brooklyn Derby today when Chicle amazed ninety -nine iH-r-cent. of the spectators by winning in a canter after leading from start to finish. The favorites. Friar Bock. Star Hawk and Spur, were badly beaten. In fact. Star Hawk was the only one of the trio to give the winner a respectable argument at the finish. Spur tried to get to Chicle in the early stages of the race and half way down the stretch seemed to have a chance, then quit abruptly and Churchill, which was always well up in the second division beat him for third money. Friar Bock was always beaten and never ill forward contention at any time. It was a case of Chicle all the way. At the finish Star Hawk gained a trifle under the whip but could not get even dangerously close to Mr. Whitneys horse. Chicle has at last shown a bit of the form expected of him and to which the horse has not run up to until today. Whether Friar Bocks Brooklyn Handicap performance injured his chances or whether he was not capable of giving away the weight is not quite clear. The first and second horses are ImiOi imported, though Chicle is out of the American-bred mare I*udy Hamburg. Chicle was worked a few-days ago in blinkers with Borrow and beat the latter. In todays race the blinkers were added to his equipment. Dolina. quoted at a short price, just managed to get home in the third race, it being a elose fit between the first three. After her victory she was bid up from 00 to ,200 by J. W. Hedrick, but was protected by her owner. Chatterbox reversed her defeat by Passing Fancy a few days ago by winning the fifth decisively. The 1;.* A. Cochran stable uncovered a speedy filly in the first race when Madeira, making her first start, led home a band of two-year-olds. She took the lead after racing forwardly in the early running, won in a common canter and will doubtless bo a factor in future two-year-olds stakes. The colt White Hackle, for which W. B. Coe of the Shoshone Stable is reported to have paid 0,000 last year, died last night after being sick with lung fever for the past seventeen days. He won four of his six starts, including his only start this year. There is no truth in the rc]ort that has gained some circulation that the Empire City meeting would be run at the Jamaica track and it is hard to trace its origin. The l ook of conditions for the Empire City meeting will lie issued tomorrow. Hourhss worked five-eighths out of the chute after the first race in 1:01%. Geo. Gllck has purchased the mare Shyness from B. I.. Bresler. who recently claimed her from Nealy and Buxton, associates of Glick. Oscar Lewisehn took his first hand in selling race activities in the east when he advanced Chatterbox, winner of the fifth race, to §1,500. The filly was bought in by the Quincy Stable by the usual advance. J. W. Iledrick bid the filly, which was entered for to ,200 and there I wisohn took up the bidding. In retaliation the Quincy Stable claimed Spectre, the second horse, for ,183. Golden Drop, the dam of Madeira, the winner of the first race, was purchased last year from John E. Madden by GilTord A. Cochran for 5,000.
