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BELMONT PARK PURSE DAY No Stake Race On the Program But Racing Proves Good. Daddys Choice an Unexpected Victor Interest in Hourless and Omar Khayyam. New York, September 14. Excellent racing conditions ruled again today at Belmont Park. The card was entirely given over to races of the overnight variety, with the Cedarhurst Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth, holding the place of honor. Walter H. Congdons fleet filly Right repeated her recent victory in the seven-eighths selling handicap, with which the program was inaugurated. She led for every foot of the way and won with striking ease. Serenest, the favorite of the race, ran up into forward contention when entering the stretch, but fell away in the final eighth and finished unplaced. The steeplechase race over the two-mile course was under selling conditions and went to the credit of D. Raymonds Reddest, which had been backed with rare confidence on the strength of the recent promising races he had run. Reddest came away from Web Carter at the end after clearing the last jump on even terms with that horse.. Arch-dale, which Reddest had displaced in favoritism, fell at the first jump. The French horse, Gex. which was beaten in a fluky race on the occasion of his last preceding start, won the mile allowance race after a hard drive to dispose of Manister Toi, from which the principal opposition was expected. Buckboard then challenged Gex after Manister Toi fell back, but Gex, which was a prohibitive favorite, outstayed him gallantly. Will Brown, son of R. H. Brown, one of the old guard, has joined Troop E., First New York cavalry. Jockey W. Knapp has been engaged by trainer W. J. Young to ride Escoba in the Breeders Futurity at Lexington. BUXTON SHOWS TO ADVANTAGE. The Cedarhurst Handicap was attended by an unexpected result, when Daddys Choice and Wistful finished first and second. The race was generally thought to lie between Viewpoint and Chiclet and these two dominated the running for the greater part of the way. Both had been so excessively used, that they fell easy prey to the outsiders, when they moved up with a challenge in the final eighth. Daddys Choice was ridden with rare judgment by jockey Buxton, when he found that he could not outpace Chiclet in the early running. He wisely took his mount back and reserved him. It undoubtedly was this that enabled him to win the race. Gex, though winning, did not run as good a race as expected by the majority of handicappers. They argue Buckboard was too close to him to make him out a good horse. Indications point to an improvement in the entries at Aqueduct, but it is not believed they will equal those taking part in the spring meeting. "Omar Khayyam shipped well, is doing well and will have no excuses in the Realization," said Dick Carman. "If he is beaten it will be a good horse that does the trick." Sam Hildreth, in speaking of Hourless, said Mr. Belmonts horse is as fit as lie can get him and expect3 him to run the best race of his career. "I would like him a bit better seasoned." concluded Hildreth, "but he is ready for a good race." Butwell will ride Hourless in the Realization. Mr. Carman has not yet decided who will ride Omar Khayyam, but it is not likely to be Loftus. The victory of High Olympus was the resurrection of Gene Leighs colors, which had not. been seen in this country for nearly twenty years. Jack Hare Jr. left for Lexington this morning. He and Papp will return September 23, the day after the Breeders Futurity is run, arrangements having been made to that effect. Along with Jack Hare Jr. went Sam McMeekin, Big Smoke and Thornhill. "The reason for the late arrival of Papp in Lexington, was due to delay at this end of the line," said Herbert Temple, who shipped the horse.
