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GOOD FILLY EDITH F. IS DESTROYED Jule Improves cud Wins Her Race Havre de Grace Course Woll Crowded. Havre de Grace, Md., September 14. An accident in the running of the second race at Havre de Grace this afternoon ended the racing career of the Quincy. Stables. ytwq-year-old filly Edith F., by Transvaal Lady Aristocracy. The race was won by Vocabulary, with Risponde second and Start Right third, but it looked as if Edith F. would have won had she not gone down. Vocabulary and Risponde were quickest at the start, with Start Right at their heels. Editli F. began from the middle of thf track and was gaining on the leaders with every stride. On the turn out of the backstretch, jockey Walls thought he saw an opening next to the rail and went for it, but Start Right shut him off and Edith F. went down. She broke her shoulder and was destroyed. The two-year-old race which opened the card was won by Jule, a filly for which ,000 recently was refused. She had started on yesterday in the Trenton Stakes and finished last after showing a great burst of speed in the first quarter. Today she took the lead at the start and was never headed. The attendance was large and the speculation brisk. Harry S. Breivogel was a visitor at Havre de Grace this afternoon. He brought, the information that the job of placing the top dressing on the Laurel track has been completed and that other improvements made to the plant are all finished. Several new machines have been added to the mutuel equipment. They include an extra ten-dollar machine, one of the five-dollar combination, first and second, and another of the six-dollar denomination, first, second and third. There will also be one ten-dollar and a two-dollar first-, secondhand third in the" clubhouse. The condition bookfor the Laurel meeting will be ready for distribution on Monday and can be obtained of Joseph McLennan in the secretarys office. RULING AFFECTING SEA COAST II. Henry J. Morris, the- steward, representing the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association at Havre de Grace, lias ordered that the jumper Sea Coast will in the -future run as Seafc Coast II. It developed that "there was a nine-year-old mare of the same name which ran on the- Iiiter-Mountain circuit. The latter had been registered with the Jockey Club, while the jumper "of the same name had been registered with the Steeplechase Association. William Garth reports that the seven yearlings that lie has in training at Beuning are a splendid appearing band. There are five colts and two fillies and all are by the Ben Brush stallion, Thco Cook; the latter is a son of Climax, by Domino, and has three crosses of the Agnes family right at the top of his pedigree. The filly, dam Sylvan Dell, ran into a fence at the farm and injured herself so severely that she had to be destroyed. Frank Capra, who looked after jockey Parring-tons engagements, has taken over the book for jockeys Mulcalry and Dominick. Jockey Merimee, who was under engagement to O. E. Pons, has joined the J. M. Goode establishment at Lexington. O. Rice was an arrival at Havre de Grace this morning, with his stable. The following corrections in prices for the seventh race Thursday were issued by the mutuel department: G. M. Miller, 3.70; N. K. Beal, 3.S5; Ocean Prince. 0.35; Mannchen. 27.15; Dan, 5.05; No Manager, 15.10; Marianao, 3.70; Kilts, 34.95. This is on the ratio of one dollar. A. G. Weston got in from Pimlico this morning with a draft of the Thomas Clyde stable. Jockey W. Wards engagements will be looked after by G. P. Sherman.
