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BELMONT RACING SPIRITED ♦ Sands of Pleasure Wins Hollis Selling Stakes in Close Finish. ♦ Jyntee Breaks Track Record in Sensational Contest — Flit- tergold a Winner. ♦ New York. May 20.— The Hollis Selling Stakes, a dash if three-quarters iv r the main course, to which ,000 was added, was provided as a feature ;il II. Imh.iiI Iark lUi attt* ». It furnished an exciting contest, in which Sands of Pleasure beat Whims- by a nose after a lone and hard stretch drive. Startling, favorite fur tlie race, was third. Peak saved ground with the winner and rode a powerful finish, while Startling lest enough ground en he stretch turn to deprive him of vietory. The raees were run over a traek that was of the drying out sort and foe for" a large gathering. Tla- Hollis Selling Stakes is at recent origin, bavin. Itccn first run in IMS, its lirief history licing here shown: Year. Winner. A.Wt Jockey. Yal Time. 1915 Moutrcsor 5 111 V. Fral...$ til, 1:13 ;s MM Vennout 3 104 L. Lyke 915 1:14 MCT ;!iH.mv Gus 3 100 A. Collins., l.OfiO 1:1-1% 1918 8. of Pleasure.. 5 111 C. Teak ... 1.450 1:13% Kiitterg ild s -ored his first victory of the year when he lieat Dorcas !iy a hea l in Uk Mineola Han-dicaii. a dasli of a mile, which was run as the firth ra -c. Tin- winner came from liehiud and. finishing fast and gamely, got up in the final strides. Ijltlecoto was most fancied in the opening dash, Imt third was the best he could do, the winner turning uo in Keen Jane, hacked from 20 to 10 lo 1. Superhuman wen liis third straight victory through the field, hy easily a counting for the steeplechase «e«lcsr -f the day. in which he beat Syosset and Shannon River. Tlie most interesting and hardest fought contest of the afternoon came witli tin- running of the sec.ind race, at the finish of which tlie proverbial blanket would have covered the first five horses. Jynlc- was first, a neck in advance of Salvestra. which had a head advantage over Ima Frank, witii only a nose separating the latter from Fairy Wand. MM in turn was only a small margin in advance of Empress. It was a splendid race and incidentally, in winning it. Jyntee established a new track record for the five anil a half furlongs over the straight course and also scored tlie first success of the year for Major August lt"!uiniit. W. R. Coe showd up a probable star in Poly-meli.in in the last race of the day. He i= a son of Iolymelui Pnsquita. was bred by J. 1?. Joel in England ami was brought t • this country by Mr. "•. Today was his first start and hi won in runaway fashion from a big band of young horses. J. H. ROSSETER A VISITOR. There were two distinguished visitors at Belmont Park today in J. 11. Rossetcr and John Coleman, who arrived here from San Francisco on .Monday. Tliey will stay for a wc«k or two. Mr. Rossetcr xi.is the iimiiT of a number of thoroughbreds valie-d at 00,000. which went down on the Minnehaha a short time ago. after the ship had been torpedoed. Tiicsc bofscs he bought from J. B. Jo:d, the Eng lisli hn-odcr. Mr. Kosscters California farm is Known as the Wikiup Breeding Farm, located in Fulton. He now has twenty mares on the cstafo-lishment. with the slallion Disguise at the head, lb- also has six horses in training in Louisville, with Albert Johnson under contract as rider. Kaghccra. tin- colt that C. K. Clements purchased .it the G. A. Cochran sale at 1imlieo, has devel-••|ted a bad ankle and will In- fired by Dr. McCully and turned out for the bahince of the year. H. J. Bedwell and jockey I.yke will leave for 1/OUinville tomorrow night. I.yke wiil have the mount on Cudgel in the Kentucky Handicap. Among todays arrivals were J. W. Bean, the well known Washington contractor, in whose colors the racer Indian Chant runs. Joe Armstrong, ex mayor of Pittsburg, accompanied by Max Leslie, the well-known politician, also came over to take in a days racing. II. I.. Price claimed the colt Ben Gow after the latter was beaten yesterday. Price was represented in the race by Oenone. Sir Helio. which finished third to Flags and Foreground in the second race yesterday, was badly Kicked while a! the post. The opening rnataat at Belmont Park this afternoon was a claiming race, tlie conditions of which stipulated that claims should Is- made thirty minutes before i*jst time and that the horse claimed should Is- scratched. Eddie MeBrido was the only liorse claimed and F.mil Hcrz secured him for ,500. his entered price, plus the value of the purse to the winner. Major August Belmont is in Lexington to look over his racers at the Nurserv Stud. He contributed 00 to tie- Bed Cross fund at Lexington. Major llelmout will remain in Kentucky about :i week Itcforo going ast to take his departure for Frame. Jack ThfH-nby has decided to rest up his filly Fannie Mciian until the opening of tin- Aqueduct meeting. In her two starts Fannie Mohan established new traek records at Bowie and Havre de Grace. Santo Sotille, prominently identified with the Palmetto Park track at Charleston, S. C, was a visitor. Wiir Cloud is working in fine stylo at Belmont Park and is said to Ik- a sure starter in the Withers Stakes, to lie inn Saturday. Kill Cross day .-it Belmont Park will be on Friday. June 7. when the He l Cross Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, at one mile, will be the feature.
