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FAIRY WAND ALL THE WAY G A Cochraif s Star Shoot Filly FillyEasily Easily Wins Gazelle Handicap r rOld Old Borrow Runs a Fast Mile Star Spangled Earns Well Deserved Victory New York July 30 G A Cochrans Fairy Wand accounted for the twentysixth running of the Ga Eclli Handicap tha feature of a fine card at Aque ¬ duct today Taking an early lead Fairy Waud set a fast pace and had her opponents beaten at the turn for home Priseilia Mullens ran well under her heavy impost but could not concede the weight Hanovia after trailing iu the rear during the early racing closed up with a sensational rush to pass the tiring Battle and Dorcas in the final strides Tlw nice was extremely fast the mile being run in 137 Fairy Wands performance was all the more impressive because a high wind blew directly up the long stretch But for this she might have hung up a new track mark for the distance distanceThe The Gazelle was established in 1S87 and numbers among its winners many marcs which afterwards gained fame in the stud Its history since 1905 is Iiere briefly shown Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time TimeIJO IJO Flip Flap 121 W Millcr3 0 143 14319H7 19H7 Court Dress 121 J Martin 4495 147 1471OS 1OS Stamina 121 i Dugan 4540 14S 14SIIMRI IIMRI Maskette 121 Scoville 4045 148 148Win Win Ocean Bound 121 C II Siiilg 1911 152 1917 Regret 129 J Loftus 2 iOO 145 145101S 101S Fairy AVand 115 C Farliror 2025 145 145Not Not run in 1911 1912 1913 1914 115 and 1910 Run at Graveseud prior to 1917 and for threeyear olds The Quiucy Stables Star Spangled which ap pr priately won on the Fourth of July came back today and earned a well deserved victory over Louise V in the opening race It was a close and hard fought struggle Itctwccn the two from start to finish with Star Spangled proving the gamer at the end endThe The steeplechase contest resulted In a series of mishaps in which three of the seven starters lost their riders J K L Ross Sixty Four was an easy winner with Louvois second Louvois was leading on the final turn but suddenly tired and dropped Icick then just as suddenly recovered and in a sensational closing rush caught King Simon and outgamed placeSea him for second place Sea Pirate carrying the yilks of J S Tyree won a hotly contested struggle with Blairgowrie in the third race Robinson rode a particularly fine race on the winner After racing Auntie into defeat Sea Pirate moved to the front and gamely withstood every attempt of Blairgowrie to wrest the lead from him Crystal Fords performance was a good poundsII one under the crushing impost of 120 pounds II I Whitneys marvelous old racer Borrow showed today that despite his long and victorious arcer on the turf in this country and England lie still retains some of the wonderful speed that characterized his eaily racing by running a mile in 138 with 125 pounds up and beating his younger opponents with ease easeJohn John Sanfords colors were in front in the closing race his good looking Chuctannnda filly Tuscaloosa easily holding safe the Whitney representative Pigeon Wing which came in for strong support on the part of the oral speculators speculatorsSECOSDBREAKING SECOSDBREAKING CROWD EXPECTED EXPECTEDTodays Todays attendance was of good proportions but another Iiidcjtendence Day crowd is expected tomor ¬ row when the three crack threeyearolds Jack Hare Jr Joliren and War Cloud meet in the Dwyer Stakes the old Brooklyn Derby This race is attracting widespread attention among horsemen and the public alike and it would not at all be sur ¬ prising to see the largest crowd of the year present when the bugle calls these highclass thoroughbreds to the post Frank Robinson will ride the Whitney star Johren as he has In all his previous races while Lyke will pilot Jack Hare Jr and Buxton the Macomber representative War Cloud CloudIt It was announced today that 5070 was realized for the Red Cross last Friday when the dajs receipts were turned over to that worthy fund fundA A R London secretary of the Hamilton track is here for a week He is keeping the Hamilton course in good condition with both harrows and paint At present Mr London is managing the 1rincess Theatre in Toronto TorontoT T P Phelaii who once owned some good jumpers was at the track today He has some young horses on his Canadian farm and expects to buy a few jumpers when the war is over overW W Cotton one of the oldtime trainers has one ton at the front and another enlisting in Septem ¬ ber The one William Cotton now at the front writes that he has been iu three engagements and praises most highly the work of the Red Cross and the Y M C A The second son of Mr Cottons who enlists in September will be twenty years old in that month and was named Eugene Leigh Cotton after the wellknown trainer Eugene Leigh LeighA A trainers tobacco fund has been started at Aqueduct No one is permitted to subscribe except ¬ ing trainers In twenty minutes the fund had run well into the hundreds II G Bedwell heading the list with 50 50William William Garth will race a few horses at Empire City the others going to Saratoga as soon as trans ¬ portation can l e procured procuredManager Manager Matt Winn returned from Laurel today and reports everything in good shape there Nearly all tl e soldiers are away from the track and the few daysForfeits remaining will leave in a feiv days Forfeits amounting to ltiiO were paid on Sea Pirate before he started in todays race raceThe The bad race of Air Man yesterday in which he finished last in a three horse nice is being investi ¬ gated by the stewards of the meeting
