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SMALL FIELDS AT BELMONT Milkmaid Forced to Make a Track Record to Win. Yung Ching Defeats the Speedy-La Rablee and Hoodwink Ticacey Takes a Race. NEW TO UK, N. Y., September 3. Delightful racing weather brought out a good crowd at Bel-mout Park this afternoon to see a mediocre program of races decided. The fields were small and had little in the way of good class horses contesting, barring the feature of the day, the Great Neck Handicap, in which four good racers faced the barrier, with J. K. L. Ross Milkmaid ruling the favorite around 6 to 5 and less. Milkmaid won in a driving- finish with Fair Gain and set a new mark for "one mile and a sixteenth, 1:43, at Belmont Park. In the running Debadou, which was the medium of quite a plunge, set a sizzling pace and held to Iiis task until far in the stretch, where Milkmaid, on the outside. Fair Gain and Donnacona all passed him. The three fought it out through the last fifty yards. Milkmaid getting up in the last strides to beat Fair Gain by a head, with Donnacona only a half length back and Debadou close up. For the third time the public choice finished second when Liola defeated Tan II., favorite, in n driving finisii in the third race. Lottery, which had riiped last most of the way, showed a good performance in finishing third. Liola was in front all the way. Tan II. was hard ridden all through the .stretch; but could never get up.- Sea. Queen showed a dasli of early speed, but quit badly. The old more Favour, which had quite a following, showed little speed and finished last. A promising maiden lost its allowance when J. E. Wldehers Engllah-bred Yung Citing took the measure of the hot favorite, La Rablee, and the speedy Hoodwink in the second race. He had shown speed in his single race at Saratoga and in a gamely contested finish had the best of La Rablee by a half length, witli Hoodwink a close-up third. George D. Wideners Royal Duck, which finished fourth, ran well enough to suggest an early win. The fifth race was invested with a tinge of interest from the fact that it was won by a horse bred by the former Missouri breeder Harney Schrei-ber. The starters were about as bad as bad race horses can be, but somebody knew Ticacey was best and he went to the post an odds-on favorite and, to show no mistake was made, won by seven lengths from Alors. Eight carloads of horses arrived at Belmont Park yesterday from Saratoga. It is expected that the fields will be larger for the remainder of the meeting. The stables of S. Louis and M. J. Murphy were sent direct from Saratoga to Havre de Grace. Ed Trotter, trainer for the Florisant Stable, has changed his mind about retiring his horses in the East and has shipped his stable from Saratoga buck to Kentucky for the fall campaign.
