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NATURALIST IS DEFEATED Lion dOr and On Watch Outstay Him in a Hard Finish. Big Labor Day Crowd Views Some Excellent Racing at Belmont Park. i NEW YORK, N. Y., September 5. Labor Day brought a great crowd to Belmont Park this afternoon to see a Rood program of races decided, tlie features of which were the Autumn Highweight Handicap at three-quarters of n mile over the straight course, the All Amityville Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth over the main course, and the Broadhollow Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles. The J. K. L. Ross entry, Motor Cup and Lion dOr, was a strong public choice for the Autumn Highweight Handicap. The public had it right, for Lion dOr proved the winner in a ding-dong finish with O. W. Lofts On Watch. While the Autumn Highweight Handicap has only been run since 1914, Lion dOr clipped a second off the best previous record for the race, 1:10, held jointly by Comely and narmonicon. Lion dOrs time was 1:09. Naturalist, last years winner of the race, made a game effort, but his -weight, 145 pounds, seemed to slow him a bit at the end, although he only was beaten by a slight margin. Lion dOr carried 134 pounds. Motor Cop was the early pacemaker, but seemed to have run only to help his stable mate and was eased up at the finish. An upset came in the third race, a selling dash at, onomile," 3VhenYeto,. running ii the colors of. Ar ,S. vVoodcliffe, proved an "easy winner at long" odds, with Natural Bridge a well-backed second choice, second, and Ralco, the heavily backed favorite, third. Frederick the Great essayed to make the pace, but he quit badly at the head of the stretch and finished last. On the backstretch Natural Bridge took the lead and appeared the winner when an eighth out, but Veto, which had been running second, challenged and passed the leader, winning by three lengths. Ralco finished a tired horse two lengths back of Natural Bridge. The big holiday crowd started the days proceedings right when Arnold, public choice, took the opening dasli around even money. Arnold led from the start, but had little left at the end when Roynl Duck made a pressing challenge. Nightstick could do no better than third, although the aged Broomstick gelding was the medium of much support. STEEPLECHASE TO SYOSSET. Only three started in the Broadhollow Steeple-chanse Handicap, with Syosset and Square Dealer running as the Greentree Stable entry. The entry was held at one to six and the stable declared to win with Syosset, which it did. Wisest Fool and Square Dealer made the pace, both being close together through the entire route. Wisest Fool tired nt the last obstacle and Square Dealer took the lead on the flat, where Syosset, which had been a follower up to the last two jumps, came fast on the flat and got up in the last few yards to leat Square Dealer by one length. The latter was eased up to allow Syosset to win. Owing to the fourth nice for tomorrow. Tuesday, not filling, the substituted fourth race will be run as the second and the second as the fourth. The attention of horsemen with animals engaged in these races is particularly called to this fact. More liberal conditions have been framed for the military races, which it is hoped will furnish additional sires for the federal government. The first of these will be run on Friday, September 10, with the following provisions: "Military race for three-year-olds and over entire horses, purse ,200, of which 200 to the second and 00 to the third. Three-year-olds to carry 10S pounds, others 115. The U. S. government to have the option for seven days of purchasing the winner for 50. The winner, if not taken by the government, to le ineligible to enter in any race of a similar character. One mile." It Is to be hoped that the changed conditions will induce owners of horses that would be suitable for sire remounts to nominate liberally. Under the provisions now the winner will receive the premium of ,050. The Fasig-Tipton Company will sell several horsss in training in the paddock at Aqueduct Saturday. September 18. Horses from the stables of A. K. Macomber, H. K. Knapp. James W. McClelland. Jefferson Livingston, A. J. Joyner and others will be sold. F. W. Ash was at Belmont Park yesterday soliciting entries for the stakes to be run at the meeting of the Harford Agricultural Breeders meeting at Havre de Grace, which closed yesterday. John Fay of Cincinnati, who in former years made n book on eastern tracks, was a visitor yesterday.
