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OFF DAY AT BELMONT PARK No Stake Races on the Card Affects Attendance. Debadou Defeats Some Star Handicap Horses in Fast Time Faunus a Good Stayer. BELMONT PARK, N. Y., September 7: The , program at Belmont Park tliis afternoon was practically devoid of any outstanding racing feature and tlie metropolitan crowd of racegoers was unusu ally small. A purse race at one mile in which some good handicap horses started served as the headliner, in the absence of any stake race. Another upset came in the race. Debadou, which was well backed around six to one, led all the way and won without trouble in fast time. Star Master was the favorite, but the best he could do was third, the second choice Fair Gain running to second place. Only three started in the third race, a selling purse for two-year-olds at seven-eighths of a mile over the main course. It was the first time this year two-year-olds have been asked to go that far. The winner turned up in Faunus, one of the New York Breeding Bureaus products, which just lasted to defeat Gipsy Lad by a slight margin. The trio were all well considered and about equally backed. Silence mad the pace to the head of tlie stretch, where lie was displaced by Faunus. Gipsy Lad made a threatening challenge near the finish and just failed to set up. The winner was bid up and seureJbjg,evedgwick tablefor It. T. "Wilsons Light Fantastic Showed tlie way to hnlf a dozen maiden fillies in the second race. Dewey Eve, flying the colors of E. W. Simins, was an odds-on choice, but tlie best she could do was second, finishing a length and a half back of the winner. The victory of Light Fantastic seemed to be n popular one, for she was warmly greeted when jockey Elisor returned to the stand. The Wilson filly got off in front and stayed there all the way. Tlie public choices. The Nephew and Ablaze, ran first and second in tlie opening dash, a selling race nt three-quarters over the main course. Tlie Nephew got off in front and never released the lead the entire way, winning by two lengths. Ablaze was always his closest attendant. Sammy Kelly was the medium of good backing, but lie ran a dull race. Turf ran well and took third money. S. C. Hildreth lost the yearling brother to Hour-less yesterday morning. The colt was jogging on the Belmont coijrso when he broke his shoulder and hud to, be destroyed. The Islip stable claimed Raleo from the Kcds-wick stable out of the third race Monday for hB1,105. Edward "Snapper" Garrison, who trains for Mohtfort Jones and lias been confined in a hospital for tlie last month, lias improved sufficient to go to his heme at Sheepshead Bay. H. G. Bedwell, trainer for Commander .T. K. L. Ross, announced yesterday lie would start Ilildur and Star Voter in tlie Futurity. James OBrien and Joseph Duff were visitors from Scranton, Pa., and will be here for the remainder of the racing on the Metropolitan tracks. Exodus and Broom Spun, two II. P. Whitney eligible to tlie Futurity, were worked three-quarters of a mile during the afternoon in 1:14 tf.. S. C. Hildreth worked Cirrus a .mile over tlie main course in his preparation for the Jockey Club Stakes, to be run next Saturday. Cirrus covered the mile in 1:38.
