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. j j , AQUEDUCTS GOOD OPENING rrr Big Crowd Assembles and Is Rewarded With Good Racing. : - r-i , Naturalist Victor in the Arverne Handicap Frigate Wins the Bellerose Stakes. NEAV YORK, N. Y., September 16. Aqueducts opening proved the popularity of that track when a big assemblage came out. The feature races were the Bellerose Selling Stakes for two-year-olds and the Arverne Handicap for three-year-olds and over. AVithdrawals reduced the Bellerose to four starters, with Frigate an odds-on choice. Frigate got off in front and was never headed, winning in a canter by three lengths. Rep was second and Rolo third. Light Fantastic had little support on account of her inexperienced rider. She finished last. Naturalist never left the result of the Arverne Handicap in doubt from the drop of the flag. The Rabelais Nature gelding took the lead at once and, making the pace fast, won all the way. On AVatch, which ran sluggishly for the first half mile, came with great speed into second place. Audacious ran a good race and was third. Panoply showed high speed to the eighth post, and tired quickly. Three accepted in the steeplechase, with Ticket ruling the choice. The Ballot gelding won by eight lengths from Elmer Johnson. Swccpment, which opened a big gap in the early running, lost his rider at the third jump and finished riderless. Elmer Johnson led the first round of the fieldL but He" vvaK"iricl hied -to- run out for h. remainder of the race, although the winner did not fence impressively. Young Adam, backed from an opening of 8 down to iy. to 1 by his owner, AV. A. Shea, and his friends, proved the winner of the first race, a dash of a mile for some high-class platers. Young Adam forced the pace -with the favorite Sundial II. and had enough left in the final drive to defeat the Waterbury entry by an open length. The race was at all times between these two. Le Glorieux, a 20-to-l shot, was third. Crystal Ford, highly considered, showed a flash of speed in t.ie stretch, but retired after one effort. Dorcas ran well. Man o AAar was shipped from Belmont Park to Havre de Grace this afternoon. Col. Andrew A7ennie, a prominent stockholder in the Kentucky Jockey Club, was a visitor. Pliiribus is being pointed at the Jamaica track for the Eastern Shore Handicap at Havre de Grace. He is going great guns and the work watchers think well of the OBrien colts chances. Oriole also is being pointed for the Eastern Shore. L. T. Bauer claimed Sundial II. out of the first race for ,603 and AV. C. Clancy took Crystal Ford from the same race for ,550. AV. A. Shea, owner of Young Adam, winner of the opening dash, was on hand to see his horse win. Mr. Shea will soon release the "Babe" Ruth motion picture entitled "Headin Home." He executed several commissions for his friends on Young Adam. Edward "Snapper" Garrison, who was incapacitated by illness during the Saratoga meeting, was out for the first time at Aqueducts opening. He Ecenis to have fully recovered.
