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ON WATCH IN GREAT FORM Wins the Bayview Handicap from Cirrus in Track Record Time. i Capt. Alcock Runs Another Fast Mile: Sea Mint Defeats Sennings Park. . NEW YORK, X. Y., September 22. G. W. Lofts On Watch loomed up today as a dangerons contender for the Latonia Championship Stakes when lie rushed to the front at the rise of the barrier in the Bayyiew Handicnp, at one mile, and a sixteenth, the feature of the Aqueduct card, and held sway throughout, defeating Cirrus, tin odds-on favorite, by three lengths. Also On Wntcli broke the track" record for the distance by one-fifth of a second". It was made by Exterminator on June 29 of this year and stood at 1:44. Cirrus was under restraint in the early running, but when Ensor called on the Hildreth colt in the streteh he was easily held safe, although he easily; took second place from Damask. Fair Gain, which had endeavored to head the leaders at a time, was a tired last. The talent had it right again in the third race, when it selected Great Gull, after Frederick the Great had been withdrawn. The Bryn Mawr gelding, after being restrained -In the early running, came fast, when straightened out in the stretch and won by three lengths, going away. Tarascon was the early pacemaker, but he tired badly when the real racing began. Lottery showed a good performance, when he came -with a, rush in the last fifty yards and beat Anrum by a length for second money. Jockey Ensors skill again brought a winner in the Glorifier, a high-weight handicap, when he landed Sea Mint the winner, a length in front of the favorite Sennings Park. The latter was off slowly and his effort to get to a contending position told on him. He seemed the winner fifty yards out, but tired near the end and just saved second place from Major Parke, which was running fnstest of all at the finish. Major Parke ran probably the best race of all, for he was the victim of interference at several times in the race. Due to another energetic ride on the part of Ensor, Light Fantastic got up in the last strides to defeat the favorite Silence in the opening dash, n race for two-year-olds at five-eighths of a mile. Episode came from far back to take third money. Itoss It., one of the highly considered ones, showed a flash of early speed, but tired in the stretch. Wise Dove and Tout Or, coupled as the Widener entry, were prominent in the early running. Captain Alcock demonstrated conclusively that his recent surprisingly good race was no fluke by taking up 115 pounds in the fiftli race of the day and running its mile in the good time of 1:37, defeating such useful racers as Sweet Music, La Itablee, Whisk and Yung Ching with great ease. John B, Madden considered Captain Alcock highly promising when he brought him East as a two-year-old and his opinion seems to be vindicated by tills slowly developing young horse. He may be capable of better things shortly. Episode, owned by J. A. Coburn, was claimed out of the first race for ,500 by J. Byer. Silence was claimed out of the same race for ,265 by G; "W. Atkinson.
