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ON WATCH IS IN GRAND FORM Wins the Mineola Handicap Under Heavy Weight in a Canter at Jamaica. NEW YORK. X. Y., October 7. G. W. Lofts On Watch qualified as one of the choices for the ,pO! Latonia ChainrA0118!"! Stakes when he shouldered 12S pounds and easily defeated Krewer nnd Sen Mint in the Mineola Handicap, the feature of the days racing program. On Watcli was saved While Krewer and Sea Mint alternated in pace-making until the field straightened in the stretch, then he came on to win by four lengths, pulling up into a canter. The time, 1:45, was within two-fifths of a second of the track record. Mad Hatter won I he same stakes last year under lis pounds in one-fifth of a second slower time. .Tames Fitzsimmons filly Ballet Dancer II. was the medium of heavy hacking in the third race, but thf best the Sweep filly could do was third. She had up mishaps,, for she began in front and was run iito retirement by Sunnyland as the field came around the stretch bend. The latter retained his lead all through the stretch and won with ease by ii .length mid a half. Pastoral Swain also canu fast through the stretch and got up in the closing strides to beat Ballet Dancer II. for second place liy u head. Albert A. was too heavily weighted and never dangerous. Dorcas, held at short odds, proved the winner Of tll.e second race at one mile and seventy yards. Phedodeil led Dorcas to the stretch bend, when the Ildrini mare came on to win by three-quarters of a length, Liola and Alma B., the other two starters, wure badly beaten. Ocean Swell, running in the colors of John San-fordi n fine looking filly bred in France and by the lute W. IC. Vanderbilts sire Sea Sick, tool: the ppenlug dash for maiden two-year-old fillies In n common canter. Ocean Swell had little backing, but led all the way. J. A. Coburn claimed Ocean Swell out of the first race for ,000. J. Morrone bid Dorcas np to ,000 in the second rape, but judge Smith held he was too late with hfr-bid. ; Preston Biirch will sell a half dozen thoroughbreds, , property of John Sanford, in the paddock during the Empire City meeting. Three of them are" yenrllngs. Young Adam, while being galloped at Aqueduct yeffterduy, was accidentally shot in the ribs by a small boy hunting in the infield. One of the bullets deflected on" a rib and the wound was not da,nger-ou.
