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1 ONLY ONE FAVORITE WINS Talent Has Disastrous Day at Empire City-Tom McTaggart Disqualified. NEW YORK. N. Y., October 22. The talent fared badly in its battle with the orallzers at Empire City today, only one favorite out of six getting down to the winning line first. Jockey Ensor was not among the riders present, he having left at noon for Latonia, where he will ride On Watch in the Latonia Championship Stakes today. He was missed, particularly in the second race, for one that he rode the last time out, Ross R., and which won under his handling, proved the biggest upset of the meeting when the Stoneham olt, backed from 1 to 2 to 2 to 7, failed to finish in the money. The winner of this race was Cornelia C, quoted at 30 to 1. Then came the disqualification of the heavily-backed favorite, Tom McTaggart, in the third race. Tom McTaggart finished second to Recount. He was ridden by T. Rowan and, according to the stewards, was guilty of causing Tom McTaggart to swerve into Recount and interfering with Kashmir and Ballet Dancer II. For his action on Tom McTaggart the horse was disqualified and Rowan suspended for the remainder of the meeting. The downfall of the choices started right off the reel. Joan Marie, favorite in the opening dash, failed to show any speed whatever- and was last all the way. Light Rose, flying the colors of J. W. McClelland, for which there was considerable backing, ran Good Bye, another well-considered one, into defeat during the first quarter and came on to win easily by three lengths. In the second Ross R., at prohibitive odds, failed to show any speed and Cornelia C. turned up the winner, with Machine Gunner, the second choice, in second place and Jamaica Belle third. Cornelia C. was. in front all the way and won easily by a length. The West Point Handicap brought out probably the best field of sprinters during the present meeting at the hilltop course. Dunboyne, on report of his trials, was installed the favorite, although S. C. Hildreths Lord Brighton was not neglected. Neither of these racers, however, figured prominently in the result. Daydue was away fast and, followed closely by Fort Churchill, set the pace for the first half mile, when he was overtaken by the latter, which came into the stretch with a comfortable lead. Buxtons riding tactics probably cost Daydue the race. Ralco showed a good performance to be third. B. A. Lane claimed Machine Gunner for ,500 and SI. J. Potter took Ross R. for ,505 after the running of the second race. M. J. Potter entered a claim of ,000 for Tom McTaggart after the Boston Selling Handicap, but as the value of the race was ,020.67, the stewards did not allow the claim. T. Ault was suspended for four days for reckless riding in the final race Thursday. Frank Bruen, general manager of the Cuba-American Jockey Club, who lias been at Empire City for the past two days, left today for Laurel, Md., track. Mr. Bruen reports that he had much success in getting horsemen to ship their charges to Havana for the coming winter meeting. Jack Atkin, who has been at Empire City in the interest of the winter meeting at Tijuana, has dele-1 gated John Thornby to arrange for the shipment of horses to the border track. Thornby said yesterday that he had secured the promise of a number of horsemen to race at Tijuana.
