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S FINE RACING Thrilling Finishes in Luke Black ¬ burn and Borrow Handicaps Rockaway Selling Stakes Easy for Valor Calamity Jane Hard Pressed NEW YORK X Y June 21 There were two dazzling finishes in Tuesday afternoons Aqueduct racing Botli were in races in which the best horses performed performedDry Dry Moon and Banksia had a thrilling finish for the Luke Blackburn sprinting handicap prize and in the Borrow Handicap at a mile for aristocratic selling platers elderly Royce Rools youthful Cimarron and the gettingoninyears Sundial II furnished as pretty a bit of racing contention as has been seen on the suburban courses this year yearBoth Both handicaps were named for racing horses of the past The Luke Blackburn race was for three olds at six fand a half furlongs Dry Moon Bank ¬ sia and Qiiecreek all high of rank were the best trio All were supported Quecreek but mildly He is not quite ready yet The speed was sharp throughout with Banksia and Dry Moon alternating in front the quarter in 23 and half in 47 Here the pair was lapped Miller drove Dry Moon to the front as they stihightened out Under Ken ¬ nedys call Banksia responded and for threeeighths it was a keen horse race raceBelow Below the eighth post Dry Moon seemed to be easily winning but the beautiful Cochran filly camo again along the inside rails and renewed the strug ¬ gle She was in too close quarters the pair were closely side by side to be ridden to the best ad ¬ vantage This hampered Kennedys riding effort and Dry Moon hard driven managed to be first by a nose Kennedys claim of foul was not allowed The best horse did not win winHOYCE HOYCE EOOLS AT HIS BEST BESTThe The Borrow Handicap was at a mile it gatherol n good band Royce Rools and Ralco were equal favorites Fight promoter Gibson owns the mis ¬ spelled motor car named horse He had been well placed for keen speculative business and got it Kennedy without luck on Banksia got a better break here Keogh was on Ralco They had been a winning nair Romany had support He is still overdue Cimarron too was backed The western sprinter Courtship and Tom McTapgart Sundial II and Jock Scot were in the field Courtship tried to run away from the field He went to the front at once and stayed there for seveneighths in 121 Ralco coming through on the thick end of the eggshaped course was blocked by Sundial II and Jock Scot thrown off her long stride and eliminated At the eighth post there was a racing line across the course witli Courtship caught and wabbling Cimarron and Sundial II seemed to be winning Royce Rools was coming though nearly three lengths back He seemed to be running hi own race and slipping through the gap Courtship left raced to the inside rail and with a dazzling burst of speed got to his horses and going half as fast again almost as Cimarron and Sundial II won in the last few strides by a short neck Sundial II rather tired in the finish fray and was nearly Cimarrons length behind Major Cochrans nice filly Courtship lasted to be fourth a length away It was a wonderfully spectacular finish and the stands rang wjth the approval of their occupants occupantsIt It wns a flint race too the fractions were in 23 23 25 26 Kennedy was lucky to get througn and win Royce Rools seemed to enjoy the battle and to run with the spirit of what is known as class the ability to do great things when diffi ¬ culties are in the way wayANOTHER ANOTHER STAKE FOR S C HILDRETH HILDRETHThe The valuable race of the day was modest in its equine material It was the Rockaway Selling Stakes at threequarters of a mile and wortli 2325 Sam Hildreth is in a stake mood In these days of high values and prices So he sent old Valor and Sande to gather some present expenses They surceeded Valor was stoutly backed to beat Fort Churchill the Whitney gelding Wellfinder with ¬ out manners or ability Beckna Vibrate and other moderate selling platers Sunde kept Valor on the outside in safety while Vibrate and Fort Chur ¬ chill flirted with the lead in an uncertain way Once in the straight Valor came on in a way to warrant his racing name ran over the leaders and won in a canter by nearly three lengths The pace here was fast also the quarter in 23 and half in 47 The erratic Crystal Ford turned his fancy toward speed during the journey and finished lIKe u Hon He beat Beckna for second place which Beckna had seemed to have settled iito Vibrate faded away to be last and she and Wallfinder gos ¬ siped about the folly of hot summer afternoon racing when other fields were lush with grass and whips out of the way wayThere There were three other races of fair interest Frank Fogarty overdue but financially persevered with tried again in the first race acclaimed for turf toughs at a mile He was backed again too This final time his fifth Frank Fogarty didnt fail Master Mooney got the Wrack colt fast and in front and he ran away from his company and won by eight lengths the mile in 140 with Tom Welchs new flyer Smarty next and the good thing Sandy McNaughtons LEclair third One coterie backed LEclair another fancied Smarty Clarence Kummer can ride better than he did ou LEclair LEclairThe The usual steeplechase fell to The Trout backed heavily at too short a price for such business He was declared the winner If The Trout won it was by a pug nose All the callers and handicap ob ¬ servers made Lochiel II as a short head winner Loehiel II ran a busy race and fenced well The Trout was duller of speed and spring than usual Beck and Franklin didnt agree and parted Levia ¬ than again protested against the folly of cross ¬ country racing and left the premises in which things are held heldH H P Whitneys Calamity Jane had to be u good and game youngster to win the closing race at Pojjtjnue4 on spcqnd page AQUEDUCTS FINE RACING Continued on second page four and a half furlongs from the elbow chute for twoyciarold fillies Wishbone drew into an open lead from the elbow but Calamity Jane under hard urging by Coltiletti gradually closed in and out raced her in the closing eighth raid drawing away jit the finish The pair was four lengths in ad ¬ vance of Alice C The other four starters were up the track trackThere There was n fine crowd at the course The air was too hot for comfort though it invited and gathered horse speed speedSixteen Sixteen horses jointly the property of Samuel Ross and Admiral Cary T Grayson left Benning yesterday on their way to Saratoga Included in the number which trainer W P Burch loaded at the Washington course was Gnome the good son of Whisk Br8om II Fairy Sprite which was bred to several mares this spring springWilliam William L Oliver bought from H P Whitney the twoyearolds Dexterous and Palette Both arc by Peter Pah Dexterous is a son of Adriot and Pa ¬ lette a daughter of Paint Brush Dexterous has been gelded Mr Oliver now has only the old campaigner Kewcssa in his stable stableJ J G Wagnon returned from Canada where he went on business for the Pelican Stable StableGood Good Times the fast twoyearold in the J S Cosden barn which pulled up lame in the running of the Keene Memorial is reported improving satis ¬ factorily When cooled out after that race his leg had swollen almost to the size of a mans body bodyTom Tom Welsh representing J D Widener bought Smarty from J S Cosden Monday night The gelding ran in his new owners colors in the first race yesterday and Welsh is bemoaning the fact that an intended claim for his new campaigner was short in the amount Of its inclosure He bought Smarty for 00 Ed Kaufniaun deposited a claim of 1800 for him but that was not enough under the conditions of the race and Welsh missed a good profit profitThe The first horse trade of the year occurred yester ¬ day H P Whitney turned over Exodus to the Greentree Stable in exchange for Touch Me Not NotG G E Hall has decided not to send Top Sergeant to Hamilton to run in the Derby This had been his intention but in the stake books of the meeting the name of this horse was omitted from the eligibles for the race and before the tangle was straightened it was too late to ship to Hamilton as the Derby will be run on Friday FridayTony Tony De Napolis of New Orleans is an arrival and will remain over until the Dempsey fight fightR R T McKeever claimed LEcIair from the For ¬ eign Stable for 3010 3010Fred Fred Taral representing the Riviera Stable sold Georgie to the Redstone Stable He claimed the colt from the Redstone Stable recently and won a race with him himT T Marino shipped his horses to Hamilton J D Mooney accompanied the stable stableL L Franklin who was thrown from Reck in the steeplechase was quite badly shaken up but re ¬ quired no attention beyond that which could be given in the emergency hospital oil the grounds groundsCommander Commander J K L Ross arrived from Montreal to spend two days in New York
