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AQUEDUCT RACING MEDIOCRE Day of Slaughter for Favorites All Six Beaten and Embalmed Sir GraftonTom McTaggart Duel DuelOnly Only Enlivening Feature Captain Alcock Wins NEW YORK N Y June 23 Turf sport at Aqueduct Thursday afternoon was stale of quality intermittently flat of contest and unprofitable of finance There were a few keen incidents mingled with racing mediocrity Smoke Screen broke i sprinting record on n dull track Sir Graf ton over ¬ turned a heavily supported family favorite In Tom McTaggart and Captain Alcock won a good mile race in nn authoritative way waySix Six favorites were beaten and embalmed Two of the six were false ones Superwoman mid Thun ¬ derstorm The other four were outrun or outclassed outclassedThe The best race from the point of spectacle was tlit third at a mile and a sixteenth under claiming price weights A good half dozen overshadowed by Tom McTaggart and Sir Grafton went to the post Tom McTaggart was a HildrethSinclair and Co family plum of the juciest kind He was backed ns if thoroughly ripe and ready though old Sir Grafton had his support too But It was not or great bulk or sharp authority authorityAt At the post Tom McTaggart was a stalwart favorite Sir Grafton beat him in thrilling style Tom McTaggart was well away Sir Grafton was not Sando placed the favorite behind Toucanets speed as he likes to place his horses and when he was ready took Tom McTaggart to the front frontIn In the stretch it looked as if Tom McTaggart would win alone but Sir Grafton seven lengths to the bad on the big bend was closing in a dogged way on the outside Beating the horses in front of him one by one he was ready to tackle Tom Mc Tnggart below the eighth post Sande sensed what was coming and sat down to ride for the money He has never nursed a horse better or hand ridden one more energetically than he nursed and rode Tom McTaggart Gradually however Sir Grafton got to him and in the last ten strides caught and beat Tom McTaggart by a neck He was going three feet to Tom McTaggarts two in the last fifty yards yardsTOM TOM McTAGGARTS LEGS FAIL FAILTom Tom McTaggart was a sprawling weary horse at the finish His repaired legs failel in the fin ¬ ishing strain Saude was as tired as Tom McTag ¬ gart and much disappointed He threw down his whip in chagrin as he came back to weigh in and his woe was added to by a two days suspension for interfering with Devildog on the turn Had Tdin McTaggitrt won he might have been disqualified There was nothing but the Sir GraftonTom Mc ¬ Taggart duel about the race The other four starters were never in real contention Toucanet bled in the race after showing much speed and was pulled up upSmoke Smoke Screens record was made in the second race the Friar Rock Highweight Handicap at six and a half furlongs The six sarters were more or less respectable Youth was served again Major Cochrans well balanced homebred colt Smoke Scrn was a mild second choice with R T Wil ¬ sons erratic Dimmesdale similarly estimated Sea Mint was an uncertain favorite Why only the milkers of such favorites can tell Sea Mint beat the barrier and set a hot pace to the bend where Stnukc Screen got to and headed him to win most easily at the finish in 117 a new Aqueduct record displacing the 118 of Maskette under 122 pounds in 1910 and of l eochares under 124 pounds in 1917 It was a notable bit of speed made without extra exertion in the last eighth eighthUNION UNION STAKES TO WELLFINDER WELLFINDERThe The days stake was the Union Selling Stakes worth 2900 to the winner Its field was not a good one of eight horses of less than high degree Wellfinder has the best reputation and in spots his form was l est Yet the Salmon filly Superwoman was made favorite This was another choice with ¬ out warrant unless propaganda be such Super woman hadnt won this year and Biff Bang and Devildog had chused her home and Flambette Iverian and Joan Marie had beaten her Super woman cut no figure in the Union Selling Stakes race Wellfinder off well was taken to the front at once by the alert and energetic Penman the best of the new riding material of the year and kept there to win In a gallop by two lengths from Two Feathers he a long way before the wellnamed ami diminutive Miss Petite Some twelve lengths behind Wellfinder came Superwoman Wellfinder was well hacked by prudent and wise racing folks It cost the Whitney stable 1505 to keep Well finder within Its walls A B Jordan bid him up from 2500 to 4000 4000Captain Captain Alcock should have been a stout favorite for the fifth race at a mile for nonwinners of 1000 this year Instead Thunderstorm was chosen to beat him Again turf prudence and wis ¬ dom were rewarded II obey Baker and Genie AV wero the Ixst of the other starters Hobey Baker tiwuy fast led his horses most speedily with a first quarter it 23 seconds and a second one in 23 Then the rapidity of his action brought him to rea ¬ sonable spncd and Captain Alcock which came down the courses center fast caught Hobey Baker tiring and beat him home by half a length Genie W coming into action fast herself near the end was third far away awayFred Fred Hurlew is eminent with young horses He had a large and fast roll to his preparatory credit of many years His Light Brigade Magic Lan ¬ tern II colt Irish Brigadier bad owning nomen ¬ clature which had run two respectable races won the opening twoyearold sprint from the chute in fine style He was respected in speculation got off with advantage under Keogh a good rider of twoyearolds just now and beat Bravo and the listlessly ridden John E Maddens Broomflax which met some interference but had no sharp brush of speed In the closing sixteenth sixteenthJ J H Rossctcrs Montaru neglected In the esti ¬ mate of speed even though Sande rode her got away n lie rush from the barrier led throughout and won the sixth race for maiden twoyearolds at fiveeighths The field was twelve strong and the fillies were under special weights Montara won by a length from Carmencita Nancy Shanks third two more lengths back Humanitarian the favorite prominent early was fourth fourthIt It was too hot and hazy for comfort at the course about 12000 folks were out and the going was as dull as it will be until a rain renews its elasticity The two days slaughter of favorites can only be attributed to the calibre of cattle engaged and the dullness of intellectuality incident to the trying weather weatherThere There is a new Arthur Hancock in the breeding field A thoroughbred producer whose name is the same as that of the proprietor of Claiborne Stud with the exception of the omission of the middle initial yesterday registered two yearlings by mail lit the office of the Jockey Club They are Barbed Wire Bill and Bessie K a filly and u colt by Sir Brifliar from Buna and Ada respectively The second Mr Hancock is a resident of Rockford Washington WashingtonJockey Jockey Arthur Collins departed for Latonla to ride W S Kilmers Our Flag in the Ten Broeck Handicap on Saturday SaturdayGeorge George Carroll whose riding license was granted by the Jockey Club at jts recent session will return to action today in the colors of H C Fisher FisherL L T Bauer bought Sundial II from the Shea stable and the Manone Stable purchased Marie Antoinette from William P Ware who claimed the mare from the stable after her race of Wednesday WednesdayS S D Riddle is back in town after a short visit to his farm at Berlin Md MdToucanet Toucanet wliich ran in the colors of S Ross in the third race was bleeding from the nostrils when pulled up upFred Fred Burlew saddled his first winner for the Kil rane Stable in Irish Brigadier BrigadierJockey Jockey B Jelly resumed riding after a long layoff He rode hereabouts before the war for which he enlisted He is under contract to P S P Randolph
