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EVEN KN0BB1E A FAILURE Rancocas Stable Horses Seem Under Moody Spell of Weather. Dr. Joe Triumphs in Hindoo Handicap Pen Rose Displays Great Speed in Mud. XEW YORK. X. . July 1. Raneocas owner, trjiiner and rider arc all in the doldrums of tlicse moist and muddy days. The organizations good colt Knobbie. which had begun to be a regular it favorite to win when all others failed was beaten in the Hindoo Handicap at Aqueduct this afternoon. The Hindoo was a three-horse race, at eight and a half furlongs, and attracted only the Rancocas crack, 117 pounds; Captain Alcock, 107 pounds, and Dr. Joe. 05 pounds. Knobbie had a pound over scale weight. Captain Alcock nine pounds off" and Dr. .Toe an allowance of thirty-one pounds. In such going weight is heavy and so nicely had scales been adjusted that the trio were lapped at the end of a fighting finish, witli the choice or the public reserved. Knobbie third. He and Captain Alcock were almost equal favorites. It was the Quincy Stables notion that the one it kept could that way weighted beat the one it had sold. The Quincy notion was right. Captain Alcock was second. Hut both were beaten by Hie old mud warrior Dr. Joe. The doctors legs found mud grateful and encouraging and ran to his best form. When the barrier snapped up he started out to keep Knobbie-busyV Knobbie led gayly and clear to the turn for the straight run home. There the doctor closed. In seeking the good going of the stretch Sande and Knobbie carried Dr. Joe wide. But the old fellow was in a running mood and, sticking to the Rancocas colt under Callahans strong hand riding, wore him down and toDk the lead and held it. Captain Alcock could have won, with better luck, but he was cut off as he closed on the leaders in the stretch. Taken to the side he was running stronger than both Knobbie and Dr. Joe at the finish, where the three were lapped in a spirited battle half lengths apart. The Regret Handicap divided class with the Hindoo as one of the racing pieces of the day. It was for fillies and mares and six seasoned ones came out for its six and a half furlongs. Ien Rose was timorously chosen to win. She had not :i fashionable jockey astride. The lawn figures must have made the old mure laugh. Yeargin took her to the front without delay and she won in surprising time the early quarters being in 23 and 23 and hilariously. Kdwina and Lunetta followed three lengths behind Ien Rose, Kdwinas nose just lie-fore Lilucttus. Kdwina is about ready for better tilings. MOKE RANCOCAS BAD LUCK. The Rancocas Stables bad luck held in another race. It doesnt have much luck nowadays. Its Tom .McTaggart seemed to be in the snug harbor of the third race, a mile seller, ridden by non-winning riders. The public supported Tom. He didnt supiwrt the public. Rancocas gave him no encouragement. The Marshall Brothers from the AVet have got new ideas in Reps head and all riders look alike to him in these days. Rep was a long shot, even after being well backed and, taking the early lead from Jock Scut and Riff Rang, won as he pleased from Tom McTaggart iu Silence. Sea Sinner was looked on as a certainty by the group in control and he was treated as one. The Aqueduct mud didnt suit his fancy or young Turner his back. Sea Sinner never got a nodding acquaintance with the lead and was more than six lengths behind Rep at the close. The green riders performed as if they will be mechanics witli time and experience. The opening race, for maiden two-year-olds at five-eighths out of the chute, had gathered twenty-three entries and fourteen took muddy chances. The Oak Ridge Stables Sea King filly Matches Mary was backed to be favorite and won. She was a good thing and best, though lucky, perhaps, to miss contention from two youngsters which were racing forwatdly and were well backed when Iromenade cut across and blocked Hillsdale and Furious. RUNAWAY FOR COPPER DEMON. The closing race, iit two miles for mild winners and maidens, gave the Quincy Stables Ormoudale wit. Copper Demon, a chance to shew his latest mud running ability. He did it convincingly after getting profitable support. The marine named John Iaul Jones was the favorite ami most stoutly cared for. He was a mere plaything for Copper Demon when master Moouey cut the Quincy troll loose. Top Sergeant and Curfew showed the wcy for more than half the journey. Copper Demon was kept within striking distance, moved up around the big band and, taking the lead far up the stretch, left the others to talk over his sudden passing and won well in hand by ten lengths from Curfew, which saved ground turning into the straight and always held John Iaul Jones safe. Of course the racing results were perplexing, though two favorites. Matches Mary and Ien Rose, won. Tin: general conditions wen- waterlogged, though the noble footing of the Aqueduct course had almost survived the deluge. The going was most uncertain in spots. There were some 3,500 people out. merely for sports sake. In the mob were folks from every corner of the fair land, tilling the gap between their journey and what they had come far to see, the fistic encounter between the best of America and the best of France over on the Jersey side Saturday afternoon. The past performances of the warriors to meet give mathematical figures about this way: Dempsey 1.CO0 , Cnrpentier : 705 W. L. Oliver acquired the two-year-old Whirligig from J. E. Widener. This son of Maintenou Sun Flower bowed a tendon in his last start. Mr. Oliver will send him to his estate at Lakewood to be patched up. Hilly has worked wonders with bad -legged, horses, Kcwcsau being, a case in point. , He recently bought a pair of two-year-olds from II. I. Whitney and intends to build up a stable of young stock to take the place of the superanu-alcd band he recently disposed of. There were only two claiming races on the program, but considerable action developed. P. S. 1. Randolph and J. K. Madden bid upon Rep after lie won the third race. G. A. Marshall protected him with an offering of 53,805, which represented a boost of 05 over the colts entered price. X. L. Byer claimed Tom McTaggart from the Rancocas Stable for 5,000. Fred Taral, representing the Riviera Stable, claimed Matches M.-uy after the filly had got home first in the opening dash. Matches Mary scored the first victory of the year for the Oak Ridge Stable. It was followed in the other two-year-old race with another for the horses trained by Louis Garth when Sherando carried the Oak Ridge silks home in the van. The thirty yearlings bought by James B. Smith and three purchased early in the spring by the Quincy Stable from 11. T. Oxnard, arrived at Belmont Park without mishap. T. J. Harmon in future will train the horses of the Short Grass Stable. The stewards fined L. T. Bauer 10 for running Silence in colors other than his own in the third race. Because of a swelling in one of his legs, caused by the effect of the weather upon an old break, jockey 15. Kennedy canceled bis engugomcnt on Wrecker after riding Phoebus in the first race. Fator substituted for him on Wrecker. Wrecker, by the way, is one of Dr. McCullya wind patients. He was operated upon at the same time as his stablemate. Gladiator. Although Mat Smart has not despaired of making a stceplechas?r of Summer Sigh, he sent the Or-icandalc gelding to the post in the third race for a dash over the flat, hoping to pick up a bit o-f feed money with the prospective fencer while his schooling goes on. Mr. Smart is optimistic over the prospects of Summer Sigh as an accomplished timber topper. A. Hirschberg. who rode the winner .of the maiden jockeys race, is a real lightweight of seventeen years. He is under contract to William Hogan and is a native of Floral Iark. Yesterdays was his second mount. Ho first rode in public astride Thistle Bloom on June 22,
