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YELLOW HAND BY INCHES Wins Empire City Handicap After Thrilling Duel with Audacious. California-Bred and Unbeaten Colt Morvich Scores His Fifth Straight Win. NEW YORK. X. Y July 9. Tim Empire City course :it Yonkers isnt :i fust one. It was built for trotters uikI has some queerncsses of conforma-iitiun as to turns and soil which makes sane unit safe racing ground. AVhile hard. Empire Citys clayey soil is not as elastic as that of tin; Lous Island courses, and when it is muddy Empire City is a slough of despond. It is at its best on these muggy days. :ud tin; harrow and recent humidity have given it a cushion that breaks the jar of busy horse speed. This was shown in Saturday afternoons race for the .0110 Umpire City Handicap at a mile and an eighth, for in the race Charles A. Stoneham-i Yellow Hand carried 115 pounds and beat a fine baud in hi winning race and ran the distance in 1:."1. This equaled the Empire City track record of Koainer. 12S, made in Jnly, IMS, and that of Dalmatian, 118. of July. 1910. Yellow Hand ran a gallant race and beat a fine aggregation of horses. There were nine named to go. Grey Lag, Royce Rools, Thunderclap he had gone before and Donacouna were declared. That left this fast five, this way weighted: Horse. "Weight. Horse. "Weight. Mad Hatter 132 Audacious 120 Lanius .ll.VTHlazes 114, Yellow Hand 115 All the horses were backed but I-inius. He is all light in all ways but hi; legs quite necessary tools for such work. Of all the backing accorded Yellow Hand had more than his shaiv. He was well bought when Jack Goldsborough laid the It. T. Wilson folks a good price for the English gelding last winter. YELLOW HAND-AUDACIOUS DUEL. The real race was only for Yellow Hand and Audacious. Once past the stand Audacious weight and all. for he is a speed merchant and a front runner of high degree was in the lead and in the lead he stayed, kept busy always to the five-eighths ground by Yellow Hand. The quarter was in 23. fast, the half in 4Sr. the turn impedes a bit the three-quarters in 1:1. the third quarter in 23: the rear stretch is straight and faster and the mile in l:3SVf. the mile Empire record is Hoots 1:38 5s and the mile and an eighth in 1:51 the Empire records equal. Hut this is true discussion, lets to the nice. The pair -vvre together well past the half-mile ground. Tlier.; Miller made his move. It is usually safer in front when your vehicle is going well and you know hes game. Yellow Hand, on call, got to and past Audaciou quickly. Kumuier had hardly called on Audacious yet. Hut rounding for the straight run home he did call. It was too late then. Yellow Hand, outside all the way, raced home with bright courage and, though Kummer drove the big chestnut with nil his power, and Audacious gained on Yellow Hand in the last seventy-five yards. Audacious could never get up and Yellow Hand won a resplendent race, worth going a long days journey to see, by a good head. Mad Hatter never got into the battle. He was away slowly Ik; loves front racing saved ground early at the rails, closed on the leaders a trifle in the fast backstretch quarter and was driven hard as long as a chance seemed possible and yet he could only finish in third place and beaten two ,...ti.i The fractional time of the three miles which now . ..n: m.-ongs Empire Lity record may as well be printed for interesting comparison: Horse. Vy V- i 1 1 1-8 Dalmatian -1 -t" 1:1- 1 1-18 1:51 Koamer I-tVf. -IS 1:12 1:38 1:51 Yellow Hand... 23 4S-, 1:1:! 1:38 Vs 1:51 RIALTO EASY FOE THUNDERCLAP. Of the eight entered in the Rialto Purse Raneo-cas nan two. Thunderclap and urewer. They outclassed the others and were odds-on choices. Despair had been kept away for oth-T action and Recount and Veto were waiting for soft going. Mars Cassidy started the six left. LEclair and Hou-yhulinm bane -f writers seemed rather bashful in "such company as Hildreths colts Dimmcsdale and Thunderstorm. They didnt come because they chose and had a piece of healthy work anyway. The Kialto course was at one of Empires favorite routes a mile and seventy yards. It fits the conformation nicely. Thunderclap won with something to spare. He didnt seem to have his Ixjng Island merrlness of action with him. but off in front, he raced in front and won with authority in 1:15. There was no fast pace. Thunderclap leisurely made his own. Hildreth declared to win with hint. Krewer was second all the way, but had rather a hard time of it to get home a mere head before Dlinmesdale. at which Elisor was busy all the way. The humble ones in the contest were in the shabby rear. . The rather sly Xalapa Farm folks had one of its periodical "good things," which was in the Rree-voort .Selling Handicap over the short three-quarters of a mile sprinting course. It is just 1.2C0 yards long, and seems to be a million to a tired iiorse. There were eleven horses carded. Hildreth jerked out his pair. Dominique and Loid Hrighton the Kancoeas pencil is full or nowaday jokes which ware owners of slow horses. Alexander Hamilton and three others didnt show up. The Kentuckians gave Despair backing which his past and bad temper hardly warranted. Old Cum Sail was the mild public choice. Despair, under the lean and skillful Callahan, won fighting. They had to be a clever pair to turn the trick. Gum Sah. off hi front, and the Xalapa colt were the only figures in the race Cum Sah and Despair hooked up on the turn and Cum Sail held his own. Hut in the long stretch drive youth and handling told for C-illahan outrode Fa I or at the finish and wore Cum Sah down and Despair won by a half length. Hoth were out Continued op ninth yse. ? YELLOW HAND BY INCHES Continued from first page. to the last ounce. Courtship was well supported, but was done at the half mile. Wellfinder coudnt keep up, though he landed a distant third. Sea Cove was slower still. The Callforniun Runnymede Salratrix colt Run-star, reported by his people to be superior to Morvich, which they sold, made his debut in the purse of that name. First of the card, too, at five-eighths, for two-year-olds, it was a debut all around. Runstar didnt race fully to his reputation, but he raced well enough to win. Motcalf was up. He got the fine chestnut colt away fourth to Aknusti, with a reputation and a vile name. Draft and Cloughjordan, half Irish. Runstar and Aknusti were soon in front and the pair had it hot and lieavy. Aknusti was once in front, slipping through on the side rails on the upper turn, where he was improved a bit. Sande gave Aknusti good handling, however, and rode him a rousing finish. Rut the Californian had speed to spare and wore Aknusti down to draw more than clear in the closing strides. Cloughjordan bad a clear path and was closing on Aknusti at the finish. Draft, the stout favorite, had more speed than eiuhmtnoe and ran wide. Sande claimed a foul by Metcalf on the stretch turn. It was not allowed. Runstar -was reported by the work watchers as hardly ready. The report was true. His appearance bore it out. Runstar will run better next time. He was but mildly " supported. Aknustis market was a smart one. So was that over Ultimo, which got away poorly and had an easy race. Elated by the victory of his former stablemate, Morvich, though hes a little jealous about the stories that Runstar can beat him doing anything, showed folks some more of his bright speed in the Spark Hill Purse, for two-year olds, at five and a half furlongs. Thank goodness not out of a chute or other deceptive contraption that causes untrue racing. The New York publie got to like the slippery footed Californian colt and backs him always. He was an odds-on favorite, defeating Sidereal. Missionary and Nose Dive five of the nine entered did not want bis game as if they were mere ponies or head lads and won as be chose, well in Keoghs hands, by nearly three lengths. Sidereal was six as far before Missionary. This makes Tred Uurlews Morvichs fifth race. He cost about ,000. Its the flesh and blood horse, not the one of prices, thats worth while. Mr. Maddens new pupil is going well. His Devastation won again, the Seminole purse for :ilult selling platers at the mile and seventy yards distance falling to that creature in rather easy fashion. He wasnt favorite, either. Old .lock Scot was that mark for moderators to shoot at. Displacing Claquer early .lock Scot led jauntily well into the straight. There Kiimmer, who had saved ground with the rather reserved Devastation, brought him along and in the contention which ensued .lock stopped a bit as if short. Devastation came on to win more easily than he seemed to by a long length. The Empire course drew a great Saturday crowd of 10.000 or 17.000 people. Racing didnt begin until ::i0, fifteen minutes later than the Long Island course schedule. The air was better. There was some little life in it. The Yonkers going was fast enough for good horses to break into speed glows, as Yellow Hand donly two favorites. Thunderclap and Morvich, behaved themselves. , ,. Algernon Daingerfield took in the sport for the first time in about two weeks. He bus been confined to bis home by illness. Starter Mars Cassidy resumed his duties, but not until after the first race. C. J. Fitz Gerald dispatched the field for the opening race. Mr. Cassidy reported that his wife, whose illness called him to Cincinnati earlier in the week, is still quite nick. .1 Carmodv, whose riding was one of the features of the racing a year ago last winter at Havana, accepted his first mount of the year in the opening race.
