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MELROSE STAKES TO VALOR Veteran of Many Hard-Fought Turf Battles Wins All the Way. Dry Moon, Cydonia and Copper Demon Race Well and Successfully. NEW YORK, N. Y., ."July 12. The raring piece at Empire City Tuesday afternoon was the modest Melrose Selling Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth and worth ,1.85 to the winner. Of the eleven named six inoderntes were declared and the five best lefr. Anions them was old Valor, mwh of a personal friend to Sam Ilildreth, the clever Kan-cocas Stable trainer. Valor was an overwhelming favorite for the Melrose, as was right and proper. His, racing deeds selected him. Only good fast handicappers have racing business with the chestnut veteran of many a hard-fought turf battle. Valor had Sonde up, went about the task set him in his favorite front way, always held his opponents safe and won In businesslike style and a hand drive to keep him going by a big length. Sweep Clean early and Lunetta late took turns at chasing Valor without avail and had a smart stretch brusbup for second place, which Lunetta won by a head. The selling race dispute between Ilildreth and Sam Louis and company was renewed and it cost Ilildreth. ,905 to keep old Valor in his stable. He had been entered for a fair price ,000 carried 110 pounds, which was all he should have carried, and the race vas more of a "punitive than a reasonable one. But selling races are for horses winning them to be sold and the glance of reason for the causes of prices after sitch events are often out of range.. The opening Foam purse for second class two-year-old fillies of the selling division at five-eighths brought out nine and the right one won. It was H. I. Whitneys Sailing Along, by Pennant Enchanting. She had speed, but didnt stay on after the use master Coltiletti subjected her to in the early stalling off of Hyperbole and Maggie Murphy. The early lead came in bandy, for after Sailing Along had settled with them, John Maddens Tulwar came along with a stout challenge and the mariner had to do her prettiest sailing and spread all her racing canvas to get home first from Tulwar, which was driving hard to catch the Whitney filly and beat Maggie Murphy, which didnt liare the best of fortune nevt the inside rail. Hyperbole, much fancied by the oil miners of the Spnth, had no excuses. She had a clear path, but couldnt keep dp or get to the leaders at the end. SUNNY HILL AFTER HARD BATTLE. Eleven aged and decrepit selling platers fought out the Riverside purse, at a mile and seventy yards. Fourteen had chosen it as their proper racng spot. Five reconsidered and the right favorite was chosen among the leavings Old Sunny Hill. He had a hard time of it. but got home first by a head after a strenuous half-mile battle with the outsider. Episode, which has been running fast enough this hot summer to keep himself warm. Sun Rose was backed sharply and, off with a rush, came fast for a half mile, then lie was done, and as he faded into the rear Episode, Gloomy Gus and Sunny Hill came to the fray. The bookmaker namesake runs to his name in these days of ours, and soon left the argument to Episode and the favorite. They fought it out tTirough the stretch and in the last few strides, though Sunny Hill was bearing out. Fator drove him hard and managed to get his head first past the winning post. Gloomy Gus was a poor and pondering third. The finish was better than the cattle contending. Salute had a wide time of it on the outside all the way. Frederick the Great was closing fast at the end and will be ready soon among his own kind. He is another relic of old decency like Paddys ancient top hat on St. Patricks Day. . A good band of three-year-olds played the third racing tune, the ,200 Mahopac Handicap, over the Empire Futurity short three-quarters of a mile course. Six of the eleven entries were declared. Smoke Screen, Dry Moon, Last Straw, Vice Regal and Chateau Thierry stayed. Smoke Screen was the favorite, as a matter of coarse, and smartly backed all about. Recent racing must have dulled his speed. He did not have it with him at any rate, for after lie had followed Vice Hcgal at none too smart a pace to the stretch and hung on with the Redstone colt and Last Straw for a faster furlong more he fell away and it looked as if the well-backed Vice Regal -would score. Rut then Miller made his serious move with Dry Moon a filie and fast colt, a credit to .Tack Gnldshorough in this years racing and Olanihalas sturdy son wore the leaders down and won in a hand canter by two lengths from Vice Regal, he nearly clear of Chateau Thierry, which made- up a lot of ground in the stretch and was running fastest of all at the finish. Smoke Screen was eased after being in close quarters, though beaten, in the last sixteenth. PICTURE COLT CYDONIAS FINE RACE. A big field of thirteen came out for the maiden two-year-old selling Prospect Purse, at five-eighths. There had been twenty-one entries, but the evaders were all without prowess and were well out of the way. Frank Taylors picture colt Cydonia, by Peter Quince All Spice, had only raced once. He was fancied then and ran respectably in respectable coui-pauy. Cydonia and his stable companion. Chuckle, were made stout favorites. The market was ruled by Cydonia, though. Cydonia had Miller up, is a fust beginner, drew away decisively from tiie mis-made Sun Stefano and Grass Tree on the turn and eunie home like a race horse of the future to win us be chose by a wide margin aud under restraint. Grass Tree hung on gamely, and though busier at the end was almost as far in front of the fast closing Hillsdale, which, off slowly, wove his way through the big field and outlasted the rapid Mad Nell by a mere bead for third place. Sweepy, from the Xalapa Farm barn, was stoutly backed. He is overdue. Here Sweepy1 had fortune. He broke .Continued on eighth pace. MELROSE STAKES TO VALOR Continued from first page. slowly and was not perserved with, as is right and proper in such cases. It cost Mr. Taylor ,705 to remain Cydonias owner. The colt was entered at ,500 and hid in for .,105 by G. W. Coburn and .Sam Louis. James Fitzsimmons Copper Demon is getting to be known as a handy tool among less than the first grade of handicappers. He was in with Lord Brighton. Genie W. and Houyhiihnm for the conditional Van Cortlandt at a mile. Copper Demon was stoutly backed and made favorite. Lord Brighton was not overlooked, though he likes good oats better than a mile of fast racing under a lot of weight. Lord Brighton had up 125 pounds and Sande. They went to tlie front early in the action and stayed in front under sharp pressure for more than seven of the eight furlongs. Copper Demon tried to cateh and beat Lord Brighton on the turn to the stretch, but was blocked and taken by master Mooney to the outside, where the wayt was clearer. Gradually the Demon got the tiring and well -weighted Lord Brighton, and bold, hard driving bid at the very last pinch landed him safely iu the winning place by a long neck, ienie W., which helped to hurry Lord Brighton on early iu the race, was third, two lengths away and doing her best. Iloiiybnhnm ran as be is named villainously. Racing names should not mix up with fantastic literature. There are enough simple monikers, in books to go all the way around. The racing of the afternoon was good to see and five favorites were polite enough to do their duty. Oidy Smoke Screen misbehaved. Miller, rode two of the winners Dry Moon and Cydonin alertly and well. The weather was far better than it has been. The air was hot, but lne of the rare things a summer breeze at Yonkers tempered its glare. A crowd of some 1,000 folks were at the course. Francis O. Bishop, who formerly was interested in th Xewcastlc Stable with Andrew Miller and Tom Welch, came over from Mount Kisco with G if ford A. Cochran to see Smoke Screen run. The surplus in the run-up of Valor and Cydonia will result in the addition of .,510 to the purses of Thursday. R. W. Walden returned from Middleburg, where be visited following the shipment of the Morris and Walden stable from Latonia to Empire City. Starter Cassidy suspended Everett Haynes five days for disobedience at the post in the first race. J. V. Byrne, who owns Arrowhead, was summoned by the stewards in connection with display of temper by the gelding on Monday. While the officials do not wish to work a hardship on Mr. Byrne by barring the entry of the horse with prejudice . to other associations, his entry will not be accopted at Empire City until some assurance is given that he will not further endanger the lives of other actors in the sport by diving for the gate near the sixteenth post, as he did Monday. As a corrective measure he will not be led through that gate iu future.
