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DULL DAY AT EMPIRE CITY r i Purchases Fine Race the Only Enlivening Feature. ! : Carries 140 Pounds to Fast and Easy Victory .Three Favorites Score. ! NEW YORK. X. Y.. July 25. Empire City had a dull Monday afternoons racing. Only the overnight Rronxville Handicap threw miy light 011 its action. In the Bronxvillo against Dry Moon. Dimmesdale, St. Allan ami War Note, the Rancoeas smasher. Purchase, wis entered. lie liail 140 pounds up, five more than on the occasion of his appearance last Tuesday. That was his first since his breakdown of 1519. Purchase won the Rronxville less easily than he won last Tuesday, hut still in commanding style. He -was at almost unbackable odds again. 1 to and 1 to 7. New York loves Sam Hildreths picture horse and cheered him going to the post, as lie won, and after he came back to the scales. Purchase ran in bandages behind, as he had before, and won with plenty in reserve, and in the fast time made at the present Empire City meeting, 1:0Stt., for the short three-quarters of a mile, which was the Bronx-villes distance. The unofficial quarters in 22!f,, and the last section of the 3S5 yards in 214,h seconds. This was fine even speed. Purchase was hurried a bit at the end of the Bronxville because Dry Moon was busy behind him trying to make some impression on his lead, and not inclined to take a decided no for an answer. Sande rude Purchase with a pair of cowboy spurs, merely for use in an emergency, it may be surmised. There wasnt much to the race except the massively fine way in which the great horse under great weight won it. War Note and Dry Moon were off in front. Purchase was a bit out of temper at the barrier. lie, like other good fine race horses, is not intensely friendly witli racing tools. They mean stress, leg and heart strain, spur pricks and sundry annoyances. Purchase broke well out of hand, raced over War Note easily and early and went on about his business to win mildly ridden to keep him in mind to the end, where he was one and ti half lengths before the hard driven Dry Moon, which was two more lengths in front of the stoutly closing Dimmesdale. Purchase pulled up perfectly sound and seemed to enjoy the attention and applause given him. Litcullitc was entered in the race, but did not go. not because lie is imperfect of condition, as reported, but because he wasnt needed. Later on Lucullitc will show some of his old quality. . CALLAHANS HIDE HELPS BEVERLY BELLE. Beverly Belle, of recent scandal and tricky dealing and a bit of class, won the opening race for 1 lit? Park III1I, for two-year-olds, at five and a half furlongs, uuder selling conditions. She won in rather easy fashion under Callahans good ride. The. Uncle filly was far the best and was keenly matketed. She broke in front, was restrained behind the rapid Fifty Fifty, drew level on a sharp whip flicking call up the stretch, and came away from Fifty Fifty only in the last fifty yards. There was smart pace early in the race, the first quarter being run in 22"7f.. Lady Delhi couldnt keep up, hut closed some ground under the whip at the inside rails in the last quarter and was third, just clear of Duncecap. Of the nine starters five were well considered, the winner perhaps best. Lady Mother ran a dull race and was without speculative notice. Moderate was the correct name for the purse offered for a dozen non-wiuiiers since May 1, at claiming price weights and the short three-quarters of a mile course. It took such a conditional sewer to gather such a band of "little horses" of perplexing form. The westerner, Apple .lack II., which had run one qualifier here, -seemed and was far the best. With Sande up lie was made an odds-ou favorite, but didnt win like one. Apple Jack II. can do better. Only he. Fort Churchill and P.lue J ISolh: were noticed in the market. Apple Jack II.. off In flout, won all the way, but be rather weakened in the last eighth and had to be ridden out to beat Fort Churchill by half an open length, with Blue IScllo third, half a dozen lengths farther away. RESTRAINT PROMISING FILLY. j The Rancoeas colors were successful in the third j race, without name, for two-year-old sellers at five and a half furlongs, when that rather nice Jack Atkin Lotty Darr filly Restraint beat three others, among them the in-and-out Marsdale. which was a heavily backed favorite, as be should have been, and ran a shocking race. Miller was on Marsdale and was busy at all times. Margaret White, off in front and with the advantage of a fast beginning, lasted well into the stretch, with Marsdale seeking to catch her. Fa tor had rated Restraint from the fast pace. Inder pressure she got to the leaders on Hie turn and Marsdale was done. Restraint and Margaret White had a sharp set-to to the finish. Roth were ridden out, but Restraint was best and in the last fifty yards drew away and nearly clear of Margaret White. Plurality beat the favorite home. Diatli. hard at it for eight years, and thirteen other platers of low degree and all sorts of ages, met in the mile and a sixteenth Greenwich, the conditions of the barred racing quality. Some of these days, if the tribe increases, benevolent racing associations may be induced in the interest of feed men to give purses for the four last sort of racing socialism. Only one of the fifteen entries LKn-joluttr -was proud enough to stay away. Of course, the bourse was mere scramble of guesswork. King Agrippa was favored and wisely supported. This wisdom was misdirected about Tan II.. Frederick the Groat. Salute. Mamlalay and Lurk.v Find. Hopeful investments were made. Tan II. to hurrying after the race was at his mercy, won. He bumped his way through the big field inasler Penman never gives up and sent Ponce and Tan II. t hurrying the race was at liU mnrcy. Mttudalay and Salute paced the dreary lot early. Contiiiucil ou second iubc. DULL DAY AT EMPIRE CITY Continued from first page. Then Tan II. caino along, ran over them, and had he been ridden alertly would have won by three or four lengths. As it was shaken up a bit in fear of the coming Knight of the Heather Tan II.. far the best, was first home by a length, The Knight two more before Salute. King Agrippa wasnt pressed at the end and was out of luck early. Diadi was pinched off into the rear in the stretch and master AAalls and Lucky Find never seemed to reach an understanding about why they were on the course?. Mr. William Shields McLean castoff Simple Simon isnt as simple as his name. He has been showing racing ability of no mean order and bad used it six times without- much success. Monday was his day. He grew wise under support and a black riding beginner by the name of Ilinton and won the Sweet Memory significant name for two-year-olds, under maiden riders, over the five and a half furlongs course. Sailing Along and Kirtle were in among the eight starters. Of course, they were the choices. But Hiuton and Simple Simon had no fear. They got off flying, led all the way, and with a bit of mild riding exertion near the finish, Simple Simon met the winning pieman of a post and lasted his wares with one length of himself and one-half of anpthor length of himself as payment. Kirtle was second and AAreekless third. Sailing Along ran out at the head of the stretch when she was .moving into second place. Black Master Ilinton, in Shields red, yellow, black and white, was a most picturesque party, but he rode the Lough Foyle gelding right competently. . Handsome is as handsome does. Outside of the Purchase performance Yonkers racing day was drab, flat and generally unprofitable. All courses have such days. The going was fast and safe and air and glare as : hot as hades and almost as dry as the resort for the thirsty. The usual Monday regulars were in , the ranks, the alignment or which was rather saw-toothed. . Unncocas horses won two races and three favorites ; behaved themselves. But one was in a sort of divided house, Purchase was out of ordinary reach, I and others were too shabby for decisive action. Sande only rode more than one winner. T. J. Pendergast, owner of the two-year-old Lord 1 Allen, is an arrival from his home in Kansas City. AVilliam P. Biggs, of the Maryland Jockey Club, . viewed the racing from the stewards stand. Fred Behbergcr spent a busy afternoon in the ! secretary! office arranging details of the coming : Saratoga meeting. He will leave on Friday to assume - his duties in the secretarys office at the Spa. . J. J. Hertz claimed the two-year-old Fifty Fifty from 11. Peunsniith for .,500.
