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GREY LAG MEETS DEFEAT fc 7 :. i, , Touch Me Not His Conqueror in Rich Lawrence Realization.. i ! t i Sensational Finish in Nursery Handicap With Snob II. the Winner in Last Stride. i NEW YORK, N. Y., September 3. Grey Lag. sparkling son of Star Shoot, lost his crown as champion three-year-old in the running of the Lawrence Realization this afternoon at Belmont Park. The Greentree Stables Celt colt Touch Me; Not dominated the running almost from the start and Fators best effort3 on Grey Lag were not enough to overcome him. Touch Me Not led the Rancocas Stable starter by a length and a cptarter at the finish, with II. C. Fishers Sporting Blood five lengths behind. The race was over the mile and five-eighths distance and paid 7,850 to the winner. Touch Me Not overtook the early leader Smoke Screen going to the first turn and was held under steady restraint thereafter. He drew away at the entrance to the stretcli and still under restraint withstood Grey Lags mild challenge. Grey Lag, unbeaten in his last eight starts, went to the post an odds-on favorite. Fa tor held him uuder steady restraint through the first mile and when he loosened his hold on the far turn Grey Lag moved up to the leader with apparent ease. His supporters in- the stands shouted encouragement as the pair of leaders came rushing through the stretcli. but tiie colt was not equal to,fhe effort demanded of .bjnivS Grey Lag had no excuses in the running. He carried the same weight as Touch Me Not and Sporting Blood and only four pounds more than the outsider. Smoke Screen. The Lawrence Realization was Grey Lags first race since he was Injured in the stirring duel with RInck Servant at Devonshire, when he won the 0,000 International. Sporting Blood ran a steady race, but the Fisher representative appeared a little out of his class. He could not improve his position at any time. BREEDERS GET SHARE OF STAKE. The nominators of the first three horses, under the conditions of the Realization, shared in the distribution of the purse. Lawrence Waterbury, who named Touch Me Not, received .00; John E. Madden, who nominated Grey Lag, 00, and August Belmont, who entered Sporting Blood. .00. Seven two-year-olds faced the starter in the Nursery Handicap, which was run for the fifty-second time this afternoon. H. P. Whitneys Brainstorm was an added starter. The race developed into a three-cornered struggle between Snob II., June Grass and Sedge. Snob II., carrying the John Sanford colors, came through the stretch under a hard drive, wore June Grass down in the last few strides and won by a short head. Sedge was only a neck behind in third place. Snob II. was kept well up from the start and came up with a startling reserve of speed when Robinson called upon him in the stretch run. June Grass had slipped through next to the inner rail at the turn and. driving vigorously, took the lead in the last .eighth, but could not withstand the strong challenge of the winner. Sedge got away in the van and drew clear rounding the turn, but he gave Penman a severe argument before allowing himself to be straightened out in the stretch. He kept trying to bear out and tired. The Rancocas Stables William A., carrying to.p weight of 128 pounds, was the receding favorite. He failed to figure in the race at any time and finished next to last, the added starter. Brainstorm, trailing in the rear. A good Saturday crowd turned out for the second days racing at Belmont Park. The weather was as hot and humid as yesterday when the horses paraded for the first race, but a few light clouds floating about in the blue gave a hint of rain to follow. By the time the bugle blew for the fifth race the sky was completely overcast and the dash was run in semi -darkness. The horses had scarcely returned to. the judges stand after the running when the storm broke with a heavy downimur. A layer of light slop covered the track wheu the last race was called. ARROW OF GOLDS FAST RACE. The first race, a dasii for three-year-olds and over at three-quarters of a mile under selling conditions, resulted in a stirring finish between Arrow of Gold and Charlie Summy. The favorite, Cum Stih, coupled with W. T. Grives, secured third place. R. Penn Smiths filly Arrow of Gold, well handled by master Ponce, got up after a stirring stretch drive and gained the judicial decision by a neck. Butwell made too much use of old Charlie Summy in rushing him around the turn and racing Ilolo into defeat. Cum Sail started well, but was slow in finding his racing legs and was far out of contention before the field had traveled the ficst quarter of a mile. Fator got him going, however, after they were straightened out in the stretch and finished with a cyclonic rush, getting up for the short end of the purse in the last strides. With the oncoming storm hesitating in the near distance, seven platers paraded for the fifth race, a claiming affair for three-year-olds and over at one mile. Pansy found herself in a jam at the start, but under a careful ride by Mooncy, she managed to extricate herself from the tangle and improve her position steadily. She took the lead in the stretcli from the fast tiring Iloiihynhnm and drew away into a five lengths lead. Phularis was third. No sooner had the horses returned to. the Judges stand after the fiftli nice than a terrific storm of wind and rain broke with full force upon the course. The track was quickly converted into a sea of mud and the eight starters for the stxtli race found the going slippery. It was another of those unpopular five-eighth affairs over the straight course, for two-year-old maidens. The favorite Fanfare managed to finish second, led to the wjre by a scant half length by Oolong. Irish Confetti, well fancied by his connections, could never ijet into better than third place.
