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BELDAME TO MY REVERIE Ultimus Filly Defeats Emotion and Penitent After Grand Race. 5- 1. Stumble at Start Beats Super Lampus and Jockey Fator Are a Winning Combination. f i NEW YORK, N. Y., September 22. Midsummer weather came back to Aqueduct today, but ihe aftermath of Wednesdays deluge left the track soft and brought many scratches. The racing, exclusive of the feature, brought the poorer grade of horses to the post, but stirring finishes and the success of favorites kept the big crowd in good humor. My Reverie, R. J. Browns fast Ultimus filly, which had not displayed her top form in her last few starts, came back into her own in the Beldame Handicap for two-year-olds, at five-eighths of a mile. She defeated a good band of eight fillies, covering the distance in 1:00, a fine performance when the condition of the track is considered. Montfort Jones Emotion was second, a short head behind the winner, nnd Penitent was third. Penitent misbehaved at the barrier and delayed the start. Finally she had to be shifted to the outside post position by the starter. When Penitent had been quieted by Coltiletti the flag dropped and they were off. Wishbone jumped into the lead soon after the start, but she relinquished it to Penitent when the latter challenged. Penitent then took up the running, but she could not withstand the rush of Emotion and My Reverie. My Reverie went to the extreme outside at the turn into the stretch and lost a good bit of ground, but she responded gamely to Turners urging and wore the leader down in the long run down the straightaway. Still on the extreme outside she closed up fast in the last sixteenth and took the lead a few strides from the finish. Mawrcoron, the only thoroughbred besides the unbeaten Morvich which has run in the colors of Benjamin Block, carried his owners orange and jade silks to victory in the first race, a selling dash for two-year-olds at three-quarters mile. Wilson sent the Bryn Mawr colt to the front when the barrier was raised and opened up a big gap rounding the turn. The Block starter went a trifle wide at the turn into the stretch, but his lead was safe and he came to the finish with a margin of two lengths over Commander McMcckiu, with Doughnut third. REGAL I0DGE FURNISHES SURPRISE. Regal Lodge gave the talent a blow in the fifth race, a claiming affair at a mile and a sixteenth. He led Super, coupled with Huonec in odds-on favoritism, by a half length at the finish, with Rep third. Super was the best, but he stumbled at the start and was eight lengths behind the readers going to the turn. Rice gave the Superman gelding a vigorous ride, however, and brought him back into contention by the time the stretch was reached. There Schuttinger, who had sent Regal Lodge to the front on the turn, continued to bear over whenever Super tried to get through to take the lead and Rice had a taste of the same medicine that he administered to Weiner when he blocked Fluff repeatedly to win with Vulcanize yesterday. Lampus, carrying the colors of George H. Bull, came up on the inside in the soft going through the stretch to wear down Arapahoe and win the fifth race, at one mile. Frank Fogarty was third. Fator rode one of his best races to win with Lampus. He held the Star Shoot gelding behind the early pacemaker, moved up at the psychological moment to pass Arapahoe and then took his mount in hand again at the end. He was two lengths and a half ahead at the finish, Frank Fogarty following Arapahoe by four lengths. The Xalapa Farms Light Rose was the subject of a flood of last minute speculation in the final race, the Bard Handicap at six and a half furlongs. She went into the front in the last eighth and won going away from War Note and St. Allan, with Beckna, the only other starter, following. St. Allan might have won if Harrison had not been so fond of racing close to the inside rail. He steered the colt to the inside all the way and the heavy going proved his undoing. After opening up a long lead on the turn St. Allan made a short turn into the stretch and appeared a certain winner. Then, in the last eighth, he quit badly and dropped practically out of contention, while Light Rose and War Note were fighting it out for first place. Gifford A. Cochran is the latest of the owners to abandon the metropolitan circuit for other fields. He sent his stable to Kentucky Wednesday night and his contract jockey, G. W. Carroll, followed tonight. Three horses were claimed out of the fifth race. Lampus went to H. Acker for ,700, Cote dOr to W. V. Casey for ,715 and Arapahoe to J. L. Holland for ,800. Trainer James Rowe announced today that a division of the H. P. Whitney stable will be sent to Havre de Grace in charge of James Rowe, Jr. Jockey F. Coltiletti will accompany the horses and ride for the stable at the Maryland track.
