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JOCKEY C. TURNERS RIDING Again Features the Sport at Metropolitan Jockey Club Track. 1 Scores a Double with Pickwick and Elected II. Another for Jock Scot. NEW YORK, N. Y October 7. 0. Turners riding was again the feature of tlie racing at Jamaica today. He rode Elected II., five-year-old daughter of Voter Triomphant, to a fast and impressive victory over Thunderclap in the Beacon Handicap, which was the principal attraction of an orrinary Friday card. This was Turners second success of the afternoon, having scored with Pickwick in the second race. Elected II. got away on the inside, crowding Ten-Lec over and forcing her back. The next to suffer was Thunderclap, the well-supported favorite, which was knocked out of Ids stride. Elected II. then began to draw away into a long lead on the back-stretch and increased it on the turn in spite of Fators vigorous efforts to bring Thunderclap up for a challenge.. The great speed of the Voter mare under her light impost was too much for her heavier-weighted opponents and they could never overtake her. In winning the race Elected II. made .the fastest time of the meeting for five and a half furlongs, running the distance in 1:05. Ten-Lec,- after she. had been knocked out of contention at the start, raced forwardly all the way to the stretch. There, after being passed by Thunderclap, fought it out gamely with the Rancocas star, but the burst of speed which had brought her back into a contending position tired her and she faltered in the last few strides. She lost second place to Thunderclap by a neck. Sea Mint, the only other starter, was never a serious contender at any time. Young master Brucnings ride on Leghorn in the first race was a stellar performance. He got tho Celt filly away well, but showing excellent Judgment, held to the outside instead of running "the risk of getting into pockets next to the inside rail. Keeping clear by this method he was content to let his mount run fourth and fifth through the first part of the race, while Turner, on J. E. Wideners Comic Song, was setting a fast pace and racing Modesty into defeat. When he was ready he brought Leghorn up on the outside of the leaders and went to the front, winning easily by a good margin. Comic Song, although tired from his early effort, outlasted Modesty for second place.. SADDLE RING FALSE HOPE. In the second race, for some unaccountable reason, Saddle Ring was made favorite over Pickwick. He was a a false hope and failed to finish in the money. Favour and Saddle Ring raced head and head to tho stretch after drawing away from the rest of the field going to the first turn, but they really ran each other into defeat in the process. When they rached the stretch Saddle Ring began to drop back and Favour quickly gave way to Pickwicks challenge. The Garry Herrmann gelding closed a big gap on the far turn and fin-shed with a rush. He led by a length at the end, while LEnjoleur also got up in a last minute margin in the fifth race. This was her second place. The first maiden jockey race of the meeting gave. Peters an opportunity to graduate with little effort by sitting tight on old Jock Scot while the Ogdeu horse galloped away from his opponents under a pull to win by eight lengths. Episode was second and old Orderly third. Gem easily disposed of Fluff, the early pacemaker, at tlie turn into the stretch and won by a safe margin in the fifth race. This was herd second victory of the meeting. Fluff outlasted Titanium for second place. Turner sent Fluff to the front on the first turn and drew away into a long lead on the backstretch, but the Celt filly had used all her speed when Gem challenged and fell an easy victim. Slaughter, who had the mount on Mandalay, evidently got into the wrong race. His efforts with the gelding were so amateurish as to be laughable, and compared rather unfavorably with the riding of the maiden jockeys in the third race. A stiff cold wind blew down the backstretch through the afternoon, but apparently did not have any effect in the way of slowing up the races as fast time was recorded in most of the dashes. It chilled tlie spectators in the stands. The crowd wa3 again small. Saddle Ring was claimed by J. L. Donahay ,for ,505. W. Dugan has arranged with T. J. Harmon, contract employer of the promising apprentice rider C. Bmening, to take the youngster to Cuba next winter for development.
