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MONTFORT JONES EMOTION Qualifies Handsomely for Pimlico Futurity in Winning Navesink. Second Victory in Two Days for Scottish Chief Lucky Hour -Again Wins Easily. NEW YORK. X. Y October 28. Montfort .Tones two-year-old Emotion, daughter of Friar Rock-Affection, outran four older horses at a mile ami seventy yards and won the Xaveslnk Purse at Empire City today. Her performance brings her. to the forefront as a formidable contender for the Pimlico Futurity, for which she is eligible. Much of the credit for Emotions victory must be given to E. Kummer, the young apprentice rider, who came into the limelight by scoring a double with a pair of long shots at the Yonkers course yesterday. He outmaneuvered his more experienced, rivals by sending the filly, starting from the extreme outside, into the lead going to the first turn and then outrode and outguessed his rival all the way to the finish. McAlee made a strong effort with. Thimble bringing her up to race with Emotion on the back stretch, but he could not stampede young Kummer, who kept his mount going at her best and began to draw ahead of Thimble once more on the lower turn. Kummer kept his head and rode tand win all the way. He brought the filly to the finish with a winning margin of a length ahead of Thimble, while Lady Emmeline outlasted Ten Buttons for third money. Xose Dive rushed up on the outside of the leaders rounding the turn, took the lead at entering the stretch and held it to the finish, in the first race, at five and a half furlongs. Leghorn was second and Chewink third. Chewink started off in the lead and held her advantage to the stretch turn, where she gave way to Xose Dive. The erratic Ting-a-Ling, heavily backed second choice in the second race, reared and plunged i about and was left flat-footed when the barrier was sprung, swerving to the inside and never getting started. Alexander Hamilton was the favorite, but he proved a disappointment. He demonstrated again that he is a sprinter pure and simple. The Sweep colt took the lead going to the first turn and drew clear, but Asterisk, which followed closely i from the start, overhauled him after going three-quarters and took the lead on the turn for home. From there on Asterisk was forced to a hard drive to withstand the fast closing rush of W. H. Buck-. ner. The latter gained rapidly and would have won in a few more strides. i Scottish Chief apparently likes plenty of racing. He won his second victory in two days in the fourth race, defeating Escarpolette and Joe Joe, while the . favorite, Saddle Ring, failed to threaten the leaders k seriously at any time. Escarpolette made the early I pace, but Marinelli took her under restraint on the , lower turn and allowed Scottish Chief to draw , away into a good lead. He put the filly under a ; drive in the stretch and closed rapidly on the Light Brigade gelding, which was tiring. Buxton 1 kept Scottish Chief under severe pressure, however, and brought him to the finish with a length to j spare. RHINESTONE FINALLY WINS. j The band played "The Wearing of the Green" ; after the fiftli race. The dash was for maiden j three-year-olds and over and James Butlers Rhinestone had little trouble in accomplishing a long 1 overdue graduation. Eight of the most hopeless 1 thoroughbreds in the metropolitan district faced the j starter in this race. There were plenty of good things reported, but none of them had any chahcu t to prevent the band from playing the Butler vic-5 tory hymn. Rhinestone jumped to the front at once and opened up a long lead. Trader made up s a good lot of ground in the stretch, however, and s forced Turner to a drive at the fiuish. May Roberts was third. 1 Robinson completed a double with Lucky Hour in s the last race. Lucky Hour was easily the best. He went to the front at once and was never headed, I although Bees AVax challenged strongly in the stretch. Bees Wax tired under pressure in the . final sixteenth and was dropping back at the end. i The weather was the warmest of the meeting and a big crowd traveled to the hilltop course for s the afternoons sport, although the card held no stake feature and catered to the cheaper grade ? of horses, W. II. Travers has purchased the two-year-old Clinchfield and Printers Devil from the Oak Ridge - Stable. He will take over Galeta to train for - George McMitchell. C. Buxton, J. A. Coburn and S. Lando, with their families, will leave for Oakland, Cal., Suuday to pay a short visit to their homes there before the j opening of racing at Xew Orleans. Escarpolette was claimed out of the fourth race by J. L. Holland for ,900. t Colonel Maxwell Howard, for whom the late , James Hewitt trained, has signed the veteran trainer, J. W. May, to take charge of his horses e next year. A number of stables have completed arrange- - ments for shipping their horses to Xew Orleans on Sunday, following the close of this meeting. Among those who will have consignments on the train are: T. W. OBrien, E. Loh, M. R. Pons, Crosset Stable, P. M. Kelly, R. Troxler and M. Gershel. F. J. Brucn, general manager of the Cuba-Amer-r ican Jockey and Auto Club, returned to Empire City today, after a visit to Maryland. He announced that entries thus far received for the e stake offerings of the Havana track exceed by a a twenty-five per cent those received to this date e Inst year. The superintendent of Oriental Park has , advised Mr. Bruen that all improvements are s neariug completion. II M. Blackmouut, who bought Beckna at the Fasig-i, Tipton sale, sold her a few minutes later to W. Rosen.
