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OLYMPUS COLORS LOWERED •- -— i — ■ Whitney Hope for Kentucky Special Beaten by Flying Cloud. Wishbone Triumphs Over Fast Sprinters — Ards Again Wins Easily. • NEW YORK, N. T., June 19.— Olympus, the three-year-old conqueror of that sturdy old campaigner Boniface curly in the spring and the main dependence of .Marry Payne Whitney for Die Kentucky Special, was beaten at Aqueduct this afternoon by Max Hirschs Plying loud in the mile and a sixteenth of the Hanover Handicap. Olympus was giving the winner three pounds in actual weight and it proved too much of a handicap. This waa the best race of an interesting card that brought out a remarkably large crowd for Monday. The track had dried out considerably from Sundays rain and while it was not fast it was at least crood. This start in the Hanover was the last appearance of Olympus before being shipped to Latonia for his engagement there next Saturday. He is ihe gelding that was Mi-tended for the Kentucky Derny and his brilliant racing at Havre de Grace suggested that he was the one that would have to be beaten. Bnt like so many other pood ones Olympus was taken sick and not brought to the post fur that race. It took a long time and careful nursing to bring Olympus back to the races and his start in the Hanover was the first since his illness. He was opposed by Charles H. Thieriots Prince James and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Two Feathers, besides the fcUrach four-year-old. The start was a good one and Prince James, showing an excellent burst of speed, went into a good lead. Olympus was in second plaee and Flying Cloud was showing the way to Two Feathers, which seemed to be plainly outclassed in such company. Penman had a good hold of Olympus In the back-■tretch, but Prince James seemed to be ra.-ing along well, and Flying Cloud wa. ha lag no trouble holding his position. USES HIS WHIP FREELT. Swinging into the long stretch when Prince James did not quit. Penman shook up Olympus, but the son of Royal Eagle did not respond and he went to the whip. He swung it hard twice, but to no avail. lie could not rouse the gelding, though he was till gallop-lag fast. Then Penman hanged over and whipped with his left hand. This had no better effect and before the | finish he had again changed his whip hand. , In the meantime Plying Cloud was stealing up on the outside. As he drew up even Dell went to his whip on Prince James, but it was too late. Flying Cloud was sweeping along at a nice even stride and Marinelli was just giving him a nice snug hustling ride. As Flying Cloud headed Olympus he swung over slightly toward the tiring Prince James, and at the end he was going away a length and a half to the good. Penman continued to whip Olympus until the Whitney gelding took second place by half a length, and Two Feathers was a full twelve lengths away. It is entirely possible that Olympus was too much of a handful for Penman, and he will race to better advantage under a stronger rider. He was coming at the end, but it was evident that he needed more help than was possible from Penman. While this race was in a measure a disappointment, it should fit him thoroughly for his engagement at Latonia. The mile and a sixteenth was run in 1 :4jVk, whi-h was excellent time, considering the track condition. AXOTHKIt FOIt CRYSTAL FOItD. W. C. Clancys Crystal Ford was an easy winner of the fifth, a dash of a mile, in which apprentices that had never ridden two winners were to perform. Cahalan raced into second place and third fell to Anniversary. Avispa was away well in her stride after causing a short delay, but Crystal Ford went right along with her, and as she was on the inside and Crystal Ford on the outside, Little Simmons, who had the mount on the filly, did not relish his position. It seemed that Avispa had speed enough to come clear had Simmons called on her, but he preferred to take her back. Wishbone, from the Allies Stable, was an easy winner of the opening three-quarters dash when she led home the Greentree Stables Exodus, the Sanford Stud Farms Sleiveconard and other good sprinters. From a good start the daughter of Sweep aud Continued on twelfth cage. OLYMPUS COLORS LOWERED i Continued from first pagtO Chicklels went into an early lead and there was no time that she was even threatened, having raced her opponents into defeat be- J fore the last quarter post was reached. Sleiveconard showed excellent speed throughout, but evidently needed the race, while Exodus finished with a determined rush at the end that would have landed him | in second place in a few more strides. Dex- I tetous was in close quarters and showed a! disposition to bear out, which accounted for j I his not running up to best form. Ards, the jumper that Al J. Davis brought j i j over from the other side to race through the j steeplechase fields here, was winner of his j ! second straight race when he beat a band of | selling platers over the short course in easy j 1 fashion. There were eight going to the post [ and the only one that did not finish was Guy. Gaunt, from the Canterbury 1 arm Stable. I He unsealed Sims at the twelfth Jump after! having raced well up for a turn of the field. | R. Knox Vox Populi II. was the one to finish in second place and J. W. Healys old , Robert Oliver was along ia time to take third place. Highland Dad and Cavendish were the ones: to cut out the early running and "Specs" Crawford was in no hurry with Ards, though he kept him up about fourth place and in the diagonal run through the field he saved, a deal of ground. Going to the water Crawford moved up j slightly with Ards, but there Cavendish and Highland Lad were both showing him the . way. The others were fairly close and Vox Popoli II was racing alongside of Aids.! Around the lower end of the field Highland, Lad began to tire and Camp took Cavendish ■■ into a good lead. Then Crawford decided; it was time to show him just where he be-longed. He sent Ards along and rapidly! closing the gap that separated him from the leader be carried Cavendish to a couple of j the jumps so fast that it too* all the speed* out of him. Swinging into the front field it was a sure tiling that barring accident! Ards would be winner. Then Vox Popuii IL. j began to move tip and Robert Oliver, who j had been plodding along far from the pace, | began to run over the tired ones in front j of him. At the last fence Ards made his one bad jump of the race when he cat-hopped Over the hedge, but he wiis far enough in | front to make that possible without havingj ; any chance to lose. When Sims was bounced from Guy Gaunts saddle he was badly shaken up, but suffered no serious injury. After the finish Ards, which was entered to be sold for ,000, was boosted to ,500 by J. A. Coburn, but protected for Mr. Davis hy his trainer, Ernest Heider, and bid in for ,500. Crystal Ford went on about his business, and then in the stretch Simmons permitted Avispa to lose considerable time and la the meantime the badly gaited Cahalan was closing ground on the inside and Anniversary was at last running straight. Through the last eighth Avispa lost both the place and third, though she seemed sure of second money. Thessaly. from the Rancoeas Stable, was the winner of the live-eighths of a mile, for selling plater two-year-olds, that was the third offering of the day. At the end Fator had to ride him out to make certain of the victory from Harry Cohns Cormac, while Richard T. Wilsons Kirk Lady, after being ridden all over the track by little Bell, was a distant third. At the elbow of the course Bell permitted Kirk Lady to swerve sharply from the rail and she crossed behind Cormac and Thessaly. Then in the last eighth she again swerved and it was evident that he was utterly unable to offer her any assistance. Four of the Sanford Stud Farm horses have been shipped on from the Amsterdam farm. These are the three-year-olds Uranus, Royal Charlie and Pierre Que Roule and the two-year-old Tracery filly Valeria. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chessar motored down to Jamaica Monday morning to see the two-year-old Spade Guinea at his exercises. Trainer Bird permitted him to run along for a half mile with a light boy in the saddle, and the move was a thoroughly good one, though it does not suggest an earry Start for the English-bred colt
