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GREY LAGS EASY TRIUMPH! — « Ranceeas Stable Star Captures Queens County Handicap. ■ — — — ♦ H. P. Whitneys Goshawk Takes Great American Stakes — Three Straight for Ards. NEW YORK. N. Y.. June 24.— Grey Tag had no Exterminator to race with in the mile of the Queens County Handicap at i Aqueduct Lodajr and he captured that fixture. | which was worth ,450 CO the Kancocas Stable. This was one of the features, the other being- the Great American, In which Harry Payne Whitney a Goshawk heat Willis Bharpe Kilmers Pupferen.ee in a gamely run race. It was a real holiday crowd that Journeyed to the course of the Queens County! Jockey Club to sec real holiday racing. The] stands and lawns were r loaded to capacity i and the brand of ■■port offered was worthy of the big gathering. When Eugene Wayiand decided that in: pounds was a bit too much to ask old Exterminator to carry In the Queens County! against only 127 on Grey lag, the cold that gave him such stiff argument In the Brooklyn Handicap, much of the interest in the race was gone, but it brought about a good contest. The Westmont Stables Senninsrs Park, tie Quiney Stables Captain Alcock. winner cf the Suburban, and the added starters. l. L. Jenkins Polly Ann and Gilford A. Cochrans June Grass, were the ones to oppose the Banoocas star. From a good start Lane rushed Polly Ann out Into the lead audi Fator had Grey lag und r ■ nice steadying] restraint, lapped on Sennings Park and Captain Aleock, while June Grass quickly dropped out of the contention and was a distant follower practically all the way. POI.I.Y AW SETS FAST PACE. When Lang semt Folly Ann along at a sprinting clip Sennings Park was the one of the others to go after her. but he was lengths away, and still Fator was hiding his time with Grey Lag and it was evident that the son of Star Shoot had plenty in reserve. Swinging f r home Polly Ann .saved ground, but she was beginning to show the effects of her early speed and before the ] eighth post was reached Lang had gone to I the whip. Sennings Park was hanging on I gamely, and outside I f him Grey Lag was beginning his run, with Captain Alcock following him closely. Through the final eighth Grey Lag cam? on and at the end he was winner by a length and a half. Sennings Park beat Captain Aleock three lengths for second place and the tired Folly Ann was a full ten lengths before June Grass. Goshawk, the black son of Whisk Broom II. and Dovelet, from the stable of U. F. Whitney, made good adequately in the Great American Stakes when he, in a gamely fought finish, triumphed over Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunference, with John E. Iladdenfl Bad Lamer a close third. The race was worth , COO to the winner. GE EKAL THATCHER BUM AWAY. There was considerable delay at the post, for which General Thatcher, from the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, was chiefly to blame. Finally, in one of his wild lunges, he fell with Fairbrother, and when he regained his feet he ran off the distance. Red coat Murray was galloping down the stretch with his pony at the time and he made a sensational stop of the runaway that brought hearty rounds of applause. After the runaway was taken back to the post he was banished to the outside and when the start came Fairbrother just galloped him after the field. It was a good start and Johnson was alert with Sunference, sending him away nicely in motion. Pennon and Canaque were in close attendance, while Goshawk, after starting well, met with some interference and was crowded back badly. Spot Cash, the other Whitney starter, was racing next to the inside rail, but none too well himself. There was considerable bumping and crowding going to the elbow of the course and not a few of the thirteen that raced met with interference. Martingale was one that had a decidedly rough journey and he was never able to reach a contending position. It was through the final eighth that Goshawk finally fought his way up to contention and, catching Sunference in the final sixteenth, he was Continued on eleventh pr.ge. * | GEEY LAGS EASY TRIUMPH • | Continued from first pace. winner by a length at the end, while the . Kilmer colt just lasted long enough to beat t ! . the fast finishing Bud Lerner by a noae for second piace. Ards, the imported Jumper, won his third straight for Al Davis when he easily took the measure of rather a fine lot of Jumpers In the selling handicap over the short course. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks The Trout raced into second place and Joseph E. Widen-ers " Wisest Fool was third. Cavendish unseated Campbell In the running and tha » Greentree Stables Mohican did likewise with » EetheL a a . i l ! ii . " ■ c t _ - t h t s f « ,• ■ • ■, , , 1 I , j j . J J ] . « I j j ! i i 1 j 1 | ] I , j I ] ! j i | i | I. ■ ! , I ; Cavendish was rushed out into a long lead and until the water was reached had a big 3 advantage. There he was beginning to | pwerve into his fences and tiring b:id!y. I Wisest Fool, The Trout and Ards were in I fairly close order back of the leader and a rp.wford was riding a snug race on the a Knglish jumper and saving ground on th/; 1 I inside all the way. | When the back field was reached Byers I beg-an his run with Wise.st Fool and quickly I going to Cavendish went on by to p.ssiitth command. The Trout moved up at the same time and Crawford eased Ards over to the I outside when the inside position became j dangerous. It was at the twelfth jump and when v.ei: j beaten that Cavendish made his bad landing that unseated Campbell and after Mohieat, had made the jump he stumbled on the flat and threw Bethel from the saddle. Crawford moved gradually with Ards, bul both Wisest Fool and The Trout were racing strongly in front of him and it was anybodys race as the three swung into th front field. The Kiiglishman was jumping j faultlessly and Crawford had saved plenty j for that run home, but both of the others were also racing strongly. At the last jump Ards had a slight a antage and from there 1o the finish he drew out easily to win by three lengths audi The Trout outfinished Wisest Fool by a like distance. There was an accident in the running of the mile and five-sixteenths of the fifth race I when Anniversary, from the stable of Ii. I McKeever, crossed his legs and fell aritfa J G. Mete. Fortunately both rider and horse • escaped injury. This race fell to John Rliaughnessys Scot- ■. tish Chief, well ridden by Bang, who cleat iy i j outgeneraled B, Fator, who had the leg up j f on Edward Arlingtons Eord Herbert, the one j I that W3.s apparently best in the race. Episode was the one to cut out the pace, I J but Bang was never far away with Scottish ; I Chief, and making his move in the stretch he ■ I went to the front easily and then nursed a! tired horse home. Fator permitted Eord I Herbert to drop exceedingly far out of it in i I the early running and then delayed his I run altogether too late. Coming with a great I rush Bord Herbert was only beaten a neck, and with an early move he would surely i have reversed the order. Episode was only third because Anniversary had fallen, fo:- he had tired badly in the stretch turn. Chester Appiegates Rungrand, a son of Runnymede and Zafra. that he paid 1922.sh00 for at the A. B. Spreckels sale of two-year-olds at Jamaica, was the winner of the opening live-eighths dash for selling platers. At the end Rungrand had plenty to spare over Richard T. Wilsons Kirk Eady and Scare "row from the Syndicate Stable was a close third. Athanna was the one to cut out the early pace, but Parke was unable to keep her straigM and she swerved in and out re-I peatedly. Rungrand started well, but Ponce had to ride hard to catch the filly. He finally found his way by on the inside and once in front the result was no longer in doubt. Kirk Iady had rather a rough race and closed fast on the outside, but had to do her level best to save second place from Scare Crow, which finished with excellent courage under a long drive. Patrol judge Ed Banna has received a note of appn-ciation from the Dominion Re gatta Association of Canada for colors of Ned Hanlon that he sent the association as a trophy. These colors are those worn by the famous oarsman in his race with Courtney in 1878. Mr. Iianna had only loaned the colors, but he has decided that he will present them to the association, which is composed of the various boat and rowing clubs of Canada. After the unruly action of Winneconne at the post Friday, when she unseated jockey Marts, she was sentenced to the schooling list. Al Adler is making the reservations of stalls for the Saratoga meeting in August. Jockey E. Sullivan, the California rider under contract to A. K. Maeomber, had his first New York mount when he rode Story Teller in the opening three-quarters dash for three-year-old fillies Friday. Before the running of the fourth race Fri- day Sleiveconard was sold by the Sanford Stud Farms to E. G. Soule, in whose name and interest he performed.
