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AQUEDUCT MEETING ENDS Pilgrim Takes Speculation Stake, Closing Day Attraction. Dimmesdale Home First in the Domino Handicap Steeplechase to Sea Skipper. NEW YORK, N. T., July 7 For the closing day of the Aqueduct meeting the feature offering was the Speculation, a selling stake over the riiile distance. It was the last day until September that the horses will be seen on Long Island and the closing meant more than any of the other early meetings. A goodly crowd was out and the weather was delightful. The track was in good condition and in addition to the Speculation there was an interesting getting that included a three-quarters handicap and a steeplechase over the short course. Selby Burchs Pilgrim, the brother to that old campaigner Pickwick, proved an easy winner over Henry Watersons Brainstorm in the running of the Speculation and Edward B. McLeans Saddle and Boots was a close third. Billy McLaughlin was the one to cut out the running, with Brainstorm in second place, and Fator was content to rate Pilgrim along on the rail and well within striking distance. Before the eighth post in the stretch was reached Billy McLaughlin was all through and as he dropped back beaten Pilgrim came through in easy fashion and the race was as good as over. At the end he was racing under restraint to win by almost two lengths. Saddle and Boots finished with a determined rush and he was only a head back of Brainstorm, while the pair of them were six lengths before Kirk-levington. Frank J. Farrells Dimmesdale, a greatly improved horse this year, was first home in the three-quarters of the Domino, an overnight handicap. Joseph E. Davis three-year-old filly Prodigious was the one to finish second and Joseph E. Wideners old Naturalist had no trouble saving third from Mrs. Louise YTiaus Ten-Lec, the only other starter. prodigious sharply cut off. Then after the finish, J. Callahan, who rode Prodigious, which had been sharply cut off on the going to the first turn, lodged a claim of foul. There was a long consideration by the stewards during which patrol judges Doyle and Hanna were questioned and Keogh, who rode Naturalist, was also sent for, and then the result was confirmed as the horses finished. It was a good start, with Ten-Lec just showing the way to Naturalist, with Dimmesdale in third place and Prodigious, starting from an inside position, last. Nearing the first turn, and before the horses were fairly under way, both Naturalist and Dimmesdale came over slightly and Prodigious was pinched off and badly crowded back. Dimmesdale at once went into command with Ten-Lec and Naturalist, closely lapped, following and Prodigious rather a bad last by reason of the interference she suffered. Ten-Lec was the first one to tire and before the stretch was reached she had! dropped back. Naturalist was saving ground on the inside, but he could not wear down the leader. Then Callahan brought Prodigious up with a rush on the outside and at the end she was catching Dimmesdale at every stride, but he was home winner by something more than a length. When Callahan lodged his claim of foul ha said that he did not know just which horse was responsible for his mount having been knocked back. The patrol judges both exonerated Dimmesdale and said that Naturalist was the one to blame. Keogh, himself, admitted that his mount had gone in slightly Just at the point in the running where Callahan charged that he was fouled. BIiDOCEItS HELP THIiEE SQUARE. The addition of blinkers to the equipment of Jako Byers Three Square in tho first race proved a wise change when she was a good winner from the other selling plater juveniles that opposed her. It was a five-eighths dash and Fator saved ground with her all the way coming on in the last eighth to win going away by a couple of lengths. James B. Smiths Prince of Umbria, after racing forwardly from the start, was the one to save second place, but he had to do his best to beat J. L. Hollands Rork for that part of the purse. Joseph E. Wideners Sea Skipper was an easy winner of the Kings Highway Steeplechase, over the short course, when he led Matt Colfords Yorkshire, with Jacky, another from the Widener Stable. R- Knoxs Vox Populi II., the only other starter, unseated McNair after making tho twelfth fence. Yorkshire was tho one to cut out the pace Contlcaed ua second page. AQUEDUCT MEETING ENDS Continued from first pace. and Mahoney permitted him to step along, while the other three were all under restraint. Jacky was rank In the early running and Smoot had considerable trouble placing him. McNair raced wide with Vox Populi II., and in that manner was placed, while Sea Skipper appeared willing to go long at a hunting pace. There was no change in the positions until going into the back field, where Sea Skipper moved into second place, but Yorkshire still enjoyed a good lead and was racing fast Then, when Vox Popull n. stumbled and unseated McNair, Jones made a real move with Sea Skipper. At the head of the front field the Widener gelding was gaining on Yorkshire rapidly and two fences from the finish he was with the leader. Jones had Sea Skipper under restraint at the finish, to win by three-quarters of a length. Four cheap ones to race a mile and a sixteenth was the fifth offering and the winner turned up in J. D. Killens Beckna. E. C. Steimcrs Kirtle finished second and J. J. OTooles Algoa was a close third. The only other starter was J. L. Coyles Horeb and ho cut no figure In the running. Kirtle was the ono to cut out the pace, but she could never shake off Beckna and an eighth from home he put her away and from there to the finish he had it his own way to be winner by a couple of lengths. Clarence Kummer kept Algoa closer to the pace than has been usual in his races and he closed some ground in the stretch, but at the end ho tired badly when hard ridden and was beaten for second place by the tired j Kirtle by half a length. C. A. Applegate has turned out Lady Monmouth at Baileys farm on Long Island. Eight horses that ho will race at Yonkers have been sent to that track. Mortimer Murphy sent his own horses and those he is training for Sam Louis to the Yonkers track Friday. James Fitzsimmons will send horses that he races at Yonkers up by van each day he has a starter. J. Bycr made a change In the equipment of his filly Three Square in the opening race when he added blinkers in the hope it would improve her running. There was a general thinning out of the Long Island colony at all the training quarters and a corresponding filling up of the stalls at the Yonkers track. It is the only New York move from Long Island, except Saratoga, and in fact several of the trainers make one of the Long Island tracks permanent quarters and will ship any starters they may have by van to Yonkers the day they are to run. The jumpers had their last ?,Tew York chance with the close of. the Aqueduct meeting today and most of them that will race at Saratoga have already gone to the upstate track. The cross-country racing in ! August promises to be better than in recent years In tho matter of number of starters. After the running of the first race Sam Louis claimed Prince of Umbria from James B. Smith for ?3,1C5. He later sold him back to his previous owner for 53,500. Under the rules this will bar the colt from starting for thirty days, and he will be chipped to Saratoga to serve that sentence. Jockey J. D. Mooney has purchased his contract from J. B. Smith. During the Aqueduct meeting there was a surplus of 5,007.SO obtained by claims and run-ups. For the fall meeting there will be a surplus of 30.31 for the first day of racing. Eight jockeys came under the displeasure of the stewards during the Aqueduct meeting. Starter Cassidy did not find occasion to inflict any jockey punishments.
