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FAIR OWNERS FINE DOUBLE Mrs. Viaus Firm Friend and Ten-Leo Win for Her. Ordinary Racers Clash in All the Empire City Races, but a Big Crowd Turns Out. YONKERS, N. Y., July IS. It was a good day for tho purple and white stripes of Mrs Louise Viau at the Yonkera track today when tho two be3t offerings of the afternoon were taken by horses sent to the post by Sandy McNaughton for hc-r. Firm Friend and Ten-Lec, two that were beaten recently with "Chick" Lang in the saddle, both galloped homo in front under different pilots. Sande rode Firm Friend to victory in a mile and a sixteenth dash and L. Morris cuided Ten-Lec home in front in the short three-quarters of the Katonah Handicap, the nearest approach to a feature that was offered. The track was at its best and tho weather all that could have been desired. The entertainment was varied and there was plenty of enthusiasm from another large crowd that wa3 out. The handicap had considerable Interest, for the reason that It marked the return of the Rancocas Stables Cirrus to racing, after a long absence. The old son of Tracery and Morningside still looks a bit high and he did not show much in the race, but he wa.s under a burden of 133 pounds. The race may play an important part in fitting him for future racing. Wishbone raced out with Ten-Lec at tho start of the Katonah and the pair raced well, lapped for an eighth. Then Ten-Lec drew away slightly, but under stiff restraint. ST. ALLAN RACES WELL. St. Allan was racing well back of Wishbone and it was evident, before the stretch was reached, that he was going to run a good race. Little Chief, a stablemate to Cirrus, was in fourth place, but well outrun. Ten-Lec was still four lengths to tho good when she made the turn into the stretch, but Morris would not take any chances and he was nursing her along at her best pace. In the meantime St. Allan had passed Wishbone and was closing up on the filly in gallant fashion, but the distance was too short and she was the winner by two and a half lengths. St. Allan was a full two lengths in front of Wishbone and the others were well strung out. J. Browns Peter Brown was winner of tho opening five and a half furlongs dash that was framed for selling plater two-year-olds. Jake Byers good filly Three Square raced to second place, with Paisley third. Peter Brown had the rail position and while Three Square beat the others away slightly he had speed enough to head her early and once in command Merimee hustled him along to such good advantage that he made every post a winning one, though at the end he was being shaken up to offset the final rush of Three Square. Sandy McNaughton took the blinkers off Mrs. Louise Viaus Firm Friend, but he substituted Sande for Lang and a whip was carried, while he had been beaten with the blinkers on and no whip. FIRM FRIEND ALL THE WAY. It was a wise change, for Sande took Firm Friend to the front at the start of the second race and led all the way to beat Comic Song easily, while Nancy Shanks saved third place from Sailing Along. It was a mile and a sixteenth dash and Sande never left the result in doubt with Firm Friend. Comic Song was second throughout and on the turn out of the backstretch he moved up on Firm Friend threateningly, but Sande had speed in reserve with Mrs. Viaus colt. Halu, racing in improved form, was the winner of the mile and a sixteenth of tho third race from Cum Sah, while Lady Zeus was a distant third in front of Ramkin. Cum Sah set the pace and for most of the race Star Court chased after him in nearest pursuit This contributed to the defeat of the old cripple, for while he made Star Court quit he was used so badly in accomplishing it that he had little left when Halu challenged in the stretch. J. R. Pryce saddled Walter J. Salmons Trevelyan in the second and Richard T. Wilsons Vendor in the fifth race in tho absence of T. J. Healey. Sandy McNaughton tried Mrs. Louise Viaus Firm Friend without blinkers in the mile and a sixteentli of the Broadview Purse. Blinkers have been a part of his recent equipment, both with and without the whip. Belmont Park has few horses left. The last strings to ship away were those of August Belmont and Samuel D. Riddle, who races under the name of the Glen Riddle Farm. These left Saturday for Saratoga in the caro of Louis Feustel. Great Man, the good two-year-old in the Riviera Stable, ha3 been on the ailing list for some time.
