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TALL TIMBERS STAKE RACE Takes the Valuable Wakefield Handicap at Empire City. Ramkin First, but Set Back for Fouling a Contender Trevelyan a Surprise. 1, YONKERS, N. Y.. July 27. Richard T. Wilsons Tall Timber, a good-looking son of Camp Fire and Pixy, was a winner of the Wakefield Handicap at the Yonkcrs track today, Bo McMillan brought up in second place and Moonrakor ran a coed race to be third. Tall Timber took up 117 pounds and was top weight of those which ran and his was a good performance. The race was worth ,710 to the winner and, incidentally, it completed a double, for Tom Ilealy, for he had won the third race for Walter J. Salmon with Trcvclyan. While there were occasional sprinkles of rain during: the day, the track remained fast and most of the showers came between the races so that the crowds on the lawn were not seriously inconvenienced. Only five went to the post in the Wakefield after High Prince, Mark Twain, Dustabout and Paisley had been scratched and A. is.. Maeombers Speedball added. Little time was lost at the barrier, but as it rose Moonraker dwelt slightly while Tall Timber left in his stride. Eutwcll made every use of his advantage at the start and at once shot him out into a good lead. In fact lie hustled him along from the first stride and for a time it seemed that he was making too much use of his mount. He was well clear of the others, but was still bringing Tall Timber along at his best i ! pace. Bo McMillan was in second place and for a time both Mutiny and Speedball headed Moonraker, but it was not for long. Morris finally had the Greentree Stable colt going well on the outside and he soon found his way into third place. JSutwell saved ground on the stretch turn with Tall Timber and there he called on the colt for still more speed and widened his lead to three lengths. But it was clear that he was doing his level best and from the eighth post to the finish the other two were catching him. He hung on gamely, but at the end his margin of victory was only three parts of a length, while Bo McMillan in a long drive beat Moonraker a like distance for second place. OLD IIt. JOILSSOX TO FORE. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords old sprinter Dr. Johnson made every post a winning one in the short three-quarters of the fifth race and at the end had a two lengths advantage over Leghorn, while Orcus saved third from Reparation. Dr. Johnson was lucky to escape some early crowding that knocked some of the runners back badly and Bright Lights was one of the chief sufferers. Leghorn was another that was in close quarters and Thomas had to take her to the outside tc find clear racing room. James B. Smiths Belle of Blue Ridge was the winner of the opening five and a half furlongs dash, for maiden two-year-olds. Recommendation raced to second place, while Roseate II. was third. Recommendation made the running, but came wide at the head of the stretch and Marinelli quickly took advantage of the opening next to the rail and shot Belle of Blue Ridge through to bring her home the winner. There was a disqualification following the running of the second race when Mrs. R, A. Alexanders Ramkin, after beating Arapahoe home, was set back for a stretch foul. This ; gave Matinee Idol second place and third was the portion of Wylie. It wa3 inside the last sixteenth and while Ramkin was fighting it out with Arapahoe ! that he bumped the latter, and it was for that he was disqualified. But as the race was run Matinee Idol was plainly best-He was a bad last when leaving the back-stretch. In the stretch Morris had to take him out to find racing room and, while he was beaten in all four lengths, it was only the start that brought about his defeat. VALOR FALLS LAME There was a good finish in the running of the third race when Walter J. Salmons Trevclyan won, while Sunnyland just beat Teddy R. home for second place. The only other starter was P. J. Lavins "Valor and he fell lame and was well beaten. Teddy R. was unfortunate at the start when he did not leave with the other three. Valor at once raced into a good lead, with Sunnyland racing after him and Trevelyan a good third. This was the order until nearing the turn out of the backstretch, where Valor quit suddenly and Sunnyland closed up on him in resolute fashion. At the same time Trevelyan moved up gallantly on the outside. Valor was disabled long before the stretch was reached and it narrowed to a fight between Sunnyland and Trevelyan. But they both lest ground by swinging wide into the stretch and Tryon rushed Teddy R. up on the inside. He found room and was almost on even terms with the other two when he shortened his stride. Then in the last eighth Trevelyan came away to win by a length and a half, while Sunnyland stuck it out to beat Teddy R. a head for second place. Right at the end Teddy R. was in close quarters and the race suggested that had he left the pest in better style he would have been returned the winner. Moso Goldblatt, acting for H. P. Whitney, has sold Electron, a two-year-old son of Pennant and Atom, to A. Allegra. There were four starters with a change in the equipment during the day. In the first race both Recommendation and Dont Bother Mo were tried with blinkers. In the fifth blinkers were taken off Edward Arlington3 Equator and they were added to the equipment of Yankeedom. Spade Guinea, an English two-year-old in the stable of Miss Marie Mahler, has gone slightly amiss and will not bo sent to Saratoga. He will be left in the Fizer stable for the month of August. Trainer Balrd has taken Miss Mahlers Carmencita to Saratoga for the racing there. A. G. Blakely shipped hi3 string to Saratoga Thursday and the little apprentice rider J. Merimee went along with the shipment. P. J. Lavins Valor came out of the running of the Resolute Selling Handicap decidedly lame. Trainer McDaniel expressed the fear that he had bowed a tendon. He had stopped running so suddenly In the race that it was at first thought he had bled. L. Fator and Earl Sande, the two Ran-cocas Stable jockeys, have gone to Saratoga to join the stable there.
