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KAI-SANGS FAST MILE Wins the Jerome Handicap in 1 :37 Under Big Weight. Belmont Parks Card Deficient Otherwise, but Attracts Huge Crowd of Patrons. NEW YORK, N. T., September 5. The Rancocas Stables Kai-Sang scored an easy victory in the Jerome Handicap, at a mile, the feature of Belmont Parks card today. He ran the distance in 1 :37 over a track that was far from fast and carried 133 pounds. E. F. Cooneys Athelstan beat Brainstorm for second place. By the time Pillory and Galantman had been withdrawn from the Jerome Handicap there were but three left to contest for its fame and pelf. Kai-Sang was conceding nineteen pounds to Brainstorm and thirty-three to Athelstan. Fator saved him behind Brainstorm in the rush down the backstretch. When Fator called on him while rounding the last turn the colt responded with a good burst of" speed and passed Brainstorm easily. Fator then took him under slight restraint once more and brought him to the finish with a two lengths advantage over Athelstan, which raced up to take second place from the tiring Brainstorm by two and a half lengths. Fator sent the colt along for another quarter after the finish as a work-out for the Lawrence Realization. He completed the mile and a quarter in 2 :05. The return of fine weather brought out a crowd almost as large as that of Labor day. The track was slow at the start of the racing, but dried out rapidly during the afternoon and was good for the last three races. GKEY LAG ENTERTAINS. After the fourth race the spectators were given a glimpse of the Rancocas Stables star handicap horse, Grey Lag, which worked out a mile and a quarter in 2 :06 eased up. His fractions were 25y5, 49, 1:14, 1:40 and 2:06. Mrs. S. A. Cloptons So It Goes with Meri-mee in the saddle earned his first brackets in the opening race, at three-quarters, for maiden three-year-olds. E. J. Bennetts Wylie was second and J. L. Prices Fayelle third. Ukase raced into the lead early, but Meri-mee sent So It Goes upon the outside and raced into a good lead with little trouble Fator in the meantime was saving Wylift along in third place position and the colt had considerable speed left for the final rush through the homestretch. He closed up rapidly, disposed of Ukase and forced Merimee to ride So It Goes out to win by a length and a half. Fayelle also finished gamely and, passing the tiring Ukase, came within a neck of taking second place from Wylie. The remainder of the field of eight never threatened the leaders. The Sag Harbor Purse, a condition race, for three-year-olds, brought three horses to the post. Fred Burlews Irish Brigadier was an easy winner from Pirate Gold, with Gun-sight a distant follower. Pirate Gold was away in front, but was joined at once by Irish Brigadier. The two raced together down the backstretch, but before the turn was reached Pirate Gold was falling back. Irish Brigadier continued to increase his advantage with ease in the stretch, although Thomas was riding Pirate Gold hard in an effort to catch the winner. Irish Brigadier crossed the finish five lengths to the geod and Gunsight was behind Pirate Gold by six lengths. 31ANTRY IN FINE FORM. J. E. Nashs Bantry returned to the races in top form to win the fifth race, at a mile and a sixteenth. Little E. Bell, who had the mount, sent the old horse to the front at once and into a long lead. There was not another horse in the race which could givu the winner an argument. Maize came fast and gamely in the stretch to take second place and Lord Herbert made up enough ground to take third money from Chateau -gay. Chateaugay and Horeb raced in second and third positions respectively for the first three-quarters, but" lost ground in the stretch drive. The last race, at five ana a half furlongs, for two-year-olds, was hardly more than an exercise canter for R. T. Wilsons Wilderness. The Wilson colt won by five lengths, under restraint, from Nassau, with Curtis in third place. Fator tried to make a runaway affair of the race by sending Curtis into a long lead on the backstretch, but Ensor had Wilderness away well also and, when ready on the last turn, called on the Wilson colt. Wilderness responded gamely and passing Curtis with ease before they reached the stretch was then taken under restraint and . cantered to the finish. Curtis was tiring Continued ou twelfth page. KAI-SANGS FAST MILE Continued from first page. rapidly and Nassau wore him down to take second place by a length and a half. Mrs. S. A. Cloptons New Orleans, which was campaigned at Saratoga by John Schorr, will be returned to the care of trainer R. C. Miller as soon as he arrives from Saratoga A number of stables are long over due from the Spa because of inability to obtain cars. F. M. Kelley was out ror the first time since he met with an automobile acciden! last Wednesday night at Poughkeepsie on his way from Saratoga. His car was sida swiped by another machine and he suffered a bad shaking up and severe bruises. Jockey W. Kelsay has been engaged to ride Cartoonist in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. He will leave for Louisville Thursday. Steeplechase jockey R. H. Crawford, who rode Ards in the Broadhollow Steeplechase Monday, will be kept out of the saddle for some. time. He sprained his ankle when he fell from the English jumper. Crawford is the last of the four Cosden steeplechase jockeys to meet with incapacitating mishaps. Bit o Black was sold to F. E. Brown b E. R. Bradley Tuesday. The J. E. Widener horses arrived from Saratoga during the afternoon.
