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JAMAICAS MONDAY RACING ♦- ■ Tufter Wins Garden City Selling Stakes, Main Attraction. ♦■ ■ August Belmont Scores His First Victory of Tear With Fair Play Colt Diagram — Roseate II. Wins Easily. ♦ NEW YORK. N. T., May 7.— After the brilliant racing of Saturday there was a decided letting down in the Monday program at Jamaica, with the feature attraction framed for selling platers. It was the Garden City Selling Stakes and was reduced to three starters before post time. It resulted in an easy victory for the old imported gelding Tufter, racing for H. Alterman, while Wm. Daniels Olynthus beat the Quiney Stables All Over for second place. There was little to the contest when Barnes permitted All Over to break out at the start, while Tufter and Olynthus went away straight. Thereafter Barnes was a hindrance rather than a help to All Over and Tufter just romped along in front of Olynthus, always holding the race perfectly safe. There were chilly breezes blowing over the course from Jamaica Bay. but another good crowd was on hand and, though quality was lacking in some of the races, the sport furnished was fairly interesting, though two of the six races were framed for maidens and selling platers dominated most of the card. August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, won his first race of the spring season when his homebred Diagram, a son of Fair Play and Dragnet, scored in the three-quarters dash fcr three-year-old maidens that was the third offering. A. K. Macombers Spread Eagle closed a big gap to be second and third was the portion of Frank J. Far-rells Rock Bottom, another of Belmont breeding. There was little delay at the post, but Diai-gram. Skirmish and Stella Maris, the filly that raced for James Butler, were off running, while Spread Eagle, leaving from an outside position, took some time to find his racing legs. It was Skirmish that cut out the early pace, but going to the three-eighths post Diagram went after her and put her away readily. At this time Stella Maris was running along on the inside rail, while Miller was taking the outside with Spread Eagle and driving in an effort to keep up. In the mile and seventy yards of the fifth race Roseate II., the imported s#n of Sea Sick and Rosette, starting for the first time under the silks of J. H. Carr, was an easy winner, while J. M. Zimmers Quecreek was along in time to take second place from the Marrone Stables Whisk. Canyon was rushed into an early lead and sprinted along in front, with Whisk chasing him to the turn out of the backstretch. There Whisk moved up and the pair raced together until Canyon tired, but not before he had taken considerable out of Whisk. Roseate II. had avoided the pace and in the run through the stretch he readily gained on Whisk, while right at the end Quecreek came along to beat him for second place. ♦ — —
