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ENTERTAINING RACING Jamaicas Selling Race Card Productive of Close Finishes. Apprentice Lad Scores Notable Victory Over Sande Blue Miss and Ramo Noses Apart. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct 8. Five of th six races at Jamaica today were framed for selling platers and the one exception was a three-quarters dash for maiden two-year-olds. Ordinarily such a program would not promise much in the way of interest, but the fact that the finishes were excitingly close made it a good day for the Monday crowd. These finishes came with the first race, when Deputy just beat Pathan home. Ber-sagliere won somewhat easily and Dexterous was going away at the end when he chalked up a victory for Billy Oliver, the Laird o Lakewood, but Clarence Buxtons Ramo and H. W. Maxwells Blue Miss furnished a rare fight and Blue Miss earned the decision in the fourth race. It was not to be expected that such horses could arouse much enthusiasm unless the finishes were close, but the closest of finishes came today. Hernandez, a little apprentice, rode a particularly vigorous finish on the Quincy Stables Deputy to land him winner of the first race by a narrow margin from L. J. Careys Pathan, with Earl Sande in the saddle. Robert L. Gerrys Lady Gaffney was third, beating Sun Silent for that part of the purse. From a good start Pathan was first to show, but First Lady Harding and Sun Silent both went after him and outfooted him, the former taking the lead before the first turn was reached, while Pathan was crowded back into the field. Hernandez had Deputy racing along next to the rail and he was holding his position well and finding plenty of racing room. Riding him home like a veteran, he finally handed a defeat to the famous Sande and covered himself with glory in the eyes of every stable lad at the track. WINS IIT LAST STRIDE. Another close finish came in the running of the five and a half furlongs of the fourth race when H. W. Maxwells Blue Miss out-gamed Clarence Buxtons Ramo and third fell to Cue-Rack. The placed horses cut out most of the running, but at the head of the stretch Ramo seemed to have Blue Miss beaten. But in the last eighth the Maxwell filly came again and in a rattling finish proved the gamest and won by a matter of inches. Carroll did not ride Cue-Rack with becoming energy or he might have been first instead of third. Blinkers may have helped Abe Hallows Masquerado in the mile and seventy yards of the fifth race, but he also had a deal of luck when he found his way through at the head of the stretch and saved enough ground to beat Mrs. M. L. Daviss Zealot and C. J. Millers East Indian home. Marie Maxim set the early pace, but Sea Cove ran past her before the far turn was reached and Irish Kiss moved up slightly. East Indian was racing closer to the leader than usual, while Masquerado, after leaving the post sluggishly, was last At the head of the stretch Sea Cove ran out and it was there that the winner had his opportunity. Both Zealot and East Indian finished resolutely, but the ground that had been saved by Masquerado told the tale and he lasted to win in a close finish. DEXTEROUS A SURPRISE. "Squire" Billy Olivers Dexterous furnished something of a surprise when he won the dash of three-quarters that was the third offering. It was a race framed for jockeys who had never ridden a winner, and a little lad named A. Frisco had the mount, but Dexterous was in a running mood and did not need any great riding-help to arrive home in front. Rubien rushed into an early lead and set a good pace, hard hejd, but Dexterous was right after him and at the head of the stretch had come alongside. The pair were lapped for about a sixteenth and then Dexterous drew away to win with space to spare. Rubien was an easy second, and third fell to Good Time, with the others more or less strung out. The stewards were so dissatisfied with the ride" of G. Lavine on Ramo in the fourth race that he was suspended indefinitely for incompetency. William Doyle has resigned as patrol judge to accept a position to train the horses of J. D. Hertz Leona Farm Stable. Martin Nathanson, also in the service of the Chicago sportsman, will manage the breeding farm and it is the intention to build up a new stable for Doyle, most of those that have raced under the colors having been sold to Bob Shannon, who trained them. Harold Vosburg has been appointed patrol Continued oa twelfth page.. ENTERTAINING RACING Continued froin first page. judge to fill te vacancy caused by Doyles resignation. Major G. MacDougall Turner, an English sportsman who has come over to see the International match on Oct 20, was a Jamaica visitor and was well entertained with the racing. He is a warm admirer of Papyrus and said that ho was a horse that would bo suited by short turns such as those at Jamaica. . Scott Harlan returned from Latonia today and stated that the Greentree Stables crack threery ear-old filly, Untidy, second alternate tor the International race, fell lame in the Latonia Special and would not be under col-ers again this year. . . T. J. Healey was another arrival from Kentucky. He reports W. J. Salmons Treakness Stakes winner. Vigil, pulled up very lame in the Latonia Special. Owing to the absence of J. L. Donovan, his various starters of the day Were saddled by Tom Shannon. These were Dorothy Ryan, Tom Cassidy and Irish Kiss, t Blinkers were added to the equipment of Lady Gaffney in the first race, Masquerado in the fifth and Comic Artist in the sixth. - Clarence Kummer is back from Laurel, .where he went Saturday to win the National Stakes with Sarazen. He gave a new idea of the high class of Mrs. Vanderbilts great two-year-old, when he said that in the running of the race a girth became loosened right after the start and the saddle partly turned. He was able to straighten it on the geldings back, but rode him with a long rein and could not depend on the saddle all through the race. Elijah Brewster has resigned from the T. W. OBrien stable and he is getting together a. public training stable of horses that he will campaign during the . winter at either New Orleans or Havana, Earl Sande and F. Coltiletti have returned from Latonia, where they both went to ride in the Kentucky Special. T. J. Healey, who went to Latonia with "Walter J. Salmons Vigil for the Kentucky Special, is back. He said that Vigil would probably have been the winner had it not been for his foot going back on him. He was in a good position and just making his move when he flinched.
