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FAREWELL AT NEW YORK Election Days Amateur Racing Ends the New York Campaign of This Year. NEW YORK, N. T., Nov. G. In a drizzle of rain at Belmont Park this afternoon old Harry Page, the dean of gentlemen riders, took the center of the stage away from the horses by riding Mrs. William Hitts Kate ODay to victory in the second part of the United Hunts Double Event Steeplechase for hunters. Eight hunters started in the feature at about two miles and a half over the brush course. Three of the starters came to grief in the running. Mr. Page waited with his mount until ready and when lie went to tho front in the stretch in the second turn of the field the race was over, so far as the winner was concerned. Kate ODay won by eight lengths from Leslie G. Keiffers Guy Gaunt and Mr. Page was sitting back in the saddle as calmly as if he were out riding in the park. When the veteran rode the winner to the judges stand the band played Auld Lang Syne, and the crowd joined in with ringing cheers. The incidents began in the early running. Abydos fell with Mr. Eckerson at the third fence. Commodore Gaunt was pulled up at the sixth fence and Irelands Best, which had made most of the pace up to that point, lost his rider at the ninth jump. The weather for the second and final day of United Hunts racing was dreary, with a drizzling rain that persisted through most of the afternoon. In spite of this a larger crowd than that of Saturday turned out for the sport and there was considerable enthusiasm over the racing. Only three of the eleven two-year-olds named overnight for the first race at seven-eighths remained to race after the withdrawals were announced. Gypsy King, racing for John E. Madden, was the winner, with August Belmonts Blind Play second and Spontaneous last. The Between the Flags Steeplechase, for maiden thoroughbred or half-bred hunters, was marred by a succession of accidents and falls. R. Penn Smith, Jr., rode his own horse, Irish Heather, to victory. He was the only one that finished the three miles and a half over the timber course without a mishap. Enoch Graham lost his rider at the "seventeenth jump, but was remounted and finished second, about a quarter of a mile behind the winner. A similar distance behind him was Kings Foot, which was remounted after losing his rider at the twenty-second jump. The mcst serious accident in the race came at the twenty-ninth jump, when Carry On blundered into the timber and fell on his. rider. Mr. Thomas appeared to have been seriously injured, but after a few minutes was able to leave the field unassisted.
