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LADKIN IMPRESSIVELY Handsome Son of Fair Play Easily Wins Carleton Stakes. Victory Achieved in Fast Run Race, with Mad Play Among the Beaten Contenders. 9 NEW YORK, N. Y., June 24. August Belmonts Ladkin, the handsome son of Fair Play and Lading, was an easy victor of the mile of the Carleton Stakes at Aqueduct today. The race was worth ,350 to the winner, and his margin of success was five lengths over H. P. Whitneys Klondyke, when he finished out the distance in 1:36. The Oak Ridge Stables Metropolitan Handicap winner, Laurano, was a close third, with Bracadale fourth, Mad Play, winner of the Belmont Stakes, fifth, Worthmore sixth and Samaritan pulling up a distant last. It was a great day for the sport, weather conditions were ideal and the track at its best. The crowd was of goodly proportions and the contests for the most part were interesting. Had Earl Sande shown his usual skill in the riding of August Belmonts Lucky Play, in the third race, a sprint handicap, there would have been a double for the chairman of the Jockey Club. He could only finish third to Rival and Reparation, though it appeared that the Belmont colt was better than the two that beat him. The early pace in the Carleton Stakes was terrific, when Worthmore and Laurano went out and ran the first quarter in 22 and the half in 45. With that sizzling pace Laurano outran Worthmore, and the three-quarters mark was reached in 1:10. All this time Ladkin was rating along back of them, while the Rancocas pair, Bracadale and Mad Play, were both being outrun, and Klondyke was also one of the followers. KLONDYKE FINISHES FAST. It was in the stretch that Ladkin went to Laurano and had little trouble in putting him away to come on to the easy victory already recorded. In the meantime Klondyke had saved ground on the stretch turn and he was closing up with a great rush on the inside. He was fortunate in finding his way through and in the closing strides he caught the tiring Laurano, to take second place. Both Bracadale and Mad Play, top weights of the company, raced dully and there was no time they were anywhere close to the leaders. As for Worthmore, he was all l through after his early sprinting, and Samaritan was so thoroughly beaten that he I was eased up in the stretch to be a distant i last. The mile for platers, that was the fifth offering, fell to J. J. Morans The Poet, with . Samuel II. Harris Prince Hamlet in second place and M. Bernards Gov. Smith the one to race to third. Little Dawson had the mount on The Poet and he made every post a winning one. In the early stages it was Gov. Smith that went after him and then in the stretch Sande challenged with Prince Hamlet, but The Poet stuck to his task under a hard drive and held the Harris three-year-old perfectly safe. The others in the company were never serious contenders. DOUBLE FOR RANCOCAS. The Rancocas Stable accounted for a double when Superlette, ridden by jeekey L. Fator, was an easy winner of the final race, at five-eighths. F. J. Farrells Goldbeater raced to second place, while the Riviera Stables Rigoletto was third. The winner was a forward factor throughout and after assuming command won with speed in reserve. Miss Babe, from the Freeport Stable, was winner of the first race when she outgamed Wilbur C. Whitehead after a stretch battle that lasted all through the final eighth. Ray Scherrers Kumonin by a game finish along the inside rail just got .up in time to beat. C. W. Landers Tailteann. Wilbur C. Whitehead and Miss Babe were the ones to set all the pace and it was the colt that was leading until inside the last eighth mark. There ho faltered slightly and Miss Babe caught him under a drive and held him safe for the rest of the way. Right at the end Burke eased him slightly when he was beaten by Miss Babo and it almost cost him second place when Kumonin finished resolutely on the Inside. Maidens came together in the mile of the second race and from a rather straggling start Suburban rushed into a long early lead, but Lee Rosenbergs Desperate Desmond wore him down in the stretch to win, though he was an easy second over John Lowes Moms Boy, and Lady Longridge was fourth. Moms Boy ran a good race, for he was last of tho company to leave and he had to close an Immense gap. Moon Dream was another that had scant chance and he never improved her position. Desperate Desmond raced along in second place back of Suburban until well into the stretch, where the Ready colt began to tire and at the end he was Continued on twelfth page. LADKIN IMPRESSIVELY Continued from first page. quitting so badly that Desperate Desmond was winner by. two lengths. It was a fast band of sprinters that came together in the six and a half furlong handicap for three-year-olds and over that was the third race. It also brought about a good contest when Rival, from the Rancocas Stable, was winner from Joseph E. Davis Reparation, while August Belmonts Lucky Play was a close third. From a good start Rival rushed into the lead and Lucky Play werit after him. .This was the order all the way and after swinging into the stretch, Reparation moved up on the outside and became a keen contender. Sande had saved ground on the stretch turn and Lucky Play was going so well that it seemed certain that the Belmont colt would catch him at the first asking, but M. Fator, riding Rival, eased over slightly until it was hazardous for Sande to attempt to come through on the inside. All through the last eighth Lucky Play was held in this position, and Rival, though tiring badly, lasted the route, while Reparation, with nothing to bother him on the outside, beat Lucky Play for second place. It appeared that Lucky Play was best and had Sande made a more vigorous attempt to go through on the inside it might have been successful. Infinite had no excuse and George D. Wideners Lanius ran a decidedly dull race, as did Billy Warren.
