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SARAZEN GLORIOUSLY Beats Mad Play and Cherry Pie in Manhattan Handicap. Nursery Handicap to Repulse in Close Finish With Nina, Le-gere Outriding M. Fator. BELMONT PARK, New York-, N. T., Sept. 1. The Manhattan Handicap would have been a real feature on any less important day than the staging of the International Special and it brought an easy victory to Mrs. Yan-derbilts great three-year-old Sarazen. He was only opposed by the Rancocas Stables Mad Play and the. Greentree Stables Cherry Pie, but he beat both of them easily. The Manhattan Handicap was over the mile distance and was worth 3,500 to the winner. Sarazen was carrying three pounds over the scale when he shouldered 122 pounds and was conceding six pounds to Mad Play, winner of the Belmont, and he gave twenty-one pounds on the scale to Cherry Pie, holder of the American mile record. Mad Play was permitted to steal away into a good early lead, while Maiben had Sarazen under double wraps back of him, with Cherry Pie close after the gelding. This was the ocder until nearing the stretch turn when Maiben shook up Sarazen and in a dozen strides he. was alongside of Mad Play. A dozen more and he was on by. In the last eighth Cherry Pie closed with a rush under Parkes vigorous drive and Maiben had to shake up Sarazen again, but the son of High Time was only joking and he answered the call to win with plenty in reserve, while Cherry Pie readily beat Mad Play for the place. FIELD REDUCED IX SIZE. The first of the stakes of the day was the Nursery Handicap at three-quarters over the main course and worth just ,175 to the winner. From a promised field of twenty just half of that number were withdrawn and the winner turned up in John E. Maddens Repulse in a close finish with the Rancocas Stables Nina while Gifford A. Cochrans Pocantico just beat Edward R. Bradleys Buttin In for third. Right at the end M. Fator who had the mount on Nina was clearly outridden by Le-gere on the Madden colt, but he is outridden so often that it is to be expected and the wonder of it is that Hildreth continues to ride him. Stampdale was the one to cut out the early running and Peanuts and Pocantico were not far away with Extreme, the Continued on fifteenth iage. SARAZEN GLORIOUSLY Continued from first page. high -weight of the party following and within striking distance. Before the stretch was reached Extreme had circled around and gone into the command. It looked as though he would be a sure winner. Then Fator made: his move with Nina and she wore down Extreme but when Legere rushed up with Repulse he made the Rancocas rider look like the veriest novice and he was no help to the filly, Repulse winning by a head. Pocantico and Buttin In followed so closely lapped that it was almost impossible to separate them. Repulse was started in the last race at-Saratoga and was easily beaten by Finland. This race was a startling improvement over that performance, but Repulse was a maiden up to the running of the Nursery and maidens can hardly be held strictly to account when it comes to consistency. DONNELLY BEATS COSTIGAN. The opening race was a mile and a sixteenth for platers and Samuel Louis Donnelly by a determined rush on the outside in the stretch was up to win from William Daniels Costigan with H. S. Bowns Overtake in third place. From a good start Gypsy King and Master Hand were the ones to cut out the pace. They were closely lapped as they showed the way untir almost at the stretch turn when Master Hand tired. In the meantime Costigan had been racing forwardly and he made a determined bid rounding into the straight. Then Maiben made his winning move on the outside with Donnelly after having rated the Louis plater well back of the pace through the early stages. Costigan hung on well under the drive but he could not withstand that rush of Donnelly. Overtake savea ground on the stretch turn and was closing in good fashion at the end. Russell McGills Skyscraper, the Ultimus gelding that formerly raced for the Green-tree Stable, was winner of the seven eighths of the second race, a claiming dash. He had something left at the end and the Rancocas Stables Rigel raced to second place with J. B. Smiths Silk Tassel saving third. Though Rigel began well M. Fator took him back and Skyscraper soon went into the lead and with no one to dispute his command he led practically all the way. Silk Tassejl was in second place and Banter raced after them with M. Fator sitting stiil on as fast a colt as Rigel. Just what Fator was . thinking of through the early stages of the contest cannot be imagined, but finally he awoke when the stretch was -reached and it was too late. He called on Rigel and the little chestnut, responding, was quickly in second place and catching the winner to suggest that a better timed ride would have brought victory. Some of the rides put up by this young Fator makes one wonder just how he ever attracted any favorable attention as a jockey. His efforts have been miserably weak this year and he has been a handicap to the Rancocas Stable. Goldstick, ridden by C. Kummer, and rac- ing for A. Barklie, was winner of the final race of the afternoon at five and a lialf furlongs in a hard drive from J. L. Hollands Gnome Girl, while Danby, from the J. E. Madden stable, led home nine others. Goldstick came from behind the pace which was cut out by Gnome Girl and was up in the closing strides to win by a short heck.
