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VICTORY FOR PEDAGOGUE 1 Rancocas Colt Captures Stake Feature at Aqueduct Thursday. High Trince Scores Impressively In Mile Handicap Dry Moon Beats Silk Tassel and Rival in Great Finish. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 25". Pedagogue, the good two-year-old son of Jim Gaffnoy and Teacher that races for the Rancocas Stable was winner of the stake offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today when he scored in the five-eighths of the Bellerose Claiming Stakes. It was worth ?3,525 to the winner. At the end it was Edward Arlingtons Barney Google that was fighting it out while William Daniels John T. D. saved third from Richard T. Wilsons Hidalgo and John E. Maddens Half Pint was a close fifth. It was a great day for racing. The weather was ideal and with no wind blowing the old course was particularly comfortable for a big crowd that was present. Little time was lost at the post in the Bellerose Stakes and the start was a good one. Pedagogue and Barney Google were the first to show out of the bunch and the Arlington colt outran the Rancocas hope for the first eighth and John T. D. was almost with the pair of them. Half Pint was racing along on the inside in a forward position. The Spa was showing some speed. In the last eighth. Pedagogue had Barney Google headed and Fator was content to hold the lead and nurse his mount along. Barney Google fought along resolutely until a few strides from the end where he tired slightly and Pedagogue was winner by three parts of a length. Barney Google was in turn, a length and a half before John T. D. and Hidalgo outgamed Half Pint to beat the Madden colt a head. The others were well strung out with The Spa quitting badly in last place. The claiming handicap at a mile was easy for P. S. P. Randolphs High Prince and at the end he was in hand to beat Charles H. Thierots Delmor with Samuel H. Harris Prince Hamlet saving third without any trouble from E. W. Prices Leisch. The only other starter was G. C. Winfreys The Poet, and he ran a miserably dull race. Delmor and Leisch were the ones to go out in the early lead but High Prince was not far away and Barnes was riding a confident race not making any effort to go after the leaders. The Poet was unable to keep up and quickly dropped out of the running while Prince Hamlet, as usual, was slow to be under way. It was not until the stretch was reached that High Prince caught Delmor but he accomplished it readily when it became necessary and going on by was home an easy winner. Delmor was hard ridden in a vain effort to save the day but it was of no avail and then along came Prince Hamlet to be third, when he readily outran Leisch and The Poet. Continued on sixteenth page. . V q f I t v ii in j c f j, t v J c ? 1 , 1 1 . j . VICTORY FOR PEDAGOGUE Continued from first page. It was a great finish came out of the three-quarters claiming handicap that was the fifth offering when Charles A. Stonehams Dry Moon caught Silk Tassel and Rival in the closing strides to beat the pair of them. From a good start Rival and Silk Tassel were sent along at a heart-breaking pace which M. Fator, who seldom shows any judgment in his riding, absolutely killed the chances of Rival the top weight Pierce was-almost as bad -with Silk Tassel for neither one would give his mount a breathing .spell. It was inevitable that- such tactics could only have one result and when both horses were raced to death in front, Dry Moon charged on them to beat, them home. There was just a bit of an excuse for going out witli Silk Tassel for she was the light weight of the party, but no excuse can be found for the Fator ride. But it was just another of the rides that makes it a constant wonder that he is ever given a mount by -Hiidreth. Relentless, three-year-old daughter of Vul-cain and Himation that races for Joseph E.Davis, gave a first class performance in the short course steeplechase and one to suggest that she is a bright prospect for cross country racing, when she becomes more mature. She showed a fine flight of speed on the flat, and except at one jump her fencing was perfect To her credit She made a rapid recovery from her mistake and at the end was easily showing the way to St Lawrence, while. Thomas Hitchcocks Prickle saved third from Mrs. Alexander Browns Ruihe. Back pi him came Samuel Ross Trapstick and the Oak Ridge Stables Faenza.
