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SUPERLETTE ALL THE WAY Finds Little Trouble Accounting for Beldame Handicap. Steeplechase to IXouynhnm Pepp First In 3Iiie Handicap Polo Ground Finally Scores. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 29. Superlette. the two-year-old daughter of Superman and Epinglette, that races for Harry F. Sinclairs Rancocas Stable, was winner of the stake offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today. She easily accounted for the Beldame Handicap, worth ,725 to the winner, with the Greentreo Stables Hearth Broom in second place and Mrs. Victor Vivadous Pleasant Memories beat H. W. Maxwells Brown Betty for third. It was an unpleasant day for the sport. There were frequent drizzles of rain, while a cold wind blew over the course, but the attendance was large and there was no lack of enthusiasm. Lightship was the only filly whose name was sent out for the Beldame that did not appear under silks. It left a field of eight to perform, but of these Harry Payne "Whitneys Gold Brick wheeled as the barrier rose and had no chance. Superlette began running and Laverne Fator took her to the inside, where she sped along in command and clear of her company virtually all the way. Hearth Broom followed her and through the early stages it was Brown Betty that was in third place, but the Maxwell filly tired when the pinch came and gave way to Pleasant Memories. At the end Superlette was something more than two lengths to the good and Hearth Broom was about a like distance before Mrs. Vivadous filly, while in turn she was leading Brown Betty by a like distance. John T. Kermaths Houynhnm ran a greatly improved race in the short course steeplechase handicap to be winner from W. V. Dwyers St. Lawrence while M. Grahams Flying Scotchman beat Joseph E. Davis Relentless home. The only other starter was Thomas Hitchcocks Elzear and he was left at the post after three ineffectual attempts to get him off. The surprise of the race more than the victory of Houy-hnhnm was the poor showing of Relentless. But it must be remembered that for a three-year-old and a geren jumper she was treated harshly when required to take up nineteen pounds over the scale. Another handicap that Relentless suffered was the refusal of Elzear to start At each false start she was away running and at one start she took the first fence before she was pulled up. She fretted and bucked about in a manner to take much out of her and is small wonder that she ran a bad race. Though twelve had been named through the entry box for the mile and a sixteenth of the claiming handicap there were nine declined at pest time and the only ones to appear were George W. Lofts Pepp, Frand Herolds Rejection and Charles H. Their-iots Prince James. And that is the order in which they finished. There was little to the running. The three left at the first attempt and Pepp at once went into command. Babin permitted him to go along in his own fashion and it was good enough to keep him safely in the lead all the way. Continued on sixteenth page. SUPERLETTE ALL THE WAY Continued from first page. Sandy McNaughtons Polo Ground finally found his level in the six and a half furlongs of the fifth race and he was winner after being whipped all the way through the stretch by Burke. This was a race for maidens of the selling plater variety and Polo Ground was entered to be sold for ,500. It might be said on behalf of Polo Ground that he was blocked and knocked back in the early racing and he had to be much the best of his company to make up the ground that was lost and he home winner. II. W. Maxwells Blue Moon, ridden by jockey Fields, was winner of the closing race of the afternoon, which engaged a field of all ages at three-quarters. W. R. Coes Zuker raced to the place, while Quarantine, from the R. L. Gerry stable, was third. The opening race was a three-quarters dash for two-year-olds and it resulted in a good finish when W. J. Boths Bright Idea beat home W. V. Caseys Gipsy Flyer, with P. S. P. Randolphs Sea Tide a close third. Kumonin and Bright Idea were the ones to cut out all the pace but Bright Idea put Kumonin away at head of stretch and had enough left to outgame Gipsy Flyer and Sea Tide at the end. Sea Tide was probably best of the company. She left the post so slowly as to suffer a serious handicap, and , closed a big gap to finish third.
