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QUEEN QUEEN CITY CITY HANDICAP HANDICAP TO TO KENTUCKY KENTUCKY CARDINAL; CARDINAL; MAD MAD PLAY PLAY SHOWS SHOWS RETURN RETURN TO TO BEST BEST FORM FORM A 6 C C S SPARKLING CONTEST Mad Play Hangs Up New Mark in Winning Continental. Stimulus First in Oceanus Handicap Double Success for the Rancocas Stable. NEW YORK, N. T., Oct 4. Mad Play, star three-year-old of the Rancocas Stable, and winner of the Belmont Stakes in the spring, showed a return to that form in the running of the Continental Handicap at Jamaica today when he was winner over the mile and an eighth distance in 1:49, hanging out a new record for the distance. The race was one of the features of an exclleent holiday card that was furnished by the Metropolitan Jockey Club and it was worth ?5,9Q0 to the winner. The companion piece to the Continental was the Oceanus Handicap, and it fell to Marshall Fields good colt, Stimulus, which forced all the pace under top weight to be home the winner. In both features the Belair Stud starters were contenders for in the Continental it was Priscilla Ruley that took second place with Zev third, while in the Oceanus Beatrice was second and Nedana, from the Rancocas Sable, third. Todays program was one that attracted the best crowd of the meeting. It was by long odds the best program that has been offered. The Continental furnished a rare contest and it was a horse race all the way. Clarence Kummer, who had the mount on Zev, took the four-year-old into the lead from the rise o the barrier and Priscilla Ruley chased after him, wnile L. Fator had Mad Play galloping in third place next to the inside rail being inside the filly and following his stablemate Zev. Turning out of the backstretch Priscilla Ruley drew up on Zev in threatening fashion, but Fator moved at the same time with Mad Play, though his position kept him tightly bottled up in the pocket back of Zev. Right there Aga Khan, the stablemate to Priscilla Ruley, made his move and he went up with such a rush on the outside that for an instant -the Belair chances appeared particularly bright ZEV THE PACEMAKER. Zev was beginning to tire of his pace-making and Mad Play was pocketed while the Belair pair were racing strongly and free of any interference, but Mad Play had plenty in reserve and finally Fator pulled off the rail and elected to try for the outside. Aga Khan had not gone through with his challenge and when Fator made his move he was fortunate in not being blocked by him, but he was forced to go to the outside of both Zev and Priscilla Ruley. This he accomplished and when straightened for the run home he was showing the way and once in front he was not bothered to be home winner with something to spare. Right at the end Zev was coming again under the vigorous riding of Kummer, but he could not catch Priscilla Ruley and she was home safely in second place. The race was a fast run one all the way and it served to show that both Mad Play and Zev are by no means through, while Priscilla Ruley and Aga Khan are formidable eligibles for the Latonia Championship Stakes, for which they are to be sent to Kentucky. After the finish each was worked out and they went to the mile and a quarter in 2 :05 and the mile and three-eighths in 2 :19. Marshall Fields Stimulus, the chestnut son of Ultimus and Hurakan, gave further evidences of his quality when he forced all the pace in the three-quarters of the Oceanus Handicap to be winner from the Belair Studs Beatrice with the Rancocas Stables Nedana finishing third. What made the performance doubly impressive was the fact that Stimulus was taking up 125 pounds, three pounds over the scale and was giving away lumps of weight to all the others, except Nicholas to which he gave away two pounds. The race was worth ?4,175 to tho winner. STIMULUS I2T THE LEAD. Ten went to the post when Lawless was an added starter from the H. P. Whitney stable. There was an unusual delay at tho post and when the barrier rose Stimulus had the jump on the others and was a length clear, but he was quickly joined by Nicholas and the pair of them were hipped as they left the backstretch well ia advance of tho - Continuod on sixteenth page. SPARKLING CONTEST i ! Continued from first page. remainder of the field. Beatrice was heading the others and holding her position resolutely and galloping strongly. Nedana, after beginning well enough was outrun in the early stages and dropped back slightly, but all were in fairly close order, though Stimulus and Nicholas were three lengths clear of them all. Going to the stretch turn Babin called on Nicholas and as he drew up almost on even with Stimulus, it seemed for a moment that the Field colt would crack, but Thurber had something in reserve for that challenge and it was all that Nicholas had left. When Stimulus withstood that challenge Nicholas was through and the son of Ultimus swung into the stretch well in the lead. But in the meantime Beatrice had circled around and was closing in gallant fashion. Nicholas was all through and when Thurber saw the new danger he shook up -Stimulus to make the score certain and the result was no jlonger in doubt. It was in the last eighth that Nedana made her sensational bid. She had to be taken to the outside to find racing room and she was going better than either Beatrice or Stimulus at the end, but her bid came too late and Beatrice had lasted to save second place by a head. Three lengths back of the Rancocas filly came the thoroughly tired Nicholas. Polycarp, now racing for S. Gooch, was winner of the opening three-quarters dash for platers. Mrs. J. A. Coburns Buck Pond raced to second place and it was, G. Ko-nigswalds Better Times that was third. There was some delay at the post, for which Buck Pond was chiefly responsible. But the start was a good one and Buck Pond and Wildrake were the ones to cut out the pace. Better Times, raced forwardly, while Thurber had Quarantine on the outside and in early difficulty. Polycarp made his move leaving the back-stretch and shot away from the others until he had a long lead before the stretch was reached. Wildrake tired when turning for home, but Buck Pond hung on well under a drive and Better Times also finished resolutely. The race run by Quarantine was away below what he has been showing and Thurbers ride did not compare at all favorably with what he has been showing recently. W. Kearns Bear Grass was in a running mood in the mile and seventy yard of the second race and he was an easy winner from W. Robinsons Briggs Buchanan with R. A. Forshas Blue Hill third. Bear Grass drew out into a good lead and he was rated along in command all the way to win with something to spare. Briggs Buchanan raced forwardly throughout and handled his heavy Impost of 126 pounds well to hold second place safe. G. W. Coburns Superbum was winner of the mile and a quarter. for cheap ones that was the fifth offering and he was -winner largely because Johnny Callahan knew ?onie-.thiitg of pace. He rated his mount well out of it through the early stages and, timing his run intelligently, was up to beat home S. Goochs Good Night, while the Somerset Stables Bar Gold was a fast going third. As a matter of fact, Barnes seemed to think there was another turn of the course from his handling of Bar Gold. He made no move on the imported plater until it was virtually over. Wynnewood was rushed into a long early lead and for a time he looked a probable winner, but he found the route a bit far and at the head of the stretch Good Night took command, but he had moved too soon and he fell a victim to the final rush of Superbum. 1 The Rancocas Stables King Jimmy completed a double for that stable, when under vigorous riding he was winner of the final race of the day over Leona Stock Farms New Moon, while Rodeo was third. The winner carrie from a long way back, and finished gamely to dispose of the fast quitting New Moon.
