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STIMULUS TRIUMPHS Marshall Fields Colt Again Gives Evidence of High Quality. : r . i Easily Accounts for Marigold "Purse, Principal Attraction at Yonkers Wednesday. YONKERS, N. T., Oct 29. Marshall Fields Stimulus continues to prove his worth every time he is sent to the post He was an easy winner of the Marigold Purse at the Empire City course today. This was a five and a half furlongs race for two-year-olds and under its conditions the son of Ultimus took up 122 pounds and gave away much weight to each of his opponents, but he did it easily. William Zeigler Jr.s Mirador was the one to race to second place and J. L. Hollands Gnome Girl saved third from the Swingalong Stables Martha Martin. It was another day that was almost summerlike and there was the usual enthusiastic crowd of devotees that filled the stand and lawn. The track was fast, and while the racing in some instances was not exactly form-ful, there was plenty to interest the big gathering. Only six went to the post in the Marigold and from a good start it was Mrs. H. Ackers Pettibocker, a daughter of Chicle and Pan-talette, that dashed to the front Stimulus was after her and Gnome Girl was in third place, but the Chicle filly was showing an altogether unexpected flight of speed. Shortly after swinging out of the backstretch, George Carroll, who had the mount on Pettibocker, for some mysterious reason, took her up, when she appeared to be going strongly and holding her lead without an effort CARROLLS PECULIAR MOVE. This permitted Stimulus to go into the lead, but it worked a real handicap on Gnome Girl, for she was racing back of the Acker filly and McAtee was forced to take up himself by reason of the peculiar action of Carroll. In the meantime Stimulus had gone into a safe lead and Thurber had him under restraint as he swung into the straight for the run home. Gnome Girl had raced into second place, but her handicap earlier made that something of a task, and when Mirador closed with a rush on the inner rail he outfinished her for second place, taking that end of the purse by a length. After this peculiar ride of Carroll on Pettibocker she finished last of the company. He may have had a reason for just what he did in the running, but it was not apparent to anyone watching the race. The filly did not stop, but was taken up and she finished out the race, only beaten by about four lengths, so that the action was doubly reprehensible. Pettibocker is evidently a filly of much better class than she has been showing, and this performance tended to show her up rather than hide her form, if that was the Carroll intention. DEPUTY DISQUALIFIED. The Grenadier Claiming Handicap furnished something of a surprise when J. Mc-Millens Deputy, showing a sudden improvement over recent starts, finished first at the end of the short three-quarters distance. He was showing the way to Clarence Buxtons Sandy Hatch with the Chesterbrook Farms Chesterbrook beating W. J. Boths Skyscraper for third. After the finish M. Buxton, who had the mount on Sandy Hatch, charged Caroll with fouling him in the stretch and the stewards disqualified Deputy, giving the purse to the Buxton plater, while Skyscraper was moved into third place. There was some undoubted interference in the stretch run for Sandy Hatch had come from behind Deputy and apparently had him beaten when the latter suddenly came again to be first The start in this race was a good one, and Deputy, showing an altogether new speed, rushed into the lead and Sandy Hatch went after him, with Chesterbrook a close third, while Skyscraper did not show his usual alertness. In the stretch it narrowed to a two-horse race, and it has been told how Sandy Hatch had Deputy beaten when there came the roughing and Deputy turned the tables on the Buxton plater, only to be disqualified. Ray Scherrers Kumonin proved best of the juvenile platers in the opening mile and seventy yards affair. It is an unusual distance for juveniles, even at this time of the year and the son of Short Grass proved i gamer than his company when he came away readily at the end to win going away. C. H. Millers Confluente took second place and P. S. P. Randolphs Sea Tide saved third by a narrow margin from W. A. Woolmans Half Pint. Champignol was first to show outof the crowd at the start and Sea Tide ana" Confluente were right after him, with Bill Winfrey not far away. Kumonin had begun slowly but it was a good send-off and that was hardly a handicap. Swinging into tho j Continued on sixteenth page. STIMULUS TRIUMPHS i Continued from first page. backstretch it was Grace Troxler that found Jier way into command, but Confluente was closely lapped on lier and Bill Winfrey and Champignol were right at hand, while Sea Tide had dropped back slightly. Kumonin tvas galloping strongly and Half Pint, after meeting with some interference on the first turn, was going wide in search of free sailing. There was little change in the positions of the leaders to the head of the stretch, but Kumonin was steadily working his way up, while Half Pint was also improving his position, but he had to travel so far that he suffered a real handicap. Through the last eighth Thomas made his "winning charge with Kumonin and at the end he had a length to spare. Confluente stuck it out to save second place by half a length from Sea Tide, when she came again, while Half Pint was only a head further back. The others were well strung out, with Grace Troxler quitting so badly as to finish last of the company. Eagerness, the filly that formerly raced, for ,J. K. Davis, but now in the W. A. Rosen string, was an easy winner of the mile and seventy yards that was the second offering. She led home A. Davis Pensive, with Clarence Buxtons War Mask third. But the real surprise of the race was the dull showing of Henry Butlers Rosa Yeta and Mrs. J. A. Coburns Canyon, both sent to the post by G. W. Coburn. Canyon showed speed to the head of the stretch but Eagerness rated along behind him and came away easily when straightened for the run home. As for Rosa "Yeta, though she has been showing plenty of speed recently, she had none today and was at no time a contender. When canyon collapsed he made a good job of it to enable Pensive and "War Mask both to beat Mm home. Mrs. M. E. Merz supplied the "winner of the fifth race which engaged a band of platers at a mile and ssventy yards from Wynnewood, while Bowman was third. The winner was ridden by the apprentice, G. Walker, and followed the pace closely and drew clear at the end.
