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SILVER FOXS FIRST STAKE Rancocas Stables HighPriced Colt Wins Broadway Serenader Proves Best In Sprinting Handi ¬ cap King Colins Reversal of Form NEW YORK N T June 18 Silver Fox the high priced English bred threeyearold that races for the Rancocas Stable was win ¬ ner of his first stake race when he took down the mile and a sixteenth of the Broad ¬ way Stakes at Aqueduct today Gifford A Cochrans Dangerous after being almost left at the post saved second place by a length and a half and the Belair Stud Stables Marconi beat Walter M Jeffords By His self the only other starter The race was worth 3125 to the winner winnerIt It was an excellent day of sport that was furnished by the Queens County Jockey Club and the track was in excellent condition Weather that would have been uncom ¬ fortably warm was tempered by a cooling breeze and altogether the old course was a pleasant place to spend the afternoon afternoonThe The Broadway Stakes is a sort of a con ¬ solation stake for the threeyearolds being for nonwinners of 5000 and this was its third running The first winner was Autumn Bells while last year it fell to August Bel monts Ladkin the colt that has a victory over Epinard to his credit creditOf Of the four that paraded to the post Silver Fox semed much the best but had it not been that Dangerous was not ready when the barrier was sprung it is possible the result would have teen a different one Silver Fox left running and Marconi was right with him and By Hisself was not far away Fator had a good hold of Silver Fox head while Marconi was also under a re ¬ straint that had his mouth wide open By Hisself held a close third position without any trouble while Kummer was forced to ride Dangerous vigorously in the early racing to atone for leaving the post so sluggishly Silver Fox held to his lead without any trouble and he was still under a restraining pull when he raced into the long stretch There both Marconi and By Hisself were flattened out in an effort to catch him and still Dangerous drew up on the outside outsideWell Well inside the last furlong Fator realized the danger in the charge of the Cochran colt and he sat down and rode Silver Fox vig ¬ orously The gray responded to the call and ho still was a length and a half to the good at the end while Dangerous was along to be second by four lengths over Marconi As for By Hisself he was quitting badly in the Continued on sixteenth pace SILVER FOXS FIRST STAKE Continued from first page stretch and was at no time a really serious contender It was a good band of sprinters that met In the six and a half furlongs of the second race a handicap and William A Daniels Serenader tho top weight proved best when ho won with something to spare from Gifford A Cochrans Follies the light weight of the company with the Audley Farms Fast Mail saving third from Mrs Victor Vlvaudous Atherstone There was a disgraceful reversal of form that came in the running of the mile of the third race when W A Rosens King Colin was home an easy winner over P J Lavins Kit Carson with H W Maxwells Brown etty saving third from Flying Al with Day Trap the only other starter starterIn In a previous start with Catrone in the eoddlo King Colin gave a disgraceful exhi ¬ bition while in this race with the little black boy Hudgins as his pilot he made every post a winning one and was in hand at the end Kit Carson raced second throughout and in the stretch when McDermot struck him with the whip he swerved sharply to the inner rail losing any chance he might have had to catch tho winner winnerBut But King Colin was an altogether differ ¬ ent horse for this contest than he was in his recent previous start and it is doubtful if tho swerve of Kit Carson had any real effect on the result resultTho Tho running is one that merits investiga ¬ tion for if the stable is to blame for the re ¬ versal tho stable should be punished If Catrone is to blame he should be punished The two races were too altogether different to pass unnoticed
