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CLOSEST FINISH OF YEAR Spectators Divided as to Result of Canarsie Claiming Stakes. Henrietta Wildair, Gordon Plaid and Polls Finish Closely Aligned in the Order Named at Aqueduct. j AQUEDUCT, N. Y., June 24. One of the .greatest finishes in the East this year came J with the running of the Canarsie Claiming: Stakes, at Aqueduct today, when Henrietta! Wildair, Gordon Plaid and Polls swept over the finish line so closely lapped that many were of the opinion that the judges had erred tin not placing Gordon Plaid first, while others were just as positive that they were also wrong in placing Henrietta Wildair in front of Polls. The Canarsie is for two-year-olds, at five-eighths, and was worth ,250 to the winner. Whether or not the judges erred, Henrietta ran a smashing race when she hung on so well after having forced the pace from the rise of the barrier. With ideal weather for the sport and the track at its best there was plenty of enjoyment for the big Friday crowd that was out. Ten started in the Canarsie and there was a considerable delay at the post, for which Miss Boyd was largely to blame, but the start was a good one, and those that were fighting it out at the end were always the contenders in the running. Henrietta Wildair, beginning from the outside position, had speed enough to go right to the front and cross the others slightly. Gordon Plaid and Polls were not far away, but Fator had to hustle the colt along to keep him there, for he is a bit slow to get under way. Polls was outside the other two and also going well. Inside the final sixteenth Polls closed on Henrietta Wildair as though he would run over her, but Gordon Plaid matched the move and, in the closing strides Polls hung ever so slightly and it seemed as the three flashed over the line that Gordon Plaid, racing between the other two, had dropped his head down in front. - FATOR SURPRISED. Two and a half lengths back of the first three came Doctor Wilson in fourth place. There was some surprise when the order of the finish was displayed by the judges and Fator, who rode Gordon Plaid, was one of those surprised. As he rode back to the scales and saw the No. 12 displayed as winner instead of No. 5, that carried by Gordon Plaid, he looked at his own saddle cloth to make sure of his right number. The sport opened with a handicap at seven-eighths, for fillies and mares, and Lee Rosenbergs game filly Irigrid, ridden by Johnny Callahan, was returned winner from Gifford A. Cochranes Guinea Hen, while the H. P. Whitney pair, Panera and Maid o the Mist, followed. There was some delay at the post, but the start was a good one, though Ingrid was a bit more alert than the others, while Maid o the Mist was last to leave. Ingrid did not hold her command long when Guinea Hen was rushed along at a killing pace, and Fisher soon had her three lengths clear. Ingrid and Pandera raced closely lapped back of her, and then came Gerinaine Chauveiot and Bonnie Maginn. An eighth out, Ingrid was closing in a way that already proclaimed her the winner when it was apparent she was holding Pandera safe. Guinea Hen was beginning to tire slightly and Ingrid came on straight and true, to be winner by a length and going away. Guinea Hen was quitting in the final drive and just lasted to nose out Pandera for second place, while Maid o the Mist followed right at the heels of her stablemate. A big field of cheap ones met in the mile of the second race, and it brought a fighting finish when Highwayman just beat home Andy Schuttingers Irish Marine, with Robert C. Winmills Graeme saving third from Durie M. DURIE M. SETS PLACE. Durie if. was the one to cut out the running and, after stealing away into a good early lead, she only tired in the final eighth but, when she did stop, she made a good job of dropping out of the money. Highway- man and Irish Marine always raced for-wardly but, in the final drive, they were both bearing out slightly, and Goodwin outrode little Philpot right at finish. Graeme was going well at the end, and the manner in which Durie M. stopped suggested that she needed the race. In this running J. G. Cremens Immolator, after being virtually left at the post, could not be brought around the track by McCoy. .He repeatedly wheeled until, finally, McCoy dismounted at the head of the stretch and led him back to the scales. Reporter, a Tijuana performer that races for Rudolph Spreckels, furnished the big sur- . prise of the day, when he was winner of the . mile handicap, which was fourth on the card. He had been started three times since his arrival in New York, but there was nothing in any of these races to suggest his having a chance. But there was really more surprise in the disgraceful performance of Frederick Johnsons Bumpkin than there was in the victory of Reporter. The Johnson colt had shown recent good form, but on this occasion he was just about as dull a horse as could well be imagined, for not only did Reporter gallop home winner by four lengUis, but Frank Brays Gracious Gift also beat him for second place easily. Gracious Gift went out to set pace, and in the early racing he was a couple of lengths clear, while Bumpkin and Reporter followed closely lapped, and early in the action it was apparent that Reporter was having no trouble heading the son of Brown Prince II. Swinging into the stretch while Gracious Gift was still showing the way, Barnes roused Reporter and went after him. At the same time Burke called on Bumpkin, but it was of no avail ; he had no horse under him, and, while Reporter raced on by the tired Gracious Gift, Bumpkin was unable to improve his position. Celebration the black daughter of High Time and Sand Pocket which races for Admiral Cary T. Graysons Salubria Stable, escaped from the maiden class in the five-eighths dash for.juvcniles that was the fifth offering. The victory also chalked up a double for Eddie Barnes, for he had ridden Reporter in the previous race. The easy fashion in which Celebration ran away from her company to win by a full seven lengths In :59 made it a truly good performance. Benjamin Blocks Morbelle staggered home winner in the mile for platers at the end of the program. Porto Bello Gold raced to the place and Mariner saved third. Morbelle was rushed into a long early lead at the rise of the barrier, and she was hustled right along all the way. At the end she was tiring badly, but Hicks managed to keep her moving. Mariner raced in nearest pursuit of her most of the way, but he has no more heart than the filly, and when he quit in the final sixteenth he lost second place to Porto Bello Gold. Edward Arlington has purchased Clearance from A, J. Joyner, representing G. D. Widener. The horse will be trained by Kimball Patterson, and it is proposed to campaign him through the Empire City meeting next month.
