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BELAIR STUDS FLAMBINO Leads Home H. P. Whitneys Fri- lette in Gazelle Stakes. - Our General Takes Measure of Washakie . Barleycorn First In Steeplechase After Exceedingly Rough Race. - NEW YORK, N. Y.. June 28. For- a .feature today the offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct, was the Gazelle Stakes, a - mile and one-sixteenth contest for three-year-old fillies that had its first running back in 1887. It fell to Flanibino, from William Woodwards Belair Stud Stable, when she led home Harry Payne Whitneys Frllette, from which she received eleven pounds, while H. Teller Archibalds Candy May outstayed Maid o the Mist, another Whitney star, for third place. The only other starter was R. C. Winmills Bonnie Khayyam and she was far out of it all the way. The race was worth ,325 to the winner. This race marked the return of "Sonny" Workman to the saddle. He had the mount on Frilette and was given a warm reception when the fillies paraded to the post. No time was lost at the barrier and as it was released Candy May rushed out to set the pace and Flambino went after her. The pair were closely lapped as they drew out a couple of lengths before the Whitney pairj of which Maid o the Mist was showing the way, but Frilette was right there and Bonnie Khayyam far back. Candy May held on resolutely and Flambino was ridden hard to keep alongside of her. Then, near the stretch turn, the Whitney pair moved on the outside with Frilette further out than her stablemate. In the run home Frilette finished with great courage, but Workman was unable to keep her straight and Flambino lasted to be winner by a length. . TURKEYS NECK FIRST. The opening race was a dash at five-eighths for two-year-olds of the platers variety, and Mrs. J. W. Beans useful filly Turkeys Neck proved best when she led home Mrs. R. P. Shaffers Star Rocket, with Flitting Day, from the Meadow Farm Stable, the ont to be third. Turkeys Neck started from one of the outside positions, but she had speed enough to cross to the inside without causing any serious interference. Star Rocket had left running, but the filly had. him headed an eighth from home to hold her advantage and the winner had a margin of a length and a half at the finish. Star Rocket was tiring badly at the end. but was safely in second place, a length before Flitting Day. Loveken, the H. W. Maxwell starter, had a bit of misfortune in the running and was knocked about badly in the early running. Joseph E. Wideners Barleycorn, after repeatedly crossing and bothering Harry Payne Whitneys Husky, was winner of the short course steeplechase. After the finish, Cheyen, who rode Husky, lodged a claim of foul which was not allowed. Husky had finished just a length back of Barleycorn and ten lengths before Four Courts, the one to take third. . In this running Sammy Jay. from the Mend-ham Stable, broke a leg two fences from home and was destroyed. Irish Excellence, an out-lander, starting for the first time in this country, was pulled up before completing a turn of the course. Four Courts was exceedingly rank in the running, and so was Drummer Boy II. until he was taken back by Newton. St. Lawrence for a time ran with Four Courts, but it was not for long, while Cheyen had Husky galloping along strongly in third place. That was the order to the lower end of the course, and Barleycorn was following at the heels of the Whitney jumper. In the backfield Four Courts was through and, as he tired, Husky and Barleycorn both raced out strongly while St. Lawrence attempted to move with them. Around the upper end of the field Barleycorn outfooted Husky slightly, and then in the run through the front field Bogan pulled him across Husky repeatedly. At the last fence Husky stumbled rather badly but he finished out gamely to be right at the heels of Barleycorn. Husky also came out of the race limping- badly and his going lame was another excellent excuse for his defeat. FATORS GOOD RIDE. Our General, the five-year-old son of Sir Martin, that first came to the races as .Star Lore, was winner of the mile and a sixteenth handicap that brought out five starters. Well ridden by Fator and taking up five pounds overweight over the 104 pounds at which he was handicapped, he had no trouble taking the measure of W. A. Wollmans Washakie, and Joseph E. Wideners Royal Play was rather a distant third, with Reporter and Saorstat bringing up the rear. Washakie began quickly and Reporter kept him busy through the early running but, swinging out of the back stretch, Washakie drew out from him and went into a lead of three lengths, with Callahan permitting him to run right along. Reporter and Royal Play, well lapped, followed him and Fator was content to rate Our General back of them. Washakie was still showing the way as he rounded into the stretch, but there Fator shook up Our General, and an eighth out he had closed up on the leader until Callahan was forced to go to the whip. That was of no avail and Our General raced on by to win by a full three lengths in hand. Royal Play outstayed the tiring Reporter, the horse that recently beat Bumpkin, and Saorstat was last all through the running and never a contender. Midhour was claimed by E. Sietas out of the sixth race Monday, for ,000.
