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CAPTURES MATURITY STAKES — ♦ Filemaker Wins First Running of Belmont Parks New Race. . -♦ . Belair Stnd Stable Representative Scores Easy Triumph Over Herodian and Point Breeze — Snn Meddler in Front. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., May 23.— Filemaker, a maiden son of Ambassador IV. — Filante, which races for William Woodwards Belair Stud Stable, won the initial running of the Maturity Stakes at Belmont Park today. This is the race exclusively for four-year-olds that was added to the stake program of the Westchester Association at the suggestion of Marshall Field. It did not furnish much of a spectacle, when only three went to the post, and Filemaker won all the way to be under restraint at the end of the mile and a quarter, six lengths before W. R. Coes Herodian, which give his best to beat Walter M. Jef-fords Point Breeze by a neck for second place. The race was worth ,275 to the winner and was run in 2 :05. It was a peculiarly run race, for all three got away slowly and they were under restraint, with Filemaker clear of the other two. This was the order all through the back stretch and Filemaker, though showing the way, was under just as much restraint as either of the others. It was after turning out of the back stretch that Filemaker drew away and increased his lead to something like five lengths. As he shot away Coltiletti eased his restraint on Herodian and shortly after he was calling on the Coe starter in an effort to cut down that lead. At the same time Kelsay made his move with Point Breeze, but it was all of no avail and Filemaker continued to increase his advantage until at the end he was six lengths clear, without really having been extended. Herodian was quitting so badly at the end that he had to be driven out furiously to save second place by a neck. The day was dreary and unnaturally cold for this season of the year, but a goodly crowd was on hand for the sport and it was an interesting program that was offered. Thomas Hitchcocks Signal made something of a show of the steeplechasers that met in the two miles of the Westbury Steeplechase Handicap. At the end he was in hand to lead home Marshall Fields Nomad, while A. W. Wentzels Saorstat saved third from Danopio, with Cheramy and Greenhorn following in the order named. The two other starters, Vendemaire and Brightness, both came to grief. Vendemaire went down at the third fence, while Brightness unseated Jeffcott at the eighth fence. Cheramy and Nomad were first to show in front, but they both lost considerable ground swinging into the front field and there both Danopio and Signal moved into prominence. Then, at the water, Signal rushed up on the inside and, at the Liverpool, he had taken the Continued on eighteenth page. CAPTURES MATURITY STAKES Continued from first page. lead and the race was as good as over. Burgess had only to sit still and permit the son of Skyrocket to gallop along in his own fashion and that fashion took him out into a long lead. C. Smoot rushed Nomad along in an effort to cut down the lead of the winner, but it was of no avail, while Danopio was safely in third place to the last fence. There he was tiring and, in the run for home from that fence, Saorstat caught him and beat him home rather handily. Signal was eight lengths before Nomad and the Marshal Field jumper had beaten Saorstat almost twice that distance. Fortunately, both Harraway, who rode Vendemaire, and Jeffcott, who fell from Brightness, escaped serious injury and walked from the field. Green Fire, the two-year-old daughter of Donnacona — Incendie which races for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilts Fair Stable, was winner of the opening four and a half furlongs dash for fillies of the plater variety. There were nineteen in the field, but rather an ordinary band and, at the end. Green Fire only scored after a hard drive from John Elliotts Little E., while G. D. Wideners Cuddle raced third. There was additional interest in the fact that Green Fire, which is of the same family as Naturalist, is the first winner bred by Mrs. Vanderbilt. Sun Meddler, from Mrs. Margaret Emerson Bakers Sagamore Stable, was winner of the seven-eighths mile handicap, which was the third offering. Jefferson Livingstons The Diver raced to second place rather handily, while A. J. Goldsboroughs John Cava-nagh just beat home Miss Peggie B. Baileys Black Beetle for third place. In this the disgrace of the race was Oh Say. from the Fair Stable. He has been racing among the best three-year-olds, but in this afternoons race he had been snatched up as the barrier was released. Fields had him in last place, though on frequent occasions he has shown a world of speed and there was no stage of the running in which he cut any figure whatever. Sun Meddler began nicely in motion and Walsh made every use of that advantage when he rushed him along all the way. Diavolo and John Cava-nagh were outrunning the others in the early racing, but before the stretch was reached The Diver went to the outside and he chased Sun Meddler into the stretch. In the run home The Diver gained some ground on Sun Meddler, but he was still a length back at the end, three lengths before John Cavanagh and Black Beetle, which fought it out, closely lapped, for the short end of the purse.
