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SUBURBAN TO DOLAN ♦ Huon Colt Surprises in Historic Handicap at Belmont Park. ♦ . — — ■ Chance Shot Second and Scapa Flow Third — Nimba and Chance Play Unplaced. ♦- NEW YORK. N. Y., June 2— Before a crowd that closely approached the immense gathering of Decoration Day, E. F. Cooneys Dolan, under a good ride by the veteran rider Callahan, was winner of the famous old Suburban Handicap, the big feature at Belmont Park today. He scored with plenty to spare over the mile and a etuarter route and led home such good ones as Joseph E. Wideners Chance Shot, Walter M. Jeffords Scapa Flow, C. H. Walkers Chance Play, Frederick Johnsons Brown Flash, William Woodwards Filemaker. Marshal Fields Nimba, A. C. Schwartz Kentucky EL and W. R. Coes Black Maria. They followed the . son of Huon home in the order nameel. It was a wonderful day of holiday sport that was served up to the big crowd and in a companionpiece to the Suburban Handicap, there was a popular and well earned victory for the Greentree Stables champion steeplechaser Jolly Roger, when he scored a game victory in the Corinthian Steeplechase. The other races offered a fitting setting for these two feature races. Little time was lost at the post in the Suburban Handicap and. at the rise of the barrier, it was Chance Shot that went into the lead. McAfee had him under steady restraint and the pace was slow. Filemaker was in second place with Black Maria third. Scapa Flow followed the Coe mare and he was racing alongside Chance Shot, which was under restraint. Nimba and Kentucky II. came next and back of them Callahan rated Dolan. That order was maintained for the first quarter and, from that point, McAtee drew away slightly with Chance Play until he was two lengths clear. Dolan had moved up a bit and he was galloping strongly, while Black Maria and Chance Shot were still well within striking distance with Brown Flash beginning to move up. HIDES MOUNT WIDE." Going to the stretch turn Sande steered the same course with Chance Shot that he did in the Metropolitan Handicap when he took the outside. This lost considerable ground and Chance Play was still showing the way, though as the pace quickened he had lost his lead and was doing his best to show the way. Callahan was coming through with Dolan an eighth out and he was fortunate in finding room. Chance Shot was doing his best on the outside and Scapa Flow was under punishment to hold his place. The others were dropping back and the stretch rush of Nimba had not materialized. In that last eighth Dolan drew away to be winner by four lengths, while Chance Shot only outstayed Scapa Flow by a half length and Chance Play dropped back to fourth, a nose back of Scapa Flow. Brown Flash had gained considerable ground to be fifth and the others were strung out, with Black Maria last. Dolan was the lightweight of the party when only required to carry 105 pounds and he was in receipt of fifteen pounds from Chance Shot. Nimba came out of the race decidedly sore. Kentucky II. ran far below the form expected and the utter rout of Black Maria was also a surprise. Nimba could not be brought on the track before the race until she had been blindfolded and her race was so altogether bad that after the running George Odom said that he would not start her again at least until the August meeting at Saratoga Springs. Frederick Johnsons Brown Wizard, lucky at the start, was good enough to dominate all the running in the opening five-eighths dash through the Widener course, for two-year-olds. Samuel Ross Shepherdess raced to the place, while Mrs. J. Sciaccalugas Roodles, by a rush at the end, just beat J. E. Maddens Keokuk for third. One of the disappointments of the running was Grey Chief, the Rancocas Stable starter. He was prominent in the running, but was never able to improve his position and his was a dull race. Stormcar, the Waterbury starter, swerved right after the start and ha had scant chance in the running. WINS WITH HIGH WEIGHT. Old Jolly Roger, the Greentree Stable champion, under the crushing burden of 178 pounds, was winner of the Corinthian Steeplechase Handicap, which was worth ,400 net to the winner. At the end, Thomas Hitchcocks Bangle was close at hand, with Jefferson Livingstons Rabel the one to be third. Then came E. M. Byers Skedaddle and the Brookmeade Stables Fredden Rock, with Bayard Warrens Canterbury, the only other starter, failing to finish the course, when he unseated A. Collins two fences from the finish. It was a rare spectacle, and Jolly Roger was thoroughly tried all through the two-mile test. Bangle, under an excellent ride by R. McNamee, who was riding his first steeple- I chase, gave Jolly Roger and George Duller. ; who rode him, plenty to worry about, and it was only rare courage that brought the champion home the winner. McNamee went out to set the pace with Bangle and, in the early racing, Fredden Rock went after him, but Duller was not far away with Jolly Roger, and, when Fredden Rock made a mistake at the Liverpool in the front field, that took much out of him. Duller moved up with Jolly Roger, until at the lower end of the field he was close after Bangle. As the champion came alongside, McNamee shook up Bangle and the pair of them were closely lapped at the first backfield hedge. There Jolly Roger stumbled slightly, but he made a quick recovery and was right with Bangle again. Thus it was that the pair of them raced, through the backfield. Fredden Rock had dropped back badly after his mistake at the Liverpool. Skedaddle was still racing well, but it was Rabel that was a menace midway of the backfield, when "Specs" Crawford made his move with the Livingston racer. Charles Sanford dropped a claim in the box for Frederick Johnsons Brown Wizard and secured the colt for ,000 out of the first race.
