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DAUGHTER OF MAN 0 WAR * Accounts for Gazelle Stakes and Earns ,200 in Money. ♦ — Famous Sire In Limelight at Aqueduct — Me- Atce Riding Star, Piloting Two Winners During the Afternoon. « NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.— Walter If. Jeffords Bateau, sterling daughter of Man o War, was winner of the one mile and a sixteenth Gazelle Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, at Aqueduct today. This added ,200 to her score and she was skillfully ridden by L. McAtee. It was a good day for both Man o War and McAtee, for the second best race of the day went to one of his sons. Ironsides, with McAtee in the saddle. It was Bradleys Peggy, a lightweight in the Gazelle Stakes, which set the pace and Twitter raced along back of her, while McAtee was rating Bateau within striking distance and under steadying restraint. Darkness and Nixie were the only other starters and they followed in the order named. It was not until the stretch was reached that McAtee made a meve with the Jeffords filly. There he moved up on the outside of Twitter and Bradleys Peggy and she was soon well lapped on the pair of them. Twitter tired badly when the real test came, but Bradleys Peggy struggled along for a time and McAtee was content to gallop alongside until she too tired and then Bateau came away to be winner by two lengths. Bradleys Peggy was four lengths before the tired Twitter and at her heels came Darkness and Nixie in the order named, never having cut an important figure in the running. There was as much or possibly more interest in the mile and a sixteenth Donnacona Handicap as there was in the running of the Gazelle Stakes. This interest was in the fact that Vito, the winner of the Belmont Stakes for A. H. Cosden and most dengerous rival of Victorian for the Dwyer Stakes next Saturday, was meeting some good ones, to which he was giving away great lumps of weight He was beaten by Robert L. Gerrys Ironsides, but he was giving ten pounds to the son of Man o War when he took up 126 pounds to the 116 pounds carried by Ironsides. Eight lengths back of the first two W. R. Coes Algernon saved third from old Sanford • and Distraction, the only other starter, was a distant last. Ironsides went into command at the rise of the barrier and never surrendered the lead. Vito was rated along in second place and Sanford followed him, with Distraction and Algernon further back. McAtee saved ground all the way with Ironsides and Rummer waited with Vito until the stretch was Continued on twenty-fourth page. I I I DAUGHTER OF MAN 0 WAR Continued from first page. reached. There he moved up on Ironsides and an eighth from home it looked as though the Belmont Stakes winner would come on by, but McAfee roused Ironsides with his whip and he held his lead. Then in that final drive Vito tired under his heavy impost and, while he was well lapped on Ironsides, he was beaten by a neck. Algernon was eight lengths back to be third and beat San-ford a length for that share of the prize. After the finish Ironsides was worked out the mile and a quarter in 2:0G%, while Distraction was worked the full mile and a half. These two, as well as Vito, are to meet Victorian in the Dwyer Stakes Saturday and this was a part of the preparation for that big event. Both Orions Sword and Rond du Roi soon dropped far out of the running and at the water jump Rond du Roi made such a bad landing that it was only real skill that permitted George Duller to retain his seat in the saddle. It was shortly after the water jump that Ke-Kon-Boy was through and Jeffcott went into a good lead with Flittula. Once out there it was really no contest, for he just galloped along to be winner by forty lengths. Endicott ran past the tired Ke-Kon-Boy and Man-tonian had at no time been a serious contender. Both Orions Sword and Rond du Roi came out of the running decidedly sore. ,A. II. Morris Lady Fair escaped from the maiden class in the five-eighths dash, for juvenile fillies that had never won, which was the fifth race. At the end she was doing her best to beat A. L. Alexanders Hano-vianne and Bravery, from the Sage Stable, beat her stablemate, Fly Light, for third. Lady Fair, beginning well, saved ground and never lost command. She was tiring at the end, but Hanoviann? could not wear her down, while the Sage Stable pair were in no ense dangerous in the final stages. John Maddens Nearby was in a fairly forward position until she swerved to the inside behind the horses and Jubilee Is another that showed a good burst of speed, but she tired and also swerved in when put to a hard drive. The opening race was a five-eighths dash for juveniles of the plater variety and Nella R., racing for the Linton Farms Stable, was winner from the Canyon Stables Speedy Shaw and J. II. Louchheims Our Carol closed some ground to be third. Saturday Night, Speedy Shaw and Nella R. were the ones to cut out the running and it was not until the final sixteenth that Saturday Night tired and at the same time Our Carol got into contention. She was gaining in good fashion and going better than the first two. but the bid came too late. Zephon. which broke from an outside position, swerved all the way over to the inner rail, losing some ground, and that probably cost him a share in the purse. He finished fifth, fourth having gone to Miss Widworthy, which had suffered some interference in the running. H. W. Maxwells Flittula, a recent winner through the Aqueduct field, came right back with another victory in the short course steeplechase. This was an easy score over Joseph E. Davis Endicott. with Jefferson Livingstons Ke-Kon-Boy a distant third before EL T. Archibalds Mantcnian, the only other to finish. Both Orions Sword and Rond du Roi were pulled up, while Thomas Hitchcoks Louqsor unseated Fitzgerald at the third fence. The result might have been different had it not been for the accident that befell Louqsor, for the son of Sandy Hook, after unseating his rider, dropped in behind the pace and there was evidence of how perfectly he had been schooled when he raced with the leaders until over the last jump, when he levelled down to beat Flittula to the finish, though, of course, Jeffcott was easing his mount. Then Louqsor pulled up. without nif.king any effort to do anything foolish or run off after the finish. Ke-Kon-Boy was the one to cut out the pace and he made it stiff over the first few fences, but Flittula was right after him and in the early racing Mantonian was third, with Endicott fourth. J. L. Hollands Torpointer was the winner of the seven-eighths race at the end of the progrnm when in a driving finish Garner got him up to brat home the Sagamore Stables Shakitup. which had forced most of the pace. Third went to Mrs. J. F. Richardsons Saratoga. Hat Brush was unfortunate at the start and was away last while, shortly after the start, Proxima was caught in close quarters and crowded out of the tuning. There was an excellent excuse for both of these. j
