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; ■ • : I I i : : ■ ■ i DISPLAYS BRILLIANT SPEED ♦ Gallops Five and a Half Furlongs in 1:02% at Belmont. ♦ Chestnut Oak Easy Winner of Final Feature at New York Course — Guilder Wins First Race. • NEW YORK, N. Y., June 10.— Clenden-nin Roys Chestnut Oak, which separated Blue Larkspur and Jack High in the Withers Stakes, took the final feature at Belmont Park when he won the Speed Handicap, over five and a half furlongs, on the Widener course in 1 :02%. He was aided by a high wind, but won with an ease that suggested an ability to race faster. The final day of racing of the Belmont Park spring meeting resulted in good sport, but it was, unfortunately, marred by an accident that came with the running of the opening race. In that, by reason of the Australian gate not working properly, several of the horses were caught in the ropes and two of them were thrown, while E. Walters, a rider of one, was rather seriously injured. For the Speed Handicap there were eight starters and they were about as fast a band of sprinters as has been seen all through the racing year. Little time was lost at the barrier and the start was a good one, with Click and Polydor a bit more alert than the others and, racing into command at once, Chestnut Oak was not far back, while George D. Wideners Finite was also close at hand. This order was maintained until well inside the final eighth and Fields was riding a confident race on Chestnut Oak, while Rose and Mack Garner, on Polydor and Click, were fighting for the lead. In that last eighth. Chestnut Oak swept past them to win going away by a length and a half. The next three were closely lapped when Click just saved second place by a head and Polydor was a like distance before Finite. The steeplechase of the day brought out four rather good jumpers, and Edify, from the Flying Horse Farm Stable, was rather a handy winner over Warfain. from the Latt-ingtown Stable, with Thomas Hitchcocks Devilkin, ridden by A. C. Bostwick, a close third. The only other starter was B. B. Jones Sir Sweep, which unseated J. Tam-maro at the last jump when in a contending position. Sir Sweep and Edify were the ones to race into the lead at the drop of the flag, with Devilkin and Warfain being rated along well back of them. Then when Kelly, on Edify, made the pace too fast for comfort, Tammaro eased Sir Sweep back to the other two and Edify was permitted to go into a good lead. At the water Devilkin made a bad landing that took onsiderable out of him, but he was back on his feet promptly and was not far from Sir Sweep and Warfain when the lower end of the field was reached. But in the meantime it was apparent that only a mis-l hap could bring about her defeat, The other three fought along in a vain effort, first to catch the mare and then to save second place. The result of this was that they came to the last jump well lapped, with Sir Sweep in the middle. The Jones jumper made a bad landing that threw Tammaro. and in the drive that followed, Warfain outgamed Devilkin, but he was eight lengths back of the winner. Tammaro. fortunately. was not injured by his tumble, though tem-l porarily knocked out. •
