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BRICE WINS STEEPLECHASE — ♦ Wheatly Stable Jumper Best in Feature at Aqueduct. ♦ King Bird II. Falls and Breaks Both Forelegs — Epinard Ilighwclght Handicap Falls to Rnmonenr. 1 NKW YORK. N. Y.. June 19 —The Wheat-ley Steeplechase Handicap was the feature offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today. It cost the life of a horse when Kingbird II. fell and broke both fore legs while his rider. Burgess, suffered two broken ribs. This race fell to Brice, which Gwynn Tompkins sent to the post for the Brookmeade Stable. The second best offering was one that gave the thrill of the day. It was the Kpinard Highweight Handicap, over the six and a half furlongs route. It saw J. L. Hollands Ramoneur the winner, but only because Jimmy Burke outrode F Moon, who had the mount on George D. Wideners Finite. Finite beat the others away from the stalls and for some strange reason Moon was plying his whip before the first turn was reached. Burke was after him with Ramoneur, but he was riding well and he gradually drew up on the ■on of The Finn, to race stride for stride with him. First one and then the other showed in front in the long run through the stretch, but at the end Burke clearly outrode Moon to land the gray winner by a head. Clifford A. Cochrans Healy finished gamely and beat Searcher for third. This last named one refused to go into his stall and left the post from the outside, taking much the worst of 1L His race was an excellent one. Brice came back with a good race for the Brookmeade Stable when he was winner of the Wheatley Steeplechase, which had a net value of ,800 to the winner. It might also be recorded that Jeffcott rode a well timed race when he made his move with the son of Huon to outsame F. Grossmans Volunteer, and A. C. Bostwicks Soarstat. the added starter. Back of these came J. E. Wideners Barleycorn and Joseph E. Davis Polish. UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT. It was unfortunate that Devil Kin, the Thomas Hitchcock starter, after unseatiig A. C. Bostwick at the second jump, interfered considerably with some of the others while running loose, and doubly unfortunate that King Bird II., making his first ■tart in this country for the Sewickly Stable, should have come to grief. From a good start it was King Bird II. that went out to set the pace. He was a bit rank, but was jumping well and showing good speed, while Jeffcott rated Brice back of him and Polish was in third place and not far back. This all came after Devil Kin had unseated Bostwick and continued to race with the others, interfering not a little with Soarstat. King Bird II. held his lead for a turn of the field, but at the water jump both Polish and Brice were close after him. At Uiat fence Brice outjumped Polish and mov?d into second place. Jeffcott had taken the old son of Huon a bit wide, but he at least was safe from interference and galloping well. When the back field was reached Marsters made his move with Volunteer and, coming with a rush, he was soon showing the way. King Bird II. was tiring from his paeemak-ing, but Brice was still going along steadily and jumping well. Saorstat had come clear of the interference he had suffered from Devil Km and he was moving up, but Barleycorn did not seem able to improve his position. RID KIPS LUCKY ESCAPE. It was two jumps from the finish that King Bird II. came down and as he fell he ■eemed to roll over Burgess. Fortunately, Burgess escaped with two fractured ribs, but the horse was not so fortunate, for he broke both forelegs and was destroyed. At that stage of the iunning Jeffcott had begun his winning move with Brice. The old fellow came along straight and true and, wearing down Volunteer, was winner by a length and a half. The Grossman jumper beat Saorstat by four lengths for second place and then came Barleycorn and Polish. But Devil Kin kept to the course rig.it to the end and, running loose, finished third. W. R. Coes Tripping Toe proved easily best of the juveniles which met in the five-eighths of a claiming handicap, which was the opening number. She led home V. H. Dozier s Ni.-ty and Royal Tree, from the Rappahannock Stable, beat Alwington Dolly for third. The Coe filly was so much best that it was not much of a contest. She took a long early lead and. while she swerved somewhat in the running, there was plenty of room and at the end she was still well clear of the others. Nisty readily outfinished the others, while Scot Free, the only starter not already mentioned, had no speed and was a distant last. Live Oak, from the Rosedale Stable, came back with a good race in the third to score over Mrs. Sydney J. Smiths St. Henell, while Samuel Ross Grey Coat, closing a big gap, saved third from Valorous, with War Flier, racing for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, finishing fifth, when Willie Garner ga%e up before his mount was through and when he see-nud to have a royal chance to save third. While this race was started from the stalls, starter Cassidy permitted the horses to stand ■o far In front of the stalls that the idea of them was more or less nullified. Then War Flier gave so much trouble that he was moved from his inside position. No 2, to the outside. Live Oak and St. Henell were the ones to show the way in the early ra ing, and Sunny Saint was in third place, with Gun Royal close at hand. a
