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WHEATLEY STABLE VICTORY • March Hare Outstays Electa in Valuable Gazelle Stakes. • Net Value of Purse to Winner ,175 — Close , Finish Results at End of Steeplechase Rare, with Skedaddle In Front. AQUEDUCT, N. Y.. June 25.— The feature offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today was the Gazelle Stakes, for three-year-old fillies. It attracted five starters and had a net value of ,175 to the winner. This resulted in a good finish, with March Hare, carrying the silks of the Wheatley Stable, defeating Mrs. Ziglers Electa, with George D. Wideners Atlantis easily heading Golden Anger and Anna G. for the short end of the prize. What little rain there was did not have much effect on the going and the crowd was of good proportions. Little time was lost at the post in the Gazelle Stakes and Burke at once went out to set the pace with March Hare, while Electa left the barrier slowly and in the early racing was well back of the others. Atlantis and Anna G. raced after March Hare, while Golden Anger was right there, so that the four were in close order as they sped through the back stretch, with Electa a full five lengths back of the others. Anna G. was first to tire and then Atlantis went into second place and McAtee was plainly saving something for the run home. By that time Electa was gradually making up ground, but she was still rather a poor last. Garner sent her to the outside to be sure of racing room in the stretch and she drew up on the others stride by stride, putting on speed all the way. Finally she had disposed of Atlantis, but Burke was wide awake and he roused March Hare as Electa came alongside the winner and bore out, making Electa lose still more ground, and Burke kept the daughter of Mad Hatter going long enough to have her winner by half a length. Atlantis was two lengths further back and another two lengths away came Golden Anger, which was winner of the race in which Fator was punished for his unsatisfactory ride on Folking. Continued on fifteenth page. WHEATLEY STABLE VICTORY Continued from first page. The steeplechase of the day was under selling conditions and resulted in a thrilling finish, when E. M. Byers Skedaddle just beat home H. T. Archibalds Mantonian, with Rig-Veda a distant third. After the finish, G. H. Bostwick, who rode Mantonian. lodged a claim of foul, but it was not allowed. There had been some roughing in the race, and it was evident on one occasion that Skedaddle was to blame, but he did not appear to have interferred with Mr. Archibalds jumper. Rig-Veda was the one to force most of the pace, and it was while he was showing the way and wlirn turning out of the front field that he was crossed by Skedaddle, and the Smith chaser ran up on the heels of the winner and lost considerable ground before he was back in his stride. Then Ragweed was ridden all over the course and appeared to bother Mantonian somewhat. "Pete" Bostwick rated Mantonian along back of the leaders, and it seemed he could go to both Rig-Veda and Skedaddle at the first asking, but the old gelding tired slightly when called on and, though he was just a nose short of victory as the line was crossed, Skedaddle had stuck it out to be winner. The tired Rig-Veda was eight lengths further back, and Ragweed ten lengths back of him. The first offering was one of those races put on for the education of jockeys rather than for the entertainment of the public. It was five-eighths for plater juveniles and R. Li. Gerrys Forger was winner, with Richard T. Wilsons Night Extra second and Mrs. A. Swenkes Main Rock third. Such a race does not belong in a consideration of the relative merits of the runners by reason of the jockeys employed. Prince Toy, which before the race was considertd by many as the logical winner, did not leave with the others and that was excuse enough for his performance. This could happen with any jockeys employed, but it surely does not add to the chances of any horse to have such rides in the saddle. Incidentally, it is a bit hard on those who pay to see racing and then are compelled to see the supposed education of riders rather than the racing of horses. While H. Teller Archibald lost a close decision in the steeplechase, the colors triumphed in the following race when Kolkiig galloped home the easiest sort of a Winter in the Ddimaenna Handicap. In his last previous start, with Laverne Fator riding, he was badly beaten and the ride was so unsatisfactory to the stewards that Fator has not since been pel wit tod to ride. An excuse offered for Fator was that Folk-I ing bore out badly in that race, while in the Donnacona Handicap Robertson saw to it that there were horses outside of him all through the running, or until he was safely around the stretch turn, then he came away to win easily by five lengths. After the finish the son of Negofol was worked out to the mile and three-eighths mark in 2 itt% as a preparation for his engagement in the Dwyer Stak. ■ Saturday. Prior to his bad race it was Fator who rode Folking when he finished a good second to Jack High. It is not known that this victory will have any effect on a consideration of the Fator case, but on this occasion he ran an in- finitely better race and naturally it could not improve his case. In this race Chicatie and Sweet Verbena were the ones to set most of the pace and for a time Gray Coat was in third place and Folking close after him. Then going to the stretch turn Chicatie bore out rather badly and Robertson sent Folking through and into a good load to bring him home an easy winner. In the meantime Gray Coat was galloping well next to the rail, where Steffen ran him up on the heels of horses and he had no chance to come through. Uomstock-ery outfinished the tiring Chicatie, while Mrs. Vanderbilts three-year-old only saved third from Grey Coat by reason of the Steffen mistake. Seventeen two-year-old maiden fillies met in the five-eighths of the fifth race and The Spare, a daughter of John P. Grier and Hill Maid, proved the winner over Mrs. Klmer Trueman s Her Grace. Red Flag, bearing the silks of A. L,. Alexandre, saved third. The Sparc broke from the outside position but left running and Hejska was able to ease her over and avoid losing ground. W. S. Kilmers Sunburn broke lrom the inside and also showed a good turn of speed, but she ran into some trouble and was stopping at the end. Her Grace was a contender most of the way, but she hung badly at the end and the winner held her perfectly safe. Dusteni-all and Mad Kiss, the II. P. Whitney pair, were disappointments of the running. They had shown enough in private to wanraal x-pet tations of a good performance, but they were in early trouble and never contenders. Robert . Winmills Wonderful proved best of the cheap lot that came together in the seven-eighths of the last race aod alter stealing away into a good early Ie;i l he made every pole a winning one to lead home Matins Minister, from the Audley Farm, with Torpointer racing third.
