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POLONAISE STAKES WINNER » Daughter of Pompey — Sweet Music Accounts for Filly Fixture. • Big Crowd at Belmont Park Witnesses Race of Juveniles — Beacon Hill Takes Steeplechase. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., June 2— W. R. Coes Polonaise, a daughter of Pompey and Sweet Music, and accordingly a half-sister to Caruso, was an easy winner of the Fashion Stakes at Belmont Park this afternoon. This is an old juvenile filly stake which was having its renewal for the thirty-third time, and run over four and one-half furlongs through the Widener course, with a net value of ,200 to the winner. It was Parry, from the Greentree Stable, that raced to second place, with C. V. Whitneys Pintail saving third from Dinner Time, a stablemate of the winner. With more favorable weather than that of Monday there was a crowd of good proportions on hand, and the sport furnished was excellent. Starter Cassidy had some trouble with the fillies, and before he could have an alignment to his liking he had sent both Pintail and Delicacy, stablemate to Parry, to the outside of the stalls. It worked no particular hardship with Pintail, but Delicacy was off badly, and then when she swerved as she left, her racing chance was gone. In the early stages Pintail and Polonaise were showing the way, and Brocado was in third place, while Parry, from the inside position, was well back and suffering some handicap in consequence. Polonaise raced straight and true, and it was in the final sixteenth that she drew away from the others to make victory certain. Then as she drew away she swerved slightly, but did not bother Parry, which came through on the inside to take second place. Right at the end Pintail tired to lose second place to the Greentree filly in the final strides. Dinner Time was in a forward position all the way, and she was another Continued on twenty-first page. POLONAISE STAKES WINNER Continued from first page. length and a half back and just a length before Brocade The Salvator Handicap, at one mile and an eighth, only brought out three starter s, and Mrs. K. E. Hitts Sunvir was an easy winner over the Wheatley Stables Impish, with Blind Lane, from the Goodestone Stable, a distant third. Sunvir dominated all the running, and Blind Lane raced second until into the stretch, where Kelsay saved ground with Impish and ran her down to go into second place. The daughter of Peter Pan closed in determined fashion, but she had too big a handicap, and Sunvir was the winner by a length and a half easily. Impish had beaten Blind Lane by five lengths, but Walls did not ride the beaten filly out at the end. Towee, a son of Harpenden and Blue Grass Belle, that races for the Sagamore Stable, graduated from the ranks of the maidens in the opening four and a half furlong dash for juveniles. Dominating all the running, he showed an excellent performance to lead his rivals home by four lengths and the Audley Farm Stable pair High De-vine and Happy Play finished second and third respectively. Floor Walker, the Joseph E. Widener starter, was unfortunate at the start when he struck the side of his stall and was away so badly as to have no chance. Herbert Bayard Swopes Seb showed fine speed when he was the winner of the six furlongs race, that was the third offering. It was a condition affair that brought out a good band, and the son of High Time was good enough to dominate the race and be winner by five lengths over Mrs. Milton W. Holdens St. Francis, while Marshall Fields Aknahton just saved third by a head from Cary T. Graysons By-Pass II.. and English-bred son of Phalaris. The start was a good one and Steffen at once sent Seb into a lead that carried him clear of the others. Once out there he was rated along in front all the way never to be threatened. C. V. Whitneys Beacon Hill improved a bit in his jumping to win the short course of the Duettist Purse for maiden jumpers. He still swerved out a bit at his jumps and had to be ridden out at the end to lead Mrs. Milton W. Holdens Luckite home by two lengths. Five lengths farther back Fair Moss, from the Foxcatcher Farms, of William Dupont, was an easy third over Spinner, a stablemate of the winner. The Green Stables Degas unseated Ivan Parke at the water jump when he was showing the way. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Swiv-eller refused at the sixth jump and Roy Carruthers Aye Ready was pulled up when beaten. Fortunately Parke was uninjured by his fall. Degas beat the others away from the post, but Beacon Hill was right after him and when he made his mistake at the water jump, it left the Whitney jumper in front. Beacon Hill swerved badly at the Liverpool, but Smoot had him back before the jump at the lower end of the course was reached and there Spinner had moved into second place. Swerving out badly at his next jump resulted in both Fair Moss and Luckite drawing up on the son of Broomstick and for a time in the back field it looked as though both of them might catch him. But Smoot was merely steadying his mount and he nursed him over the other jumpers cleverly. In the front field Fair Moss made a determined challenge coming up on the inside, while Bellhouse chose the outside with Luckite. The three were in close order at the last jump, but safely over, Beacon Hill proved to have the most speed on the flat and was going away at the end. Spinner ran an improved race over his previous effort. At the end of the program J. McPhersons Prince Pest won over the mile route from some good platers, with Mrs. Oliver Curtis Garlic racing to second place, with George D. Wideners Condescend saving third from Frank E. Browns Sims. Condescend and Sims forced the pace and the Widener colt raced the son of Lucullite into defeat when the stretch was reached, but it had cost so much effort that he tired in the final sixteenth. Garlic lost some ground by being forced to go -wide in the j stretch and he was probably best. He was only beaten three-quarters of a length, while Garlic beat Condescend by a neck for second place.
