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FINALE AT JAMAICA COURSE ♦ Feature Race Devoid of Interest Because of Small Field. ♦ Flaming Easily Wins Garden City Claiming Stakes — Cold Weather Keeps Crowd From Attending Races. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., May 11.— Right up to the closing day of the Jamaica meeting of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, failure of races to fill adequately brought something of a farce in the feature. This was the Garden City Claiming Stakes, and it promised a walkover with only two horses from the same stable performing until J. H. Louch-heims A la Carte was added to the field. It was not much of a contest, for after A la Carte had been permitted to show the way to the head of the stretch for the mile and a sixteenth test, Workman raced past him easily with John McCambridges Flaming, and Theodore E. Kirwans Night Patrol, also sent to the post by Cafarelli. who trains Flaming, ran past the added starter easily. The race had a net value of ,975 to the winner, and it was not much of a contest. For the last day of the Jamaica season the weather was unseasonably cold and the crowd, in consequence, a small one. Pilate was brought out for his first effort of the season, a six furlongs dash, which engaged a fairly good band of platers, but it was not a claiming race. This first appearance saw the colt romp home winner. Beginning fast, the colt at once took command, and there was no stage of the race that Robertson really let him run. He simply breezed all the way, and at the end was under restraint to win by four lengths from Cabezo, and it was Pardee that saved third from General A. The latter had chased the winner to the head of the stretch and appeared to have the others soundly beaten until well inside the final furlong, where he quit suddenly and Cabezo, slipping hrough on the inside, outfinished Pardee, though the son of Sir Gallahad III. readily disposed of General A. A six furlongs race for cheap ones was the first offering and it proved rather easy for Affirmative, from the Quincy Stable. Preston M. Burchs Yancey raced to second place with John J. Clarks Seasaint lasting long enough to beat Fashion Show for third. Fashion Show was rushed out in the lead and Seasaint went after her but Affirmative was following them and when they both Continued on twenty-sevd.th page. FINALE AT JAMAICA COURSE Continued from first page. tired at the head of the stretch the son of Sir Barton raced past them easily to win going away by five lengths. Yancey was sluggish in the early racing and far out of the contention but Workman roused him sharply with the whip and he closed an immense gap. Slipping through next to the rail in the stretch he had no trouble catching Seasaint and Fashion Show to take second place by two lengths. A good band of platers started in the Nos-trand Claiming Handicap, and Raccoon, racing in his best form, was winner over Apprentice, with Little Nap a close third and Hideaway and Alcanale, the ther two, beaten off. Rideaway was flatfooted at the start and really lost his chance there. Workman had Apprentice away fast, and he was joined by Raccoon when the back stretch was reached. Little Nap was rating along back of these and going so easily that it seemed he could go to the other two at the first asking. Mills moved with him leaving the back stretch and attempted to go to the inside but took back and chose the outside. There Little Nap came resolutely but Raccoon still had something in reserve, and he was holding the other two safe. In the stretch the son of Wrack continued to show the way, while Mills, after showing in second place for a few strides with Little Nap, permitted his mount to lose ground by bearing out. The fifth was a five-furlong dash for maiden juveniles, and it brought one of the thrills of the day when John J. Curtis Flying Dragon just lasted to score over W. R. Coes Pompoleon, with the Newtondale Stables Zombro a distant third. Flying Dragon, beginning from the inside position, was particularly alert and, dashing into an early lead, was never headed. At the end he was doing his best to earn the decision by a head. The result would undoubtedly have been different had it "not been that Pompoleon was bumped shortly after the start and was the victim of considerable interference. Taken to the outside, he closed a big gap but hung right at the end.
