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ENTRY RUNS ONE-TWO .Wheatley Stable Pair First and Second at Belmont Park. Iseult Accounts for Acorn Stakss I With Edelweiss Second Rain Falls During- Afternoon. " NEW YORK, N. Y., May 29. Iseult and Edelweiss, both carrying the silks of the Wheatley Stable, finished first and second in the Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park this afternoon. This was a test for three-year-old fillies and it carried a net value of 0,650 to the winner. Edelweiss, though beaten by her stablemate, was the real heroine of the running. As she left the post, Johnny Gilbert became entangled in the webbing and before he was clear she appeared to be hopelessly out of contention. She closed an immense gap and the race was one to suggest that but for the mishap at the start she would have been an easy winner. . Leaden skies with occasional drizzles of rain made the weather a bit uncomfortable, "but a big crowd was on hand and it takes considerable rain to seriously affect the Belmont Park course as far as the footing is concerned. The card was an interesting one and the results formful. BARN SWALLOW ABSENT. After Edward R. Bradleys Kentucky Oaks winner, Barn Swallow, and Robert L. Gerrys Sugar Pea, had both been withdrawn from the Acorn, there were only five left to race, and, as has been told, two of them carried the silks of the Wheatley Stable and carried them successfully. Miss Mary Comings Illusive was the one to finish third, well back of the Wheatley pair, and back of her came the Greentree Stables Easy Day and Willis Sharpe Kilmers Dark Love. As Edelweiss suffered her handicap at the start, Dark Love was away in full stride. Iseult was sent after her, and Illusive was showing the way to Easy Day. The four f.-were in fairly close order and many lengths before the unfortunate daughter of Chicle. In the run through the back stretch, Dark Love carried Iseult along at a rapid pace when the first quarter was run in :23, but Mills kept his mount close alongside and finally it was Dark Love that cracked and dropped back slightly. In the meantime Gilbert had roused Edelweiss, and she was rapidly catching her opponentJ. She continued to close, and as Iseult came into the long stretch with a lead of two lengths it was apparent that her stablemate would be second if overcoming her early handicap had not taken too severe a toll. Gilbert had saved ground in the stretch, and right to the finish the filly continued to gain ground until at the end her stable-mate had only beaten her two and a half lengths, while she was almost a like distance before Illusive. STEEPLECHASE TO ST. FRANCES. - Mrs. T. W. Durants St. Francis, with a considerable pull in the weights, was winner of the Westbury Steeplechase. This was over the short course, and Indigo, from the Mbrthwood Stable, and ridden by the amateur, Rigan McKinney, raced to second place. Thomas Hitchcocks Creek was third, beating Daniel Soot for that part of the award. There were ten starters and all completed the course without accident, though Happy Wings, which raced for Mrs. Allen Potts, finished many lengths back of the dthers. Marshall Fields Nimbus beat a good band of three-year-old maidens in the third. This was a dash through the Widener course, and after being outrun to the final furlong, the son of Stimulus came away to score over Morton L. Schwartz Union and Willis Sharpe Kilmers Dark Conquest just saved third from William Woodwards Jovious. In a drive, Nimbus outgamed Union to be the vinner by a half length. The Schwartz colt had beaten the tired Dark Conquest two lengths and Jovious was also catching the Kilmer colt at the finish. While this race was programmed as at seven furlongs, it was just the distance of the Futurity, which is six and three-quarter furlongs, the full length of the Widener course. The fifth was a four and a half furlong Continued on twenty-fourth page. ENTRY RUNS ONE-TWO Continued from first page. . dash through the Widener course, for . maiden juveniles and it went to Herowin, a . gelded son of Herodot and Sunwin, bred by Willis Sharpe "Kilmer. And in the four-. horse field it was Sun Monk, racing for Mr. . Kilmer, that was last. O. F. Woodwards . . Coflier was the one to take second place and . George H. Bostwicks Galabang was third.
