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MAXWELL SILKS IN FRONT I Precursor Accounts for Main Race at Empire City. Ideal Conditions Prevail for Sport at New York Lucky Backet Disqualified in Fifth Race. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 28. Howard J Maxwells home-bred Precursor, a juvenile son of Canter and La Chauviere, was win- 1 ner of the best offering of the Empire City 1 Association yesterday when he took the measure of C. V. Whitneys Piety, Walter M. Jeffords Escadron and Border Knight, from the Newtondale Stae. This was a five and a half furlongs csh under claim- ing conditions and the quartet that per- 1 formed are of the better plater variety. Conditions were ideal for the sport and . the track at its best Close finishes con- : tinued the order of the day in several of the numbers and the apprentice Stout was at his best when he piloted the first two winners of the afternoon. In the juvenile race that went to Pre- : cursor, it was Piety that forced the pace. Stout rushed the daughter of Pennant along, but she did not have speed enough to shake off Escadron, and Precursor followed the pair closely while Border Knight soon found the pace too fast and dropped out of contention. Swinging into the stretch, Precursor moved up on the inside and as he did, Piety was between the winner and Escadron, but there was no interference. Then Escadron tired and Precursor showed in front. Piety was coming again gamely at the finish but the son of Canter was safely past the line the winner by a length. Piety had beaten Escadron by a neck and Border Knight was another three lengths back. Lawless Lady, a C. V. Whitney maiden juvenile filly that raced at Rockingham Park without winning, graduated in the second offering. She won in a driving finish from the Wheatley Stables Propagandist with Charles Moss Little Corporal just beating Bataille for third. This gave Stout his second winning mount for he had just won with Miss Snow. As the race was run, Bataille was probably best. She was knocked about considerably leaving the barrier and forced to go exceedingly wide to find racing room in the stretch. Unatime set the pace almost to the stretch turn and Sly Haste went after her. Swinging for home, Unatime tired and Little Corporal showed in front but Lawless Lady, well back in the early racing, was swinging around the leaders and closed with a great rush. Maxwell Howards Miss Snow was winner of the opening race that engaged a cheap band. She was good enough to open up a good lead and theri gallop along in front all the way to score over William Jenkins, Jr.s Xandra by four lengths. Third went to Miss Mary Powers Troyian, when he took that part of the purse from Learoyd. Going to the first turn, Wholey ran Learoyd up on the heels of another horse to lose considerable ground. Then when the back stretch was reached, he moved up rapidly on the outside but he could not get to Troyian, which was racing second. Troyian held second place until twenty yards from the finish where he tired and Xandra, which had been outrun in the early stages, came with a rush to take second place by a length. Troyian was two lengths before Learoyd, which tired badly under a stretch drive.
