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SCOTCH GOLD TAKES FEATURE » Carries Howe Stables Colors Tri« umphantly at Empire City. m Laurel Miss Badly Injured in Ilradltner— • First Roundup Surprises in Opening Contest. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.— The best offering of the Empire City Association at the track on the hill today was a short six furlongs dash for platers. It brought an. excellent content in which Scotch Gold, from the Howe Stable, was winner over the Ascot Stables Mountain Elk, and Mamie Dioguar-dis Dunlilt beat Maxwell Howards St. Stephens for third. St. Stephens Was the choice, but he did not show his usual burst of speed and in the stretch was caught in rather close quarters. The result of this might have been different had it not been for the fact that Mrs. Kathleen Jesbergers consistent filly, Laurel Miss, was so badly lamed in the running .that it is doubtful if she will ever race again. With delightful racing weather and an interesting offering of overnight events, another good crowd was out for the racing, and there were many thrills during the afternoon. In this claiming dash that carried the greatest prize the start was a good one, with Pinluck first to show his head in front. He was closely attended by Laurel Miss and Dunlilt, while Mountain Elk and Scotch Gold were slower to be under way. It was just as Laurel Miss was finding her way through on the inside that she came to grief. She was evidently jumped on for she at once dropped completely out of the running, and she came back so badly lamed in her off leg that her foot had almost been cut off. She was led from the track with difficulty. As Laurel Miss dropped out of it, Dunlilt took command and he was still showing the way as he turned into the short stretch". Scotch Gold had moved up resolutely on the outside, while St. Stephens, racing along on the inside, was also in contention. Then St. Stephens was pocketed as Scotch Gold joined and headed Dunlilt, with Mountain Elk charging along outside of these. Mountain Elk continued to gain, but Merritt kept Scotch Gold going to have him past the line winner by a head. Mountain Elk had beaten Dunlilt by half a length, and St. Stephens was just another half a length away. A race at five and a half furlongs, for plater juveniles, was the opening attraction, and it resulted in a fighting finish when First Roundup, from the Maemere Farm Stable, earned a close decision over Miss A. Pendergasts Blind Praise, with the Green-tree Stables Tarbucket beating Bird Lore for third. Blind Praise and First Roundup were the two to cut out the running all the way, while Tarbucket left the post slowly and had considerable trouble to earn his part of the purse. Miss Firefly chased - alter the leading pair most of the way, but through the stretch tired, and Coucci brought Tarbucket through under a vigorous drive. First Roundup had won by a scant nose, while Blind Praise was a length and a half before Tarbucket, and he in turn beat Bird Lore a head. Omar Jones was back of these, and Miss Firefly was another three lengths back. Victor Emanuels High Hand n., which has been rated as a "good thing" in former starts, graduated from the maiden class in the second race. This was a five furlongs dash, for juvenile maiden fillies,|difc| daughter of Genie was doing hil the end to beat Cloud Sweeper, frH Branncastle Farm Stable, with J. J. H sons Treasury Key taking third from GoB en Time. B Little B. Austin, who enjoys a seven-poundH apprentice allowance, by reason of his inex- perience, chalked up his second victory of the day when he brought Creaky home winner of the fourth. This time the daughter of Coventry raced for William Graham and was sent to the post by George Phillips. The previous Austin winner was First Roundup, also saddled by Phillips, so that he shared in the double. The fourth race was at a mile and seventy yards, under claiming conditions and confined to fillies and mares. Mrs. C. Williams Fluffy Lee was the one to race to second place and J. F. McGraths Xandra took third in a close finish with Murmuring. For this running there was a decided plunge on Guiding Light and part of it could be accounted for by the fact that Coucci had the mount. This filly was sent away in full stride and nicely placed, but she was not good enough and continued to drop back until she was soundly beaten. H. C. Phipps Cleves was so much the best of the maidens that raced in the fifth that it really was no contest. Leaving the stalls slowly, the son of Sardanapale raced past his opponents in the back stretch and Kurt-singer permitted him to open up a lead of half a dozen lengths before the stretch was reached. All through the final furlong he was under restraint to cross the line winner by five lengths. Second place went to John R. Macombers Carabinier II., and he readily defeated Marshall Fields Flaming Light for that part of the prize, with J. J. Robinsons Kozak a bad fourth. Mrs. E. W. Martins Black Watch, which has made most of his reputation sprinting stuck it out easily for a mile and seventy yards of the last race to beat a field of cheap ones. Koterito raced to the place and third was the portion of Pernickety.
