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LOWERS STAKE RECORD Stand PatJVIakes Fastest Time in Philadelphia Handicap History, . Gallops One Mile and a Sixteenth, in 1 :44 Jockey Earl Porter Badly Injured in Fall. HAVRE DE GRACE. Md., April 27. Stand Pat, rugged son of John P. Grier and Low Degree, carrying the Canadian, colors of Edward F. Seagram, raced the fastest mile and a sixteenth in the history of the Philadelphia Handicap, when he won the twenty-third renewal before a closing day crowd of 18,000 this afternoon. His time was 1:44, which clipped one-fifth off the stake mark set by Equipoise last year, and is only three-fifths of a second slower than the track record established by Cavalcade. Mrs. Deering Howes Only One was second, and C. V. Whitneys Roustabout, third. This pair was a head apart, both being two lengths back of the flying Canadian. The Seagram coffers were enriched by ,550, and Stand Pat was a better than 10 to 1 shot in the field of eleven. Stand Pat, star of the Florida winter cup colony, turned in an impressive race under the capable riding of Boby Watson. The latter got the Seagram horse away alerly and nursed him around the turn in a forward position, while Identify was vainly attempting to prevent Only One from taking the lead. Watson sent Stand Pat after Only One from the five furlongs post. The Seagramite moved up on the outside to subdue the Howe colt on the far turn, and at the quarter post took command. Watson kept Stand Pat at his work by well-spaced strokes of his whip through the stretch, and the Canadian-owned horse was not all out at the end. Only One held on well despite his heavy early labors. At the end he was being hard ridden to throw off Roustabouts persistent pressure. Howard, racing on the outside all the way, gained some ground. Head Play, unruly as usual at the barrier, was placed outside the stalls. He had no excuses and seemed to sulk. Jockey Earl Porter, who refcently signed to ride for the Greentree Stable, broke his right thigh bone, and apprentice C. Phillips, who made his riding debut during the latter part of the Florida season, suffered a severe shaking up, and possibly internal injuries, in a fall at the first turn in the mile and seventy yards second race. Both boys were rushed to a Havre de Grace hospital. U Demon, ridden by Phillips, fell rounding the turn, and Porters mount, Viva Pete, fell over him. The horses escaped unscathed. George L. Arvins Ogle won the race easily by four lengths from River Rose. Continued on seventeenth page. LOWERS STAKE RECORD Continued from first page. A length and a half back of the place Pish Tush was third in the field of nine ,500 three-year-olds. Edward Riley Bradleys Bloodroot, a Preakness candidate, shouldered top weight of 119 pounds and handily turned back four other capable three-year-olds over the mile and seventy yards of the Calvert Purse. Mrs. R. S. Heighes Brown Twig was second, and A. G. Vanderbilts Cold Shoulder third. Johnny Gilbert rode a mighty confident race astride Bloodroot, which was installed an odds-on favorite off her smashing fourth in the Chesapeake Stakes. The seasoned Syrian took back off the pace battle between Young Native, Tutticurio and Brown Twig until .straightened out in the back stretch. Then he sent the Bradley filly through on the rail to open a three-length lead. At the furlong pole Bloodroot was still under wraps. Brown Twig moved up sharply to her heels but Gilbert just let out a wrap and the Bradley miss moved away again to show a two-length winning margin at the end.
