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KATE DISAPPOINTING CHOICE Westwick Mare, Considered Sure Winner, Takes Second Place. Judges Unable to Separate Papenie and Alexandrine in Opening Race, Declaring Dead Heat. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 19. For a feature at Aqueduct today the fillies and mares had their opportunity in a mile affair, the Corvette Handicap. Only four went to the post when Whitney Stones Blue Sheen, winner of the Acorn Stakes, was withdrawn. This brought one of the big upsets of the day when Herman Phillips Fair Stein was an easy winner and Kate, rated as the surest winner of the afternoon, took second-place. Third went to the Wheatley Stables Reminding, and Beausympathy was the only other starter. A good crowd of the faithful was treated to another dead heat when in the opening race the judges could not separate Papenie and .Alexandrine. In the second race Ira Hanford was unseated right at the start, but fortunately that clever apprentice was unhurt by his fall and filled his remaining riding engagements. The Corvette Handicap, that brought victory to Fair Stein, was over the mile route and at all times in the wagering Kate was an odds-on choice, and she was rated the safest investment of the day. The start was a good one, and Bobby Merritt lost no time taking the Howe Stable miss to the front, where he had her under restraint. Fair Stein was racing along inside of the daughter of Westwick, and before the stretch was reached she slipped through to take the lead. Swinging for home Kate was a good second, and it appeared she was ready to go to the front at the first asking. Then Merritt called on her, but she did not respond. She shortened her stride and bore out rather badly, while Fair Stein stepped right along to draw away until .her winning margin was seven lengths. Kate struggled home second, beating Reminding a length for that part of the purse, and she had quit so badly that it was feared she had broken down. On her return to the scales the mare was in great distress. Beau-sympathy was third. The opening five furlongs dash for better class juvenile platers brought a close finish in which the camera was called upon to make the decision between James B. Town-sends Alexandrine and Joseph Pepps Papenie. After an altogether unusual delay, a dead heat was declared, though from the press stand it appeared that Alexandrine was the winner. A length and a half back of these third went to Wm. H. Gallaghers Chanting. Alexandrine was the one to cut all the running. Leaving the post running, she went into an instant lead and she was still clear as she rounded the elbow of the course. In the final furlong, Alexandrine tired, while Papenie, not as alert at the break, was closing rapidly and thus it was the dead heat came about. Chanting had a rough trip and after being badly buffeted about in the early racing finished strongly but could not run down the leading pair, Lucky Ducky was another that sprawled badly through the running. An accident occurred in the running of the second race when Alanad, the favorite, unseated Ira Hanford just as he broke from the stall, fortunately Hanford was unhurt, but the loose horse interfered to some extent with some of the others. This brought a fighting finish, in which Corvus was winner over Vitox by a length and a half. Third went to P. S. P. Randolphs Free, one that had met with some interference from Alanad and had to close a big gap for his share of the purse. William duPont sent out one, of the best looking juveniles of the year when Suprema-dor, a son of Supremus and Sheila Ryve, was saddled for the third, which he won in impressive style from Flying Trapeze that raced for the Howe Stable. Third was the portion of Joseph E. Wideners Scrooge, and Maespur, was fourth. What was impressive in this, the first race for the son of Supremus, was that he jumped in the air at the start but responded to urging to run down Flying Trapeze, which got away fast to set all the pace. Scrooge met with some early interference and finished with good courage, and Uneasy was another that was caught in close quarters and faltered in the final drive. Highpool, from the Howe Stable,, was an easy winner of the first division of the Pa-disha Purse, a six and a half furlongs dash run in two divisions. He won with plenty to spare over the Wheatley Stables Mag Mell and well back of the daughter of Pompey, A. H. Watermans Uganda outfinished Thirteen Stars to take third. Mag Mell followed Highpool into the stretch and here Hanford took her to the outside of the High Cloud colt and made a brave effort to run him down but he still had plenty up his sleeve and, never faltering, he drew out to be winner by three lengths in the excellent time of 1:18. There came another call for the camera in the sixth race, the split of the six and a half furlongs purse, when Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Asia, by a well-timed rush in the stretch, ran down Prevention, Down Under and Infantry in the fighting finish. The camera gave the finish as described and the only other starters were Paraguay Tea and High Vote.
