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TURF COURSE RACE FEATURE Most Interesting of Fridays Offerings at Aqueduct Track. Espinaca Turns Up Winner After Running Out Badly Eirst Disqualification of Meeting. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26. In a card devoid of any particular feature, the most interesting offering of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today was a gallop of about a mile and three-sixteenths over the turf course. It was the first race of that character of the season. The ones engaged were not much, but it was a new spectacle and satisfactory when Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Espinaca, after running out badly on the first turn, came on to be winner over J. P. Jones Capstan, with H. R. Bains Galabang taking third from Jolly Saint. The only other starter was imported Silence IDT., which was a distant last all the way. Cheap horses entertained a big crowd and the first disqualification of the meeting occurred when Pass Em By, after finishing second, was set back for having fouled Magic Circle in the stretch run of the third race. In the turf race the six engaged left in the same stride, with Espinaca and Galabang leading the others going to the first turn. There Espinaca bore out badly and McGin-nis, whose mount was racing outside the son of Epinard, pulled back to slightly bump the other gelding as he swung to the inside. This gave Galabang the lead, and he was hustled right along in that position, with Jolly Saint racing third. Espinaca, after losing all the ground, was making it up rapidly ir. the run down the back stretch, and on the upper turn he had run down Galabang to go into the lead. Galabang was under a hard drive as he swung for home, but it was a fruitless effort and he tired so badly that Capstan was along to beat him three lengths for second "place. However, the Jones gelding was five lengths back of Espinaca. Jolly Saint had tired from his early racing with Galabang, but Silence III. was well back of him. The opening five-furlong dash for maiden juvenile fillies brought the defeat of "a favorite when Philip Biebers Tellwick, a long shot, easily took the measure of Mrs. Roy Carruthers Schodlmom, the choice, and third went to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Cherry Orchard and Miss Cohere was. fourth. San Antioca, racing for J. Davis Cohn, which has campaigned extensively in France, beat a cheap band of maidens in the six and a half- furlongs of the second race, when he led home Thomas B. Gays Vitox, and third went to Mr. Nightingales Mystic Flyer when he outfinished The Swagman. There was a long delay before the start in this and the inexperienced apprentice Ha-beeb had a rough time of it as he caused the delay. In the parade to the post he was unseated by his mount, Portunus, and after reaching the post he was unseated twice before a break was had. One of the big surprises of the day was the defeat of Joseph E. Wideners Magic Circle. This was a five-furlong dash for the better juveniles and it went to Forty Winks, from the Greentree Stable, and the victory brought ah end to the jinx for the time being, at least, that has pursued Silvio Coucci, for he had the mount. Samuel Deutchs Pass Em By raced to the place and barely saved that part of the purse from the Brookmeade Stables Match Point, and then came Magic Circle, seven lengths away. After the finish Wright, who rode Magic Circle, lodged a claim of foul against Pass Em By, and it was allowed, moving the Widener filly into .third, place.
