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LI0NHEART STEEPLECHASE Heads Thursdays Card at Aqueduct and Provides Thrilling Contest. Masked Knight Winner Under Excellent Ride Riparian Best in the Bonniebert Purse. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 17 The special of the day was the Lionheart Steeplechase over the two-mile course and it brought a thrilling contest with G. H. "Pete" Bostwicks Masked Knight repeating his previous score through the Aqueduct field when in a driving finish he led home Robert E. Mc-Connells Prattler, which in turn barely nosed out Thomas Hitchcocks Saluda and Mrs., Gwladys Whitneys Rideaway was fourth. While each of the ten completed the course, the race was marked by considerable roughing and interference and Masked Knight was able to escape much of it when he was smartly ridden by Ansteatt. Ride-away was particularly unfortunate in the way he was buffeted about and Saluda had a rough passage with Scott of little help to him when he found racing room. The Bonniebert, a six and a half furlongs dash, brought out rather a nice lot of three-year-olds. Fourteen appeared under silks, with William Woodwards Riparian proving beat when he won with something to spare over E. G. Rands Sun Lamp, with Stalagmite, from the Howe Stable, a close third, and Gold Quest, which carried the Dewey Bentham silks for the first time, was a closer fourth before Allowance. Thanksgiving, a juvenile son of Bud Ler-ner and Inchcape Belle, which races for Mrs. Parker Corning, upset some plans at Aque-duce today when Max Hirsch sent him out against Joseph E. Wideners Transmitter and John Hay Whitneys Endymion in a five furlongs dash, He led the pair of them home and it was Endymion that took second place, so the defeat of Transmitter was doubly surprising, for he was looked upon as one of the surest winners on the program.
