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BIG DAY AT AQUEDUCT Strabo, Aneroid and Inhale Account for Valuable Stakes. Two Disqualifications Mar Sport "Salian and Creole Maid Set Back Sceneshifter Fails. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 19 Strabo, the game good son of Pompey and Blood Royal, which races" for Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, ran his greatest race at Aqueduct today when, in a battling finish, he just got up to earn a photographic decision over William H. Gallaghers Rudie in the Dwyer Stakes. This added 0,750 to his earnings and was by long odds his greatest race. At the heels of the leaders came Maxwell Howards Sceneshifter, which was going better than the other two at the end, but could not run them down, and fourth was the portion of Merry Maker, but he was another six lengths back. This was the big event of a remarkable holiday of racing at the old course of the Queens County Jockey Club, and racing that attracted one of the greatest crowds ever on the grounds. Before Strabo had won the Dwyer, John Hay Whitneys Inhale had redeemed herself by taking the Astoria Stakes, and the Carter Handicap went to John Manfusos Aneroid, while the hurdle feature was won by St. Francis. Each of these was a public choice, while in the Dwyer the Maxwell pair of Sceneshifter and Fencing had the call. SALIAN SET BACK. It was racing that was marked by two disqualifications when Salian was set back after winning the opening race, and second place was taken from Creole Maid, in the Astoria Stakes for her stretch fouling. j . No time was lost at the post in the Dwyer and the seven engaged left on the same stride. As was expected Arcaro sent Rudie into the lead and Richards sent Fencing after him to set the pace for his stablemate, Sceneshifter. Arcaro stole away with Rudie until, swinging from the back stretch, he was four lengths to the good. It was not until the stretch was reached that Fencing had enough. Then Merry Maker made his bid, while Str,abo also moved up on the Gallagher colt. Sceneshifter had ample room to go to the inside with Sceneshifter, but Stout elected to go to the outside, and as Rudie and Merry Maker bore out it gave him some handicap. Merry Maker chucked it in the final furlong, but Strabo was going stride for stride with Rudie, and Arcaro was riding as he never rode before to hold his lead. Sceneshifter was running them down at every stride, but he could not make it, and thus it was that Strabo nosed out Rudie and Sceneshifter was at the heels of the pair. Continued on thirty-ninth page. BIG DAY ATAQUEDUCT Continued from first pagej When Aneroid was winner of the Carter Handicap he proved himself a versatile sort, for in his last performance he was an easy winner of the Suburban Handicap. In the Carter he was meeting one of the best fields of sprinters brought together all season, but he ran down the leader to be the winner in the closing strides over F. A. Burtons Deliberator, a recent arrival from Kentucky, and John Simonettis Sgt. Byrne took third from Bill Farnsworth, which but recently returned from New England. There was an unusual delay at the post in the Carter, but. the start was a good one, with High Fleet soon to find her way into the lead. As the field moved up on the Widener filly she suddenly quit badly to drop out of the battle, while Deliberator charged through and Aneroid, answering a drive just, beat the Burton colt a head. Sgt. Byrne was another two lengths back, but he had outfinished the tired Bill Farnsworth. This renewal of the Carter, which had its first running back in 1895, had a net value of ,875 to the winner. INHALE REDEEMS SELF. When Inhale carried the silks of John Hay Whitney to be an easy winner of the Astoria Stakes she atoned for her recent defeat in the Princess Pat at Washington Park in Chicago and she also added ,375 to her earnings. Mrs. Walter 2and. Jeffords Creole Maid followed her over the line and William du Pont, Jr.s Supremist just took third from Floragina, an arrival from California. But this running brought the second disqualification of the day when Creole Maid was set back for fouling in the final furlong and the place awarded Supremist, giving Floragina third and Invoke fourth. The sport opened with a battling finish and a disqualification. George D. Wideners Salian was first over the line in a photo finish, with Mrs. Rose Grahams Strolling By after having bumped that gelding repeatedly in the, final furlong and the claim was made by Peters, who rode Strolling By. The interference was marked and a disqualification followed, which moved Bailiwick from the Howe Stable into the place, while third went to Cleaveland Putnams Ready Teddy and Bet a Millibn moved into fourth. First of the special features of the day was the Cagliostro Hurdle Handicap over the mile and three-quarters distance and it went to Mrs. M. MacNeilles sterling fencer fat, Francis, carrying the .top weight of 167 pounds, whiclUncluded his trainer, the amateur rider C. R. White. Grain de Cafe, a subscription outlander, carried the silks of the Greentree Stable into second place and far back of him came Shasta Negra, from the Bedminster Stable, to beat H. R. Bains Flayox for third. The race carried a net value of ,070 to the winner. There was one mishap in the running when Wizardess unseated the amateur R. G. Woolfe at the first hurdle. The filly continued with her field riderless right through the running to finish second to St. Francis and she bothered some of them repeatedly.
