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SWEEP BY WINS HUDSON Shows Brilliant Speed to Take Juvenile Feature at Aqueduct Knobble and Playfellow Rancocas RancocasCostly Costly Purchases First and andSecond Second in Carlton Stakes NEW YORK N Y June IS Sweep By the nice brown by Sweep Iridescence which Walter House bought during the winter from Sam Hildreth for 5000 won the 5275 Hudson Stakes nt the Aque ¬ duct course this afternoon The morning sport in the Rancocas Stable didnt make a good bargain when he sold the colt Sweep By belongs in the first flight of the years twoyearolds and is worth five or six times his cost as present horse prices run He ran a notably true and fast race to win the Hudson the fiveeighths out of the elbow bend chute in 59 f on a track that was smooth but with ¬ out life or resilience resilienceThe The other Aqueduct stake race the 0450 Carl ton Stakes fell to the new 25000 Rancocas colt Knobbie with his more recent and 115000 stable mate Playfellow half of the value of which is in his brotherhood to Man o War second to win 7000 This 7000 can be charged off the cost of this 140000 worth of threeyearolds The future is ahead of course Good pastures make fat sheep sheepThere There are plenty of moderate and worse two yearolds which daily beat one another There were twentysix of them entered in the fifth race a ellerwatfivoeigljtlis out of the elbow chute Zealot from the Whitney stable and under suspicion of being a brother to Upset was chosen to win and did win Away second Coltiletti was patient with the colt in the early contention with Dovcsroost and Miriam Cooper and when they tired a bit he brought Zealot into the lead on the inside rail and lie won right easily by two lengths from Miriam Cooper She was well clear of The Wag and lie of Dick Deadeye DeadeyeThe The next race was at a mile for threeyearold maiden fillies At times there is excuse for thor ¬ oughbreds coming to such an age without winning but judging from the time of the lace 143 it required a meeting of this particular lot before any of them could win Vivian with Sandc up from the stable of the once active Jefferson Liv ¬ ingston of Chicago got home two lengths in ad ¬ vance of Nancy Sagacity supported on the sus ¬ picion of being from a talented stable was third another length away after dragging out the early pace paceRESPECT RESPECT FOR RANCOCAS PAIR PAIRThe The Rancocas pair were too much respected by the men who will lay you odds if you really bet held the expensive beauties at an expensive price Playfellow was second He could have been first but Hildreth declared to win with Knobbie Play ¬ fellow lias reformed and is at present a race horse He was growing all last year and kept growing until this spring So his 1920 shabbiness can be put among the past performances tiiat ate worthless Nowadays the colt is a slashing longstriding nicelyactioned youngster and is likely to earn his long price through various turf avenues Playfel ¬ low got away fifth in the Carlton was in fourth place at the half mile came along convincingly to the long stretch and was eased up behind Knobbie having run past Careful and Smoke Screen Knob ¬ ble away like a flash led to win all the way He was three lengths to the good at the deciding post Playfellow two more lengths before the diminutive Careful which had her speed but it is not quite ready She and Smoke Screen had a hard time of it chasing Knobbie and were not able to stay with Playfellow when he came along The mile was in 138 If fast time for the dull going The Cuban Derby winner Billy Barton was fifth and ran a shabby race raceA A distressing accident occurred in the Carlton Broomspun the Whitney stable good colt and win ¬ ner of this years Preakness Stakes broke his right foreleg at the shoulder and bad to be killed He had been kicked at the post not on the foreleg which gave way by the fractious Bennington Kumnicr rode Broomspuu and said that he felt his leg give in the first stride the colt took in the race Broomspun raced with his horses for nearly half a furlong and was pulled up Horses some times have brittle bones and to such a structural weakness must the good colts accident and death he charged chargedTho Tho Hudson Stakes race won by Swoop By was a most eyoable one Sweep By was tho choice with Bightart and Homespun brother to Bicomstcr next in favor There were ton in tlij field The Cosdcn stable kopt Lord Baltimore away and Sam Hildrtth scratched William A Swoop By was a natural favorite He won convincingly Away third lie was shuffled back to second place going around the elbow and at the straight seemed to be hemmed in while Righoart Toil and Black Rascal wore racing in the front But whon Black Rascal cra lod he left an opening for master Rodriguez to got Sweep By through and through it he came with fiuo determination and speed nailid Bighoart on the insidn before the stand and wen from Bighoart as if much tho best by his own and a half longth moro Pillory finished fast and with groat courage to be third a half length away Pil ¬ lory hadnt as much luck in tho wav of a cloar path as the winner He is a good colt and ran a fine race Brookster never got evon a nodding acquaintance with front racing and is a bud character as to temper temperATTENDANCE ATTENDANCE NUMBERS 18000 18000There There was a great attendance some 18000 strong and the afternoon weather was perfect The course was not The water which fell on it Friday left it too dull and dead for record making Four other races weic as good as the average The first a sovonoighths claimer hd twenty racing ragamuf ¬ fin within its carded midst Thirteen stayed away iinil a good thing Winneconne won all the way wayThe The usual steeplechase over the about two miles course furnished a good race Mr J E Widcners mure Juyful which is as ivcll finished and skillful according to her lights as any chaser in these cor ¬ ners was the natural favorite and ran and won like one oneMajor Major C L Scott of the Federal Remount De ¬ partment visited Aqueduct and bought the stallions Jack Stuart from Theodore Cook and Elmendorf from the Quincy Stable They will be shipped to Fort Royal Va Monday Jack Stuart is an Eng ¬ lish liore by Valcns Sweet Sauce He bowed a tendon in his last start Elmendorf is by Ballot Discipline and raced with success on New York tracks this year despite unsound legs legsEliminator Eliminator the sixyearold bay horse by Sunstar Marian Hood by Martagon which has been rac ¬ ing disappointingly in the colors of the Allies Stable was sold by F J Keenoy to Frank Taylor representing J J Hallenbeck J E Madden then took an option on the horse and will send him to Hamburg Place to join The Finn doing stud duty when his racing days are over Eliminator is a brother to Sun Turret tlie threeyearold in the J K L Ross string for which the Canadian paid 25000 as a yearling yearlingTom Tom Shannon watched the stars of the three yearold division competing in the Carlton and silently wished that Plnrlbus the son of Pluvious which he trains for T W OBrien could have been ready for the contest but stated that he probably will not bo able to get his charge to the post before the Saratoga meeting meetingJ J P Smith representing Mrs A Solomon claimed Porigourdine from Kentmere Farms after the first race paying 1705 for the mare Clarence Buxton took Winneconne from L Sperling after the same race for 1700 Zealot winner of tho fifth race was bid up by It Dwyer and Clarence Buxton from an entered price of 2500 and bought in by II P Whitney for 3fi05 3fi05Jim Jim Patterson reported that the extent of the injuries suffered by Leonardo II in the Brooklyn Handicap have not been definitely determined It is believed that ho will be laid up for some time to come as tlie result of a strain to the right fore ¬ leg He however did not succumb to a recur ¬ rence of the leg infirmities which have hampered him in the past Mr Patterson expressed the be ¬ lief that a cuppy or uneven spot in the track caused the lameness He followed this statement witli a compliment for the efficiency of track superin ¬ tendent John Brcnnan stating that he believes Mr Brcnnan has solved the mystery of building a fast track that is at the same time safe for horses horsesCharles Charles F Hill in reminiscencing called attention to the fact that Miss Minnie dam of Grey Lag was one of the last thoroughbreds produced by Clannee II Mackay before shipping his stock abroad in 1912 Miss Minnie is by Meddler Spec ¬ trum a mare for which Mr Mackay paid W C Whitney 15000 Mr Hill fomerly was associated with Mr Mackay
