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FAIR SPORT AT EMPIRE CITY Edwina Runs Fine Race to Score Narrowly from Lady Emmeline. Swift Grass and Mavourneen Finishes Worth Seeing Weather Conditions Bad. NEW TOKIC. X. Y., July 20. This afternoons races at Empire City wart: bettor than tin- average of this weeks action at the course and were worth seeing. Kdwina ran a really fine race to beat Lady Kmuicliuc and Crack o Dawn. Old Mose furnished :f display of liis best courage and speed, the finishes of Swift Grass and Ma vourneen were altogether tyeable, and Sailing Alougs winning trip was above the average in quality for contests between such horses. Form wasnt at all out of joint for the class of horses performing. The public made three errors. Dark Hill, Mavourneen and Sailing Along on recent racing should have been far better in general estimation. The weather conditions were hart. Rain fell during the afternoon and threatened always. It fell smartly during the third race and the air was steadily sticky and hot. Three favorites. Swift Grass. Edwina and Mose, were successful. A big field of fifteen two-year-olds non-winners of the meeting staggered through the Shamrock at five-eighths of a mile with Swift Grass and Fair Virginia mild choices. Favored by dispatch in his stride the rapid Hillsdale showed the. way to the turn, whereSwjft Grass and Dolman closed on him. The two faced "together tfT -the Wtretch. There HllUrinlc was done. It was keen business to the end between Swift Grass and Dolman. Roth were all out, but Swift Grass, well ridden by Penman, managed to stagger past the winning post half a length in advance. Fred Kinney had a rough trip. He may have been best. Tricks got away badly and closed a lot of ground. Yonkers judgment gets thick under the weather conditions. Mavourneen should have been well considered for the Venus for a collection of seven mares over the short three-quarters course. Instead Jyn-tee and Marie Antoinette were marketed most stoutly. Princess Pandora. F.scarpolette and Sparkling troubled at the harrier. Mavourneen. away well, went to the front at once. Yeargin took her to the inside rails and nursed her turn of speed so well that .lyntee always chasing could not get to the Celt filly and she just lasted to win by less than a head. Marie Antoinette couldnt keep mi, but was third. The start was so bad that only the three placed horses had any chance in the race. DARK HILL BEST AND WINS. A murky lot of eight iu-an-outers were in the mile and a quarter Oakfield. with The I.anib and Uantry most favored, and the best horse ;tf the distance and weights. Dark Hill, as third choice. Master Jttilhnan took Dark Hill away in front and he won with ease, dispatch and all the way, four lengths in front, of Hard Girl at the finish. She closed fast and was four lengths or so before Scotch Aerdict. The two favorites found the rout. too long and ran dismally through the rain, which fell during the running of the race. The Soule mare, Kdwiua, just now at the top of her fprm, was the natural odds-on favorite for the Triumphant handicap at a mile and seventy yards and generously won it all the way. Krtwina hail to he shaken up at the end, though, to frustrate Lady IJmmelinos stout bid. because Fairbrother took things too easily with Kdwina in the last sixteenth. It is hard to believe that the Tijuana Derby winner. Crack o Dawn, ever won at a mile and an eighth under 110 pounds in 1:52 1.-,. He ran a most dismal race here, in line with his local rtoings anil hart hart enough after five-eighths in 1:01. Kdwina was full of speed in the race with a second quarter, which settled Crack o Dawn, in 23 -. Old Mose was a good horse in the Equality of one mile and seventy yards, which he won handsomely. It was the old fellows first victory this year and he had to be far the best to score. Mose was evidently ready ami was marie a stout favorite. Five more of the twelve were bucked. Mose dwelt as the field was dispatched. Ponce wisely trailed at the inside rails to the double turn, where .Mose closed on and dispossessed Manrtalay and Pibroch. Once in the straight, Mose, Maize and Pibroch began a long duel which lasted to the winning post, Mose getting up under Ponces vigor to win by a good nose in the last stride. Current Events got into the fray in the last fifty yards and was going faster than the leaders at the close, to he third, a length away. It was a nice looking finish and an extra good and courageous race for Mose. There was a fair field of seven in the five and a half furlong two-year-old selling Cliff Purse u typical field of fair ones of the kind. Sailing Along, the Whitney Pennant Enchanting filly, hasnt got a good temper, but her speed is not questioned. She was overlooked on the market, ruled by Duncecap and Zeiinottn. Sailing Along won speedily. Coltiletti hurried the filly away from the barrier. She is generous, was hard driven every foot of the way iu l:0Sf. and beat the favorite by a liberal length. Duncecap was more sharply pressed to resist the challenge of Zcuuottn, which was away slowly anil made up a world of ground. Kinil Herz sold Grass Tree to Rert Williams in the course of the afternoon anil the colt ran for Ids new owner in the sixth. William Garth has marie arrangements to break his yearlings at Pinilico this year. He has been iu the habit of starting his youngsters in training at Ileiiiiiug.
