The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-18
COTHONTOWE WINS DRYING.
WESTERN COLT TAKES FIRST SPE-
CEAL AT GRAVESEND.
Beats Running water ana Tsngie by .
short Margin M0mentum'a FIAT
and Stakes-LAdy Amelia Breezes
HOme-GaFteFkROe wins steeDlechase.

onOrt margin M0n1eutuIn0 FIAT
M Stakes-lAdy Amelia Breezes
HOms-GarteFkRos wins steepIechase.
The fall meeting OF the Brooklyn Jockey
Club opened at Gravsend yesterday with
nearly $4,000 persons In attendance. The
feature was the First Special. weigh for age.
onc mile and . quarter. A Western horse.
cottontown. . three-year-oid by Captain
sigsbee Lauretta Burke. surprised the
smart people by running q splendid race from
start 70 finish He was a 10 20 1 shot. l.. will
iams taking him out to follow the pace set
oy the Newcastle Stables Running Water.
10 10 .. At the end Of a mile CottOntOwn
moved up on even terms with the Sir Dixon
mare. In a drive Cottontown Outlasted
Running Water. beating the latter half a
length in 7OS SIS. +. X. Hitchcockis TanEle,
Stoi. who was hemmed 10 on the rail a greater
part OF tho way by Go Between. 2 TO / f~avorite.
closed with a great rush In the stretch. but
could not get up In time to be better than
third. beaten q head. With any kind Of good
racing luck Tangls might have won. &c
Between ran far below the form shown by
him In his previous race.
Miller got Momentum. 10 TO 8 f~avorite.
away running In the Flatlands Stakes. for
two-yesr-olds. fvs and a half furlongs, the
Newcastle Stables colt breezing all the way
TO the wire. where he had four enGths over
r. T. Wilson. Jr.s. Monfort. Q to 1. who got
up In time 20 beat p, J Dryers Royal Breeze.
7 TO l. a head. Frank Lord. s 90 /. was out
run from the start. while Finn pulled Loring,
Q 70 /. up just after the barrier was sprung.
Tho time was 1 ?O7 as.
With Roseben scratched, p. r. Thomass
Lady Amelia was made a prohibitive ~favorite
In the handicap for all ages. about six fur
longs. She was &C. and with i3S pounds up
she Just galloped out IN front from the be-
g!npInS and won OF the bit by two len gths
In ITO. DIR. Gardner. who was played from
4 to l down TO IL TO s. was the runner up all
the way. beating Arklirts. IL to l. by four
lengths. Belle OF Portland, 200 to 1. was
second for nearly half II mile. and then died
The Piedmont Stables Garter Knot. 7 20 2
second choice. made all the running in the
steeplechase. winning by a dozen lengths In $50.
4 bad ride by. Palmer on Commandant. s tot
place from the latter by a length and a half.
There were fSuI tumbles in the race. Pollock.
an ambulance With a wrenched lee. away "
all the pace in the nth event, one mile and q
las, Miller put up a hard finish on James
Reddick, 8 to /. who beat Macy, Jr., 4 to l, a
shut on and V Was also oe% %e SRITn Hidden 10 TtSsss
stretch.
A bad start in the sixth race. for maiden two
chances Of James R. Reene's Pierrot' backed
from 4 down to IS to S favorite. together with
those OF several other horses. The winner
turned up In II. b. Duryea's Prince Ha mpto
s to 1. who came home In a drive a length
before OargAntua. 9 to !. George J. Longs
Algelone., 10 10 !. was third. three lengths
away. The time was l Os.
q; +. Johnson's Commodore Arson. II 70 S.
made a runaway OF the seventh race, same
conditions. and won by three lengths In 90.
+. r. Bradley's TroublemAker, 20 to 1, ran
into the place. with Oscar Lewisohn's Prin-
cess Nettie. 8 TO 2. taking third money under
the whip. Four favorltes and a sec ond
choice got the money. the ring losing heavily.
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