New-York tribune., 1906-11-15
CHOICES B0WLED OVER
FRANK GILL'S BAD RACE.
Stray, at Fancy Price, Wins the
OakdoIe Handicap.

Disaster followed quickly on the heels OF sue
cess for the form players at Aqueduct yester-
day. Flushed with the victory of five favorites
on Tuesday. the regulars went down hop
ing and expecting again TO get the better of
the layers. but great expectations were quickly
converted into blasted hopes. form ali
awry and long shots and horses which could not
be figured prominently held revel.
The afternoon began auspiciously when Beau
cere. the favorite ct odds on, the first race,
but thereafter the choices went down to defeat
one after the other in startling succession. Va
rietes Frank GIL. Tipping. Dreamer and Molly
Donohue were the short-priced favorites TO fail.
while Zambesi Maintenance Jim Leonard Sir
Ralph. Belfast and Commune were other horses
which. attracting strong support, far below
expectations. The winners were more or less
neglected with the possible exception of Trans
mute in the Lest race. which played by
wise few from 10 10 ] TO g to l.
The Oal1dale Handicap for two-year-olds. at
six furlongs. furnished the biggest surprise OF
the day. Stray. backed from 25 TO i TO 10 TO
by the railbirds and those who thought he had
a pull in the weights. won from Zambesi, Main
chance and Frank GIL. the betting choices
Stray. for which Matt Byrnes paid 3.100 at a
recent sale, went right TO the front at the start
and made the pace so fast that the others We're
soon struggling along in a vain effort TO keep up
while Maintenance gave It up quarter Of
mile from home. allowing Zarnbesi TO go on and
earn the place.
The performance OF Frank GIL was little short
OF disgracefuL The colt was sluggish at the
start, and was six eight lengths behind the
pacemakers IN the first furIong. When straight
ened out for home he hopelessly beaten,
but this was no excuse for ShRw's allowing
him TO swerve over in the heavy going on the
make up lost ground. The colt undoubtedly did
his best under conditions which invited defeat
Three in Ave days was asking altogether
soc much Of a two-year-old. and. all things
sioered. his Defeat only what might have
been expected. After his victory Tuesday
over Oraculum and Purslane and his hard
in forcing Running Water to make new track
record at q mile and furlong on Saturday it
would seem as if he had done enough. His
owner thought otherwise. however. and started
him right back yesterday under 126 pounds, and
the task proved his undoing.
few Gays ago Prince FREDERICK gallopeo
home an easy winner from Society Bud. with
aIntia far back IN the ruck Under practically
the same weight scheme yesterday Mintia won
the second race, with Prince Frederick and
Society Bud struggling along many lengths
back II is we'll that the racing season has
reached !ts end If such startling form reSersals
are allowed TO go by unnoticed. Varieties, played
from TO 10 13 TO 10. the favorite in this
race, Mintta going back to IL 10 after opening
was beaten a head, Miller clearly outriding
Drolette in the last few strides r. 7. Orfutt
bought Mintia for 600 at the sale IN the pad
dock before the first race. and won him out at
the first asking.
Tipping was a strong favorite in the fourth
race at one mile and fve-sixteenths, IN which
the start right In front Of the grand stand.
A Muskoday, which could hardly raise a re-
spectacle gallOp in his last start, raced Tipping
snto submission at the end OF a mile, and then
came on TO win easily from Palette and Sir
Ralph. Johnstown might have this race
with stronger handling. He was many lengths
out Of IL in the run up the back stretch, and ran
the outside OF his field all the way. He closed
hig gap. However, and was heater only scant
TWO lengths
Handzarra made a show Of her field IN the
handicap for all ages at seven furlOngs After
opening al to she drifted back 10 to !, and
81 was said that even Davy Johnson her owner,
allowed her TO run unbacked. Dreamer, which
had beaten HandZaTTa at six furlongs a few days
ago. was the medium Of wild plunge, which
forced his price from to TO TO 8. He had
seven pounds the worst of the weights over his
previous meeting with Bandzarra- but the extra
furlong was thought TO be in his favor. Either
HandZarra ran q twenty pounds better race or
Dreamer lost his form, the former made the
taVorite look like the common selling platter by
beating him twelve fifteen lengths Ginette
followed Handzarra home, five lengths back and
eight lengths before Dreamer, which had all he
could DO TO beat Royal Ben head for third
money.
Commune was played for a killing" in the
last race, and backed from to TO to l. while
Mollie Donohue heavily supported by the
form players. Commune finished absolutely last
while Mohe DonOhue beaten a head by
Transmute. which was quietly played from 10 TO
70 70 !. Cloistress looked like the probable
winner well inside the last sixteenth pole, but
she hung badly right at the end
The racing season in the metropolitan district
ends to-day.