The sun., 1909-06-24
RACING STABLE FOR GAFFNEY
JULIA Powell WINS FOR THE
NOTED CONTRACTOR.
VIII Buy Other Horses and weir Will
Train Them - Mexosnas Bedford -
Summer Night . Surprise
Berkeley and Schoolmarm Score.


Berkeley and schooimarm Score.
James e. Gsffney. brother -in-law OF
Charles F. Murphy and member OF the
Bradley q Ge6ney -Stoers Company. which has
made bid for the now subway. Is going to
have racing stable. Mr.. Gaffney has long
been q patron of tho turf. but has never
owned horses until now. The other day
Frank d. Weir. who trained for David G.
years, purchased the marc Julia Powell
from W. B. Jennings for $500. Weir
entered her In the FIRST race at Gravesend
yesterday, and after she had won In brilliant
style 1t became known that Mr.. Gafney
was her real owner and that she would run
In his name and colors In future.
Mr.. Ganney informed TIE Sun man at
the track that he Intended to buy q number
OF horses and that he had engaged Weir
to train for him. He declared that he had
confidence in tho future Of racing In this
country and thought that now was an ex-
cellent time to invest In some useful thor
ou ghbreds. Mr.. Gaffney was we'll pleased
with Julia Powel's victory. She had an
outside position at the post in the opening g
event. at about elx tur!oass. bit Butwoii
got her away quickly and kept her within
striking distance OF Sir John johnson until
the head OF the stretch was reached. Then
the Wstercress marc was let down and with
q fine turn Of speed she quickly overhsuled
Sir John johnson spd beat him length and
TO save. the place from James r.. Keene 8
Cssque by a head. with Tskahira head out
Waterspeed. In spite Of the f.ot that she
steeplechase. at about two miles and q
hslf; in a spTeadeaele Sallop; She ,,S msds .
margin Of forty lengths in ass. ImpsII,a-
some Boy fell but was remounted.
Dusan FOR his queer looking ride on Pre-
| tend, the favorite In the Bedford Stakes,
for two.year-olds, five furlongs. Pretend
Seore SeS e the fsoe pus the nodsn
the same. Always a quick breaker and .
bsy' s'fs isssins ss% behinS ia the rueE Just sfte!
the start while Little King. Black Chief
And Mexosna were cutting out the !. pace pace
caught Little King at the head Of the
an easy winner by q length and a hall
rush he managed to land place money by a
unknown reason being pulled up by seovilie
The running OF the ndicap. at mile and
James Fitzsimmons.s Summer Night. Is to
IL 70 tue ~ tuc stSh Suo otey GU
there to the end, winning in drive by three
parts OF q length IN l:4s So; lmitator.
20 to 1. who was badly beaten In her pre-
vious race with Dugan UP, ran In vastly
improved form this time with Creevy In
the saddle and finished second. two lengths
before James r. Keene's Afhiction. second
choice. Question Mark. the favorite., was q
factor for three.9uarters of 4 mile. when ne
Berkeley, odds on favorite, was in a soft
spot in the nth race, at a mile and . fur
long. He led from start to finish and won
easily by two lengths In the fast time OF
s. rs, one second slower than Angelus's 8
track record. Hill Top chased him home
and had eight lengths over Footpad, who
showed an Improvement
Jack Bennets schoolmarm, another ia
yorite. made a runaway oi the last race.
for maiden two-year-old nlnes. hve and q
half furlongs. and came home on the bit.
George J. Longs Cellaret WAS an easy sec
ond, with the Oneck Stables Coopskin
third Dracoola. q supposed good thing.
was left at the post The race was run In
iOs.
Tha sur,1,arise.