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Show I ! ELECTIONEER WINS I mm stake j! Practical HorseniaTi Snatches ' f Richest Stake of Year Prom j, Score of Millionaires, r i ! JOCKEY SHAW RODE RACE OP LIFETIME Judged His Pace and Timed His ' Winning Rush to Frac- tion of Second. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Down ii lnno of gray brown earth which had all tho soft-noss soft-noss of velvet beneath tho trond of tho flying thoroughbred hoors, flftocn fleet i two-year-olds raced madly today to a .' goal three-quarters of a mile awny where lay a purso of close to ?CO,000. It 't Tvas the nineteenth running of tho Futurity Fu-turity at Shoepshead Bay, and as a roar from nearly 40,000 throats rent tho air. Electioneer, a woll-named colt by Votcr-Quosal, Votcr-Quosal, flashed undor tho wire a winner J "by three-quarters of a length. ' Another champion had boon proclaimed, and William Lakeland, a horseman by profession, who trains his broad-wlnnora hlmsolf and sleeps In tho barn when necessary, had snatched tho richest prize of tho year from half a score of H , millionaires. H At, tho wlnnor's quarters was Popo H Joan, the fastest Ally of tho year and the 1 bent of tho trio which James R. Koene Hj sent to the post to bo played as favorites H at the short prion of S to 10. Demund, H tho Goldfinch colt for which Paul J. 1 Ralney paid $46,000 curly In tho season, H waB third, boatcn for second honors by H , the shortest of heads. Ho ran n credlta- H bio race. Next came Yankee Gun, an H added stnrtor; Pctor Pan, to which tho H frantic players of tho Koono stable had H plnnod their faith; Yankee Girl, ownod by C, R. ElllBon, Dallot, added by Mr. H Kecno to talco tho placo of Zambesi; Con- j ville, ono of tho most widely tipped 1 horsos In the raco; Hornco E., the fn- i mous Western colt bought by Roy Ral- ncy for $25,000. with tho Futurity In view; H 1 Don Enrique, tho Bolmont roprosenta- tlve; Kentucky Beau, bnckod from 20 to 1 down to 12 to 1; Old Honesty, tho only 1 100-to-l shot In the stnko; Altuda, Ornn, 1 played by a fow becauso Miller had the H mount, and last of all Purslane, which opened at 50 to 1 nnd stayed there. H It was ono of tho best and most truly , ' run Futurltlos over neon, So well bunched 1 was tho field that a furlong from homo 1 .'any ono of the fifteen bad a chance. But ' -.Electioneer was best. Ho novcr faltered Hi under n gruollng drive, which began at ' the head, of tho stretch and lasted until the finish. Jockey Willie Shaw was In tho saddle, and novcr did a boy glvo a more skillful exhibition of horsomnn-ship. horsomnn-ship. Ho judged his pace and timed his winning rush to the fraction of a second. H: He placed his whip without mercy 'through tho last sixteenth, and won a raco which called forth a thunder of Hi cheers for both horec and rldor. Hl Electioneer was second cholco In the ' betting at 4 to 1. In tho first mad rush l Electioneer was overlooked and his prlco j lengthened to eighths. Then there fol- lowed a scene In the ring such as has j heen seldom wltncnsod at Shoopshoad , Bay. Electioneer money seemed to pour In from every side, and tho layers were swamped under the cloudburst of gold, H silver and notes which wore thrust upon H them. Peter Pan, Popo Joan nnd Ballot, H! t tno Keono entry, wer,o noglocted. Tho i glamor faded from the $45,000 Demund i and tho 525,000 Horace E. Tho million- Hi a,re owners were pasBod by in the mad i hurry to hack tho horse of a practical l horseman. From 8 to 1 tho bookmakers out until Just half that figure was tho j prevailing odda at post tirao. Even then ! the Electioneer followers kept ham- merlng away until 3 to 1 was hard to find . In tho last fow seconds. 1 There was a delay of nearly eight i ' minutes at the post. Then the webbing j: t!j waB sprung, and away Jumped Popo Joan, j ; Peter Pan followed her for a fow hundred ,p yards, but the paco was too swift for rj l hT,m Yankee Girl got away third and f Horace E. was fourth to show. Eloction- 1 oor had boon a bit unfortunate at tho 1 break, though tho start wa3 good for all. IIe wa,s ninth as tho timer's flag wont down. Shaw took in tho situation and i acted with swift decision. He pullod Electioneer well to tho outside and be-Ban be-Ban a race which will llvo long In tho Hi memory of thoBo who saw it. Clear of j! , Interference, Eloctlonoor sot to work to f 1 ovorhaul hl3 field. At tho turn from tho !j Futurity chuto Into the stretch of tho 1 main track he was still longthB away ! from Pope Joan, who was already being i hailed as tho winner. Demund was soc- 11 I 0Qd Ashting tho Kecno fllly at every Hni I etep.. Petor Pan was third and Yankoo H Girl 'fourth. , Shaw pulled his whip, and nt tho first J lash Electioneer Jumped Into a qulckor l stride. Horse nftcr horse succumbed to J his heartbreaking rush, until Just a few 1 yards from tho wire his ruuzzlo showed In K! . front of Popo Joan. The record-breaking crowd roared Its encouragement. Shaw I P1,ed tho whip onco more, and tho raco ,1 was, over. As Shaw returned with tho 1 winner to weigh in he was grootod by a J remarkable demonstration. It was un- I questionably ono of the moBt popular vlc- f '1 i torios of tho yoar, and tho blow the raco- goers dealt tho bookmakora was stinging. ' , Tho timo, 1:13 3-5 was not fast. Tho 1 i, , . Futurity pijrso this year containod ox- j, l actly 546,770. Of this amount 537,270 wont to Mr. Lakeland, tho owner of tho win-jt win-jt " nor. Mr. Kcone rocolvod 53750 as .the r share for the socond horso and Paul Hm' Ralney drew" 52000 for Domund's third honors. Hjl ji ( Electioneer was bred and nominator by j. I, , tho late MaJ. G. B. Thomas of Kontuckv, Hj' i Two thousand dollars of tho Futurity Hj , , purse goes to the nominator of the wln- H , nor,; but, Maj. Thomas being dead, tho j 92000 will bo paid to his cstnto. Mr. ' j, Keene received nn additional 53250 for Hj nominating the socond horso, and $500 Hli Boes to J. B. Haggln, the nominator of Hfi Demund.. Hli First raco, Ave furlongs Leraaco won, H1 Monfort second, Eudora third. Tlmo, 1.07. Hl Second race, the Inaugural steeplechase, K'- about two mllos John M. P. won, Bnl- v llgerent .second. Oro third. Time. 4:07. H3 Third rncc, Fall handicap, six furlongs ' Rosobcn won, Neva Lee second, Orraon- H, dale third. Tlmo, 1:12 2-5. H Fourth race, the Futurity, six furlongs, .1 Futurity course Electioneer, 117 (Shaw), Hj ' 4 to 1 and 8 to 5, won; 'Pope Joun, 116 1 (Nlcol), 6 to 5 and 3 to 5, second; Do- mund, 123 (Rndtke), 5 to 1 and 2 to 1, i third. Time, 1:13 3-5. Oran, 'Potor Pan, H ' Horace E., Don Enrique, ConYlHo, Old T Honesty. Purslane Altuda, Kentucky Beau, Yankoo Girl, 'Ballot, Yankee Gun H) ;t; &Ibo ran. "Coupled. i tt' ,. j Fifth race, mllo Holiday won, Wos j; second. Vino, third.. Time. lr:39'2-5. Sixth race, mllo and a' sixteenth', on 1 ' turl Glnotte won, KiomoBha socoud. Jtfoaloa thirds Tlmo, 1:40 3-5 . J |