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LADASETTE TAKES SUFFOLK CAMPE0N BREAKS TRACK RECORD IN WIN. NING HANDICAP AT AdUEDUCT. Jockey Shilling Obtains His License and Rides in Closing Race of Day — Bright Weather Entices Big Attendance. New York. Xlay .5. — Ladasette was winner of the Suffolk Stakes, the feature of the day at Aqueduct. Nine went to the post and the field was not a particularly fashionable one. The weather was bright and warm and the track fast, conditions that brought out u big crowd for an orfday of racing. The condensed history of the Suffolk Stakes is as follows: Year. Winn W. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. UMi: Ninepiu ltw Bullnian . . ..."W0 :.V. 1904 Waterside 107 ONeill 1..7.IO :MM 190.". SiHH-ial License... 97 It. XlcDaniel l.:70 :."»4t 194H. Tileing !I7 Powers 1.470 1 :P2* 1907 Rustle "Hi F. Swain... 1.540 1:014 1908 Trance loy Xlusgrave .. ljSX l:uuj 1909 Not run this year. 1910 Ladasette 94 G. Garner.. 675 :5-4* Run at four ami One-half furlongs previous- to 1!XH . What was of more interest that the stake was the six and a half furlongs handicap, which was won by R. V. Carmans Cauipeon iu l:18j. establishing a new track record. This colt some few days ago was claimed out of a selling race by S. C. Hildreth. but was later returned to the Carman stable. His race today stamped him a particularly good sprinter. He forced all the pace and lasted to withstand the final rush of Beauconp. which horse is hack to tirst-dass condition. Had the mute been a bit longer. Beaticotip would surely have beaten Cauipeon. The disappointment of the race was Jack Parker, a horse-that raced well at Jacksonville, Opening at S to ." , he was permitted to drift to .~i to 1 aud in the rnu-ning he could never reach a contending position. C. H. Shilling, whose license was granted bv the Jockey Club today, hud his first mount of the season ou Busy Miss in the last race and was given an ovation when he paraded past the stand. He rode art eicelleiit race to finish second to James B. Kecnes Nightfall, the favorite. Shilling will do the riding for S. C. Hildreth and. though he could not do less than llo pounds today, he will be able to make lighter weight within a few days. XIaskette. winner of a Futurity and a prominent eligible for the Xletropolitan Handicap, worked a mile iu 1 :4.53 this morning without being hurried and on the strength of this move, she is the most-talked of eligible. Thanks to an early spring and uniformly good weather there are more horses ready to race her.-a bouts just now than is usual before the first of June. The season will be at its height In another fortnight and the XXestchestcr Racing Association will furnish at Belmont Park the kind of sport Sheeps-head Bay generally produces iu June. The Xletro-politun Handicap, the feature of opening dav at Belmont Park, will attract a field of about fifteen milei-s: the XVithers will draw practically every goiwl three-year-. «1 1 in the country and the two-year-old stakes will be keenly contested. Among the horses that may lie expected to line up in the XletrotKilitan are Prince Ahmed. Glorio. King James. Dalmatian. Hilarious. Sweep. Bockv OBrien. Fitz Herbert. Wise Mason. Glucose. Everett. Sandriaii. Jack Atkin. Far XVcst. High Private. Prince Imperial. Beaiicoup, Field Mouse and Hampton Court. Both Fitz Herbert and King James are training splendidly. John Madden is delighted with the progress his 0,000 Ethelbert colt is making under the management of Frank Taylor, and he predicts that the colt will win at least two of the great handicaps. Firestone and Fayette are the best members of the strong stable of S. C. Hildreth that have appeared under colors so far, but Kn« James ami Dalmatian are rcadv. XXaldo. the champion two-vear-old of 1909. could beat Dalmatian last vear. but the big brown colt will not dodge the son of Planudes this season. In the James R. Kecne stable Hilarious is as lively as a cricket. Helmet Is showing s|ieed and Sweep is developing rapidly. Sweep is not tall, but he is spreading and it is improbable that there is a three, year-old in training that is faster. The XXithers will be the liest three-vearold race at Belmont Park. Charlie Hargrave. Waldo. Dalmatian. Fauntcroy. Hampton Court. Turrett. Duke of Ormonde. Pttlka. Everett. Sandriaii, Starhottle. Sager. XrocUiiid. The Turk. Candlelierry. Sweep. Grasinere. Prince Imperial and King Olympian are among the eligihles. The Belmont will have a value of BUM or 0,000. but it will lie no such race as the Withers localise if was closed so far ahead. Starhottle. Sweep. Suffragist. Duke of Ormonde ami German Silver are the only horses of consequence in the Belmont. Frank T. Clark, superintendent of the Sheepshead Bay mec track and a director in the Coiiev Island Jockev Club, brands the published report that that association would run its spring meeting at Belmont Park, as being without foundation in fact. .The two-year olds from the Napa Stock Farm in Calif. .rnia. are showing plenty of speed ill work at Sheepshead Bay and are exnected to race well in their engagements at Aqueduct.
