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HOW TRACERY WON FROM STEDFAST Mr Belinouts Doncaster St Leger winner of last year inadu hit debut in the racing of 1913 at Newmarket May 20 in the mile and a half Burwell Plate and won in a way pointing to a great career as a fouryear Concerning Ids race and another for twoyearolds Sporting Life of the next day said saidThe The rivalry of Stedfast and Tracery In the Bur Well Plate and the brilliant victory of the latter iovershadowed everything In point of interest on yestenlays Newmarket card Partisanship ran high and the public livtted heavily on the pair the ex svlling plater Jackdaw being left out in the cold despite ills well known enduring powers and his great pluck Tile friends of Stedfast argued that Lord Derbys colt with a race In him had the advan ¬ tage to say nothing of the four pounds pull in the weiglitforrage scale Another to join issue was the Derby aspirant Aldegond who was running bis test for stamina Nor could he liaje met worthier material to try him Had he won then we should have seen a revolution in the wagering on the Blue Riband As it was he failed and failed somewhat badly as he must have been beaten the best part of ten lengthsThe lengths The race was run at an exceptional pace which was calculated to find out the weakness of any horse let alone a threeyearold Aldegond was beaten long before he came to the Bushes while it was at this historic landmark that Frank Wootton became upeasy on Stedfast He there drew the whip on the favorite but Lord Derbys horse could pull out no more moreTuucery Tuucery as in the St Leger fairly galloped his opposition to a standstill He allowed Coora to make the pace for rather more than five furlongs when Whaliey saw the advisability of sending his mount along Sweating as he was Tracery never hung the least in his stride but kept pegging on very much as4 he had done on the Town Moor Be ¬ fore they had descended into the Abingdon Mile Bottom Stedfast had fallen a victim to the great pace and Jackdaw had deprived him of second place Well as Mr Pirles horse stayed on he had no chance with Tracery which won in decisive style by a length The honors of the race went to Jack ¬ daw which beat Stedfast fairly and squarely Tin horses as they hit the ground left little puffs or clouds of dust behind them which showed that the going was on the firm side to say the least of it itSeveral Several of the highestpriced yearlings bought at Doncaster last year were seen out in the Nor ¬ folk TwoYearOld Plate including Mr Hultons 5000 guineas purchase Stornoway and the Yankee Melody colt for which Mr Heyburn paid 2000 guineas Slornoyay was thought to have made ex ¬ cellent progress since he ran his first race at Kpsom A short price was taken aliotit him yesterday and he justified it by winning in the commonest of can ¬ ters by four lengths from Mount William which defeated the others far enough The further Storno ¬ way went the further would he have won which augurs splendidly for his future career his trainer being the first to admit that he can be made better in point of condition
