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SERIES OF SELLING RACES Make Up Tuesdays Program at the Jamaica Course Blue Laddie Wins Garden City CityStakes Stakes Carnarvon Victor in inthe the Manhattan Handicap NEW YORK N Y May 10 Selling races with the thirteenth running of the Garden City Selling Stakes thrown in as a feature made up the pro ¬ gram at Jamaica this afternoon Despite tin lack of handicap performers in the program good racing resulted Scratches riddled the field for the postThe principal offering only four going to the post The Greentree Stables Blue Laddie won the race with Ballet Dancer II Lady Lillian and Tufter following him across the finish line Jockey Join on astride the winner raced him into the lead on the first turn and made the pace to the stretch turn under restraint When straightening out the three made a move for the pacemaker Johnson sent the fiveyearold son of Cylgad Blue Girl along imultancflusly and holding doggedly to his task through the stretch kept Ballet Dancer II at arms length to the end of the mile and a sixteenth al ¬ though asked for his utmost Ballet Dancer II also held on gamely but could not improve her position Todays was the first victory for the Greentree Stable in the Garden City Stakes It netted 3125 3125The The Manhattan Selling Handicap held second im ¬ portance in the makeup of the card and resulted in a victory for W H Congdous Carnarvon Ponce up Ralco showed in front from the start but the winner took the lead from him on the turn and stood a hard drive to win by a length from The Boy which tired after getting the leader in the last turn Ralco saved third place narrowly from Whisk T O Webbers Nohant recently acquired came from behind with a rush to win by a nose from Invincible in the first race which brought out a large field of mediocre performers J Callahan piloted in the winner winnerThe The Zeus gelding Manna proved much the best of eight maiden twoyearolds called together for the next sprint One of the conditions of the race specified that the competitors should be ridden by apprentice jockeys C Btillman had the leg up on the victor and displayed alertness in the manage ¬ ment of his mount Rushing off into the lead at once he held sway throughout winning by three lengths from Buxom and Bantry Pass Manna was backed to the exclusion of everything else in the race raceJENNINGS JENNINGS TO TRAIN FOR MACOMBER MACOMBERThat That A K Macomber who arrived in New York Saturday from Paris has engaged Walter B Jen ¬ nings to train the American division of his stable be ¬ came known at Jamaica this afternoon Mr Jen ¬ nings will take over the stable immediately but ro announces that he does not consider it probable that they will send anything to the post before the Saratoga meeting Up to the present time the Macomber horses which were quartered at Belmont Park have been in charge of George Strate trainer of the J II Rosseter stable They will continue to occupy quarters in the same barn with the Rossc ter thoroughbreds thoroughbredsThe The alliance of Mr Macomber and Jennings is not an entirely new one since Mr Jennings trained for the Californian in years past In fact it was he who guided Mr Macomber in the building of his first string in 1915 and continued thereafter to condition the horses until the fall of 1919 Mr Jennings an ¬ nounced his retirement at Empire City on October 25 of that year and left for California where ho lias lived until a lew weeks ago when he returned East EastMr Mr Jennings has been connected with the turf for forty years and the connection has always been with benefit to the sport Mr Jennings ic turns feeling like a twoyearold although an oper ¬ ation for hernia months before he went West left him in doubtful health for a time Devastation timeDevastation the Redstone color bearer in the first race was saddled by Max Hirscli He will send all of his stables liorses to the post pending the return of W Booth from Pimlico where he has a division of the Redstone charges in care Jockey careJockey Earl Sande injured his left foot while gal ¬ loping a twoyearold for the Rancocas Stable at Belmont Park and canceled his engagements for the day dayLouis Louis Meripol who trained T W OBriens Pluribus at Jefferson Park in his preparation for the Kentucky Derby is an arrival from Maryland and reports that Mr OBrien lias revised his inten ¬ tions of shipping the Pluvious colt to Pimlico for the Preakness and will send him to Jamaica in charge of trainer Tom Shannon Hart Dernham is among the late arrivals coming from Maryland MarylandRoger Roger Minton is making the engagements for Jockeys A Johnson and IT Hamilton both of whom are under contract to the J H Rosseter stable stableJames James Fitzsimmons reports that Playfellow the maiden brother to Man o War was not seriously injured when kicked while at the post for the third race Monday
