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ANOTHER RANCOCAS TRIUMPH S C Hildreth Trained Horses Win Double Victory at Belmont Mad Hatter Wins Metropolitan MetropolitanHandicap Handicap After Great Contest Krewer Other Victor NEW TORK N Y May 27 Sam Hildrcth re sumed his doubling tactics at the opening of the Belmont Paik meeting this afternoon taking two of the most pretentious races for the account of the Rancocas Stable Mad Hatter won the twentyninth renewal of the Metropolitan Handicap and Krewer rcored for him in the opening race Sande rode both of the Rancocas horses horsesThe The Metropolitan developed a beautiful race a field of ten accepting the issue Under the direc ¬ tion of Christopher J Fitz Gerald who substituted at the birrier for Mars Cassidy the ten starters were sent away in perfect alignment Yellow Hand On Watch and Bon llonime fell out of it slightly after breaking on even terms witli the others but the remaining seven raced practically as a horse through the rear stretch at a terrific pace Approaching the turn Mad Hatter drew into an open length Sande hugged the rail with him throughout and brought him home winner by three lengths but he was a tired horse at the fin ¬ ish as were the others behind him with the ex ¬ ception of Yellow Hand which closed with a be ¬ lated burst of speed for the third money Mad Hatter ran the mile in 137 Inasmuch as it was the first race run over the newly reconstructed main course his time may be accepted as a record althoughMairff War falfthc same distance last year in l3i Without respect to the perform ¬ ance with regard to its record establishing claims it Is the best Metropolitan win from a time stand ¬ point that has been recorded in a race notable for the class of its victors In time standing the victories of Fashion Plate and Buskin winners In 1910 and 1914 come next to that of Mad Hatter They ran the mile of the Metropolitan in l375f and neither carried within a dozen pounds of the weight packed by the son of Fair Piny tills afternoon Ills impost was 127 pounds It is not surprising that Mad Hatter and his op ¬ ponents were groggy at the finish in view of the fractional time for the race While the field raced head and head through the rear stretch tiley ran the quarter in 22 The halfmile post was passed in 46 and the threequarter i ilc was nego ¬ tiated in 111 111WESTBURY WESTBURY STEEPLECHASE TO FRANK B BThe The Westbury Steeplechase second race on the prcgram proved easy for J E Wideners Frank B The Sir John Johnson gelding displayed the most Hpecd from the start and fencing faultlessly under jwd riding by C Smoot made all the pace and crossed the finish line twelve lengths in advance of lls opiHincnts Ticket wore down Earlocker for the second money Flare running in the Greentree Stable colors and ruling favorite throughout broke down after taking the twelfth and last fence He was destroyed destroyedThe The passage of Flare marks the exit of a notable figure The son of Fair Play Donna Mia was a double stake winner over the Saratoga obstacles lant year yearBigheart Bigheart the highly regared twoyearold son of Sweep High Flown from the stable of J S Cos ¬ den won atthe first asking in the final race which brought out a large field of juveniles for a four and a half furlong dash down the straight ¬ away Bigheart set the pace from the start but Rice allowed him to loaf and nearly tossed off the victory in consequence In the last fifty yards Rice became alarmed at a challenge from L Water buiys Letterman when he realized his danger and began riding hard Righeart responded gamely and gave an exhibition that stamps him as one of the probable stars of this years crop of juveniles and won by a head Lctterman also appears to be above the ordinary Postlude was third Bigheart is the twoyearold which was matched with J K L Ross Elemental at 10000 a side The contest was declared off when the Ultimiis colt fell ill illT T Doylu is an arrival from Maryland with his stable immediatelyThe and will get into action immediately The limit for withdrawals has been advance to 130 p in instead of one oclock as previously obtained This rule will be in effect throughout the meeting meetingT T Boran a rider of note in the West arrived at Bclmont Iark and will affiliate himself with 1 some large stable to do steeplechase riding ridingGeorge George Zeigler reached Aqueduct from Mary ¬ land bringing u small string of horses with him himE E J Bennett has been engaged by J H Ros seter as trainer Mr Bennett acted as foreman 1 for S C Hildrcth until two years ago Since then he trained horses in England and was the one to give C Carmody his only winning mount across the sea seaWilliam William Booth trainer of the Redstone Stable horses announced that Paul Connelly represented 1 the utable in the runup of Gladiator at Jamaica 1 on Thursday
