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SPEEDY SALLYS ALLEY ♦ Wins Her Race All the Way, Never Extended. i » . Gives the Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby Candidates Notice of Trouble Coming. ♦ BALTIMORE. Mil.. April 18 —It would not be surprising: if Willis Sharpe Kilmers queenly filly Sallys Alley would beat the eolts again this year, just as she did through 1922. The magnificent daughter of Allumeur and S4lvolatile has been brought back to the races i:i rare condition and although her victory in the Toggery Purse today was only at three-quarters, she created the impression that right now she is ready to run as far as any mans horse. The day was cold and cloudy with occasional showers of rain and altogether decidedly disagreeable and not conducive to fast racing, but Sallys Alley ran her three-quarters in 1 :12% after being under a pull all the way. She was carrying 120 pounds and giving away from ten to eighteen pounds to the other starters. Only five went to the post and from a good start Carroll at once went out to set the pace with Sallys Alley. As soon as he had taken a celar lead he had only to put his hands on her withers and let her go alon£ in her own sweet way. Heeltaps for a time tried to go after the daughter of Allumeur, while Bullman on Scribble was not in the same hurry. He permitted the Riddle filly to settle into her stride before asking her to run last and then she readily went through on the inside to head Heeltaps. In the stretch Carroll was easing Sallys Alley ui somewhat when Bullman rushed up on the inside with Scribble and for a time Carroll did not se her coming. She was almost nose tail with Mr. Kilmers filly when lie saw her and all he had to do was to shake his lines and Sallys Alley rushed away again to come home a wonderfully easy winner. This stretch rush of Scribble took her far away from Heeltaps and the latter had no trouble in beating Henna and Marionette home. IX FINE CONDITION. With such a brilliant beginning of her three-year-old career Sallys Alley takes a high position among the candidates for the Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Perby. She MM out of this sprint without taking a long breath and could undoubtedly have gone on for a mile without the least inconvenience. And the race also shows Scribble to be a npeedjr lilly. She made the others look so utterly cheap and was going so swiftly at the end that she is sure to make her way among the best of them, but Sallys Alley will always hold her safe. I . S. Thompson has a fast -running filly in Remnant, a bay daughter of Headstrong and Philatist, that was one of the band fitted for metes by Fred Hopkins at Benning. This miss, in a g-.ime good finish, scored by a narrow margin from Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunny Fight, a black daughter of Sun Briar j and l.ovelight II.. while third place fell to No l.ady, a daughter of Wrack and Starl Fady. It was a race for two-year-old fillies and all tlirt e of these were starting for the first time. They staged an exciting contest and each showed an education in racing that is unusual for green baby racers. Fourtfen raced and Hazy Dawn wheebd about when the barrier rose and galloped off the wrong way of the track. The others left in good order and Sunny light took a Mack lead and, making the pace fast, was rushed along until well inside the last eighth, where Remnant drew up on the outside and in a rattling Bate beat the Kilmer filly home, although the daughter of Sun Briar hung on like a veteran. REVENUE IN LAST STRIDE. When H. P. Whitneys Revenge in the last stride beat Demijohn home it made the score two in a row for both Fred Hopkins and Mi -A tee. This was the second race and Hopkins had saddled and McAtee rcxle Remnant in the opening dash. This second race was a three-quarters dash and it was a remarkable performance for the son cf Chide ami Regret, for he began slowly and was rather a bad last when leaving the barrier. Gwyn Tompkins had a fit horse in Demijohn and he fairly flew away from the barrier. Rhinegold having after him. The others | were in fairly clOM order, but Revenge was gradually improving his position al ;ng the taaer rail. He was so far away from Demi- John at the bead of the stretch that it seemed j a hopeless chase. Rhinegold. in the meantime had been put away by the Riddle gelding. Inside the last eighth McAtee had to c i»me to the outside of Demijohn and this three-year-old was not losing any time, but Revenge wore him down stride by stride until in the last nod he was the winner, ltosa Yalta finishing third. Continued on twelfth page. SPEEDY SALLYS ALLEY Continued from first page. St. Donard accounted fcr the fifth race, a mile antl a sixteenth dash and at the end was doing his best to withstand the rush of ■ Billy Barton while Morn, after making much of the pace, was third. St. Donard saved ground on all the turns and that helped not a little in his success. C. Cafferelli, a newcomer to the owners ranks, completed a double when Tom Cassidy won the sixth race in a drive from Bonlire while Moody was third. Tom Cassidy forged to the front on the far turn and, holding his lead gamely to the end. outstayed Bonfire. The latter worked his way up on the outside but tired badly through the final sixteenth. Super, after many failures, made flood in the closing race and scored the first victory of the matinee for G. W. Foreman in an easy victory over Wrangler. Third money fell to Dark Horse. Pietrus set a good pace but after he had disposed of Whalebone he had little left to offset the rush of the winner through the i stretch.
