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GLORIOUS DAY FOR THE RANCOCAS . STABLE _ 3k A — WINS FOUR STRAIGHT AT JAMAICA . « Mad Play Qualifies Handsomely for the Preak-ness --- Rival Beats Fast Ones in Fast Time to Capture Olympic Claiming Stakes ♦- NEW YORK, N. Y., May 8.— It was a glorious Rancocas day at Jamaica Thursday when horses from that powerful racing establishment won the first four races. The first victory was scored by Ho.irmnre, ridden by Earl Eande, winning from a big band in a five and a half furlcng dash. Next came Mad Play, the Preakness and Kentucky Derby candidate, in an easy trial for those features. This race was at a mile and seventy yards. Rival was winner of the Olympic Claiming Stakes and that success was followed by a victory for Finn Lag in a handicap that was framed for non winners of ,000 in 1931 or 1924. This was a three-quarters dash. I.averne Fator was pilot of both Mad Play and Finn I.ag. while his younger brother rode Rival. Each of the Rancocas victories was an impressive one. Mad Play had little opposing the final the final I him. but race was important as a trial for his engagement in the Preakm aa. Rival beat a fast band to take the Olympic and Finn I.ag had to be hustled along in his race to beat 1 ord Granite, the Maryland sprinter that showed a decided awakening over his previous New York i erformance. In this Finn I.ag race the field ran closely bunched for a full sixteenth before Finn Pag could come clear, but once in the lead lie held command to the end. though I. ord Granite wis right after him and gave him a good argument until well inside the final eighth. Comic Song had more ieft than the others to save third place. The stake of the day marked the third successive Rancocas victory when Rival stuck it rut for the three-quarto: s to win the Olympic Claiming Stakes from Frank J. Far-reBa Bootaod and Clarence Buxtonfl Mission ny. while W. C. Clancys Hullabaloo, winner of the same race last year, was fourth. There was a high wind Mowing down the stretch and it helped Rival home in 1:11-;. the fastest time ever hung up in the running of this stake. DKI.AY AT BAKRIF.R. There was a considerable delay at the post, for which Hullabaloo was chiefly to bfaune. Then when the barrier rose M. Fator • shot Rival away with such a rush that he was at once clear. He was hustled into a good k-ad and was never afterwards headed. Washington, Hullabaloo and Rontand lol- lowed closely lapped in the order named. While .Miss Cameo was showing the way t Missionary. Miss Cameo was rushed up and s on lar.ded in BCCi ud piece, while sh° had I Hullabaloo in rather close quarters next to I the inside rail and for several strides he did not have fair racing room. Piling to the stretch turn McAtee moved with Bon- taud, but be was fore d I i go to the outside. While Fator had cut the corner with Rival and was three h-ngths char. Hourmore. a handsome brown son of Ilonr- • less — Belgravia, racing for the Rancocas Stable and ridden by efcey Bar! Sande, was | winner of the opening race of the afternoon, which engaged a field of maidens. His vic- , tory came in a hard drive from W*. P. Co.s I Sledge, while the Sanford Stud Farms Hon-fleur was a short distance back. Hourmore was an odds-on choice in the speculation and during the first part gave Sandes supporters much cause to worry. Away tardily, he began slowly and then was forced to work i his way up on the outside. In the meantime. Sun Altos had drawn away into a . brief lead and was followed by Sledge. The pair dominated the running until the stretch was reached, where Sun Altos began to tire j and it was then that Hoiifleur moved Into contention. However. Sande had brought Hourmore around the leaders and under strong punishment he clos.d steadily and just gat up. Sledge had a narrow margin over , Honfleur. MAI PLAT A I.I. THE WAY. Mad Play, the Rancocas Stable first choice for the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby, had a useful workout for tin s • engagements in the mile and s. -verity yards of the second race. Ha was only oppoaed by Paenaa, another three-year-oMs that is weU engaged, and the selling platers Thimble and M.is- ; querado. It was aa contest for the brother to Mad Hatter, for after L. Fator hustled him away from the pi st be was clear going to the first turn and rated along undr a nio steadying restraint be led all the way to be home aa easy winner, it was Paeaaa that , was second all the way. while Thimble al- . ways outran Masquerado, making the race a procession from end to end. Alter the finish Fator Wi rhed Mad ITiv out to the mile and an eighth, making him run, in all, a mil and an eighth and seventy yards. Timed from the stand after he had . run the first seventy yards, the fractions . were :lS-r, lor the half. Pol1.-, for the five- I eightha, 1:PS for the three-quarters. 1:27% for the seven-eighths. 1 :3"J, for the mile and he was eased up at the end in 1:3: -S - The move eras a decidedly good one and enough touiiuueU ou twelfth fage. RANCOCAS GLORIOUS DAY Continued from first pa-re. to leave no doubt of the fitness of the colt for his engagement next Monday. Janus Butler furnished the winner of the fifth raee in Stone Jug and incidentally his first winner of the year. G. C. Winfreys Insulate was the one to race to the place. while J. E. Richardsons Normal was third. The event was at a mil • and a sixteenth un-d-r claiming conditions. Insulate was the quickest to begin and he drew away into a long lead. Foe ra-ed in closest pursuit, while the others wen- pretty well bunched. Insulate maintained his advanta-- t the final sixteenth, where he gave way p the rush of Stone Jug. while Normal cane- Cast at the end, after being forced to work his way through the field L. S. Thompsons BdlstO was winner of the last race of the aft moon, which brought about a dlsQusUftcutton, a suspension and aa accident. A. J. Contentos Bill Dwyer, which finished third, was disqualified for sharply crossing in front of the other! rounding the turn and foiling Imagination to take up, while T. Burns, who rode him, was suspended for two days for rough riding Imagination was placed third. Don Jack, one of the Banoocns pair, swerved into the fenc at the eighth pant when placed und-r punishment and M. Fator luckily escaped with a savers shaking uj.
