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BIG DAY AT BELMONT » immense Gathering Turns Out for First Saturday of Meeting. • Sheridan Wins Toboggan — Whitneys Mother Goose and Maud Muller One, Two in Fashion. — — ♦ NEW YORK. N. Y., May 24.— Sheridan, nearing the silks of the Rancocas Stable, "was winner of the famous old Toboggan Handicap at Eelmont Park today, and following him closely came John S. Wards Worth-more, while Mad Hatter, winner of the same race last year, and a stablemate of Sheridan, beat the Riviera Stables Miss Star for third. The race was worth ,750 to the winner. For the first Saturday of the Westchester Racing Association meeting there was an immense throng on hand and the attendance ."was oven greater than that of the opening day. The track was at its best and the ■weather delightful except for a gale that blew across the track and at times the back-stretch was almost obscured by the sand storm stirred up by the wind. In addition to the Toboggan there were two other features, the Fashion, in which the Harry Payne Whitney silks were first and second when Mother Goose won and Maude Muller followed her home. Then there was the Good and Plenty Steeplechase in which J. B. Smiths Autumn Bells was the winner. The opening race was at a mile and a sixteenth for selling platers, and the Pancocas Stables Sherman was best. He took the lead at the break and, rated along next to the inside rail by Fator, was never seriously threatened, though at the end he was tiring and ridden out to beat home Jack Richardsons honest old cripple. Top Sergeant. Mrs. A. Swenkes Belphrizonia, after racing second most of the way, saved third from Roseate II. Oran refused to start and was left at the post. ANOTHER WHITNEY TRIUMPH. For the fourth time in the history of the running of the Fashion Stakes the Whitney silks triumphed with a satisfying victory when Mother Goose was first and her stable-mate, Maud Muller, raced to second place. Third fell to Walter J. Salmons Primrose. The Fashion Stakes is a five-eighths dash through the straight course for two-year-old fillies, and was worth ,925 to the winner. Other starters were Sombre and Rejected, from the J. S. Cosden stable, and Nina, bearing the silks of the Rancocas Stable. The race was run with a half a gale blowing across the course, and the distance was covered in 58 seconds with an ease that suggested an ability to do much better, although in the early stages it was almost impossible to distinguish the runners, there was such a sand storm blowing up from the course, but the Whitney fillies had dominated the running throughout. Mother Goose was away quickest, but Maud Muller, the top weight, was never far away and they ran straight and true down the middle of the course. Passing the stand it locked as though Maud Muller could have won, but at the end Mother Goose beat her throe parts of a length, because McAtee was easing his mount. Primrose was a full five lengths farther away and Nina was fourth, just beating Sombre by a neck. The other Whitney winners of the Fashion have been Rosie OGrady in 1917, Prudery in 1920 and Cresta in 1922. RACE THROUGH FIELD. The Good and Plenty Steeplechase over the short course resulted in an easy victory for J. B. Smiths Autumn Bells, sent to the post by Max Hirsch. Joseph B. Wideners Parlays, one that was formerly in the Hirsch Stable, took second place, and W. A". Dwyers Regalia beat the Oak Ridge Stables Black Fox for the short end of the purse. Eight went to the post and St. I-awrence was the only one that failed to finish. At the first jump in the back field, when in a contending position, he fell with E. Deubler. C Kleeger at once went to the front with Autumn Bells and the colt was good enough to always have plenty in reserve as he set the pace. Black Fox, Sea Serpent and St. Eawrenco, closely lapi ed, followed the Smith colt and there was not much change in these positions until St. Bawrence went down. Parlays was being rated back of the first division, while Regalia had began slowly and in the early rac-ing was far back. As Black Fox tired it was no trick for Parlays to hold the place perfectly safe, but he was not close enough in any way to threaten the winner. Regalia finished strongly under a drive in a vain effort to beat Parlays for second place, and the others were so far back that they were being eased up at the finish. Continued on sixteenth page. • j i ! j 1 I I j , ! j ! j j j j ; , j I ! r j i j ! j j I I ! [ j ! . i ■ : I I ! I - 1 I ! . j I I -1 r 1 1 I j I - I - - . BIG DAY AT BELMONT Continued from first page. There was some delay at the post in the Toboggan and the start was a bit straggling, with the Rosenberg pair of Sun Pal and Sun Audience leaving rather slowly. Worthmore began quickly and when Flu-, vanna raced away with him they cut out a fast pace and were soon well clear. Laverne ! Fator had Sheridan on the outside and he ! carefully avoided this early pace, though he was always within striking distance. Before ! the stretch was reached Worthmore shook 1 off Fluvanna, but in the meantime. Sheridan : had circled around and was steadily wearing him down. The pair hooked up in the last j eighth and Sheridan proved the gamer to win going away. j Old Mad Hatter raced kindly. When Clar- I ence Kummer gradually worked his way up with him on the outside, he came with a final rush through the stretch that saw him catch- ing Worthmore and a length and a half be-1 fore Miss Star, which in turn beat the tiring Fluvanna. Dunlin, Dot, Sun Pal and Sun I Audience had scant chance at the start and I they cut no figure in the running. I Frank B. Browns Hephaistos was rather , , an easy winner of the mile and an eighth of ! the Floral Park Handicap from C. H. Thier-I riots Prince James and H. Altermans Homestretch, the only other starters. All through! I the early stages the three were merely canter-1 I ing, with Hephaistos just showing the way I ! to the stretch and Frince James following about a length away. Going to the stretch : turn Fator shook up Hephaistcs and he drew j out easily, but at the end was tiring, though he won by a comfortable margin. Right at the end Prince James outgamed Homestretch j i to take second place in the last stride. This winner gave Fator his third of the day, for : ■ he had already brought home both Sherman ! j I I I ! : j j i : ■ ! j and Sheridan for the Rancocas Stable. Nedana, under a powerful finish at the hands of L. Fator, was winner of the closing race of the afternoon and completed a double for the Rancocas Stable. Senalado, from the R. T. Wilson Stable, was second, while the Riviera Stable furnished the third horse in Fast Mail. The first three passed the finish closely aligned and the winner was In doubt until the official placing was displayed. Sam Lewis claimed Sherman for ,000 and F. Dahnken claimed Roseate IL for ,500.
