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| [ i ! ! ■ • | I I , I . i WORTHMORE-SANDE Form Winning Combination in the Paumonok Handicap. ♦ Cannae Wins Suffolk Stakes — » Rancocas Stable Takes Opening Race with Silver Fox. ♦ JAMAICA, K Y., April 29.— To John S. Wards Worthmore and Earl Sande went the big event of the opening of the New York spring racing season, when in a nose finish the pair of them just beat home H. P. Whitneys Noah, winner of the Harford Handicap at Havre de Grace. It was the three-quarters of the Paumonok Handicap worth ,000 to the winner and the rousing reception tendered both horse and rider after the fin i testified to the popularity of the victory. Although there was a winter chill in the air and a high wind blowing all afterron there was a tremendous crowd out for the opening and there was the usual enthusiasm. The sport furnished was worthy. The companion piece to the Paumonok was the Suffolk, a claiming stake for two-year-olds and in it Richard T. Wilsons Cannae was winner from W. J. Salmons Wormwold. Eight went to the post for the Paumonok, and from a good start Wallace quickly took command with Noah and Serenader and The Vintner were both showing the way to Worthmore. Maud Muller, the stablemate to Noah, began from an inside position, but when she was unable to keep up she was quickly shuffled back out of the contention. SAXDES GREAT FINISH. Approaching the turn out of the back stretch there came crowding in which Worth-more was so badly shut off that Sande had to take up sharply to avoid an accident. At the time it looked as though this would effectually settle his winning chance. But Sande finally had him under way again and picking his way through he had moved up to fourth place. Noah was still showing the way by daylight but he was shortening stride. Then Sande came into the argument when he fairly lifted Worthmore along through that final eight until in the last •stride the son of Thunderer dropped his nose down the winner. In the meantime there was the same sort of a battle for third when Swope, Nellie Morse, and The Vintner were so closely lapped that it was well nigh impossible to split them apart. It was a great renewal of the Paumonok and when the difficulties Worthmore encountered in the running are taken into consideration his performance was a notable one. Cannae, racing for Richard T. Wilson, and Wormwold, bearing the silks of Walter J. Salmon, finished first and second respectively, noses apart, in the running of the five-eighths of the Suffolk Cliaming Stakes for two-year-olds. Both were fitted for the running by T. J. Healey, so that it was a double for his stable. Eight lengths back of the first two George D. Wideners Hillside just saved third from James Butlers Professor and back of him was the widely heralded Escarra from the stable of William Daniel. TROUBLE WITH BARRIER. For this race the barrier again went bad and it was some time before it could be brought to usable condition. As the barrier arose Hillside was away running, but he was at once taken up by Thurber and Cannae moved into the command. Escarra was unfortunate when he dwelt at the start and he not only left slowly, but was forced to race on the outside of his company. Wormwold and Professor were the ones to chase after Cannae, but Professor soon found the pace a bit stiff and as he dropped back Wormwold in the stretch charged on his stablemate as though he would race over him, but Cannae was not through and. hanging on gamely, he saved the day by a nose. This stretch duel took the pair of them well out from the others and Hillside, coming again at the end, had more left than the others to save third. In the stretch Escarra closed some ground, but he was forced to go so wide that he had scant chance. The race run by both Cannae and Wormwold was a great improvement over what they had shown in Maryland. The race was worth ,475 to the winner. Alex Gordon saddled the second winner when he sent to the post H. C. "Bud" Fish-I ers Cartoonist in the three-quarters claim-, ing race. This was another Fator win, but it was Laverne that had the mount while Mark was the rider of Silver Fox. No time was lost at the post, and the start was an excellent one with Buck Pond first to show out of the bunch. Wildrake and Alex Woodliffo followed in close order, but Cartoonist was not far away. In the run down the back stretch both Alex Wood-liffe and Wildrake shook off Buck Pond, I while Fator moved up on the outside with Cartoonist and while he was choosing the I long way the son of Celt was galloping strongly. I Swinging into the stretch Wildrake carried Cartoonist wide and that offered Buck Continued on twelfth pace. WORTHMORE-SANDE Continued from first page. Pond a chance to be up again when he saved ground next to the inside rail. He closed with a determined rush but Cartoonist was too good and shaking off Alex Wood-liffe he readily outfinished the Coburn sprinter but Buck Pond saved second place from Alex Woodliffe and Wildrake beat the others home. Silver Fox, the high-priced son of Gray Fox II. and Mary Queen of Scots, which races for the Rancocas Stable, has the credit of taking the opening race of the New York season, when in game fashion he worked his way up from rather a bad beginning to score from James Butlers Bright Steel, with Marshall Fields Enslaved saving third from Harry Payne Whitneys Panic. It was a five and a half furlong dash, and the grey colt showed real quality in the manner of his victory. There was an unusual delay after the horses reached the post, when something went amiss with the barrier and it required no end of patching before it was repaired. Then Panic and Bright Steel were both on their bad behavior and they gave starter Roy Dickerson no end of trouble. The start was a good one and Sande, on Our Buddy, was first to show out of the bunch, with Knslaved in close attendance. Silver Fox was blocked as the barrier arose, and he was in such close quarters that he had no chance to stride freely. M. Fator took him down on the inside rail, but he was well pocketed there and his chances appeared hopeless. In the meantime Sande was nursing Our Buddy along in front, but he could not shake off Knslaved, and finally the Field filly had him put away. Then Fator began working his way through with Silver Fox. He had to swing out from his inside position, and just when he was in the clear Coltiletti came over with Bright Steel and again had him In close quarters. It was a battle to come clear from the Butler colt, and the blocking by Coltiletti appeared to be intentional, but Fator and Silver Fox fought loose to come on to victory, while Bright Steel beat the tiring Knslaved for third place. Then after the finish Sande was called into the stand and presented with the loving cup from his neighbors of Jamaica. William Wicks Over Fire, one that was seasoned in Maryland, was winner of the mile and seventy yards of the fifth race when he led home E. F. Cooneys Athelstan and James Butlers Sleepy Head, the top weight of the party, beat Blue Hill for third. Blue Hill was the one to make pace under double wraps during the early stages, while Kummer, on Sleepy Head, and Sande, on Athelstan, rated back of that pace. It was after leaving the back stretch that Over Fire made his winning rush and once in front he never left the result in doubt. Athelstan went around in the stretch and closed some ground under a vigorous ride, but he tired slightly right at the end. Sleepy Head finished with good courage to beat home Blue Hill.
