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] I i I MONTAUK TO CANNAE Carries R. T. Wilsons Colors to Victory in Jamaica Feature. ♦ Exceptionally Large Crowd for a Monday, Despite the Unseasonably Cool Weather. ♦ JAMAICA, N. T., May 4.— The Montauk Selling Stakes, a five and a half furlong dash for two-year-olds, which served as the feature of Mondays racing at Jamaica, was won by R. T. Wilsons Cannae. The Green-tree Stable filly. Hell Cat, took second place, beating G. W. Coburns Escarra for that portion of the stakes. The only other starters were Hillside, from the stable of George D. Widener and Walter J. Salmons Wormwold, which was coupled with the winner. Earl Sande rode the winner and it was the first double he has scored since he resumed riding. He previously piloted Chatterer to victory in the second race. The card as originally offered by the M»S ropolitan Jockey Club was a good one a/id it attracted a surprisingly large attendance for a Monday, usually an off day at most tracks. The supply of programs proved inadequate. Scratches were numerous and some of the events were contested by small fields. The weather again was uncomfortably cool. When the skies clouded after the first two races, the temperature dropped to a degree that made heavy coats desirable. There was little to the running of the Montauk Stakes in the way of competition. Cannae led from the start to the finish. The colt ran the distance in the slow time of 1:06%, two full seconds slower than the track record. He won by four lengths. Hell Cat was second just as easily by two lengths, having followed the winner closest from the start. Escarra had to be hard ridden to save third from Wormwold. Hillside was always out of it. Wormwold had little chance with the start. H. Howard sent the colt up fast when he found his stride, but whatever chances he may have had were further lessened by his early efforts. RIDDLED BY SCRATCHES. The opener, a three-quarters dash for plater three-year-olds and over, was riddled by scratches to four starters. White Wash, Catroonist, Blue Hill and Comic Artist being reserved for another day the quality of the field was greatly depreciated. Mrs. A. Swenkes Everglade, George D. Wideners Killashandra, J. A. Coburns Buck Pond and Mrs. T. O. Webbers Pedagogue were the . contestants and they finished in the order j named. It developed into a real horse race, with the first three finishing closely grouped | two lengths in advance of Pedagogue. For I the first five-eighths all four horses ran ! abreast of one another. Killashandra was next to the inside rail, with Everglade on the outside. Up the back stretch and around the turn none of the platers could gain a decided advantage. It was not until they turned into the stretch that Pedagogue fell away and left the other three to fight it out for the purse. Killashandra came into the straightaway leading Buck Pond by a head with Everglado only a neck away. II. Thurber went to the whip on Killashandra while B. Marinelli sat quietly in the saddle on Everglade. Peternell also put Buck Pond to the whip. Under a vigorous hand ride Everglade got up in the , last sixteenth to win by a scant length while Thurber, outriding Peternell, sent Killashan- I dra over the winning line, a nose in advance of Buck Pond. WIDENER COLORS IX FRONT. The Widener colors were more successful in the second race in which the popular Earl i Sande wore them on the Fair Play — Chit Chat filly Chatterer. She won in a drive from the Rancocas Stables Barbary with the Oak Ridge Stables Idiosyncrasy finishing third. There were but two other starters, ! these being Marshall Fields Enslaved and | Harry Payne Whitneys Tea Pot. The four Sun Briar fillies. Sun Hope, Sun Sabre, Sun Polly and Sun Herodia, which were entered I in the name of W. S. Kilmer, were withdrawn from the five and a half furlong contest. After a false start in which all but Barbary went away for a short distance. Mars Cas- sidy despatched the field to a good start. Barbary made the early runnnig, leading j batterer by a length and a half for the first quarter. Enslaved, in close quarters, headed the others. On the turn. Chatterer drew up on Barbary and when the stretch i was reached Sande had taken the lead with Ibis mount. In the run to the wire Chatterer i drew away to a one length victory. Barbary j was two lenglhs in front of Idiosyncrasy which outgamed Knslaved In the final drive and closed strong. 1*. J. Reillys consistent gelding Top Ser- jgeuit surprised by winning the third race, a i three-quarters overnight handicap for the better grade of platers. He easily defeated F. M. Kellys Long Point. Frank E. Browns Continued on sixteenth page. ■ ■ i ; I 1 1 " MONTAUK TO CANNAE I Continued from first page. Billy Warren was third. There were seven starters. It was Top Sergeants third straight victory and his first start in New York. He was well ridden by A. Collins l , and covered the distance in 1:11%, which is only two-fifths of a second slower than the track record, made by Cyclops. . Top Sergeant took the lead shortly after the start and never surrendered it. He , turned out of the back stretch a length in advance of Long Point, which led Billy Warren by two lengths. The running order did I not change. Top Sergeant won by two , lengths, while Long Point took second place , by a length and a half. The largest field of the day competed in ! the fifth, when eleven platers lined up at the , . barrier for a one mile and seventy yards gallop. P. S. P. Randolphs Louverne was the . victor. He won handily from E. .1. Strasncrs Metrodore. The short end of the purse was j ! earned by Cinna, which raced in the colors of A. J. Bedell. The start was a good one for all but Demijohn. He refused to go until the whip was put to him, then he was lengths out of it. Kumonin lacked speed and he quickly dropped back to gallop after the others with i Demijohn. Louverne went to the front in the dash to . the lower turn and he blazed the trail for the first quarter, with Uranus and Cinna in . close pursuit. On the turn into the back stretch Harvey eased Ivouverne back and j . Metrodore went to the front. The Strasner gelding took a three-lengths lead going up the back stretch. He came into the stretch leading by two lengths. When straightened 1 out Louverne closed in steadily on Metrodore. • They drew from Cinna, which had 1 raced Iranus into defeat. Louverne overhauled - Metrodore in the last eighth and drew . away to win by one length. Two lengths 1 . separated Metrodore and Cinna. Coming from far behind in the run through l the stretch, F. H. Durants Padraig gradu-1 - ated from the maiden class in the closing r race. He defeated II. P. Whitneys Coronation, . . and the Leona Farms Our Buddy and 1 eight other non-winning three-year-olds over r the five and a half furlongs distance. Our Buddy, with Sande up, went away f flying into a good start and took a long y lead going to the far turn. He was five lengths in front of Coronation, which led the " others by a wide gap. Padraig was back in 1 the bunch. Our Buddy held his advantage to 3 the top of the stretch, where Coronation l closed in on him. It was here that ladraig r began to loom into the picture, coming on the , outside with a mighty rush. Coronation put t Our Buddy away at the last eighth post, but 1 only to have Padraig range alongside of f him in the final drive. ladraig earned the decision by half a length. •
