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i I i I ! i I • I ; , j j I j I j I j j j | j j | WINS IN RAINSTORM James Butlers Pique Captures the Rainbow Handicap. — - -♦ Beats Wild Aster, Worthmore and Other Good Ones in Jamaicas Monday Feature. NEW YORK. N. Y. May 11.— In a driving rain and a muddy track James Butlers three-year-old Pique won the seventh running of the Rainbow Handicap at Jamaica today. The Greentree Stables Wild Aster earned second place, while the Everglade Stables Worthmore was third. There were but three other starters, Maud Muller, Sun Pal and Brainstorm completing the field. The victory added ?3,125 to the winnings of the Butler stable. The Rainbow was the feature race of an unusually attractive card and it brought a large crowd to the track, but the weather detracted from the fullest enjoyment of the sport. The first three races were run In drizzling showers. As the field came out for the handicap they became concentrated in a heavy downfall that sent the lawnites scurrying to cover. The rain made it difficult to distinguish colors on the back stretch. The track was muddy from the start of the sport. Piques victory was decisive although the lightly weighted colt had to be ridden out to beat Wild Aster, which finished with a tremendous rush through the stretch. They finished lapped on each other. Worthmore was a length further back and Maud Muller, Sun Pal and Brainstorm were lapped on him. SHOWS WAY THROUGHOUT. Brainstorm and Pique started from the inside post positions and they were the first in motion. Pique was in front before fifty yards had been traversed and there he remained, although he was hard ridden throughout to maintain his advantage. Maud Muller was the one to force him after the first eighth. The pair drew several lengths away from the others, with Maud Muller in closing distance. They went around the far turn running neck and neck. Brainstorm being at the head of the second division. At the last eighth post Pique began to lag and L. Fator went to the whip. Wild Aster, which had been a trailer to this point, suddenly loomed up threateningly. Pique barely lasted to win. The sport began with Suncar carrying the colors of Lee Rosenberg to a surprise victory in the three-quarters dash for platers of fair quality. Skirmish was second and Kit Carson finished third in the small field. j Only six of the sixteen horses originally I named went to the post. It was deemed a I two-horse race between Kit Carson and the Lane stables Young April. The race resulted in a thrilling finish, the three money-winning horses reaching the i judges noses and necks apart with all driving | hard. Many thought that Skirmish had de-; feated Suncar, but it was so close that only the fudges directly on the line could sepa-I rate them correctly. Kit Carson made the pace going up the back stretch, with Young April, Skirmish and Suncar lapped on him. Reaching the far turn the mare crossed over, causing a slight jam, shook off her opponents and drew away to a comfortable lead. Turning into the stretch there was a general closing up behind her and Kit Carson and Suncar were soon beside her. Clarence Turner, on Young April, made a sweeping turn into the straightaway which cost his mount much ground. At the last eighth post Skirmish still had her head in front of Kit Carson, which had half a length lead on Suncar. The latter w;is on the rail, with Skirmish on tho outside. Suncar got up in the last stride. The mare pulled up sore. EASY FOR ROYALITE. The Rancocas Stables filly Royalite easily accounted for the second race, which was a three-quarters condition dash for three-year-olds. White Wash, from the barns of James Butler, finished in second place, while Johnny Campbell kept the three others out of the money. The race quickly resolved itself into a chase after Royalite, which was in front all the way. The start was a good one for all but Ipswich. F. Cooper had !he mount and he was none too alert when Ca.ssidy sprung the barrier. Royalite went away flying and, in the first sixteenth, opened a daylight had. Johnny Campbell led the pursuit of the filly going up the back stretch, but on the turn White Wash passed him and took up the futile chase. All CUM into the straight away under a drive. At no time was Uoyalite threatened. Under a mild hand ride she maintain! tl her had and won by two lengths. White Wash beat Johnny Campbell by four lengths for second place. The Boulevard, an oversight handicap, at five and a half furlongs, had only four starters when trainer Fred Hopkins elected to start Maud Muller in the Rainbow instead of this contest. The contestants were tho Continued on ninth i aj,e. WINS INJAINSTORM Continued from first page. 1924 F-reakness winner, Nellie Morse, Polly McWiggles, May Party and Blissful. Nellie Morse with 126 pounds and L. Fator in the saddle, was picking up five pounds over the scale, while Polly McWiggles, carrying 111 pounds, had her full scale weight up. Polly McWiggles won easily by two and a half lengths, while Blissful beat Nellie Morss for second place by two lengths. The latter was anchored by the weight. Polly McWiggles led all the way. On the back stretch she dashed two lengths to the fore of Blissful, which led Nellie Morse by the same margin. Fator put Nellie Morse under an early drive in an effort to improve his position, but Blissful held her safe just as easily as Polly McWiggles kept her lead. Bombshell was returned the victor in the third as easily as Royalite won the previous contest. This colt, which races in the name of Mrs. J. Sciaccaluga, made almost every post a winning one. He reached the judges three lengths in advance of William Garths Flicker. Mrs. M. E. Merz Sea Hawk was third. There were also six starters in this, the remainder of the field consisting of Skip Little Itoon. Camphor Ball and the Brook-meade Stables Stanisar, which was coupled with Flicker. • As they lined up for the start Camphor Ball got away from Coltiletti and dashed up the back stretch for a quarter of a mile i before his rider got him under control again. | The flight was not made at racing speed and it took little if anything out of the colt. J When the start came Camphor Ball began I in front, followed by Flicker and Bombshell. ! A sixteenth of a mile had not been covered ; when Bombshell was in front, lie remained j in the van to the end. Flicker, sluggish in the early stages, was I put under the whip early. She responded i gamely and on the turn overhauled Cam-l phor Ball and then gradually disposed of I Skip Little Noon. She took second place i by six lengths. Sea Hawk, in the ruck for i the first quaretr, closed fast and beat Cam-! phor Ball for the short end by five lengths. The fifth brought out the largest field of , the day. It was a one mile and seventy-yards dash for platers of the older division j and they were ridden by boys who had not j experienced the thrill of piloting two winners. There were eleven starters and the winner turned up in W. A. Rosens Eagerness. She won from Al Boyd. New Hope, running in , the colors of Edward Arlington, was third. Tho winner was ridden by L. Sessa and came from far behind. Al Boyd, ridden by L. Jones, was the pacemaker to the last sixteenth post and in the early stages he threatened to make a runaway victory of it. Starting from an outside position he had the early speed to take the inside rail as the field ■ reached the clubhouse turn. Little Jones let j him run and he drew away to a five-lengths lead going up the back stretch. Saffron led the others. Eagerness was in the rush and I E. James, on New Hope, drove bis mount up on the outside.
