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BUTLER COLORS AGAIN » Carried Triumphantly in the Rosedale Stakes. $ Third Day in Succession Jamaica Feature Falls to Horse From New York Turfmans Stable. NSW YORK, N. T.. May 12.— Another stake fell to the James Butler stable at Jamaica today when Turf Iight beat a good band of two-year-old fillies in the Rosedale .Stakes at five-eighths of ft mile. It was the third day in succession that a Jamaica fixture had fallen to the Butler stable. The Ilancocas Stables Sabine was second and R. T. Wilsons Ethereal third. Kthereal. with Clarence Kummer in the saddle, began in front but Sabine raced past her easily in the first eighth and was rated along in the lead to the stretch turn. Adria raced into second position. Meanwhile Breun-jng was rating Turf I-ight along in fourth position with only the Whitney starters. Twig and Slavey, further back. When ready, he called upon the Butler filly at the stretch turn and she moved up so fast that she caught the tiring Sabine after a brief struggle and went on to win in a mild drive by a length and a half. Sabine held on under Fators strong riding to save second place by a length from Kther-eal. Adria led the two Whitney starters to the finish. Twig, one of the Whitney fillies, pulled up sore. The Uos dale was worth J3.S50 to the winner. Turf Light ran the five-eighths over the drying brack in 1 :00%, good time considering the condition of the going. The weather was cloudy but another big crowd turned out. W1MSKR FOR SANFOBD STUD. The opening race was a claiming dash for three-year-old fillies at three-quarters. It resulted in an easy victory for Lupine, carrying the colors of the Sanford Stud Farm. Demurrage, from the Bedford Farm, followed the daughter of Archaic home beaten by three lengths and leading Mixture by a neck. There was nothing much to the running. Cooper sent Lupine to the front at once and she opened up a long lead going down the back stretch. She cotinued to draw away rounding the turn and Bal Masque, which had been following her most closely, dropped back. Mixture took up the futile pursuit of the flying leader, but she in turn tired under pressure in the stretch run and Demurrage wore her down to take second place by a neck in the final strides. Fourteen of the twenty-sir cheap platers entered in the second race at three-quarters were withdrawn leaving a dozen to compete. These were a bad lot. Otai, from the Shoshone Stable of W. WL Coo, raced away from the others rn the first eighth and opened up a clear lead in the run down the back stretch but J. L. Hollands Catharine Von Itter, which had been racing in second position most of the way, began to race strongly rounding the turn into the stretch and she continued to gain ground steadily until in the final sixteenth, she ran past the pacemaker to win by half a length. Rodeo, carrying the colors of A. W. Koivula, was up to take third place. He never threatened the leaders. The rare mi always b -tween the first two and the rest of the field cut little figure in the running. K9I HILL Oi FROM. Laverne Fator rode G. C. Winfreys Blue Hill to an easy victory in the third race for platers at a mile and seventy yards. W. A. Reads imported Squarson was second and Yoshimi easily disposed of Sylvan Spring for third. Blue Hill began in front, but Sylvan Spring was dOM behind and wh«n Kator took the Winfrey plater under restraint rounding the first turn. Shanks sent his mount into the lead. Once straightened out in the back stretch, Fator let up a wrap and Blue Hill raced to the front. Squarson was s.-nt up at the same time by Clarence Kummer. and these two quickly drew away from the others. In the stretch run Blue Hill was again under restraint and he raced to the finish an easy winner by thre.- ]. -ngths. lVternel was riding Yoshimi hard in an effort to catch Squarson for second place but the Rm4 starter easily held that part of the pom safe by two lengths. Sylvan Spring, tiring badly from lis early pacemaking, finished last of the four that starti 1 in thf rave. In the fifth race, a claimiir; handicap at a mile and a sixteenth, a Jam* s Butl.r cast-off. Sleepy Head, held on long enough to beat Donnelly by a no.se. with Old Welboume third. In a good start Top Sergeant was fir.;t to show in front but .Sleepy Head and Tue Roll Call raced to the front rounding the first turn and fought for the lead all the way down the back stretch. This battle carried them , *w— , , -ul tinned oq sixteenth pace. BUTLER COLORS AGAIN ConUnueil from first page. out from the rest of the field and when The Roll Call gave up the battle at the turn out of the back stretch Sleepy Head was left with a clear l«-ad. Hounding into the stretch with an apparently safe margin. Sleepy Head showed signs of tiring and when Rummer brought Donnelly up with a great rush under a desperate drive in the last eighth it took every ounce of Robinsons energy to keep the F. M. Kelly plater going to win by the shortest of margins.. The Widely heralded Chance Play, son of K.iir Play and Qu He fiance, which the late Mai. August Relmont considered the best his yearlings last fall carried the colors of AV. Averill Harrimans Log Cabin Stud Stable to an impressive victory in the Last race,, which attracted thirteen maiden two-year-olds. He began about the middle of the field, but in a half dozen strides he was leading by open daylight. From there to the finish Kuminer mts let out a wrap on the colt and he cantered to the finish five lengths In front of Theodore, with Pecora third. Cluuice Play la B good-looking colt, although large ankles prevent him from being perfect in appearance. •
