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STING BREAKS RECORD ♦ Lowers American Mark for One Mile and Seventy Yards. • Displays Great Speed and Adds Another Jamaica Stake to Credit of James Butler. 4 MKW YORK. K Y., May 15.— James Hut-lers Sting added the American record for a mile and seventy yards to his list of achievements in winning the Montana, an overnight handicap at Jamaica, Friday afternoon. He ran the distance in 1:41%. two-fifths of a second better than the previous American mark. I ast Saturday he established a new track record for a mile and a sixteenth in winning the Excelsior Handicap. Sting won so impressively from the Belair Studs Flames in the Montana that he established himself as the best handicap horse now racing in this part of the country. He carried 124 pounds to 116 on Flames and he was never fully extended. Ractag into the lead on the tarn in the back stretch, the Butler colt raced along under restraint, opening a long lead before the stretch was reached. Flames moved up at Stevens call, leaving the back stretch and pressed Feysun, which had been racing in closest pursuit of the flying leader. Fa tor made no move on Sting. He allowed Flames to gain until he was two lengths behind. 1nder a furious drive, and try as he might, Stevens was unable to make the big IVlair colt close any more of the gap. Sting cantered across the finish well in hand to win by two lengths and Flames, under hard urging, finished second. The remainder of the field were so completely outclassed that | they were distanced by the two leaders in ; the stretch run. Feysun was third, ten i lengths behind Flames and the others were f strung out. mraCT RI G CONDITIONS. Conditions were perfect for the days races. The sky was It ar and the weather comfortably warm most of the afternoon, while the track was at its best J. A. Coburns Buck Pond took the first race for platers at three-quarters in a drive from Sarsaparilla, which carried the colors of K .1. Strasner. All in All wns third. Winning Bird, racing for I... A. Price. wsjsj away first and opened up a long had going down the hack stretch. Buck P«nd v:is always closest in pursuit and Young April was lacing in third position. When the stretch run started Winning Bird was still in the lead but he was tiring and when he went a trifle wide at the turn into the straightaway Wakoff slipped through on the rail with Sarsaparilla. Wallace drove Winning Bird hard and man- I aged to keep him in front of the charging Mack until the last eighth post was reached Then Sarsaparilla took the lead, but only for a moment. Then Buck Pond rushed up on the outside , of the leader, headed the Strasner gelding and they fought along desperately tn the finish, where the Coburn plater gained the verdict by a head. When Winning Bird stop- , P-d, B* made ;i good job of it and All in All . took third from Young April. Parlor st le into such a long Ie;ni with Mrs. G. . Winfreys I.ndy Boss in the third race. for fillies and mares, that Kdward Arlingtons New Hope was unable to overhaul her, ! although she w;is going much more strongly than the winner at the end. W. V. Caseys Gipsy Flyer was a distant third, baatiag Wedlock for that part of the purse. I-idy Boaa was conceding plenty of weight to her younger rivals and Fators judgment in rac-iicr her away from the others in the early running until she opened up a clear lass] of four or five lengths would have been seriously questioned if the mare had been beaten. , Kichards kept New Hope racing along in ■eoond position behind the leader in the early i running. When he made his move turning out of the back stretch the Arlington filly j quickly closed the gap that separated her ; from the pacemaker. LADY UOSS HOLDS ON GAMELY. But I.ady Boss responded to Fators urg- j ing In the stretch run and held on gamely, while Richards worked desperately on New Hope. Richards was hardly strong enough la do the Arlington filly justice and she missed being up by a neck. lipsy Flyer was never seriously in the running, but she had no trouble in saving third from Wedlock, six lengths behind the leaders. Maiden thr. r-year-olds and over faced the starter in the second race, at a mile and , seventy yards. The running resulted in a cantering victory for the Belair Stud Stables Marconi, with James Butlers Jibe second I and Day Trap third. Jibe raced into the lead at the first turn. with Marconi in closest pursuit. Marconi collared the Butler colt at the turn out of the back stretch and after a short struggle lie raced to the front. Stevens then took him under restraint and he cantered to the finish five lengths in front of the tiring Jibe. Hay Trap was eight lengths farther back in third place and the others were rather well strung out. A rather poor band of maiden two-year-old platers faced the barrier in the fifth n •. at five-eighths. Guinea Mold, from the stable of Mrs. A. Sw* r:ke. set the pace all the way and won under mild urging by a length and a quarter from J. P. Jones Hair 1 »r-ss. r. The Jones filly and G. I . Wid-ener.s Bl field had a hard battle for the pla.ee, the former crossing the finish a nose to the good. The others were never contenders after the first eighth. Serenader, frorn the Sanford Stud Farm Stable, broke the track record for thr quarters to beat James Butlers Noon Fire in the last race. He went the distance in 1:11, a fifth of a second faster than the previous mark. Noon Fire was beaten by four lengths and Sun Alios was third, three lengths farther back.
