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SARAZEN AGAIN WINS THE DIXIE HANDICAP 9 ♦ I Repeats His Success of Last Year in Pimlicos 5,000 Race • Beats Sun Pal by a Neck With General Thatcher Finishing Third—Derby Hope Timmara Meets Defeat— Double for E. F. Whitneys Silks » PIMI.IOO. Md., May ::. Sarazen made good handsomely in the Dixie Handicap this ..fternoon when he made the pace from end to end of the mile and three-sixteenths distance and then stoad a drive to beat Lee Bosenbcrgs Sun Pal. with General Thatcher, from the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, a fast finishing third before Max Hirschs King Solomons Seal. The race was worth 4,550 to the winner and Mrs. Yanderbilt. owner of the son of High Time and Bush Box. watched the running from the clubhouse enclosure. 1 ast year Sarazen was winner of the same stake under 130 pounds, while for the running today he shouldered 1lS pounds. Conditions were perfect for the running of the Dixie and it was a tremendous crowd that was out for the occasion. The track was at its best and overhead conditions c-ould ®not Snot have have been been improved improved upon. upon. James James Milton Milton — — ®not Snot have have been been improved improved upon. upon. James James Milton Milton had a deal of trouble in sending away the eleven that raced in the Dixie. Finally la-had King Solomons Seal, a stablernate of the champion gelding, moved over to a position alongside of the temperamental wonder and shortly after a good start was effected, though Joy Smoke swerved and was bumped and knocked out of the running. Weiner had Sarazen away fast and it was apparent that the chestnut was going to run kindly before he had reached the first eighth post. He was sweeping along with his frictionless stride and with his ears pricking. Bdteta raced after him and Cherry Fie was showing the way to the others when the stand was reached. PLENTY SFF.ED IX RF..SF.RVE. Going around the first turn Sarazen had BO trouble holding to his lead and Weiner had taken hold of his head and was rating him together with plenty of speed in reserve Kdisto continued to stick resolutely to second place in the run through the back stretch while Cudgeller was also well up in the front division. The others were in fairly close order, with the exception of Nurmi and Joy Smoke, which were completely out of the running. Callahan was waiting with Sun Tal and devoting most of his attention to keeping the horse out of trouble. He was racing strongly and gradually improving his position. Not until the stretch was reached did Kdisto show signs of tiring. There it was that Lrickson shook him up smartly but when he could not reach. Sarazen he began to drop back badly. But Cherry Pie hid saved ground on the stretch turn and he was 1 ang:ng on gamely. In the last eighth there was a general closing up and it was not until then that Weiner called on Sarazen seriouslv The geiding responded to the call and" though Callahan brought Sun Pal up with a mighty rush on the outside in that last eighth Sarazen was still a neck to the good at the end Then both General Thatcher and King Solomons Seal outfinished Cherry Pie in a hard drive. This race was in de.-ided contrast to the last previous race run by Sarazen when he performed sourly as he did several times last year. He showed by his victory that his trouble is purely a mental one and lie remains one of the greatest of handicap horses. DOWNFALL OF TIMMAKA. The Chesapeake Handicap brought about the first defeat of the year for T. V OBriens Kentucky Derby* hope. Timpiara and it also chalked up a douhle for both the B. W. Whitney silks and jockey Butwell when Mr. Pepp was the winner. The big imported gelding. Ducks and Drakes II., which races for Stanley Wooton, was a good second, and Samuel Boss Cinema saved third from Timmara. Cinema was the one to cut out a fast pace and Digit, from the Seagram Stable went after her while Ducks and Drakes H. was not far away, with Mr. Pepp also racing for-wardly. Timmara appeared to be crowded slightly as the barrier rose and he left in a tangle. Before he could find his racing legs he was a bad last and not running in his usual fashion. Cinema went right along and Digit hung to her resolutely, but in the meantime, asueh had been taken out of the filly. Dacha and Drakes II. was racing strongly, but Butwell had timed his run nicely with Mr. Pepp, and. going around the leaders in the final eighth, he won going away. When Timmara finally found his raring legs he closed a good gap and worked his way through in gallant fashion to be as close as third, but he had too much ground to make up and he at no time threatened the first three at the finish. After the finish Timmara was worked out the mile in 1 :V . i en t in in • i ii rixleeala sapsj I l , j , , , , ; 1 1 ; 1 1 1 r 1 1 " " rj L I "I j -N | I | . j . j SARAZEN WINS DIXIE: or n Continued from first page C r The Patapseo Steeplechase, under claiming conditions and over the two-mile course, o of brought about a great contest when E. M. Algers Herriard was up in time to beat of o home Louie Starrs Perkiomen, and A. C. f Bostwicks Chuckle was rather a distant third. The result was something of a sur- d prise, for Perkiomen looked all over a b winner and it seemed that Barrett Haynes was just a bit careless on the Starr jumper, n Chuckle and Coypou were the ones to make the pace for a turn of the field and then s Chuckle dropped back as Haynes made a move with Perkiomen. He had been rating c the Starr jumper along back of the first two i t and it was no trick to go to Coypou. 1 All this time Herriard was well back and I Preece was content to rate him along with- ] out asking him to exert himself. As Perkio- t men raced by the Davis mare Haynes I ■ permitted him to gallop along into a good I i lead, where he took hold of him and it appeared that he could win by as wide a margin 1 as was desired. j Then Preece called on Herriard and circling around the upper end of the field before * Haynes knew his danger, the old son of f | Roi Herode was along side of him. Still 1 ; Haynes seemed to think that he had the 1 | race won. and the pair went to the last fence 1 ; closely lapped. Haynes was depending on a t -hand ride while Preece was driving furiously I and the drive won when Herriard was home I first by a neck. Chuckle, after having * dropped well out of the running, came again to be third, while Coypou, after her early-speed, dropped out of it badly. Adamant, a starter under the P. F. Joyce silks, was the • only one that failed to complete the course. He had no speed and was pulled up at the e seventh fence. W. R. Sallees Amy A., proved easily best of the plater two-year-olds that came to- gether in the four and a half furlongs of the second race. After forcing all the pace. she readily led home Edward E. Whitneys Overlord, while G. L. Strykers Starray beat Gnome Second for third. The three placed horses dominated the running throughout. Amy A. was always in command and Starray was in second place until he ran up on the heels of the filly leaving the back stretch. This knocked him slightly off his stride and then Overlord went into second place, but Starray came again and regained second place in the stretch, but in the final drive the Whitney colt again headed him to be HBOOnd. The others in the field cut little figure in the running. Edward E. Whitneys Handclasp gradu-r ated from the maiden class in the third race, which was framed for juvenile fillies. At the end she was doing her best to beat P. if. Faulconeis Lena Rinchart. and H. P. Whitneys Pyrex was a close third, beating the Hamilton Earm Stables Guapa for that! j part of the purse. Lena Rinchart, beginning well, was the i one to cut out all the running, but she CO— Id never draw far away from her com-! j pany. Pyrex and Iff ado a Mint, a starter j from the Salubria Stable, followed her while i j iHaadelaep was a bit slow to be under way. I I At the head of the stretch Lena Rinchart I ~|wcnt out slightly and there Pyr.x saved considerable ground and for an instant; looked a possible winner. But Handclasp I had come around on the outside and. under la vigorous ride by James Butwell. wore the- J I other two down to win going away, while Lena Rinehart stuck it out to gave second I I place. Oaapa closed with excellent courage, I while Meadow Mint, after showing early -peed, tired badly.
