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SPECTACULAR PINISH Uncle Hood Beats No Regrets Alter Great Struggle Furnish Thrilling Contest in Greenfield Claiming Stakes Pique Outlasts Mino JAMAICA N ST IMay T7 For a Monday feature the Jamaica offering was the Green fiekl Claiming Stakes at fiveeighths for twoyearolds It brought the most thralling finish of the day when in a bitterly fought stretch battle Mrs J Sciaccalugas Uncle Hood just heat home No Regrets from the Swingalong Stable with Harry Payne Whit ¬ neys Capricorn taking third The race was worth 92u to the winner The track was muddy from the Sunday rain but overhead conditions were ideal and a surprisingly large crowd was out for the sport The card was a thoroughly interesting one and in addition to the Greenfield there was a threequarters handicap that brought together a good band of sprinters sprintersThe The start lor the Greenfield was a good one and Best JYiend was first to show out of the bunch but Uncle Hood and Scat vero right after him and Kb Regrets fol ¬ lowed closely Early in the racing Sande found himself in close quarters with Uncle Hood but lie held to his place and soon it wnR Capricorn that was showing the way with Best Friend Never Again and Uncle Hood closely bunched back of him Uncle Hood wa tlll in close quarters but he was not giving an inch and was still much in ± he running runningTin Tin sprint handicap furnished another thrilling finish when James Butlers Pique just beat the Oak Ridge Stables Mino by a head while closely following them came i S 1 Randolphs Pheasant Hillside was a distant fourth while Queens Token a Rtublematc to Pique and the only other atarter bled and was eased up in the stretch If AJID FOT7GHT T TTEL TTELPique Pique and Mino practically fought it out all the way Mino had the disadvantage of b bsing sing on the inside and Pique kept him in there where the going was deeper than any rhere else on the track trackAt At the head of the stretch both of the leaders swung out a bit and there It was that Pheasant was rushed upon the rail opening For an instant he threatened to come through to victory but the deep going told its tale and Pique and Mino fought it out to the bitter end to finish heads apart ns named namedBest Best Friend was first of the leaders to weaken and as he dropped back Uncle Hood 3ind a bit more room and lie was head and Jiead with Capricorn and No Regrets was coins strongly outside the pair of them but o close to Uncle Hood that Sande was still cramped for riding room Thus it was that the field charged through the stretch l ut right in the closing strides Sande fairly lifted the son of Sweep along to have him winner by a head No Regrets was second n half length before Capricorn and only a Tiose before Peter Peter one of the Green tree Stable starters and then came Never jguin and Seat in remarkably close orden ordenAfter After the finish Sharpe who had the mount on No Regrets lodged a claim of foul against Stuule but it was promptly disallowed and as the race was run it was Sande and his mount that met with most of the interfer ¬ ence enceThere There were two of the starters led away tn new stables after the running when Sandy JVIcKHiighton took Uncle Hood for 8000 and Jacob Myer claimed Capricorn for JGOOQ JGOOQAndy Andy Blakely had won the Greenfield in l 2i 19 4 and 19 5 for William Daniel with Sue Donovan Socrates and Voshell respec ¬ tively It is also the stake that fell to Mor vich in 3U21 and that fast colt followed through the year the juvenile champion never being beaten beatenJ J Ay ETTA DISQrALIFIEDL DISQrALIFIEDLMurygrace Murygrace from the Nexv Jersey Stable proved best of the sprinters that raced in the opening threequarter mile dash when after being apparently beaten she outstayed V O Clancys Janetta and won going away Xuly Raglan of the Newtondale Stable was a fast losing third thirdTinetti Tinetti was disqualified for having fouled the winner and this moved Lady Raglan into second place and the Greentree Stables Lone ¬ some was third While the rules provide that u foul shall be punished by disqualifica ¬ tion Janetta only fouled Marygrace the filly that beat her home For that reason some considered the ruling a bit peculiar but it was ieserved ieservedMarygrace Marygrace and Janetta took the lead after the start shortly after leaving the back stretch and when Janetta was leading Blightly Fisher brought her over so sharply she interferred with Marygrace This per ¬ mitted Janetta to go into a long lead but Mary grace came again and wore her down to win in the final strides stridestlaily tlaily Raglan was racing well in the tr Uh when she was slightly blocked but she did not have u chance to beat Marygrace SLhe others were more or less strung out outW W H Karricks Brookwood scored over the platers in the mile and seventy yards of the wectnd race when he led home Samuel Ross Dignity with Sauger racing for Fal de Saint IMialle Vie breaking well was the one to net the pace most of the way Brookwood had an outside position and propped slightly jis the barrier rose so that he was forced Xtrll ° ld his outside position going to the first turn vijilcJLhat made him run further than Hie others tliefeV3s an advantage in better jgoing VV VVVie Vie was still racing Strongly in front through the back stretch and tlisre Sande had Senate within striking distance and he was also galloping strongly Breuriing was working his way up gradually with Brook woo l and the son of Ballot was gaining on the others But Senate was still racing well and the Karrick colt was far from the lead ¬ ers On the stretch turn Vie began to tire and when the others closed up Breuning had 310 choice except the outside again Brook yto u went to the outside and when well Jn side the last eighth was even with the lead ¬ ers and then drew away to win by a couple of length Dignify finished fast to be second three lengths before Saupe while Vi quit iMidlv when the real test came
