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MACAWS SHEVLIN STAKES • Whitney Colt Displays Gameness in Outstaying Dress Parade. ♦ Glen Riddle Farm Rarer Aided Materially by Light Weight — Cloudburst Hits Track. ♦ AQCEDlCT, N. Y.. June 22— Macaw. H. P. Whitneys three-year-old son of Peter Pan and Polly Flinders, had his gameness thoroughly tested before he was winner of the Shevlin Stakes at Aqueduct. This was the feature and after a long drive he barely outstayed Dress Parade, from the Glen Riddle Farm Stable, to which he was giving eleven pounds. The Brookmeade Stables Rock Star was third and then came Chance Play. Light Carbine and Canter in the order named. The mile was run in 1:38% and the prize was worth ,500 to the winner. Rain threatened all during the forenoor. and until the running of the Shevlin Stakes. After the running of the fifth race, there came a heavy downpour of rain which changed track conditions. It was a veritable cloudburst and throughly drenched everything. Little time was lost at the barrier in the Shevlin Stakes and the start was a good one. with Rock Star first to show in front from his rail position. Macaw was right after him and the lightly weighted Dress Parade close at hand. Chance Play, though away-well, was in close quarters and he had rather a rough early trip, while Canter and light arbine brought up the rear. Fator. taking full advantage of the light weight on Dress Parade, set a fast pace that soon carried him out three lengths before i i Macaw, while Rock Star was just leading Chance Play when that colt was rather badly shut off and dropped back slightly. Canter was making up some ground, but light Carbine did not seem to belong and was being outrun. Swinging into the stretch Dress Parade was still well clear, but Me A tee was working on Macaw and the son of Peter Pan was responding gamely to the call. Canter had headed Rock Star, but the Brookmeade colt j j was not through and soon regained his position. Chance Play had moved into fourth place as Canter showed signs of tiring, but they were all racing gamely along back of Dress Parade and Macaw. These two were closely lapped in the last sixteenth, with Press Parade on the inside. Stride by stride. Macaw had come alongside,. Continued on thirteenth page. MACAWS SHEVLIN STAKES Continued from first page and together they swept over the line with Macaw winner in the last stride. Rock Star was coming again in that last sixteenth, and he was only a length further back and, as a matter of fact, racing better than the first two. Five lengths back of Hock Star came Chance Tlay. and he had beaten Light Carbine five lengths, with Canter last of all. There was some excuse for Chance Play by reason of the interference lie suffered, but the race proved conclusively that Macaw is a first class colt, and it also demonstrated that Rock Star is a shifty sort himself. Dress Parade had the best of the weights, which helped materially, but his was a sparkling performance. The second best race of the day was .1 six and a half furlongs claiming handicap. This fell to W. A. Wollmans Volante after a stirring finish with . C. Winfreys Teste]-, while Mrs. Louise Viaus Martha Martin ran third. Back of these the Greentree Stables The Vintner was a distant fourth and the others were well strung out. Kit Carson was a bit unfortunate at the start, but the others left in excellent alignment and Tester was first to show the way. Sharpe rushed Volante in the first eiglith and lie took the had while Martha Martin, from an outside position, also headed Tester, the three of them drawing away from the others. As a matter of fact, it had narrowed to a three-horse race early in the action. SharjK» kept Volante at his task and he saved ground with him all the way. In the early stages Sande had Tester under slight restraint, but he was always close to Martha Martin and well within striking distance of the Wollman gelding. In the stretch Sande roused Tester and he went past Martha Martin to close up on Volante slightly, but the son of Fair Play had something in reserve and when Sharpe called on him he held his lead. Martha Martin tired in the final drive, but Tester was plainly doing his best and the filly was close after him and lengths before The Vintner. Eben Byers Whiskey Pun had to be much the best of the juveniles that met in the opening five-eighths dash to be home the winner. He threw his head in the air as the barrier rose and, before he had settled into a racing stride, he had lost several lengths. Weiner had to ride him hard and, when well inside the last eighth he was blocked and had to go to the inside to. find room. At the end. he was going away with something in reserve. Second place went to George P. Wideners Embers. She saved ground all the way and hung on well in the final drive. As for Sturdy Stella, no excuse could be offered for her performance. She was away running and made the pace until Hearing home, where she tired badly, to save third from Blue Fire. The others were lengths back of the first four. Post Time, from the Hamilton Farm Stable, was generally looked upon as best of the maidens that met in the mile of the second race, but it was his first start since last August, and he was soundly whipped by Judicial from the Bog Cabin Stud Stable, though he readily saved second place from Colorful. Judicial had the advantage of seasoning with racing, but he improved considerably over his previous efforts. It was a good start, and Colorful was first to show out of the field, but it did not take Judicial long to go to the front and, once out there, Richards rated him along to such good advantage that he was at no time seriously threatened. Xo excuses could be found for Post Time, unless it was that he needed the race. He quickly found his way into second place, but was utterly unable to cut down the lead of Judicial. Colorful always had the speed of the others. The fifth was a mile race under claiming conditions for fillies and mares and fell to Gold Button front the stable of A. S. Wood-liffe. She had forced most of the pace and it* the stretch Kathleen Crosby gave her are argument but she was not good enough. Then when Fields found Kathleen O-osby was beaten he rode such a careless, listless finish he was beaten for the place by Donna-video. It was well nigh impossible to distinguish racing colors in the running of the five-eighths mile race at the end of the card because of the mist and rain. This fell to Benjamin Blocks Motmask. when he led home the Xewtondale Stables Gun Royal and Frederick Johnsons Brown Bud. •
