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SILVER FOX AGAIN WINS PAUM0N0K HANDICAP GRAY RACER REPEATS • Duplicates Success of Last Year in Jamaicas Initial Stake. ♦ Defeats Croyden in Game and Close Finish — Immense Crowd Despite Wintry Weather. ♦ NEW YORK, N. T., April 25— Silver Pox. the handsome gray son of Grey Fox II. and Mary Queen of Scots, in a good game finish was winner of the Paumonok Handicap at Jamaica this afternoon, repeating his performance of a year ago. He was just up in the closing strides to beat Harry Payne Whitneys Croyden by a head, while a length and a half further back Saxon, from the Greentree Stable, just nosed out the Kershaw Stables Happy Argo for third. The three-quarters were run in 1 :12% and the prize was worth ,850 to the winner. It was the opening of the big New York racing season at the course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club and. though the weather was decidedly wintry, with a high wind blowing in from Jamaica Bay, an enormous crowd of enthusiasts were out to welcome the thoroughbreds back. The sport offered was worthy the Paumonok. having an excellent setting with the five other well filled races. Fourteen accepted in the Paumonok and the Greentree Stable was represented by three in Saxon. Navigator and Lodina. while Silver Fox had the three-year-old Sankarl for a running mate. Little time was lost at the barrier and the start was a good one. with Navigator first to show in front, but he soon gave way to James Butlers fast tilly Charade and Sar-maticus, winner of the Toboggan of last year, was right with the Butler filly and Walter J. Salmons Powhatan was lapped on the pair of them. Croyden was also in the front division, while Silver Fox was further back, though they were all in close order. FORCED TO GO WIDE. Charade was first of the leaders to show signs of weakening and then it was that Sarmaticus went into command, with Croyden close after him and racing strongly on the outside. Powhatan was right at the heels of the Whitney gelding and Fator had moved up slightly with Silver Fox. but he was forced to go a bit wide and did not seem to have even a remote chance to catch the leaders. Swinging for home, Sarmaticus and Powhatan both showed signs of tiring and it was there that Croyden loomed up with a rush that promised to carry him to victory. He had the pacemakers staggering and was coming on straight and true, but just as he was hailed as the winner the gray was seen on the outside mowing down his rivals with every stride. Laverne Fator had timed his run maginificently and in that last eighth he rode as he never had ridden before with both hands and heels. Croyden was not tiring a bit in that last sixteenth, but Silver Fox and Fator just would not be denied and stride by stride he drew up until just at the end the imported horse dropped his head down in front the winner. In that last batte through the final eighth Saxon found room to squeeze through, but he was a length and a half back of the first two and only a nose before Happy Argo. NOTABLE PERFORMANCE. It was a notable renewal of the Paumonok and the best horse won. It was atonement for the defeat of Silver Fox in the Harford Handicap at Havre de Grace earlier in the month, when he was the victim of bad racing Inck. He shouldered 125 pounds and to race the three-quarters in 1 33% he ran a notable race. Shortly before the horses were called out for the Paumonok there was a slight sprinkle of rain, but it did not affect the going, though the weather was unseasonably cold for the making of fast time. The second was another three-quarters dash, this time for platers, and it saw The Vintner, a discard from the Creentree Stable which now races for F. W. Barlow, winner from Mrs. Louise Viaus Colden Pennant in a fighting finish, while F. M. Kellys Fire-dog was not far away. The Vintner lost little time in finding his way into command and once he was showing the way Pierce, who had the mount, simply rated him along. He saved ground all the way and three-eighths from home Colden Pennant challenged and. through the stretch, he kept the winner exceedingly busy. Fire-dog also finished strongly through the last quarter, hut tired right at the end. The others were pretty well strung out. There were only four starters in the mile Continued on twentieth pace. SILVER FOX REPEATS Continued from first page and a sixteenth for platers that was the third offering, and It resulted in a handy victory for Jefferson Livingstons Izetta, when she led home the New Jersey Stables Mercedes E., while Graylings Lady, racing for H. K. Bliss, had no trouble outdistancing Helene Hackworth. Through the back stretch Goodwin had a good hold on Izetta and she was under a stiff restraint to hold Graylings Lady perfectly safe. Then, when the Bliss filly had enough and began to drop back, Stevens moved on Mercedes E. and she moved up resolutely, but Izetta had plenty in reserve and, as she charged up, Goodwin had only to shake up the Livingston filly to hold the race safe. Under a long drive Mercedes E. closed considerable ground, but it was of no avail, though she beat Graylings Lady a full five lengths for the place. Helene Hackworth was outrun all the way. The New York season opened auspiciously for the H. P. Whitney silks and for his new lightweight rider when Byrd was winner with "Sonny" Workman in the saddle. It was a three-quarters dash for three-year-olds and the son of Peter Pan performed in a fashion to suggest better things later in the year. At the end he was showing the way easily to A. H. Watermans Juggler and the Greentree Stables Tigress saved third. In the running J. S. Cosdens Mary-lander stumbled and fell shortly after the start. There were seventeen went to the post and Byrd was so slow to be under way that he was last as they passed the time flag. James Butlers Mote, and Jumbo from the Rancocas Stable, were the ones to step away in the lead and they made it a merry one through the back stretch. At the head of the stretch Mote bore out badly, carrying Jumbo so wide that his winning chance was gone. That afforded Byrd his chance. Workman had saved ground on the stretch turn and both he and Juggler shot through until an eighth from home they were clear. There Workman hit Byrd once with the whip and he jumped away to come home a comparatively easy winner.
