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! ! j j I | i . : ; ! j ; - j " 1 | f t r t t [ h SWEEPSTER MAKES HIS BOW . ♦ First Appearance of Year Results in Easily Achieved Victory. ♦ Fine Manners Takes Highland Claiming Stakes With Grange and Morbelle Second and Third Respectively. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., April 28.— Sweepster, the Rancocas Stables hope for the Kentucky Derby had his first outing of the year at Jamaica Thursday and was returned the winner. It was only a five and a half furlong dash and the track was muddy, while those opposing the son of Sweep were not particularly brilliant, but the race was enough to show that he has come back to the races this year with plenty of speed. This was the best race of the day by reason of the presence of Sweepster in the field, though the stake of the afternoon had a greater value. It was the Highland Claiming Stakes for three-year-olds over the three-quarters distance and J. J. Timmermans Fine Manners was returned the winner. Those opposing Sweepster were Extreme, from the Mahopac Stable. James Butlers Charade and Mrs. S. Bennetts False Pride. From a good start. False Pride was first to show out of the field and Extreme went right along with him. Sweepster was a bit slow to be under way and he was last of the four. Fator permitted the son of Sweep to settle into his stride before asking him to run and then he trailed around on the outside. He was soon in second place, while Extreme had displaced False Pride, which soon fell back to last, Charade racing back of Sweepster. Swinging into the stretch. Extreme carried Sweepster a bit wide and Fator hit the colt once to rouse him. That was all that was needed and Sweepster came on by to win going away while Extreme had no trouble saving the place from Charade. The Highland Claiming Stakes was the special feature of the day as far as value was concerned, and it was worth ,200 to J. J. Timmermans Fine Manners, which led home Grange from the Rancocas Stable, with : Benjamin Blocks Morbelle saving third from Mrs. T. O. Webbers Jack of Clubs. From a good start, Adamas, which raced at Miami and Old Kickapoo, a Tijuana per- former, raced into a good lead and, racing well out from the others, they really killed each other off. Old Kickapoo seemed to have just a bit more speed than Adamas, but the Livingston sprinter hung to the Runny- mede gelding long enough to kill his chances. In the meantime, Kelsay was gradually working his way up with Fine Manners and in the stretch run he raced to the front, but had to be hustled right along to be winner by a length. Fator had been working his I way through with Orange in the stretch run I and he met with some interference, but right at the end he was a head before Mor- belle, another that finished fast. It was a cheap band of platers that met in the opening dash at a mile and seventy yards, but it brought about a good finish i when Wishing Stone lasted to beat Drawing ! Continued on eighteenth page. — . _. ■ r 1 r t f i s r i I j , , , , , | i • , SWEEPSTER MAKES HIS BOW Continued from first page ] Board and Izetta, a recent winner at the | j meeting. Izetta was the one to cut out the i running, with Wishing Stone rating along back of her. Then before the stretch was reached. Wishing Stone went on by to draw out into a long lead and he was showing the way as he turned for home. Barcene went a bit wide on the stretch turn, and When Izetta and Drawing Board saved ground, they both came into the running again, but Wishing Stone had enough left to see him safety home, while Drawing Board just beat Izetta for second place. James Butlers Mote, the three-year-old son of Spur, which run out in a previous start, was a cantering winner of the race at three-quarters, that was the second offering. He scored by a full six lengths from Marshall Fields Polycrates and third was the portion of Jack Richardsons Giant. Mote went right into command at the rise of the barrier and he had speed enough never to leave the result seriously in doubt. Through the early racing, Capricole, his stablemate, was in second place and Giant was racing third, while the others followed in a fairly close bunch. It was not until safely around the stretch turn that Hastings really permitted Mote to run. When he did. the son of Spur quickly drew away to come home an easy winner. Capricole, in the meantime, had tired badly and Giant moved into second place, but he too quit right at the end and Polycrates, after moving up on the outside, beat him for third. Fourth place fell to Adjutant, from the Rancocas Stable, and it was apt all through the running that he is capable of better things. The five-eighths mile race for maiden two-year-old fillies brought victory to a Miami performer when Noise from the Audley Farm Stable, and well ridden by Pony McAtee, scored easily from James Butlers Ladys Maid, while Hazard from the Rancocas Stable took third place from Mrs. Louise Viaus Truitelle. Noise and Truitelle beat the others away from the barrier but Noise soon raced the Troutbeck filly into defeat. She had no sooner done so. however, when Ladys Maid was alongside and kept her busy to the stretch. There Ladys Maid tired and Noise tame on to win with plenty to spare. Hazard did not show much until it was all over, but from the head of the stretch she was gaining at a rate that suggested she would not remain a maiden long. Bessie Gershel was easily best among the five platers that went to the post in the final race of the afternoon. The old Tea Caddy mare liked the going and withstood 1 repeated challenges from The Seer and I Frosty Boy. Frosty Boy finished fast.
