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I FEATURE TO GRACIOUS GUT ♦ F. W. Barlow Racer Accounts for Newtown Claiming Stakes. « Xusakan Carries Cochran Colors to Victory in High Weight Handicap — Replevin Defeats Dolan. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9. — For a special feature at Jamaica today the offering was the Newtown Claiming Stakes, over the three-quarters mile route. This went to F. W. Barlows Gracious Gift when he just got up to beat Mrs. S. Bennetts False Pride, with Mrs. Vanderbilts Tiffin third. The race was worth ,525 to the winner. The fact that the Newtown was under claiming conditions prevented it from bringing out the best horses of the day. There was a high weight handicap for sprinters, which went to Gifford A. Cochrans Nusakan, and the Boulevard Handicap, at a mile and seventy yards, in which Frederick Johnsons Replevin just beat Dolan, and as races they foreshadowed the feature, which was only a feature in point of value. It was a day marked by close finishes and, while the weather was dreary and cold, with occasional showers, there was abundant entertainment for a crowd of goodly proportions. There came a long delay at the post in the Newtown for which Apostle was chiefly to blame. Finally he broke some of his tack by his crazy antics and there followed further delay before it could be replaced. When the barrier rose False Pride, showing vast improvement over his previous effort, raced into the lead and for a time it seemed that he would just romp away from the others. He was soon four lengths clear and widening the gap. Hypnotism, the lightweight of the party, was heading the others, with Gracious Gift running third before Old Kickapoo. Reputation broke well, but he was almost at once shuffled back until he had little or no chance, while Clearance, the Edward Arlington starter, was another that met with some early misfortune. False Pride was still well clear of the others as he raced into the stretch and Hypnotism was second, but he was doing his best and tiring, while Tiffin had come into the picture prominently. Then in the final sixteenth False Pride began to shorten stride and Workman brought Gracious Gift up with his winning rush. It was only in the last strides that he caught False Pride, but he got home in front. Tiffin was a length and a half back of the Bennet sprimer, with Hypnotism, tiring badly, back of him and just a head before Clearance, which was coming fast next to the innei rail. Bud Fishers Altimeter was winner of the opening five-eighths dash for juveniles, but he was not confirmed by the stewards for some time when Ratti, who rode the Ran-cocas Stables Mei Foo, lodged a claim of Continued on twenty-first page. i • . . . . t • ; 1 " ; • ; • l I i • i t FEATURE TO GRACIOUS GIFT Continued from first page.! foul. Third went to G. D. Widcners Kopeck and the others were well strung out. Kopeck and Crash were the ones to cut out the running, with Altimeter racing in third place, while Mei Foo, after starting well, was shuffled back badly until he war-one of the trailers. At the head of the stretch J. J. McTague, on Altimeter, carried the other leaders out and, as Ratti attempted to come through on the inside with Mei Foo, which had closed a considerable gap, he came over to shut him off. There was no actual interference but it was a threat of interference and it served the purpose when Ratti rode timidly and did not try to drive the colt through, although there was ample room. Then, as has been told, he made his claim of foul. There is no denying that McTague rode trickily in the stretch but he did not actually interfere with Mei Foo. and a rider of more courage than Ratti would probably have landed the Rancocas colt the winner. Mei Foo was much the best but was beaten by a timid ride. The Boulevard Handicap, over the mile and seventy yards distance, brought out a first class field, and it resulted in one of the best finishes of the day when Frederick Johnsons Kentucky Derby candidate Beplevin, finishing with rare gameness, was just up to nose out E. F. Cooneys Dolan. Three lengths farther away Vacation was an easy third, in front of William Zicgler, Jr.s, Wee Burn. The start was a good one and Sande at once went into the lead with Dolan, though as soon as he took his position he steadied the son of Huon and rated him along smoothly. Vacation was in second place and Beplevin was racing well back of him. The others were more or less strung out, with Bud Fishers Retaliate one of the trailers. This order was maintained until nearing the stretch turn, where Peterson roused Replevin and he went on by Vacation, but Dolan was still moving smoothly in front of him and showing no signs of weakening. Wee Burn had come into the running and was close after the Butler gelding. By this time Peterson was hard at work on Replevin and, while the son of Brown Prince II. was responding gamely. Dolan was still in the lead, and Sande, saving ground all the way, had not really called on him for his best. This way the way they came into the last eighth and there Dolan tired ever so slightly and Replevin was alongside. It was a fight right to the last stride, and it was only by a nod that Replevin earned the decision. This final battle took the pair of them out three lengths before Vacation. The race run by Dolan for a first effort of the season was an excellent one, while Replevin gave further evidence of being a three-year-old stayer of eiuality. Nusakan and old Bill Kelsay literally stole the Franklin liighweight Handicap from a fast band of sprinters. It was a three-quarters dash and Kelsay, following orders, sent the Cochran colt into such a long lead in the first sixteenth that it was imposible for the others to wear him down. At the end he was still six lengths clear, to had home Max Silvers Indian Lov3 Call, which, in turn, beat the Boiling Plains Stables Sandy, top weight carrier of the company, a couple of lengths. There was not much to the race after the rise of the barrier and Nusakan hael opened up his long lead. He had been backing up in other races and the lead was not taken seriously until he had stolen away so far that it was impossible to catch him. The others were in fairly close order, with Overlooked last. Swinging for home, Sandy was in second place, but through the final eighth he tired badly and surrendered that position to Indian Love Call. Mrs. Louise Viaus Mockery was winner of the five-eighths race, for maiden two-year-old fillies, which was fifth on the card, when she led home the Middlcburg Stables Campa-nella, with Chantry, from the Rancocas Stable, finishing rather a distant third. On the way to the post in this race Green Fire unseateel Pascuma, but she did not run far before she was caught by Reel Coat Mur- ray. The start was a bit unfortunate when Abe Hallows Partnership was virtually left. while Our Sally Ann was away so badly as to have little chance. Campanella was away fast, but she soon gave way to Mockery and once the daughter of Star Hawk had taken command she made every post a winning one, to have a length and a half to spare at the end. Campanella was the only one to give a semblance of contest through the stretch, though going to the stretch turn Chantry raced up in a threatening fashion, only to tire when the pinch came in the last eighth. The three placed horses were the only ones that really cut any figure in the running. A field of fifteen promised for the mile and seventy yards at the end of the program was reduced to five starters by scratches. This went to Friedjof Nansen, from the Log Cabin Stuel Stable, with Ed Arlingtons Joe Sweep saving second place from J. E. Gaffneys Itinerant. Dry Toast, after closely following the leaders, tired badly and was eased up by Maiben.
