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I = 8 STAND BY WINS FEATURE 4 Bray Juvenile Outstays Grey Chief at Belmont Park. ♦ Black Maria Finishes Second to BTack Curl in 3! ilk hi a Id Handicap — Double for Jockey McAfee. • NEW YORK, N. Y., May 21.— The Bouquet Stakes, a claiming race of four and a half furlongs for juveniles, was the special feature at Belmont Park today. It brought about a good contest and a victory for Frank Brays Stand By, when he led home Grey Chief, from the Raneocas Stable, with the Newtondale Stables Don Ricardo a close third. The race was worth ,800 to the winner. As the race was run. Stand By seemed to be much the best, forcing virtually all of the pace. McAtee had him under restraint at the end to be first by three lengths. Grey Chief, which is a son of old Grey Lag. still in training, was never far back from the winner until the last sixteenth. There he tried rather badly and gave up his last ounce to save second place from the fast finishing Don Bicardo, which raced down the middle of the course. Domulalia, racing for Mrs. Clyde Phillips, was the one to be fourth. The big disappointment of the running was Mrs. Louise Viaus Mockery, when she was soundly beaten after having cut no figure in the running. Of more interest than the Bouquet Stakes was the six and a half furlongs Milk Maid Handicap, for fillies and mares. This marked the first appearance of the year for W. R. Coes good mare Black Maria and, while she was beaten by Black Curl, from the Rancocas Stable, she ran a truly good race to finish second and will undoubtedly regain much of her earlier fame before the end of the year. No time was lost at the barrier and as it rose Pator shot to the front with Black Curl, while Black Maria was just a bit slow to be under way and she was last of the five to leave the post. Stereopticon, a light weight that raced for Samuel Ross, was chasing after Black Curl in the early stages and Snobbish was a close third until she met with some slight interference that crowded her back. Leaving tlie back stretch Black Maria began to make up ground and she did this before the stretch, being in second place and going well. Snobbish moved up at the same time and for just an instant it seemed they would both catch the Sinclair filly. Black Continued on eighteenth page. STAND BY WINS FEATURE •i 1 Continued from first page. Curl was in a running mood, however, and hung to her lead to be safely home two lengths to the good, with Black Maria beating Snobbish a like distance for second place. Stereopticon and Canteen were both well beaten. E. R. Bradleys Blue Larkspur, a homebred son of Black Servant and Blossom Time, both of which raced brilliantly for the master of Idle Hour Stock Farm Stable, was winner of the opening four and a half furlongs dash. It brought out a smart band of juveniles and, at the end, he led home Mei Foo, from the Raneocas Stable, with Samuel Ross fast filly Too High a remarkably close third. The others in the field were soundly beaten. Blinkers were added to the equipment of Mei Foo, and it seemed to improve his form. He was the one to cut out the pace and he was showing the way until inside the final eighth. Blue Larkspur had crossed over from his outside position and was right after the son of Kai-Sang, and in that eighth he raced by to be winner by a length. Too High, outrun early, finished with a mighty rush and would have been second in another stride, but Mei Foo just lasted to save that part of the purse. There came a Joseph E. Widener victory in the short course steeplechase when, after a drive, "Polly" Byers brought Lighthouse home winner over Joseph E. Davis Endicott, with F. Gorssmans Volunteer a distant third. Lunar, from the Dorwood Stable, was the only other one to finish when the German racer, Licht Alberich, went down with Barrett llaynes at the sixth fence, and Thomas Hitchcocks Oarsman, with Burgess up, fell over him. Volunteer and Oarsman were the ones to cut out the early running, and the Hitchcock four-year-old was under restraint and galloping well. Licht Alberich was in third place, ar.d he was also racing well while Endicott and Lighthouse brought up the rear, with Byers saving much ground on the Widener candidate. This order was well maintained until the sixth fence was reached and there it was that Licht Alberich went down and carried Oarsman with him. After this mishap Volunteer began to tire badly, and at the same time Endicott and Lighthouse moved up fast, with Endicott showing the way. All through the last half mile these two had it strictly between themselves and they fought along gamely to the finish. Lighthouse had a slight advantage at the final hedge and from there to the end he beat Endicott to be winner by two lengths. Twenty lengths farther away the tired Volunteer was third. Fortunately, both Burgess and Haynes escaped unhurt from their falls. "Pony" McAtfee brought home his second winner of the day when he rode Robert L. Gerrys Ironsides in the one mile, for three-year-olds, which was the fifth race. He showed rare skill by avoiding the early-pace whin it became hot and charged on T. M. Cassidys Indian Scout in the final eighth. Indian Scout Eared second place by a big margin from A. W. Wentzels Bystander, and the others were in fairly close order, with the exception of the bad acting General Diskin, which was left at the post. Lace, Indian Scout and Ironsides went out to set the pace from the rise of the barrier, but on the turn out of the back stretch Mc-Atee eased Ironsides back slightly and permitted the others to show the way. Indian Scout had little trouble in putting Lace away, but it had taken something out of him, though ; • I 1 1 i 4 : | 1 ! ■ I 1 i he swung into the long stretch enjoying a good lead. Then it was that McAtee asked Ironsides to run in earnest and, gradually wearing down Indian Scout, he was on past in the final sixteenth, to win going away by length and a half. This final run through the stretch took the first two out five lengths before Bystander, which readily outfmished Lace, which seemed to have had a bit too much racing. At the end of the program the offering was a mile and an eighth for cheap ones, and brought .ut a field of fourteen. Black Bart, setting all tbe pace, lasted to beat home G. W. Hursts Blockhead, while Harass, never far from the leaders, saved third from Kffie. 1 5 | a i l 1 ..
