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SEAGRAM COLT LUCKY Benefits by Poor Start in American National Rush Handicap. • Easily Leads Home Blackwood and Mino After Favorite and Others Are Eliminated. • ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. 111.. June 23.— Benefited by an advantage of the ragged start j j that came in the American National Hush Handicap, the Seagram Stables Solace proved an easy winner over Blackwood and Mino, with seven others, including Dark Phantom, a pronounced favorite, far back. The race was marred by the bad start, half of the field being virtually eliminated as a result of their unpreparedness at the break. . Irish Pal and Solace were away forwardly and, when Irish Pal began tiring, it was little effort for Solace to assume the lead, and during the stretch racing he was well in hand, to win as his rider pleased. Blackwood was another that benefited by the start. He raced in close pursuit of the leaders and stood a drive gamely through the stretch, to land in second place. Mino closed some ground after a slow beginning and showed a good performance. Moonraker, after beginning slowly, finished with a rush, to land in fourth place. Dark Phantom might just as well have remained in her stable, as the start practically eliminated her. The race had a net value of ,420 to the winner, and it marked the first stake victory for the Seagram Stable since Its Invasion into "western territory. IMMENSE CROWD PRESENT. An immense attendance viewed the racing at Arlington Park today, in spite of threatening weather that promised a disagreeable afternoon at the course. The track was in bad condition, heavy and sticky going proving too severe for most of the starters. The unexpected happened in most of the races, some of the winners being but slightly regarded, and the offending favorites failing to even get a part of the purse. There was not the betting activity about Big Bill Thompson that marked his preceeding start ; on the contrary he was left alone by the sharps that eagerly gave him attention in his last race. He raced differently for, instead of winning as his rider elected, as he did in his previous start, he brought up in last place. The winner was Lady Partridge, which held on gamely all during the stretch racing to outstay Complication, with Take a Chance in advance of the others. Take a Chance was the favored one and he flattered by leading until well along in the stretch, where he gave way suddenly, but lasted long enough to retain third place. N. Churchs Break of Dawn was winner in the initial dash, in which eleven juveniles accepted. He beat Exquisite and War Time. The latter, for which ,000 was paid at the Saratoga sales last summer, raced greenly and was bothered by the going. Another that did not fancy the going and reached an exhausted stage long before the final eighth of the race began was Christie Flanagan. He was done for after half a mile. OUTSTANDING SURPRISE OF DAT. Paul Bunyan furnished the outstanding surprise of the afternoon when he got up to win by a matter of inch?s in a spectacular finish with Prince Pat and Coal Black. The trio fought it out hard during the last eighth, Paul Bunyan joining the earlier leaders when an eighth out. He saved ground . in the last quarter and held on gamely. . Virado was a pronounced favorite, but the : combination of a bad start and a listless ride proved his undoing. Golden Mac, an outstanding favorite, was the disappointment in the sixth race by his failure to get a part of the purse. Ley land, who rode him, gave a faulty exhibition, and a liberal chorus of boos and hisses greeted him on his return to the stand. Polo Star was the victor after a well sustained stretch drive to down Metronome, with Congo II. landing in third place. The winner was always a strong factor and held to his task gamely in the trying going of the inner course.
