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MEI POOS EASY TRIUMPH ♦ Rancocas Stable Three-Year-Old Wins Aqueduct Handicap. « Bob Shannon Has No Trouble Accounting for Carnarsie Claiming Stakes, Worth ,585 to Winner. • " NEW YORK. N. Y., June 21— Mei Foo, the three-year-old chestnut son of Kai-Sang, for which the Rancocas Stable had high hones at the beginning of the year, scored a brilliant victory in the Bramble Handicap, the chief offering on the Queens County Jockey Club program at Aqueduct today. The Carnarsie Claiming Stakes, having a greater value than the Bramble Handicap, but not quite as interesting from a racing viewpoint, preceded the handicap for the older racers and fell to Bud Fishers Bob Shannon, the son of Sporting Blood, winning in an easy fashion, aa did Mei Foo in the handicap. E. Steffen had the mount on Mei Foo in the Bramble Handicap. There were five starters and the spectators centered on Budiy Bauer as the probabje winner, although Mel Foo had nearly as much support as he Bradley colorbearer. From a good start, Steffen rushed Mei Foo into the lead at once and, setting a fast pace, ran the first three-quarters of the one mile and a sixteenth in 1 :12Vand. At no time during the running was Mei Foos lead less than one and a half lengths. At various periods he was two lengths in front, with Buddy Bauer his closest follower for the first quarter, after which Sun Forward moved up and raced directly in the wake of the pacemaker. From the three-quarters post to the finisn it was a procession. Mei Foo in front. Sun Forward second. Buddy Bauer third. Arcturus fourth and Montferrat fourth, and they finished in that order. INTERFERENCE COSTLY. There might have been a different result had Arcturus escaped interference on the far turn. McAfee called on the Widener representative at that point and he attempted to go to the outside, but the three leaders spread in fan formation across the track and Arcturus was blocked. He fell back immediately thereafter, McAtee evidently believing that an opening would present itself. Such an opportunity did not occur, however, and by the time that McAtee made up his mind to go to the outside it was too late. Bob Shannon was never in trouble In the Carnarsie Claiming Stakes, decided over the five-eighths route. Five also went to the post for this two-year-old fixture and George D. Wideners Partisan was considered best and backed accordingly. He figured as a contender for the first quarter, aft- r which he dropped back well beaten. Bob Shannon was the first to show from a fast start and, setting a pace which had the others laboring to keep up, he had an advantage of three lengths as they made the turn into the stretch. Hale, in glancing back, soon noted the fact that he had nothing to fear from the others and immediately took his mount under control and rated him along to the finish to score by two lengths. T. M. Cassidys Ras-selas fought it out with Partisan for second place in the early stages and, outgaming the latter, soon left him behind and set out to chase after the pacemaker. While he could never make any impression on the winners lead, he had no trouble holding the others safe and finished second with a big margin to spare over Stellaris. The latter had no trouble saving third from Partisan, which tired badly from his early struggle with Rasselas. Partisan, in tiring, bore out passing the elbow, which lost more ground and at the end was hard ridden to stave off Water Foul, racing in the colors of R. T. Wilson. MOST EXCITING FINISH. Probably the most exciting finish of the day occurred in the second race, which attracted a field of ten platers. Bob Kernan was the most popular with the crowd and, having a slight advantage over Nat Evens and Golfk:: in the wagering, triumphed after a spectacular duel with the latter pair, a nosa and a length separating the trio as they passed the finish. Bob Kernan and Nat Evens raced like a team from the head of the stretch to the finish, the former having a head advantage when the struggle began and gamely held on to his slender lead to the finish. Flitterman was the early pacemaker here but tired badly after three-quarters and quit badly, the winner then assuming command and holding on to the finish. The opening race brought a big surprise when Priscilla Carter, from William Woodwards Belair Stud stable, got up to beat W. R. Coes Sweep Out, a filly that had won her seven previous starts. W. OlSri.-n s -. mar was a distant third, just outlasting Lady Fair for that part of the prize. This race was a handicap at six and a half furlongs for fillies and mares and brought together as fast a band of sprinters of the sex as have been seen for some time. Little time was lost at the starting post and Lady Fair proved more alert than the others when she at once went into a good lead and Brice made every use of that advantage. Sweep Out was in second place and Virmar was racing third with Lady Capulet not far away and Priscilla Carter was slower to be under way. It was in the final eighth that Sweep Out disposed of Lady Fair and as she did so «he went over slightly and. as the Morris filly was crowded over. Lady Capulet was eased by Maiben to avoid an accident. In the meantime Priscilla Carter had been circling around and right at the end she charged down on Sweep On to cross the line a neck to the good. Virmar outstayed the tiring Lady Fair, but she was three lenghths back of the Coe filly. Cheap ones furnished the entertainment in the second, a mile race for platers, but it resulted in a game finish when Frank C. Shorts Bub Kernan just beat n n:e p. L. Shorts Nat Evens, with H. P. Morans Gol-flex saving third.
