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THE BEASELS 1950 DEBUT Unbeaten Cochran Filly Successful in First Outing at Jamaica. Troves Too Speedy for Opponents In Douglas-ton Tursc, Most Pretentious Offer-Ing of Fridays Card. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 25. On a program devoid of a feature the best Friday offering of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today was a six furlongs condition race, for the three-year-olds, known as the Douglaston. It brought another victory to the Gifford A. Cochran silks when the good filly The Beasel made her first appearance of the year to win all the way. Tetrarchal, from the Howe Stable, and an eligible for the Preakness, raced to second place, with Frank E. Browns Starpatic just beating W. R. Coea Conclave for third. With more seasonable weather the sport proved more attractive to a crowd of goodly proportions and the lack of feature was atoned for when the fields for the most part were nicely balanced. The Beasel had gone into retirement last October with four straight victories to her credit and Henry McDaniel brought her back with all of her speed when she was capable of taking up 115 pounds and conceding weight to various colts of the company. Showing the same fleetness of foot that made her one of the most successful of the juvenile fillies of 1929, she dominated all of the running and at the end, where she was winner by a length and a half, she still had something in reserve. Tetrarchal, beginning well, was under a slight restraint back of the filly until well into the stretch. Maiben was waiting with the son of Tetratema and depending on a stretch rush for victory, but swinging for home Conclave, which with Starpatic, had been closely following, just headed the Howe colt for a few strides. Then Tetrarchal, which had lost a bit of ground on the turn, came again and he readily saved second place. Starpatic and Conclave staged a lively battle in the final sixteenth for third and the colt proved the gamer. Traitor, from the California Stable, and a juvenile that began his career in Florida, was winner of the opening five furlongs dash. He led home Mrs. J. H. Buschers Zinn and Westerner, from the Dorwood Stable, saved third from the Greentree Stables Measure.
