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FLAG DAY IN FRONT Defeats Kildare in Long Beach Claiming Handicap. Deploy Accounts for Hopedale Handicap at Jamaica Course in Colors of G. A. Cochran. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 30 Flag Day, facing for the Wheatley Stable of Mrs. H. C. Phipps and Ogden Mills, was winner of the feature offering of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today when he scored in the Long Beach Claiming Handicap. Kildare, from the Newtondale Stable, raced to second place and H. P. Whitneys Frumper led home Panuco, an added starter from the stable of J. F. Byers. The race had a value of ,200 to the winner. Another surrpisingly large crowd was out for the sport and the entertainment furnished by Henry Pebler was worthy of the crowd. In the Long Beach Handicap seven went to the post and the start was a good one. Panuco and Kildare sprinted away from the others going to the first turn and they swung into the back stretch lapped and well before Flag Day and Imperial Air, which were showing the" way to the others. As the leaders sped down the back stretch Kurtsinger took back with Kildare, but Maiben went right along with Panuco until he was two lengths to the good and racing strongly. It appeared that Maiben was making too much use of his mount and it developed that when the turn out of the back stretch was reached, Panuco was tiring as the others gained on llim- . Flag Day and Imperial Air were going well i, on the turn, but Kildare was still racing gamely and was holding second place resolutely. Then at the head of the stretch Kildare had taken the lead and Flag Day also raced past the tiring Panuco. Imperial Air was tiring badly, but Frumper was making up some ground on the outside. In the short stretch Flag Day proved to have more left than Kildare to be home the winner by a length. The Newtondale Stable gelding had saved second place by four lengths, while Panuco, thanks to the early use made of his speed, lost third place to Frumper. HOCK DUX PROVES BEST. The first offering of the day was at six furlongs under claiming conditions, and Dr. Irving Jacobs Bock Dun proved best when he was winner over Bourbon Maid, from the Tedlu Stable, with E. F. Sanfords Lindy just beating Sun Broom for third. With little delay at the barrier, the start Bourbon Maid at once was a good one. and went into a good lead, with Bock Dun showing the way to the others, and Sun Broom was a bit slower to find his racing legs. Bourbon Maid was rushed right along by Kurtsinger and she was still showing the way to the stretch turn, but there the pace took its toll and in the run through the straight Rock Dun was on by to be winner by two lengths. Bourbon Maid stuck it out no take second place, while Lindy outgamed Sun Broom to save third by a head. Frank E. Browns Bud Broom, under a well-timed ride by George Bose, led home the sprinters that were met in the second race at six furlongs. The son o Whisk Broom II. had to cover the distance in 1:12 to beat Justinian, from the Greentree Stable, while Mrs. George Carrolls Okaybee was a close third The only other starters were Labor and Friar Bell. The field was sent away from a moving start, and while Bud Broom actually broke in front he was almost instantly passed by Justinian and Okaybee and that pair went out closely lapped to set a fast pace. Bose avoided that when he had his mount under a slight restraint and within striking distance. For a time Justinian actually headed the filly, but she drew out from him before the three furlongs pole was reached and. heading into the stratch. she was showing the way. OUTLASTS JUSTINIAN. By this time Rose had roused Bud Broom and he was rapidly drawing up on the leaders, saving ground on the inside. A furlong out Justinian was right at the heels of the filly, but Bud Broom was pressing him closely, and Rose had swung to the outside of the leaders. At the sixteenth pole Justinian had Okaybee beaten, but Bud Broom was still closing at every stride and, sweeping over the line, he outlasted Justinian a length, with the Greentree colt half a length before Okaybee. Henry McDaniel, who has been sending many a fit horse to the post for Gifford A. Cochran since the opening of the meeting, sent out Deploy in the Hopedale Handicap, run as the third race, to have him the winner over Boom, Scimitar and Electa. Kelsay showed riding skill when he rated the winner along in front, and while at the end he had to go to a drive, he got the son of Under Fire home winner by a neck. George Ellis, on the other hand, had Scimitar under restraint back of the three-year-old, and his efforts to restrain him probably did more harm than good. It was evidi t that he was depending upon a rush in the final quarter to save the day, but Kelsay, while showing the way, was rating Deploy without choking him. The result was that, after turning into the stretch, Deploy still had something in reserve, while Scimitar tired under punishment. Boom, which had followed the pair of them to the stretch, came with a rush on the outside to be the real menace. The old son of Huon was gaining with every stride, but Kelsay successfully nursed Deploy along to be the winner.
