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ON WATCH FILLY BEST . 1 pn Tap First Home in Olympic Claiming Stakes. iA Rough Riding Mars Feature Race at Jamaica Greentree Stables Juvenile Scores. i NEW YORK, N. Y., May 1. On Tap, the ; swift daughter of On Watch and Tamarisk, 1 .which races for J. S. Loucheim, was a handy winner of the feature at Jamaica today 1 When she scored In the Olympic Claiming 1 Stakes. It had a value of ,150 to the 1 .winner and the filly gave a sterling per- formance when she won m 1:12. W. E. 1 Martins Black Watch was the one to race 1 to second place and Thomas M. Cassidys 1 Jolly Pal was an easy third. After the 1 race Kelsay, who rode the rejuvenated Dra- conis, which had been brought back after : an absence of four years, made a claim of foul against the winner, but it was not allowed by the stewards. The day was by long odds, the most de- 1 lightful since the opening of the present meeting. It was a real May day and the 1 attendance was becomingly large. There was 1 jplenty of interest in the sport and form pvas well observed. The running of the Olympic Stakes was inarred by a bit of rough riding and there was reason for the complaint made by iKelsay. He had Draconis close up on the vtu,rn out of the back stretch when Rose came over with On Tap and as a result the Cochran gelding had to be taken up 1 o prevent falling. This ruined any chance lie might have had for victory. i On Tap had speed enough to dominate the frace, but on the back stretch was never clear of the others. Draconis and Black Watch hvere close after the On Watch filly, with pDraconis holding the inside position, while "Jolly Pal was following the three of them closely. This was the formation when Dra-fconis was crowded. With the elimination of Draconis, On Tap drew away from Black ;JVatch and there was no further doubt of her Victory. She was two lengths clear an eighth jtout after Jolly Pal had met with some slight interference on the stretch turn and she was fetill two lengths to the good at the finish, felack Watch had beaten Jolly Pal by a length for second place and Indian Scout, his jfctablemate, finished fourth, five lengths fur-jther back. J ALANS BAY SURPRISES. A three-quarters race, for platers, was the Sirst offering and it furnished something of !. surprise when E. F. Sanfords Alans Bay Was winner over Sonnelli, from the Sewick1-3ey Stable, with William McQuades Leonard f;B. beating Fatigue for third. As the barrier rose Sixty wheeled shaprly and unseated jjMoon, while the others were away to a good tetart. Alans Bay, showing more alertness han the others, set the pace and Fatigue Vent after him and Allege was not far away. Sonnelli began well enough, but he was slow o be under way and McNamee elected to Jnove up on the outside with him. Leaving the back stretch Sonnelli was going so well that he appeared able to run past the leaders at the first asking, but Alans feay continued to show the way and he was jstill incommand as he made the stretch turn, fatigue was tiring in second place and then it was that Sonnelli came around to displace liim in second place. Through the final fur-Jong McNamee was little help to Sonnelli and Alans Bay, hanging on gamely, lasted to be "Hhe winner by three-quarters of a length. JSonnelH was safe in second place, while -Leonard B. finished with a rush that wrested third place from Fatigue in the final stages Condition told its tale in the Birchwood Purse, the second race, which brought out S.ome good sprinters. It fell to Frank E. Browns Starpatic, for the reason that he Irad a bit of seasoning over Rudolph Spreck-efs Tuskegee, which was making his first start since last October. W. R. Coes Conclave was a rather distant third before William Ziegler, Jr.s, Gone Away, named for both the Preakness Stakes and the Ken-lucky Derby, and the other starters were fcun Shadow and Sun Mission. The start was good and, while Conclave "Was first to show from the barrier, Tuskegee was in front in a dozen strides and Starpatic was not long racing into second place, closely attended by Sun Shadow. The latter did not last long and as he tired Conclave moved up resolutely on the inside, but Tuskegee was still going easily in front and Starpatic was holding his position. As the three sped along in front they drew away five lengths before Sun Shadow, while Gone Away was racing dully and far from contention. i TERRIFIC CLOSING DUEL. At the three-eighths post Ellis roused Starpatic with the whip, but Tuskegee was still - feoing so strongly in front that it seemed a vain move. Tuskegee headed for the finish a length to the good and .Ellis was forced to go outside to find racing room. He was driving Starpatic furiously and it was not until well inside the final sixteenth that Tuskegee tired and the brown colt, running straight and true, was winner by half a length. Conclave was three lengths back of Tuskegee, but three lengths before Gone Away, which had gained some ground. As the race was run it seemed that the question of condition is what decided the race. Tetrarchal, from the Howe Stable and an eligible for the Preakness Stakes, was an easy winner of the Flatbush Handicap. He was opposed by Moonstruck, from the Niagara Stable, and Mrs. T. R. Quinns Joe Mar-rone III. and they followed him home in the order named. Cassidy had no end of trouble getting the trio straight, but the barrier was sprung to a good start. Maiben at once -raced away with Tetrarchal and when the back stretch was reached he had a lead of five lengths. There he took hold of the son of Tetratema and had only to rate, him along for the remainder of the distance. lie was looking back at the other two in the stretch and easing his mount up. Moonstruck was second throughout, though old Joe Marrone III. was under a drive in an effort to displace him, even before the half mile post was reached. As a spectacle the race did not amount to much, the winner being so much the best of the trio. T. W. Murphy showed another good juvenile from the Greentree Stable in the five furlongs race that was run as the fifth. This was Blue Law, a brown son of St. Germans and Prudish. He raced a bit greenly but was home an easy winner before Chicleaf, from the Sage Stable, while Rose Petal, from the Mapletoh Stud Stable, was a distant third. Blue Law was rather slow to get into full stride and Walls rushed right along with Chicleaf until he was showing the way turning into the stretch. There McAtee roused Blue Law and, in the run home, he finally settled down to race past and be home the ! winner by three lengths. Chicleaf was the only one to give a semblance of contest, when he beat Rose Petal five lengths for second place.
