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ST. BRIDEAUX IN FRONT » — Twenty Grands Workmate Accounts for Broadway Handicap. » Son of St. Germans Scores an Easy Triumph Over Danour and Clock Tower at Belmont Park. « NEW YORK, N. Y., June 18.— St. Bri-deaux, the son of St. Germans, used all through the spring as one of the trial horses for the champion, Twenty Grand, carried the Greentree Stable silks to an important victory at Aqueduct today when he was winner of the Broadway Handicap, a race fcr three-year-olds. His triumph was an easy one, and it was W. M. Moores Danour that raced to second place, with Morton L. Schwartz Clock Tower beating Surf Board, a stablemate of the winner, for third. The race had a net value of ,225 to the winner. With almost perfect racing weather a big crowd turned out for the sport, and the program was one of real interest. The track was good, but had not come back to its best condition. Eight went to the post for the Broadway Handicap, and the start was a good one. St. Brideaux began in good fashion, but like his illustrious stablemate, Twenty Grand, he does not show a sprinting ability away from the post. As a result of this Danour was soon clear, and Surf Board was chasing after him to fill his assignment of forcing the pace. Great Gun, the top weight, was in third place. Then came Clock Tower, while St. Brideaux was fifth and in rather a bad place, for he had the inside position. Danour, racing in his best fashion, held his lead and while McAtee sent Surf Board after him vigorously he was clear and racing gamely. Great Gun was finding his impost too much of a handicap, and Clock Tower was wearing him down before the long stretch was reached. St. Brideaux was following Clock Tower, and it was apparent Continued on second page. ST. BR1DEAUX IN FRONT Continued from first page. he would come on when he had racing room. A furlong out Clock Tower had caught Danour, and he went to the Moore colt in a fashion that made it appear he would be hard to beat, but Surf Board was coming again, and St. Brideaux was just beginning to race in earnest. St. Brideaux in half a dozen strides headed Clock Tower, went over slightly, and for an instant it seemed he had impeded the Schwartz colt. Once in front he drew away easily to be past the line winner by three lengths. Danour, hanging on courageously, saved second place from Clock Tower by two lengths, and that one, in turn, was two lengths before Surf Board. The race was one to verify the Queens County Handicap, in which St. Brideaux was only beaten by a head by Halcyon, and it also suggested that he will show to even better advantage over a longer route. Rigan McKinney, the amateur rider, never rode in better style than when he had Thomas Hitchcocks St. Vernon home winner over the short course steeplechase. It was a masterly exhibition that brought the son of St. Louis home the winner after he was apparently beaten. Ralph Beaver Strass-burgers The Ace II., took second place, with C. V. Whitneys Spinner closing some ground to be third. There were two falls in the race when Stephen Sanfords Royal Falcon, while a close contender, went down at the last fence and when Kiang, from the Dorwood Stable, stumbled badly at the fifth and unseated Bellhouse. Both riders escaped serious injury and walked from the field. The Roseben Claiming Handicap, at a mile, and run as the third race, saw W. M. Moore, Jr.s Billour the winner, with G. C. Winfreys Charon in second place and the Brandon Stables Stand By beating Marshall Fields Aknahton for third. But this placing was not made official by the stewards until they had listened to the complaint of Long, who rode Aknahton. He had been seriously impeded in the stretch run by Stand By, and it appeared to have cost him a share in the purse, byt the order of the finish was confirmed. Workman had Charon away fast, and Breezing Thru went after him. As the pair sprinted away they opened up a lead of three lengths on the others; then Studley, on Breezing Thru, came over slightly and seemed to interfere with Charon, but Workman held to second place with the son of Cudgel. Billour was racing in third place, and Aknahton was following and going well. Stand By made his run in the stretch, and his first offense was to shut the Marshall Field colt off as he attempted to come through on the inside. Then as Long tried for the outside Munden came out and further interfered with him. In the meantime Billour had raced to the command and as Breezing Thru quit badly Workman drove Charon furiously to save the day, but it was no avail, and he was beaten a length and a half, saving second place from Stand By by a length. Seventeen cheap ones were brought together in the fifth, and it saw W. B. Mitchells Windfall the winner over E. F. Sanfords Lindy, with J. P. Jones Hieaway just saving third from Panguitch. It appeared that Lindy was best, but the Remillard ride in the stretch lacked energy and Walls kept Windfall going to be the winner by half a length. Lindy was permitted to drop back rather badly, and then in the stretch was forced to find his way outside other horses. An earlier move would have surely seen him the winner. At the end of the program Sergt. Donaldson won all the way over the mile route in a dash for plater three-year-olds. E. R. Bradleys Bathorse, under a hard drive, saved second place, while Mrs. Olive Curtis Garlic beat the Wheatley Stables Impish, which was the only other starter.
