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STORMY DAWN EASY WINNER » Butler Horse Makes Auspicious 1931 Debut in Cirrus Handicap. 1 -— Encounters Little Trouble in Accounting for Mondays Feature at Aqueduct— A La Carte Impressively. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 29.— James Butlers Stormy Dawn was an easy winner of Mondays best offering at Aqueduct when he romped home in the Cirrus Handicap, an overnight race, at seven furlongs, but the nearest approach to a special. It was the first appearance of the year for the son of Vulcain and Dawn Star, and he was a picture horse as he paraded to the post. Workman never had to ask him to do his best to score an easy victory over W. M. Moore, Jr.s Billour, and Eddie Ahearn, from the Catawba Stable, was a distant third over the maiden Peake, which was bearing silks for the first time. * There was a grateful breeze blowing over the course that tempered a day which would have otherwise been uncomfortably hot, but the attendance was light and the sport which was offered was hardly up to standard. In the Cirrus Handicap no time was lost at the gate, and Eddie Ahearn was first to show, with Billour close after him, and Stormy Dawn and Peake following. As Billour raced alongside Eddie Ahearn, the old gelding appeared to sulk and he would not extend himself freely. As a result of this Billour drew away readily, and Eddie Ahearn was soon in last place. Workman had asked nothing of Stormy Dawn, but after rounding into the stretch he took up the brown horse and in a dozen strides he had gone into the command to canter the rest of the way and be the winner by five lengths. Billour had beaten Eddie Ahearn a like distance for second place, and he was only a head before the maiden Peake. For the first time on the New York circuit the juveniles were asked to race six furlongs in the Prep Handicap. This proved rather easy for Despoil, the son of Kai-Sang, from the Rancocas Stable. He carried top weight of 126 pounds, just four over the scale, and won handily from Mrs. Rob- Continued on twenty-third page. STORMY DAWN EASY WINNER Continued from first page. ert Heighes Polo Bar, with Mrs. Louis E. Viaus Hyklas third and Devout, from the Rosedale Stable, well back of these. The cheap ones that started in the fourth race produced a great finish when G. C. Winfreys Prince Toy just lasted to beat George McMitchells Noine, with John Speed Elliotts Indian Witch a distant third. At the end of the program there was a mile race for cheap ones, ridden by boys that had not ridden fifteen winners, and Coin Collector and Nertney proved the winning combination, as they have in some races of the same sort on other occasions. I. B. Humphreys Chiefs Warrior raced to second place, with Listening Ears third. St. Mica, racing under the silks of Mrs. Olive Curtis, showed improved form over her racing for George D. Widener when she was winner of the opening five furlongs dash, fashioned for maiden two-year-old fillies. She forced most of the pace to beat P. S. P. Randolphs Lady Blue, Ral Parrs Chloedair saving third from the Audley Farm Stables Lucky Racket. A La Carte, winner of the Ohio Derby, carried the Alton Stable colors to an easy victory in the condition race at one mile that was the second offering. The Ran-cocas Stables Mowris raced to second place, with third going to Mrs. Nelson I. Asiels Mount Holly, which readily saved that part of the purse from the Catawba Stables Sir Johren. Sunday shipments from Long Island to Rockingham Park, at Salem, New Hampshire, included consignments from J. A. Co-burn, the Montalvo Stud and the East Side Stable, as well as George Carroll with Okaybe and Pomfret.
