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- Id j f Runs 1 1-8 Miles in 1:50 35 in Winning Hialeah Park Handicap Scores Easily From Kincsen and Waterway in Saturdays Miami Feature Secondary Attraction to Batty MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 6. Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Lightning Bolt, after three failures at the Hialeah Park meeting of the Miami Jockey Club, made good magnificently today when he was home the winner of the Hialeah Park Handicap, at one mile and a furlong. The sterling son of Wrack atoned for his defeats when he established a new track record of 1:50 for the distance. It was F. A. Carreauds good mare Kincsen, which had beaten Mrs. Whitneys colt in a previous meeting that finished second, and 3 third was the portion of Frank Grossmans Waterway when he led Desha Breckinridges Royal Ruffin over the line. With ideal conditions prevailing, there was another tremendous crowd present, and there never was a more representative gathering of men and women of first importance socially, financially and politically. The setting for the feature was an interesting one, and from a battling nose finish in the first, right through the day there were no dull moments. VICTIM OF MISFORTUNE. Ten went to the post for the Hialeah Park Handicap, and, while the performance of Lightning Bolt was an impressive one, the mare Kincsen, which followed him over the line, was the victim of no end of racing misfortune, and with better luck she should have at least been closer at the finish. It was a good start, but Kincsen had an inside position, and when she was not alert enough to go with the early pace she was last of the lot going to the first turn. Corbett, who had the mount, elected to remain on the rail with his mount, and as a result she was run into many pockets and crowded back when it was apparent with more racing room she would have been more formidable. The lightly weighted Raccoon was the one to set the pace, and he was attended by Espinaca, while Waterway closely followed, well out from the rail, ROBERTSONS SKILFUL REDE. Robertson was rating Lightning Bolt along back of these, and through the back stretch he had a snug hold of the colts head. Street Singer, the stablemate to Kincsen, was next, barely showing the way to Comstockery and Royal Ruffin. This order was well maintained in the run through the back stretch, while Corbett was making futile efforts to send Kincsen through on the rail. Raccoon held to the command until he had put Espinaca away, and then it was that Waterway loomed up threateningly as he moved into second place, and Lightning Bolt began to gradually improve his position. Robertson bided his time patiently with the winner, and it was not until the stretch was reached that he permitted him to move into the command. Raccoon was all through and Waterway was doing his best, when Corbett finally took Kincsen off the rail, and she was charging along on the outside with magnificent courage. Right to the end the mare continued to close, but she had suffered too many early handicaps, and Lightning Bolt was over the line the winner by a length and a half and with something in reserve. That stretch drive had carried the daughter of Cudgel two lengths before Waterway, and he in turn was doing his best to save third from Royal Ruffin by a head. The race had a net value of ,470 to the winner. Second in importance for the holiday sport was the Golden Beach Purse, a dash of five-sixteenths that brought together the best of the juveniles that have been shown at the meeting. It fell to H. M. Woolfs Lucille K., the daughter of Whiskalong and Grief. She was required to take up five pounds over scale weight so that she gave away actual poundage to every other starter. Okapi, from the Brookmeade Stable, finished second and third was the portion of Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Shavings, another filly. Lucille K. was particularly alert leaving her stall and C. E. Allen at once sent her into the lead, but she bore over slightly in the early racing and interfered to some slight extent with those racing on. the in- Continued on twentieth vaae.l. LIGHTNING BOLTS NEW RECORD Continued from first page. side. Okapi and Shavings both left from outside stalls and the first named came over on Mrs. Whitneys filly slightly as he bore in toward the rail. Okapi continued to bear to the inside all the way and at the end was just three parts of a length back of Lucille K. and both were racing next to the inside rail. . Shavings was another two lengths back and she had beaten Helios a length for third. Helios had suffered considerable early interference and his race was an excellent one. J. PI Musgraves My Sis was winner over the fillies and mares that met in the mile claiming race that was the second offering of the day. Avoiding the early pace Hooper brought her around the leaders in the stretch to have her going away from L. Ungars Pretty Penny, which in turn only saved second place from J. C. Treats Hazel Gum-berts by a narrow margin, and Mrs. V. M. Duncans Kensington was fourth. There was a real thrill in the opening dash for plater three-year-olds when Zevar, from the Paramount Stable, just got up in the final strides to score over J. P. Whites Nor-walk, with Ward and Burtons Wise Advocate saving third from Jillion. In this it was Gan Lee that set the pace, and he held command to the stretch turn. Norwalk had been chasing after him, and there the White gelding took command, but Zevar had been steadily making up ground and in the final furlong, under a long drive, he dropped his nose down in front. Wise Advocate steadily improved his position to reach third place, but he was three lengths back of the first two and only a length before Jillion, which also finished well. Gan Lee had quit, while Rubridge, racing along on the inside, was in close quarters.
