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SCIMITAR IN FINE FORM • Rejuvenated Veteran Defeats Gold Step by a Head in Aurora Feature. * 1 Jockey J. Neel Injured When Black 1 Mammy Falls — Jockey C. King Rides Three Winners. » AURORA, 111., May 9. — Illinois racegoers had their first glimpse of a greatly improved Scimitar this afternoon, and the eight-year-old made a favorable impression when he bested a good band of sprinters to ■win the Wheaton Claiming Handicap, a six furlongs sprint, which featured Mondays card at Exposition Park. Running strongly all the way the rejuvenated veteran, which came from the cheap claiming ranks to run third to the mighty Phar Lap in the Agua Caliente Handicap, bested the heavily -backed favorite Gold Step by a head in a driving finish, while Nyack, making his first start of the meeting, was third. Scimitar ran the distance in 1:13% and paid 1.96. He was ridden by jockey C. King. Scimitar, always an erratic post horse, vas on his bad behavior at the barrier and idelayed the start for some minutes, but was ioff with the others and, although in last /place, was but a few lengths behind th3 leaders in the early running. Rounding the far turn, Scimitar began to move up and, making his bid after entering the stretch «md catching Gold Step an eighth out, scored in a hard drive. Gold Step held on exceptionally well. One of the starters. Black Mammy, fell rounding the stretch and jock-ley J. Neel, who received a shaking up, was conveyed to the track hospital in the ambulance. ATTENDANCE GOOD. The track was fast this afternoon for the first time in some days, but the weather ,vas cloudy and a light shower fell during the earlier races. The attendance was good. Love Apple, representing O. L. Foster and bidden by the latters contract pilot, D. Cox, was a handy winner of the first race, which brought twelve two-year-olds together over the four and a half furlongs distance. Love Apple, off well, reached a prominent position in the early stages and, forging to the front in the stretch, defeated Anna Adelia by one length. Boston Common, one of the Jfavorites, was third. Frank Seremba, former jockey, saddled the winner of the second race in the four-year-old Anne L., which bested Monde in a driving finish. Golden Light was third, with the favored Tewsenelda outside the money. Monde was first to show in front and set the pace, but Anne L. was never far back and had the most left when it came to a drive. WELL HEELED WINS. Well Heeled, a cast-off of the John D. Hertz stable, rushed through the stretch to score an easy victory in the third race, ;which was over five and one half furlongs. Jockey Tracy Reno was in the saddle and up a good stretch ride to land the geld-ng f ut in front. Second place was earned by Deceptive and Lofty Heights finished third. frJone of the money winning trio were heavily backed. Beauty Bride and Bay Rose, the favorites, could not keep up in the early stages and were unplaced. The "Daily Double." made up of Anne L, and Well Heeled, jpaid 30.04. Jockey C. King rode his second winner of the afternoon and went to the head of the Exposition Park jockey list when he won j the fifth race astride Lucky Carter. The jgeldin which was recently claimed by R. j B. Allen raced well for his new owner, and j i ■won by four lengths from Bill Orange, with ! | Starch finishing in third place. King rode j | a perfect race, permitting Bill Orange to set j j the pace and making his move at the proper moment to take command when j j ready. Lucky Carter was an outsider and ! paid 2.90. Jockey C. King made it three victories j I for the day when he piloted Red Diamond i to victory for his contract employer, J. D. Mikel, in the sixth race. King used rare judgment in guiding his mount and gave one of the best exhibitions of horsemanship witnessed to date. Bay Leaf was second and Donna Dear, under weak handling, was a
