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1 I 1 PLAYTIME WINS DOWNS RACE • Gallops Fast Three -Quarters in Orchard Hall Handicap. « Chimney Sweep Disappoints Many Barkers — Catherine Fox Furnishes Outstanding Upset of the Day. ♦— LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 11.— Five of the older sprinters, from among the best on the grounds, started in the Orchard Hall Handicap, which held the feature position on todays program at Churchill Downs, and the fast contest resulted over the three-quarters saw another victory for Charles Bacharachs Southland Stable colors when Playtime was the first to finish. He defeated Chimney Sweep, favorite, provided by the C. V. Whitney stable, by a neck and five lengths farther back the Shadybrook Farms Cayuga, the outsider in the betting, accounted for third over Betty Derr and Pansy Walker. As Betty Derr and Cayuga set a fast early pace, Willie Garner kept the victor within striking distance and, after he had lost some ground on the turn, took him to the inside entering the stretch. At this juncture Betty Derr and Cayuga went wide, and the alert Garner rushed the victor through next to the rail. Playtime quickly sprinted into a lead of three lengths as Chimney Sweep, which, after losing ground on the elbow, came past Cayuga and Betty Derr in the stretch, settled into a belated challenge, which, combined with the victors sulking in the last eighth, only narorwly missed resulting in a triumph for his big following. Cayuga and Betty Derr quit badly in the stretch while Pansy Walker which, like Cayuga, was making her first appearance of the season, failed to prove a serious factor at any time. The victor ran the distance in 1:12, and the victory was his second since the opening here, he having previously scored in the Charity Day feature race. Otherwise, the unsexed son of Wise Counsellor and Kitty Yansen, which has played an important role during the meeting, registered his third win in as many starts when he easily accounted for the Dixiana Purse, the secondary feature. The victor, ridden by Charles Landolt, in the colors of William E. Smith, local owner, outsprinted his company throughout and, covering the five-eighths in 1:01%, won easily by two lengths from Old Hillside. Third went to Chuck B., strong second choice to the winner. For three-eighths Old Hillside and Chuck B. alternated in second place, but the former bested the second choice in the stretch run and garnered the runner-up laurels by a length and one-half. The four others always were outrun by the leaders. The Jeffersonville Purse, second race on the card, resulted in a big surprise when the Northway Stables Sundot, neglected in the betting, proved good enough to win over Tantivy, Stock Market and four others. Stock Market was supported with such confidence that he ruled one of the outstanding choices of the day, while those who backed the winner came in for straight odds of slightly better than 30 to 1. Tantivy, too, was at good odds. After moving into the lead on the stretch turn, Sundot had to stand a long hard drive to keep in the van of Tantivy, which raced in his best fashion and, finishing with good speed, was wearing down the winner. After a weak challenge just inside the stretch turn, Stock Market could make no headway in his game, but vain endeavor to deal with the leaders in the final eighth, where Ridge-view ran along in fourth place. This was the first Northway triumph of the meeting and likewise the first for jockey G. Woolf, who had the mount. Having all the luck and just lasting to hold the lead at the finish, Good Scout, the Three Ds Stock Farms Texas-bred daughter of Phalaros — Girl Scout, defeated Soeur Blanche, Dominant Miss and others in a close and interesting finish in the first race for maiden juvenile fillies. This marked the first time during the meeting that two-year-olds were asked to race five furlongs, and the contest was one of the best of the afternoon. Indian Blood, Polly Cracker and Proud Princess were the early leaders, with the former showing the way to the last eighth where the winner, after slipping through next to the rail, went on to the finish well enough to stall off the fast finishing Soeur Blanche and Dominant Miss, the trio being heads apart at the end. Satrock, a grey daughter of The Satrap, racing for W. E. Smith, was made favorite but failed to justify the strong backing that developed for her. Another outsider was seen in front when C. E. Hamiltons Catherine Fox- showed the way to Lady Couvin, Dis Dat and seven others in the third race for three-year-olds under claiming conditions. She won by a length, with Lady Couvin outstaying Dis Dat, short-priced choice, by a similar margin. Both the winner and Lady Couvin were rated back of the early pace and when sent along at their best in the final quarter, came through too strongly for Dis Dat, Thundertone and Dyak. M. Rose had the mount on the winner.
