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TOP FLIGHT TRIUMPHS • Makes Amends for Recent Defeat in Wood Memorial. ♦ C. V. Whitney Colors in Triple Victory — "Sonny" Workman Rides Four Winners. 1 NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.— Top Flight, queen of the two-year-olds last year, atoned for her defeat in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica to a certain extent when she showed a flash of her real ability, and gave a band of fillies a thorough thrashing in the Acorn Purse, which was one of the features of the Saturday program at Belmont Park. The Acorn Purse was at one mile, and through the final furlong of the journey Workman was easing up Top Flight after she had shaken off her opponents rounding the far turn. Parry, from the Greentree Stable, was the one to race to second place, while Unique, from the Wheatley Stable, was third. The victory brought Workmans riding score to four winning mounts during the afternoon, and as he guided Top Flight back to the unsaddling paddock the first to greet him was owner Whitney. He was a happy man and proudly walked with his filly to the paddock. POPULAR SCORE. 1 Top Flights victory was by far the most popular one of the afternoon. Cheers greeted her from the final furlong pole to the finish, and they were continued as she came back to the paddock. She appeared a little higher in flesh than in her Jamaica debut, and did not show the same nervousness. Walking to the starting post she was accompanied by the lead pony. The start was delayed for several minutes due to the fractious behavior of Parry, Unique and Boiling Water. The Greentree and Bradley candidates were placed outside the stall gates, and both were away well when the barrier was released. Workman, breaking from the inside, quickly moved Top Flight into command, and after the first sixteenth of a mile had been covered, he rated his mount along steadily. Unique was lapped on her, while Boiling Water and Parry were next in line, with Sun Tweed and Laughing Queen bringing up the rear. Workman gave Top Flight her head rounding the far turn and she quickly drew away from the others. Parry worked her way up on the outside, and through the stretch made up some ground, but at no stage was a serious menace to the leader. Workman placed Top Flight under stout restraint through the final furlong, and at the end she was slowed down to a slow gallop. Ideal weather conditions prevailed, and the track was fast. The crowd was a representative Saturday one. The club house, turf and field sections being comfortably crowded, and on the whole interesting racing prevailed. Caterwaul, a black son of Mad Hatter and Purr, racing in the Eton blue-brown cap of C. V. Whitney, and favorite over his opponents, scored a clean cut victory in the twentieth running of the ,500 Keene Memorial. It was the third consecutive score Continued on twenty-eighth page. j f r t j ] 1 . . c * . , [ , . | . : , [ , i TOP FLIGHT TRIUMPHS Continued from first page. in renewals of this important juvenile test for the popular silks of the Whitneys. Workman and his mount received an ovation as F they cantered back to the enclosure. The Belair Stud Farm furnished the runner-up in the Sir Gallahad III. filly Happy Gal, H. C. Phipps De Valera taking third honors and Quel Jeu, a winner here on opening day, finishing fourth. The race netted its winner, which was making his second start, and was unfortunate to lose in his debut. ,500. Tommy Woodcock, trainer of the ill-fated ■ Phar Lap, saddled his first active charge for his new employer, W. S. Kilmer, and jockey Elliott had his first mount when the establishment sent the added starter, Sun Archer, a son of Sun Briar, to the post in this race. He finished eighth. The band in the Keene Memorial included several fractious horses, and the start was delayed about five minutes. When the start finally came, it was fair for all, and Happy -j Gal, Glorify and Caterwaul were first to draw clear. The first mentioned miss had the most early speed, and had an advantage of a length over the Whitney favorite after a quarter of a mile. Glorify dropped out of it at this point, and De Valera moved up. Approaching the final quarter the race narrowed down to a duel between the leaders. Workman went to the whip on Cater-waul and that long limbed black colt began to lengthen his stride and caught the Belair miss, which held on gamely, though beginning to show the effects of the fast early pace. Well inside the last sixteenth Caterwaul began to draw away, and at the end he was leading by a length and increasing his margin. De Valera came fast in the last quarter, but was unable to get to Happy Gal, which beat him four lengths for the place, and | was a length away before the tiring Quel Jeu at the end. The time for the four and a half furlongs was :52%. John Morans Crimson Rose, ridden by H. Mills, was winner of the opening dash of the day, which was fashioned for three-year-olds and over, under claiming condi- . ing conditions, at one and one-sixteenth miles. Crimson Rose dominated the running all the way and led home the Mere-worth Studs Swincraft, while C. V. Whitneys Marplot was third. Eight started in here and Crimson Rose was the popular choice. Three Daggers, a son of Upset — Indian Rose, turned in an impressive performance , to score in the Linden, a dash for maiden two-year-olds, and add another purse to the credit of the C. V. Whitney stable. Three Daggers was ridden by Workman and came from the rear of the pace with a rush along the inner rail to show the way by a length. J. G. Langs March King was the one to finish second, while the pronounced choice, Llandaff, from the W. R. Coe stable, was third over eight others. Jockey R. Workman piloted his third winner of the afternoon when he had W. R. Coes Osculator home a driving winner of the Fair Play Handicap, which was a seven furlong sprint. Villon, from the Marshall Field stable, was the one to race to second place, while F. E. Browns Condescend was third over Mabla, from the Maemere Farm, the only other starter in the race. Osculator was the one to force the pace from the start and, turning for home, made a wide turn, carrying Villon wide. The pair battled through the stretch and at the end Workman had Osculators head in front and kept it there to the end. Condescend pulled up sore after the running and did not cut any figure in the race, while Mabla was always outrun. •
