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ANGELIC LUCKY WINNER Easily Takes Youthful Stakes After Psychic Bid Unseats Rider Jockey Bellizzi Seriously Injured and andRushed Rushed to Hospital Flushing FlushingHandicap i Handicap Goes to Okapi NEW YORK N Y May 12 Mrs Damon I Runyons Angelic a daughter of Infinite and Rhea that had a seasoning in Florida i was a lucky winner of the Youthful Stakes at Jamaica today She was lucky for the j 1 reason that Mrs Isabelle Dodge Sloanes I Psychic Bid while leading by a couple of lengths unseated Duke Bellizzi and fin ¬ ished out to lead the others home And at the same time Plat Eye the Greentree Sta I j ble candidate was so seriously interfered j 1 with that he lost his winning chance The race had a net value of 2620 to the win ¬ ner and after his interference Plat Eye raced to the place and third went to Suffi ¬ cient which bore the silks of H C Phipps PhippsBellizzi Bellizzi was rather seriously hurt as a result of his fall from Psychic Bid and he was removed from the course in th track ambulance No blame attached to any other starter for the fall of Bellizzi At the time and when his mount was heading for the stretch turn he began to bear out Bellizzi in attempting to keep him in took the inside rein in both hands while pulling lost his balance and fell from the saddle saddleAt At the time of the accident Coucci was moving up on Plat Eye and was about to go through on the inside Blocked there as Bellizzi fell he had to take up his mount sharply and go to the outside while Angelic not suffering any such interference had her winning chance She ran a smart race to finish in 59 and it was her best showing since she came from Florida The race also completed a double for Hirsch Jacobs for he had sent Night Sprite to the post for his surprising victory victoryA A track examination of Bellizzi after his fall from Psychic Bid revealed a possible Continued on tiventythird page ANGELIC LUCKY WINNER Continued from first page fracture of the spine while he had a badly sprained ankle and several cuts and bruises He was taken to the Mary Immaculate Hos ¬ pital in Jamaica It was reported by the patrol judge that both Plat Eye and Black Gift had struck Bellizzi after his fall fallWhile While the Brookmeade Stable was particu ¬ larly unfortunaate in the Youthful when Bellizzi fell from Psychic Bid partial atone ¬ ment was made in the second best race of the day when Okapi was winner of the Flushing Handicap the companion feature This was a gallop of a mile and seventy yards and the son of Eternal made every post a winning one to lead home Mrs John Hertz Watch Him recent winner of the Excelsior Handicap Willis Sharpe Kilmers Dark Winter and Larranaga from Allan Ryans Anall Stable As the four left in the same stride Renick at once sent Okapi into a clear lead and when the back stretch was reached he was five lengths clear and under restraint restraintShowing Showing a vast improvement over a recent effort Night Sprite from the B B Stable made a show of the platers that opposed him in his last previous effort He raced the six furlongs in 112 and set a fast pace when he went to the first quarter mark in 22 and reached the half in 45 This was a speed calculated to beat better horses than op ¬ posed him but in his previous race he was never able to go to the front with a much slower pace and under three pounds less weight
