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END OF JAMAICA RACING Disagreeable Weather Conditions Mar Final Day of Meeting Platers In the Spotlight With General A AProving Proving Best in Second Bnce Most MostPretentious Pretentious Offering of Final Card NEW YORK N Y May 15 For its final day of sport and of the most successful meeting in recent years the Metropolitan Jockey Club catered to the platers at Jamaica and the best field of the afternoon was sent to the post in a six furlongs dash run as the second This saw General A carry the James Kelly silks to an easy vic ¬ tory over the B B Stables The Heathen and A J Bedells Mareve was rather a distant third thirdThe The race was a decided improvement over a recent performance of General A when under less weight he was utterly devoid of speed to be beaten in slower time In this running the son of General Thatcher was a particularly keen horse and he outran The Heathen throughout throughoutThe The weather conditions were disagreeable a drizzling rain fell most of the afternoon but the going was not seriously affected and in fact the opening dash for juvenile maid ¬ ens was one of the fast races of the meet ¬ ing ingIn In the second race that went to General A there were six starters and after a short delay at the post they went away in the same stride Happy Scot was first to show from the stalls but he was almost at once headed by The Heathen which is always a smart old fellow leaving the post He had hardly taken command until General A was alongside and then past to take a lead that was not afterwards threatened threatenedWhen When S Renick was safely in command with the winner he took hold of his head and had only to rate him along for the rest of the journey The Heathen was under a drive in a futile effort to run him down and there was nothing else anywhere close General A was over the line winner by three lengths and The Heathen had beaten Mareve a like distance for second place Happy Scot had shown scant speed in the running and was a bad fourth and the other two were Our One and Flowery Our One met with some early interference after showing a flash of speed but Flowery was badly stagesOne outrun at all stages One of the big thrills came in the six fur ¬ longs race for threeyearold maidens when Coucci in a powerful finish kept Mrs John Hay Whitneys White Bird going to earn a nose decision over Johns Birthday This fel ¬ low raced for W V Dwyers Montalvo Stuc Stable and on the occasion of his first start recently he was heralded as the best maiden in training but was nosed out by Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunador SunadorHe He was rated as one of the surest winners of the day before this running but had no excuse though it is doubtful if any other rider could have kept White Birds nose in front at the finish Much of the credit for the score belonged to the Greentree Stables first jockey jockeyMrs Mrs John Hertz Our Reigh racing in im ¬ proved form was an easy winner over the maiden twoyearolds that started in the opening dash He won by a considerable margin over Mrs Richard Hermans Jobak heta and Joseph M Reelings Igraine saved third from Second Guess GuessTen Ten started and Steffen had the winner out of his stall in full stride Hustled right along he was soon galloping along three lengths clear of the others and never being threatened was winner by four lengths Jobakheta was as far in front of the others all through the racing and he took second place by six lengths with Igraine doing her best at the end to beat the fastfinishing Second Guess GuessG G C Winfreys Pending proved best of the cheap band that met at one mile and seventy yards in the fourth race when in a driving finish he scored a close victory over Frank Kearns Royal Durbar and Roy W Randolphs Gracias just lasted to beat Alantee for third Rock Point was so frac ¬ tious that he was taken to a position outside the stalls but the start was a good one oneJockey Jockey A Tipton accompanied the G W Ogle stable which shipped to Detroit from Jamaica JamaicaNick Nick Huff has the engagement books for jockeys Renick and Merritt MerrittTwo Two carloads of horses owned by J E Widener in charge of Pete Coyne arrived at Belmont Park ParkJockeys Jockeys Meade and Wright under contract to Bradley and Widener arrived and re ¬ ported to their respective employers
