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MISS PATIENCE GAMELY Leads All the Way to Win Glen Ellyn Purse After Fine Race Knollwood Purse to Black Helen Preeminent Justifies Confidence Confidenceof of Owner in Easy Success ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 111 June 27 Slow at coming to her best form this season like most of the stables horses the three yearold Miss Patience this afternoon indi ¬ cated that the Audley Farm will play an increasingly prominent part in the Arlington meeting She led all the way to win the Glen Ellyn Purse over seven furlongs by a half j length The race attracted five threeyear old fillies and was the feature offering of the third day dayMiss Miss Patience was required to display both her own courage and the skill of rider Johnny Kacala in a long hard drive through the stretch however to stave off the determined challenge which won second money for Mrs John Hertz Contessa i Croon the public choice was third three lengths back in a race run in 127 The Calu ¬ met Farms Dustina was fourth and the Brookmeade Stables Willet fifth The crowd estimated at 5000 showed an Improvement over the first two days of Arlington racing but proved not quite so skillful at backing the winners down to favoritism over the good track as the crowds of the first two days daysSPLENDID SPLENDID PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCEAlthough Although she has faced some of the best and has always shown to good advantage in soft going Miss Patience ran as good a race as is to be found in her record to win the Glen Ellyn Purse She began first and under slight restraint set a brisk early pace with Dustina second Croon third and Con tessa fourth fourthDustina Dustina began to drop back coming into the stretch turn but Contessa began to move up strongly on the outside and after coming within a neck of the leader held on grimly Kacala kept Miss Patience under punishment however and managed to keep her in front to the finish finishCol Col E R Bradleys Black Helen winner of both of her previous races in easy fash ¬ ion scored her most impressive victory by capturing the Knollwood Purse secondary feature by three lengths over Joseph E Wideners Needle with Hal Price Headleys Fraidy Cat running third Others in the field were World Series Bye Lo and Mrs Fab all accounted above the average juve ¬ niles nilesWith With the services of Don Meade Black Helen was away very fast and was fol ¬ lowed very closely by Bye Lo and Needle during theopening quarter Bye Lo flashed in front on the turn but she could not hold command as the daughter of Black Toney responded to Meades call and drew away After opening up a safe lead in the stretch Black Helen was taken in hand and she had much in reserve at the end She covered the five furlongs in 100 considered excellent time in view of the dull condition of the track trackWORLD WORLD SERIES DISAPPOINTS Needle was headed by Fraidy Cat which had been brought up on the outside at the stretch turn but Harbort had saved her and she drew out from the Headley representa ¬ tive in the final sixteenth World Series of which much had been expected broke slowly and could not catch up with the leaders leadersThe The chestnut colt upon which Hal Price Headley is depending to win twoyearold stakes Preeminent justified his owners confidence thoroughly in the first race when he led all the way to win easily by two and onehalf lengths over a smart band of six other maiden juveniles Although mak ¬ ing his first start Steffen was able to break Preeminent forwardly and he raced head and head with Col E R Bradleys Born Happy to the stretch turn There Pre ¬ eminent took the lead and although not even touched with the whip had no diffi ¬ culty in standing off Born Happy on the inside The Milky Way Farms Gallaclay was third three lengths farther back Although in hand at the end Preeminent an eligible for Saturdays Hyde Park Stakes ran the five furlongs in 101 over the good track trackG G F Woodmans threeyearold Flying Justice held his early speed too well for the seven other platers that matched strides with him in the second race and at the end of a race run in 114 proved a handy winner by a length and a half over the well backed choice R T Watts Cloud DOr Continued on twentysixth page MISS PATIENCE GAMELY GAMELYContinued Continued from first page John Marschs Chirac was third another length and a half back backThe The second outsider to score in two races Flying Justice outbroke the others and set the early pace in front of Chirac Cloud DOr moved up on the outside on the stretch turn to take second place and made a mild chal ¬ lenge in the stretch but was never dan ¬ gerous gerousStrait Strait Jacket which Joe Dine claimed last week from William Sachsenmaier made good at the first asking in the silks of his new owner when he led all the way and stood a hard drive at the end to win by a short neck in the seven furlongs third race He beat M S Skaggs Wayward Lad which closed stoutly on the inside to be second two lengths before Mrs R A Cochrans Polly E EAlthough Although held slightly higher in the bet ¬ ing than Albert Sabaths favored 1 Say Strait Jacket was the closest to a publio choice to score in the early races Coupled with the outsider Flying Justice winner of the second race Strait Jacket returned 10746 in the Daily Double DoubleMose Mose Lowenstein supplied the winner of the sixth race at one mile in his fouryear old gelding My Counsellor which defeated Lady Va Va by a length with Prince Pest finishing third a hea3 back Le Miserable and Broadstep completed the field Charlie Landolt rode the winner which he had un ¬ der strong restraint until the field reached a point midway on the second turn There My Counsellor responded to his riders call and gaining quickly and able to get through on the inside forged ahead turning into the stretch stretchAs As Lady Va Va on the outside and Prince Pest on the inside finished gamely Landolt asked the Bostonian gelding for all he had and he held his rivals safe to the end Le Miserable and Broadstep alternated in the early pacemaking but dropped out of it in the stretch
