Black Helen in Romp: Brilliant Bradley Filly Gallops Five-Eights in :582/5, Daily Racing Form, 1934-07-04

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BLACK HELEN IN ROMPJ] Brilliant Bradley Filly Gallops Five-Eighths in :582/5. 1 Lowers Arlington Park Track Record One-Fifth of a Second — Not Eligible for Futurity. - ■ ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 3.— Col. E. R. Bradley was given his fourth | ohance in four weeks to shake his head in regret at the oversight which made him neglect to name his two-year-old filly, Black Helen, for the leading juvenile specials after the running of the sixth race at Arlington Park this afternoon. Black Helen won the race, just as she has the three previous starts in her undefeated career, by six lengths, eased up, after having led all the way. She clipped a fifth of a .second off the track record of :58%, which stood since 1931, by running the five furlongs in the Daisy Purse, which was the days feature, in :58%, and indicated she could have run even faster had she been forced. Not eligible for the rich Arlington Futurity, she made a show of a band of nine other two-year-old fillies, which included such Futurity possibilities as Bye Lo and Mid Victorian. Closest to Black Helen and not very close at the finish was Mrs. Roy Carruthers Bye Lo, which finished gamely on the outside after having lost ground by racing wide. The Warm Stables Mid Victorian was third, another length and a half back. IN RUNAWAY FASHION. There was little to the race at any stage j save Black Helen. The crowd of some 4,000 had backed her down to 1 to 2 favoritism by the time the field had reached the post. She was away quickly under the alert Don Meade and at once passed Bye Lo to take a lead of a length and a half on the first turn. Running easily to be at the quarter in :23% and at the half in :46%, Black Helen drew away steadily and without effort. By mid-stretch she was some ten lengths in front, and looked as though she could have drawn away to win by a good deal more. Meade eased her up in the final furlong, however, and she finished with six lengths to spare. Mrs. Ray Pollards Miss Corinne won the seventh race by a neck at a mile, the third race over the Arlington turf course. Les Tiffanys Curb Bit was second in a driving finish and the Southland Stables Prince Charlo third in a race run in 1:42%. The victory was a lucky one, for on the far turn the leader and favorite, Strait Jacket, ran outside the hedge marking the boundary of the course and both Grayback and Single Stripe, which were close to him, followed him off the course to disqualify themselves. Miss Corinne, third when the leaders ran out, took the lead and was not afterwards headed. SUN CAPTOR TO FORE. Having been beaten by horses of about the same sort in his last three starts, Sun Captor, the four-year-old Kilmer castoff that now races for Jake Lowenstein, decided to come up with one of his good races in the Kenmore Purse at seven furlongs, which was the secondary feature. It turned out to be a very good race, fast enough to come within three-fifths of a second of the track record when he set his own pace to run the distance in 1:23 Mi, and fast enough to beat the Shandon Farms Dust Girl by a length. Six lengths back for third, and even more thoroughly discredited than in his last defeat, came the Audley Farms once highly-regarded Gallant Mac. He had a margin of three lengths over Bedo, with Mr. Joe fifth and Bender First last in the field of six. Gallant Mac was made the favorite, but he was never a factor in the running. Sun Captor was away well, but Dust Girl was lapped on him from the start, and the two set the pace two lengths in front of the others to the stretch. There Dust Girl moved up on the outside to take a short lead, but Sun Captor came again under punishment and drew away into his final lead in the last sixteenth. Just beaten in his last start, T. C*Wor-dens Shan triumphed easily by two and one-half lengths over a field of ten other maiden Continued on thirty-third page. BLACK HELEN IN ROMP ! Continued from first page. two-year-olds that came together in the first race, at five and one-half furlongs. Taken away quickly by Jack Westrope, Shan was never far back of the early pace set by Flo Raffles, moved up on the outside to take the lead entering the stretch, drew out at once under urging and was not threatened in the late stages. The Calumet Farms Fair Countess closed strongly to be second, a length and a half in front of J. J. Mahoneys Pornella. The time over the fast track was 1:07%. D. B. Midkiffs Sarahmond has been racing in company a trifle faster than the eight maiden juveniles she was called upon to face in the second race, at five and a half furlongs, this afternoon and she led all the way to win by three lengths in fairly easy fashion. Closest to her at the end of a race run in 1:06% was Mrs. Roy Carruthers Lo, with K. E Hitts Triple Star another half length back for third. Mrs. Milton Riesers Trend was scratched just before post time to cut the field to nine. Sarahmond had to be urged to get to the front in the initial furlong, but steadily increased her margin thereafter. Jockey L. "Buddy" Haas, riding for his new employer, John Marsch, for the first , time and making his first appearance at Arlington, guided Chirac to a hard-earned victory in the third race, which drew out eight plater sprinters. Chirac was installed the favorite, but he was lucky to score. His final margin was a half length over Luna Bright, with Durga finishing third, a head ! farther away. Durga might have prevailed but for being , away poorly. She went along in the early stages well back of the leaders, but during the final three furlongs, after she had lost considerable ground, gained steadily and was rapidly wearing down the two leaders at the end. A recent arrival from Detroit, Max Hirsch wasted little time in saddling a winner. The gelded three-year-old, Nocturnlabe, the first horse he has sent to the post at Arlington, proved an easy winner by five lengths in the silks of W. J. Hirsch in the fourth race, at a mile. He beat Mose Lowensteins My Counsellor, with the latter having a head the better of A. B. Gallahers Back Log for second in a race run in 1:38. Jockey Arcaro kept Nocturnlabe under restraint behind the early pace, which Back Log made, moved up with the leader on the stretch turn to draw out to a five lengths lead and then had him in hand through the late stretch.


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