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BLACKBIRDER IS FIRST » Gives Evidence of High Quality by Smashing Victory at Rockingham. i Races From Far Back to Beat Morning Mail and Wise Prince in Mondays Attraction. ♦ SALEM, N. H, July 16.— Once again Silver Stock Farms Blackbirder gave evidence of his quality when he came from far back 1 to account for the New York Form Handicap, feature attraction on this afternoons program, at Rockingham Park. This race had its decision over the six furlong distance and carried a purse of ,200. Morning Mail from the A. A. Baroni string was second and Wise Prince, top weight of the field, racing for Felix Spatola, took the show posi- tion over Stainforth. As in his performance in the Juvenile Handicap, the Bostonian gelding was tardy J in the early running. Last to leave the stalls and badly outrun during the opening I quarter mile, Blackbirder started moving up | rounding the far turn. Candy Prince and the Spatola colt were out in front fighting it out heads apart. Stainforth was not far away and making her effort on the outside. The three leaders battled it out heads apart until slightly more than a furlong remained to be traversed. Morning Mail was heading the others and Blackbirder had raced into fifth place. Candy Prince was first to tire of the three leaders and Stainforth showed in front briefly. Morning Mail had been asked for improved speed and Maschek had taken the Bostonian gelding to the outside. Wise Prince had succeeded in overtaking Stainforth but Blackbirder was going along smoothly on the outside, dashed into the lead a sixteenth from the finish and continued to draw out for the remainder of the way. Morning Mail had also unleashed keen late speed and though easily racing by Wise Prince, never could endanger the victor. Wise Prince plainly spent from his effort in disposing of Candy Prince, lasted to earn the show position by a half length over Stainforth, with the latter just showing in advance of the Archibald colt. Gov. Sholtz had never entered into contention racing far back all the way. After many attempts, Vacillate finally found a field she could defeat in the second, another dash over the five furlongs dis- Continued on twenty-sixth page. j I J i 1 | j I J j ■ j I j j • BLACKB1RDER IS FIRST Continued from first page./ tance. Unlike her previous outings when hustled to the front, the Volta mare was restrained back of the pace. Lebam was first out of the stalls and taking up the paccmaking burden, showed in front until after passing the furlong. Hughes made his effort with the winner at the closing quar- ter mile. With less than an eighth of a mile to be run, Lebam and Vacillate were on even terms. In the closing stages, under brisk pressure, the winner drew out to a half length lead. Lebam, though unable to meet the stretch challenge of the winner was far in front of Conventional which finished in third place. Conventional was in front from the beginning and was never menaced Vacillate rounded out a consecutive riding double for apprentice Howard Hughes, who scored in the opening race, astride Kai-Finn. The sport started successfully for the favorite players when Kai-Finn came from back of the pacemaker to annex the opening dash at the close of the five furlongs, the winner enjoyed an advantage of one length over Pana Franka, while Mynah was right there in third place. Pana Franka, alert at the post, dashed to the front at once and opened up a good lead around the far turn. The winner, never worse than second was being steadied in back of the filly. As the stretch was reached, Pana Franka was still out in front and Hughes swung to the outside with Kai-Finn. Through the last furlong, Pana Franka closed ground steadily and Kai-Finn, under urging was slowly drawing out at the close. Pana Franka, at the end was doing her utmost to hold the place from Mynah. It developed that Pana Franka bled in the running. The Pagan Pan filly was making her first start for T. J. Ward, who claimed her in her previous outing. After the running, she returned to her former owner, Mrs. J. P. Keezek when that sports- I woman claimed her back for her entered : price of ,000. Khamseen, acquired from his previous outing via the claiming route from S. W. Labrot, made an auspicious debut in the silks of his new owner, J. D. Mikel, by capturing the third race, at five and a half furlongs. This event brought together a field of seven, each with a claiming price of ,000. Slightly more than a length back of the Sir Greysteel colt, Old Baldy was second,, in the silks of S. H. Fairbanks. J. W. Walter, Jr.s Bedight, the well-backed choice, was third. The winner, sore in the parade to the post, was out of the stalls with the leaders. The favorite possessed most speed, showed the way to Old Baldy as the far turn was reached and King was reserving the Grey-steel colt back in third place. Midway around the turn. Old Baldy had shaken off Bedight and widened on his opposition. Khamseen had- moved up on the outside and raced into second place. The Fairbanks representative was still clear at the head of the stretch. King brought the winner to the outside, roused him repeatedly and set sail for the leader. Khamseen, when racing to the leader, began to bear out and his rider was forced to strike him across his nostrils several times in an effort to keep him in. Old Baldy was doing his best a sixteenth out, but Khamseen, going strongly on the outside, soon ran him down to be clear at the winning post. Bedight was another length back, well in advance of Cash Surrender. In one of the most thrilling races of the afternoon Postscript, a filly that races for the Jersey Stable, got up in the final strides to take the long end of the purse in the fourth. A scant head back of the winner J. D. Mikels Gaillardia, gained second .place while a like distance away Bittybit was third.
