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KING SAXON AND TINTAGEL DEFEATED BY CYCLE AUSPICIOUS INAUGURAL Between 12,000 and 15,000 Fans See Jamaica Opening. Favorites Have Poor Day on First Program of New York Season Track Slow. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 15 Cycle, the son of Sickle and Flambette that carries the banner of the Howe Stable, added his name to the winners roster of the Paumonok Handicap today, when he carried off the big feature of the opening of the New York racing season in easy fashion. One of the longshots of the field, he easily led home the Brookmeade Stables Psychic Bid, with C. H. "Pat" Knebelkamps King Saxon, the top weight, the favorite and winner of the same special last year, third before Marshall Fields Tintagel, the only three-year-old in the field. The opening of the new season was welcomed, by some 12,000 or 15,000 fans, and after all the long season of inclement weather, conditions were excellent for the opening. There was a general overthrow of fa-I vorites, but right through the day the contests were excellent and it was pretty well established that the horses that have raced through the winter months did not have anything over those that were appearing under silks for the first time this year. Cycle, winner of the Paumonok, was one of these and when he raced in 1:11, over a track that was a shade off, it demonstrated that he was trained to the minute. King Saxon was first to show at the start in the Paumonok but he did not have the speed to take full advantage of that alertness, and as Tintagel and Cycle gained on him in the early stages, he was caught in rather close quarters on the inner rail with no chance to escape. The three-year-old had a brief lead when Cycle caught him and as the pair drew away from King Saxon the Sir Gallahad III. colt was first to tire. At this time Psychic Bid was moving up fast on the outside and he moved into third place before King Saxon, which was still holding his rail position. Making the turn for the back stretch, Cycle shook off Tintagel to go into a definite lead, but King Saxon was not through and when the Howe gelding went a bit wide turning for home the Continued on twenty-second page. KING SAXON AND TINTAGEL DEFEATED BY CYCLE Continued from first page. son of Saxon showed in second place, but Rainey was hard at work on him and he could not run down the son of Sickle. In the meantime Psychic Bid, after losing considerable ground through racing on the outside, was moving up fast and in the final eighth he headed King Saxon to take second place by a length. Tintagel was a tired colt as he was fourth, another length, and a half away and the others of the small field, Sailor Beware, Quel Jeu and Preeminent followed as named. Of these Sailor Beware showed a flash of early speed, but the other two had cut no figure in the running. The new order of things in the betting ring added greatly to the comfort of the players and there was less congestion than ever before, despite the large opening day crowd. There was also considerable apprehension in the placing of thirteen layers in the clubhouse enclosure. There was plenty of activity both in the ring proper and in the clubhouse and it must have been a profitable opening as far as the layers were concerned from the manner in which the played horses were beaten. Dewey Benthams Abner was winner of the opening dash at six furlongs for platers, and he whipped a winter performer when he led home the Southland Stables Sage Girl, which raced in Florida. He won with plenty to spare, while the filly had to be vigorously ridden by Coucci to take second place from Warren Wrights Warren Jr., and Up and Up was fourth. With little delay at the post, the start was a good one, though Legionary stumbled as he left and unseated Carroll. Another of the winter idlers was home winner when Mrs. William Russells My Kentucky, making his first start since last October, scored over Robert Gladstones Early Dawn and Mrs. William E. Martins Race Craft, Ten Law taking fourth. This was a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth and, like Abner, which scored at 20 to 1, My Kentucky was neglected in the market, paying 15 to 1, while Neverfade, the choice of the small field, finished a bad last of the five that performed. George Odom uncovered a smart horse in the third when he sent Mower to the post for Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart. This was a six furlongs dash and it was the first appearance under silks for the son of Sickle and Agnes Star, which, incidentally, is an eligible for the Preakness. He was one that Odom had at South Carolina through the cold months, and he was fit and ready for the dash when he made a show of his opponents to be winner by half a dozen lengths over John Hay Whitneys Mr. Bones, the favorite, which in turn beat the Sage Stables Pullman three lengths for second place. Danise M. finished a close fourth. Danise M. was first to show at the start, but she was almost at once joined by Mower, and the pair, closely lapped, drew away into a lead of five lengths over the others. Mr. Bones was in third place, and then came Fldpsie, with the others in rather strung out order. v . t u i c c c oe--
