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Ihollyrood defeated iffintagel Shows Improvement to Win Three-Quarters Race. Headley Colt Lacks Finishing Power in Debut Youthful Stakes to Court Scandal. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 18 It was his first start of the year and he is sure to improve, but on the showing of Hal Price Headleys Hollyrood in a six furlongs dash at Jamaica, Saturday, Joseph E. Wideners Brevity seems to have little to fear from the son of High Cloud and Mandy Hamilton in the running of the Kentucky Derby, May 2. Both colts are pointing for the Kentucky fixture, and this first appearance of Hollyrood was decidedly disappointing. He was soundly beaten by Marshall Fields Tintagel and the Wheatley Stables Seabis-cuit, though the work tabs suggested that he was ready for the silks. This was the most interesting event of the seven-race program that was offered by the Metropolitan Jockey Club by reason of the presence of Hollyrood in the field, and it was sport that attracted a big crowd though the weather was unseasonably cold. In the six furlongs dash that introduced Hollyrood as a three-year-old, Marshall Fields Tintagel improved greatly over his disappointing showing in the Paumonok Handicap and was a comparatively easy winner, but there was nothing in the swiftly run six furlongs to suggest that the son of Sir Gallahad III. is other than rather a remarkable sprinter and it is probable that a mile will just about be his limit. SIZZLING FAST PACE. From a good start Seabiscuit was first to show in front, but in half a dozen strides Tintagel was past him to set a sizzling pace, doing the first quarter in :224. This carried him into a lead of two lengths, and Seabiscuit was three lengths before Clocks. Hollyrood began well but was unable to go with such a pace, and he was soon under a drive in a vain effort to keep within striking distance. Running the first three furlongs in :Zi, saw Tintagel five lengths clear, and still Seabiscuit hung to second place. By dint of hard driving Hollyrood had taken care of Clocks to move into third place, and he was at the heels of Seabiscuit, but he could come no closer. Tintagel reached the half mile mark in :46, and he raced the five furlongs in :59, but he was plainly shortening strides at that stage of the race. In the stretch Seabiscuit was gaining on Tintagel, while despite the driving of Willie Saunders, Hollyrood was dropping back a badly beaten colt. Right to the end, completing the six furlongs in 1:12, Seabiscuit continued to gain on the Field colt, until he was only a length and a half away at the end, but he had beaten Hollyrood four lengths for second place. The Headley colt was eight lengths before Clocks, with Paul Junior, the only other starter, a distant last. LOOKS LIKE SPRINTER. As a sprinting exhibition, the race run by Tintagel was a brilliant one, but it was evident through the final furlong that he is only a sprinter. Seabiscuit ran a smashing race himself and where the disappointment in Hollyrood came was in the way he ran his last furlong. He was under considerable punishment in an effort to keep up and at the end was tiring in a fashion that makes it hard to believe that he can improve enough in two weeks to be ready for a gallop of a mile and a quarter. The Youthful Stakes, five furlongs dash for the juveniles and the monetary feature of the day, went to John Hay Whitneys Court Scandal, a son of Royal Minstrel and the Colonels Lady, when he readily led home Alvin Untermyers Scintillator, with "Mr. Nightingales" Cardinalis, one that raced, at Santa Anita, third. This prize carried a net value of ,825 to the winner. From a good start, Company was first to show the way and he was closely attended by Harp o Gold and Court Scandal, while .Continued on eighteenth page.. H0LLYR00D DEFEATED Continued from first page. Scintillator, after being bumped rather badly, was last of the seven. Leaving the back stretch, Johnny Gilbert went wide with Court Scandal to readily put Company:, away, and Cardinalis moved into second place. Harp o Gold was already tiring, but Scintillator was moving up steadily back of these and he had overcome considerable interference to keep his position. Before the stretch was reached, Court Scandal had increased his lead to two lengths and he increased that advantage to three lengths in the run through the stretch, but Gilbert took no chances and rode him out. Scintillator, when he found ample racing room, finished resolutely to beat Cardinalis a length for second place. The others trailed along well beaten. Mrs. Damon Runyons Tap On, a daughter of Tick On and Blowout, which was a good second to Hurtle in a previous effort, was winner of the opening five-furlong dash for maiden juveniles of the plater variety. She won with something to spare over Hal Price Headleys Jinx and St. Ives, from the Manhasset Stable, was a close third before Ethels Choice, which was coupled with the winner. Hirsch Jacobs made his score two in a row when, after saddling Mrs. Runyons Tap On for the opening dash, he sent out Mrs. Jacobs Microphone to have him beat the sprinters in the six furlongs of the second. This was an easy score over Charles S. .Bromleys Speed, with Sage Girl, from the Southland Stable, taking third from Victor Emanuels Diablerie. Early in the action Microphone ran into a lead of a couple of lengths and Arcaro had simply sat still and let him gallop along to never be threatened. Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewarts three-year-old Mower gave both George Odom and jockey Seabo their second winner of the day when he galloped off with the fifth race. It wa3 the second score of the meeting for the son of Sickle and Agnes Star and more impressive than his first outing, when he raced in 1:12, easily, time that equalled that of Tintagel, the other Odom winner. C. V. Whitneys Tatterdemalion finished second, and William Woodwards Merry Pete easily took third from Galloglass. There really was nothing to the running for Mower was so much the best of the field that he quickly opened up a long lead and simply romped along, running the first half in :46. As a matter of fact the effort was even more impressive than that of his illustrious stablemate, Tintagel, for he was at no time fully extended. Hirsch Jacobs saddled his third winner of the day, and the second for Mrs. Jacobs when he sent out Aura to have her an easy winner of the sixth, a mile and seventy yards that engaged seven cheap ones. The daughter of Big Blaze was much the best of her company and romping along in front all the way was six lengths clear crossing the line.
