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GRANYILLE VICTORIOUS Defeats Ned Reigh in First Start of Current Season. Son of Gallant Fox Qualifies for Wood Memorial and Kentucky Derby Pullman Third. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 21. William Woodwards Granville, son of Gallant Fox and Gravita, qualified handsomely for his engagement in the Wood Memorial Saturday and a week later the Kentucky Derby, when he was winner of the Bridgehampton Purse at Jamaica today. Setting all the pace for the mile and seventy yards, he was winner by five lengths over Willis Sharpe Kilmers Ned Reigh, which is a Derby candidate of promise, and at the heels of the son of Neddie the Sage "Stables Pullman took third from Neap, while Invermark, from the Wheatley Stable and a running mate to Granville, was a bad last of the five. This was the first race for Granville since his appearance in the Futurity of last year, and it was a decidedly impressive shoving, though at the end he was a tired horse. It was a stiff workout that should tighten him up for the Wood Memorial and the Derby. Under three pounds more than was carried by Bold Venture in his winning effort over the same route, he ran a faster race. The lure of a meeting between Granville and Ned Reigh attracted a big crowd to the course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club and, with delightful springlike weather, conditions were perfect. As the five left the stalls in the feature Stout at once went into the lead and when safely in front took a slight hold of the son of Gallant Fox. Pullman, by reason of his unruly actions, had been placed outside the stalls, and Coucci rushed him along after breaking last until he was in second place going into the back stretch and lapped on the Woodward colt. The pair were three lengths before Ned Reigh, and this fellow was easily leading Invermark and Neap. INCREASES ADVANTAGE. This order was maintained through the back stretch and Stout made no effort to draw away from Pullman, though it was evident he could have done so at the first asking. Ned Reigh was moving up slightly t when the far turn was reached but there, as Coucci made a bid with Ned Reigh, Stout permitted the son of Gallant Fox to increase his pace and holding his lead, the gap was widened on the Kilmore colt. Before the stretch was reached Pullman had enough of trying to keep step with Granville and the Woodward colt turned for home a length to the good. He had increased that lead to three lengths a furlong from home and his winning margin was five lengths, though he was plainly tired from his stiff gallop. Ned Reigh, under an energetic ride by "Sonny" Workman, finished strongly to take care of Pullman in the final furlong -and save second place by a length while Neap also finished strongly to be lapped on the Sage Stable colt. The fractions for the running were decidedly creditable when the first quarter was run in :23, half in :47, six furlongs in 1:12, mile in 1:39, and the distance in 1:43. The performance of both the winner Continued on twenty-second page. GRANVILLE VICTORIOUS Continued from first page. and Ned Reigh gives each a big importance in both the Wood and the Kentucky Derby. It took all of Couccis skill and only after a furious drive was the Greentree Stables Somali winner over the maiden juveniles in the opening five furlongs dash. Just in the last nod did the son of The Porter drop his nose down before William Ziegler, Jr.s The ! Runner and Victor Emanuels Star Pupil j took third from John Hay Whitneys No Dice. Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Microphone won his second race of the meeting and his third in a row when he scored easily in the second, a claiming affair that engaged a small field of good platers. He won with plenty to spare over Otto Blanks Mount Echo with Maxwell Howards Polycletus a close third before John Hay Whitneys three-year-old Majority Rule and the only other starter was Black Mischief. Little Ira Hanford rode his second straight winner when he brought home Whitney Stones Blue Sheen winner over a smart band of three-year-old fillies that met in the Carnation Purse, a six-furlong dash that was the third race. She ran down Danise M. from the Orienta Stable to be winner and William Woodwards Valse, a stablemate of. the winner,, earned a close decision for third over Hal Price Headleys Pelerine, which closed a big gap from a slow beginning. Danise M., particularly alert at the start, was first to show out of the field, .and Lan-dolt sent her right out to be a length and a half clear in the first furlong. Blue Sheen was soon in second place, and Hanford soon had her under slight restraint as she followed the pace of the Epinard filly. These two dominated the race, and it was not until the final furlong that Hanford asked Blue Sheen for her best. There she raced by to be over the line winner by a half length. It was a cheap lot of platers that met in the fifth and the winner turned up in Charles S. Bromleys Rocky Prince, one that campaigned through the Florida season. He barely won over Dewey Benthams recent purchase, Hadtobe, and third went to Paul B. Codds Balios. Pocket was the one to set all the pace and she made every post a winning one to the stretch, and there Rocky Prince, which had steadily been improving, finally ran her down but Hadtobe finished with such a rush that the winning margin was only a head.
