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JAMAICA HANDICAP REVIVAL Five Candidates for This Event to Be Run Saturday in Victorian Handicap Monday. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 25 Five of the candidates for the Jamaica Handicap, of six furlongs, for three-year-olds and over, which will be revived with ,000 added after a lapse of three years, at Jamaica, on the coming: Saturday will be given public trials for that feature in the Victorian Handicap, a sprint at three-quarters, headline offering on Mondays card at the Metropolitan Jockey Club grounds. Greentree Stables Plat Eye, hard hitting son of Chicle and Crazy Moon, second to Today in last years "Wood Memorial, among other accomplishments, is top weight in the eight-horse field under 120 pounds. Sgt. Byrne, a Paumonok winner two years back, comes next in handicapper John B. CamP" bells ratings with 118. Like Plat Eye, the Jamaica-owned Sgt. Byrne will be making his seasonal bow. Bright Haven, a good winner in Florida in sprint affairs, comes next und-ar 116. Black Buddy and Exhibit will carry 113; Our Reigh, 110; Preeminent, 107, and Gov. Sholtz, 102. Of the eight in the Victorian, Black Buddy, Plat Eye, Preeminent, Exhibit and Sgt. Byrne are probables in- the week-end Jamaica Handicap. The Jamaica is one of the pair of the stakes revived by tbe Metropolitan Jockey Club since racings renaissance in the Empire State. The other is the Rosedale Stakes, a filly event, which will be run on the final day of the meeting, May 9. The Jamaica closed with thirty-five nominations on the February 3 deadline and with ,000 in added money, is one of the principal sprint offerings of the New York season. First run for in 1929, it was won by William Zieglers Polydor. Judge Schilling, Panetian and Halcyon prevailed in the succeeding three renewals, after which the race was discontinued. Its revival this year is in keeping with the policy of sharing the clubs prosperity with horsemen.
