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SATIONS 1936 DEBUT » ■■ Displays His Electrical Speed to Win Sprint Handicap at Jamaica. ■ ♦ Runs Six Furlongs in 1:10% With 128 Pounds Up to Defeat Miss Merriment and Flat Eye. JAMAICA, N. Y., May 2.— George D. Wid eners Sation, the swift running son oi Galetian and Salicia, came back with all of his electrical speed at Jamaica Saturday when he captured the six furlongs Sprint Handicap of the Metropolitan Jockey Club as his first racing effort since last November. Taking up 128 pounds, he won with plenty to spare over Victor Emanuels Miss Merriment, and third was the portion of the Greentree Stables Plat Eye. To win, the handsome chestnut ran the fastest six furlongs of the meeting when he covered it in 1:104£, and this, his first effort of the year, added just ,560 to his earnings. With another delightful spring day, an immense throng was out for the sport, though it did not equal the record-breaking crowd of the previous Saturday. The sport furnished was excellent and the Jamaica Handicap made it a notable day of racing. There was some delay at the post for the big race, and Miss Merriment was chiefly to blame. As the start came, the daughter of High Time, which is thoroughly at home over the course, dashed to the lead, and Plat Eye, who was more alert than the others, was following her closely. Gilbert had Sation away in full stride, and he was closely lapped on Plat Eye and they soon had King Saxon outrun. Psychic Bid was a bit tardy leaving his stall, and the Vanderbilt pair of Purple Knight and Good Harvest had him headed. KING SAXON FADLS. Saunders sent Miss Merriment right along at her best pace, and the first quarter in :23M kept her clear, but Sation had raced by Plat Eye and he was going strongly back of the filly. King Saxon was unable to improve his position, and Psychic Bid, when in full stride, headed the Knebelkamp sprinter and at that stage of the running the Vanderbilt team brought up the rear. Gilbert was riding a confident race on Sation, and he did not call on the big chestnut until after passing the three furlongs post. There he shook him up and with quickened pace he went to the filly to be right at her heels when the top of the stretch was reached. By this time Plat Eye was doing his best, and it was evident he could come closer, while the others were soundly beaten. In that last furlong Miss Merriment had had enough, and Sation, never shortening his stride, raced by her to be over the line winner by three lengths. The tired filly saved second place from Plat Eye by two lengths, and a final rally of Good Harvest carried him to the heels of the Greentree gelding. Purple Knight was well lapped on Good Harvest, while King Saxon had quit badly and Psychic Bid was last of them all. FORTIFICATION FIRST. The Rialto Handicap of a mile and seventy yards was the second-best race on the big program, and it went to Andy Schuttmgers Fortification when she led home Frank Browns Star Shadow, with C. V. Whitneys Singers Folly taking third from Black Caesar, one that was also sent to the post by Schuttinger, under the silks of Joseph M. Roebling. Coucci got Fortification out of her stall fast and Gilbert rushed Young Native after her, with the pair of them going stnde-for-stride, and they were soon half a dozen Tengths before the others. Star Shadow was heading the remainder. With neither Gilbert nor Coucci willing to take back, it became a question of which would tire, and it was Young Native that shortened stride. He was hanging out distress signals before the three furlongs post was reached, and the mare was still galloping strongly to open up a lead of a length and a half. In the meantime Star Shadow was gaining in determined fashion, and he was safely in second place at the head of the stretch. To the furlong post he continued to gain, and for an instant it seemed he would be winner, but Coucci held the Man o War mare to-; gether nicely as she faltered, and she came again under his handling to be over the line winner by three-quarters of a length. I. J. Collins Jesting Lady was winner over the maiden juveniles in the opening five i furlongs dash, but she was helped to her ; score greatly when Manifold, who had the ■ mount, crossed the field sharply to pile up i several of the runners. No action was taken ! by the stewards and the finish was made official. Second place in this went to Joseph Pepps Spicy, one that had escaped the interference by reason of being on the outside of the field, and Victor Emanuels Strider, one of those that suffered by the fouling, was third. B. G. Guths Phrixus, which lost his last race by running out badly, did not run out in the six furlongs of the second race and as a result was a winner from Creole Bird, from the Southland Stable, and Miss A. Pen-dergasts Miss Tad took third from Two Edged. Corundum, three-year-old son of Teddy-Star Emerald, was winner over a good band of his own age in the third. Mrs. Sloanes colt, in his last previous start, had finished third to Mr. Bones and Tatterdemalion, but there was nothing opposing him in this gallop of a mile and seventy yards capable of making him fully extend himself. The place went to Mrs. Arthur B. Hancocks Star Scout when he took that part of the award from Frank Browns Iron Bound. The camera was called for in the sixth race, a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth, when J. McPhersons Glastonbury, Mrs. L. H. Nimkoffs Legionary and J. D. Norris Chief Mourner were closely lapped at the line. The electric eye placed the horses in I the order named.
