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EVERY POST WINNING ONE ♦ Bubblesome Leads Throughout in Fort Adams Claiming Stakes. » Faust Forces Winner to a Drive in Final Stages of Narragansett Feature-Happy Helen Third. i ♦ PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 8.— Eubblesome, under the blue and grey silks of Joseph Bar-tell, won the Fort Adams Claiming Stakes, principal event on a sunny days program at Narragansett Park. The five-year-old son of Bubbling Over — Samothrace scored a front running victory, but jockey Wimmer was forced to go to the whip at the sixteenth post to stave off the hard driving Faust, which finished second, a length and a half back of the winner and a length clear of Happy Helen. After the race, Haines, rider of Happy Helen, claimed a foul, but the stewards disallowed the protest after brief consideration. Bubblesome and Mountainy Man were off i fastest but the former had taken a clear I advantage within a few yards and was running easily as they made the turn, Wimmer holding him under restraint and rating his mount cleverly. Faust, a Wheatley stable campaigner, recently shipped here from Long Island, took the inside under Kopels guidance and moved up fast on the turn into the back stretch to be in closest pursuit of the pacemaker. Kopel gave the Wheatley racer an uneven ride, cutting over sharply turning into the back stretch. Bubblesome was not forced to extend himself seriously until Faust moved up in the final sixteenth, but the runner-up tired after j making a game bid and Bubblesome flashed i under the wire with a clear advantage. Happy Helen was rated in third place by I Haines for most of the race, being forced | to take up rather sharply in the back stretch. She finished courageously to take the third | award, but could make little impression on ! the leaders in the stretch drive. Except for a brief spurt at the start, Mountainy Man, who finished fourth, was t never in the hunt. The well backed Fidelis ; appeared sore and failed to raise a gallop, I winding up sixth in the field of eight. The winner paid 6.80 and completed the dis-j tance in the creditable time of 1:45. The ; race was worth ,485 to the winner. Lady Hockberger, claimed the last time j out by Mrs. E. E. Russell, won at the first asking for her new owner and scampered ! home two lengths to the good of Sir Kai in the thre-a-quarter mile of the initial offering. ! I Ima Greenock, lightly regarded, landed in j third place before Lum Joy. j Lady Hockberger and Sir Kai had the race | strictly to themselves. Lady Hockberger for the first half mile was under hard urging to ! | continue to show the way to the Kai-Sang | ! five-year-old. When nearing the stretch, Sir Kai found the task of chasing the leader j too exacting and began dropping back slight- i i ly. Lady Hockberger continued right along | to the end and was never threatened. Sir ; Kai, though not good enough for the winner, was easily superior to the others. Mose Lowenstein saddled another winner • when he sent out Cary T. Graysons Brown Top to defeat the maid-ens that met in the | second offering, another test over the six-I furlong distance. The Brown Prince colt . was sent to the front immediately after the ■ start came and Georgo Seabo had only to sit I still to show the way by two lengths as the finish was reached. In the stretch Brown ; Top was roused several times and sharply ridden out to make certain the score. Beau ; Thor went up to press the leader closest in the first sixteenth and continued along in j the runner-up position to the end. Beau j Thor, a member of the W. S. Kilmer string. , had been away from the races since last j May and his was a nice performance. Office ; Boy, a fast worker early in the Florida sea-1 son, gained the minor award. Grannys Trade, which has been training j in brisk lashion since coming to New Eng-I land, survived a hard drive and contributed a game effort to take the third, another dash i over the three-quarters distance. First out 1 of the stalls, the Axenstein mare showed in j the van until reaching the stretch. The mare surrendered the lead to Civil War, the latter ■ moving through on the inside at the turn. Through the stretch the two leaders battled it out by inches. Civil War was in the com- mand right until within the shadow of the ; finishing line, where Lynch drove the mare ] in vigorous fashion and scored by a .scant : head. Blue Day came from quite some distance back to take third in the closing strides and just a neck back of Civil War. *
