view raw text
G0LDEY F. UNDEFEATED ♦ Tall Timber Filly Adds Rosedale Stakes to Victories. % King Saxon Easily Romps Home Winner of Excelsior Handicap Before 14,500 Jamaica Fans. • i NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9— While the Excelsior Handicap, bringing out the speedy King Saxon, Psychic Bid and other sprint stars was the programmed feature, the Rosedale Stakes, with Goldey F., the unbeaten daughter of Tall Timber, striving for her eighth consecutive victory, attracted as much if not more attention at Jamaica today. King Saxon duplicated his 1935 winning effort in the Excelsior and Goldey F. added the Rosedale Stakes to her list of triumphs, making the day a memorable one for the fans. The son of Saxon showed by far his best performance of the year when he simply romped along in front of his opponents all the way to win easing up before A. G. Van-derbilts Good Harvest, which had no trouble taking second place from Mrs. William Zeigler, Jr.s Esposa. For the final day of the Jamaica season, a monster crowd was out, and the official count was 14,500. The weather was of mid- I summer warmth, the track at its best, and ! the sport furnished by the seven-race pro- gram excellent. The victory of King Saxon came after he had been beaten in both the Paumonok Continued on thirty-fourth page. GOLDEY F. UNDEFEATED Continued from first page. and the Jamaica Handicaps, though he won his most previous race, a dash of six furlongs in which he took the measure of Exhibit. In the Excelsior there was nothing in the field that made a real effort to run down the Knebelkamp horse with the result that he was able to draw away into a clear lead without really being asked to run. Malbrouk led him around the first turn and then came Esposa, while Good Harvest was under restraint back of the filly. Gillie had met with some little interference, and Malbrouk did not last in contention, and when Renick moved on the outside with Good Harvest, which had beaten him in the running of the Jamaica, Good Harvest went up smoothly on the outside when called on, and was soon in second place, having headed Esposa. As Good Harvest moved, Landolt loosened a wrap on King Saxon, and he increased his lead until he was going just as strongly as ever, and three lengths to the good. When Renick realized the leader was not tiring he went to a drive on Good Harvest, but it was to no avail, and through the. final furlong Landolt was looking back on King Saxon and easing him up to win by two lengths. Good Harvest had taken second place by three lengths, and Esposa was doing her best to beat Gillie a length and a half for third. The fractional times of the race were :24, :«7%, 1:12%, 1:37% and 1:45%. They suggested the race had been run exactly to the advantage of King Saxon, for there was no time when he was asked for his best. Goldey F., Mrs. W. A. Bridges 50 filly, remained unbeaten in a campaign that began in Florida on January 20, when she was an easy winner of the Rosedale Stakes, the companion feature to the Excelsior Handicap. She was chalking up her eighth consecutive victory and her last previous effort saw her winner of the Aberdeen Stakes, at Havre de Grace. The Rosedale added another ,525 to her remarkable score. In this, the only contest was for second place with the Wheatley Stables Drawbridge taking that part of the purse from the Greentree Stables Bad Dreams. With little delay at the post the start was a good one with Bad Dreams first to show from the stalls but she was almost at once headed by Goldey F. As the Tall Timber miss shot into a lead of three lengths, she was taken in hand by Saunders and it was Drawbridge that moved into second place while Bad Dreams dropped back slightly. Greedy was back of these but early in the action it was evident Goldey F. was not to be run down. It was after turning into the stretch that Saunders shook her up and it was all that was needed to have her past the line the winner by three lengths. Drawbridge was holding second place readily, but right at the end Bad Di earns came again and she was put to her best to beat the Greentree filly by a nose. The others had cut no serious figure in the running. Of them, Veiled Lady, after acting badly at the post, raced greenly. John Hay Whitneys Danger Point started Johnny Gilbert off well for the last day of the meeting when he carried him to victory in the opening five-furlong dash for maiden two-year-olds. The place went to Hal Price Headleys The Queen, and Workman was in a measure to blame for that placing by failing to drive out Mrs. Parker Comings Direct when he found he could not catch Danger Point, and The Queen, finishing gamely, beat him for that part of the award.
