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MRS. JACOBS LEADING OWNERI » Sportswomans Horses Win 3,690 Without Stake Victory. ♦ Jamaica Concludes Most Successful Meeting in Recent Years — Distributes Total Prizes of 65,350. Despite ths fact that her colors were not victorious in a single stake race at Jamaica, Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs headed the money-winning owners for the meeting, with eighteen firsts and prizes totaling 3,690, or 90 more than the total of the Wheatley Stable, second on the list, with 3,400 and boasting a victory in the Wood Memorial Stakes, won by Teufel. The Metropolitan Jockey Club distributed 65,350 during twenty-two days of racing, a daily average of ,515.91. The meeting began April 15 and concluded May 9, the most profitable session in the recent history of the track. One hundred and thirty-six races were decided, six of them being stakes. Teufel, surprise winner of the Wood Memorial Granville second the — finishing — was leading money-winning horse, with 0,775. That was the value of the Wood. The brilliant sprinter King Saxon took the Excelsior Handicap and second place among the money gleaners, with ,775. Johnny Gilbert was in splendid saddle form and averaged slightly above one winner a day for the twenty-two days, scoring with twenty-six of his mounts to he?d the riding brigade. Ira Hanford, suspended after he had won the Kentucky Derby on Bold Venture, won sixteen races, spending the last week of the Jamaica meeting on the ground. Hirsch Jacobs, naturally, was the leading trainer, saddling twenty-six winning horses. Following are the owners whose horses won ,575 or more: Owner. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Amt. Jacobs. Mrs. E. D 18 6 3 3,690 Wheatley Stnble 3 3 5 13.400 Whitney. J. H 8 1 3 8.900 Knebelkamp, C. H 3 0 1 7.425 Brookmeade Stable... .5 3 4 6,375 Howe Stable 1 0 0 5,650 Widener. G. D 2 0 3 5.635 Greentree Stable 3 9 5 4,785 Bridges. Mrs. W. A 2 0 0 4,175 Guth. B. G 6 1 0 4,075 Belair Stud 2 3 2 4,000 Southland Stable 2 9 5 3.150 Calumet Farm Stable... 3 2 4 2,575 Following are the horses which won ,450 or more: Horse. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Amt Teufel 1 0 0 0,775 King Saxon 2 0 1 6,775 Cycle 1 0 0 5.650 Sation 1 0 0 4,560 Court Scandal 10 0 3,825 Microphone 5 0 0 3,675 Goldev F 1 0 0 3,525 Granville 1 1 0 2.850 Playfole 3 1 0 2,100 Delphinium 1 0 1 1,750 Sandy Bill 2 0 1 1,615 Miss Merriment 110 1.550 Ethels Choice 2 10 1,475 Cynwyd 2 1 0 1,475 Kawagoe 2 1 0 1,475 Al Nciman 2 10 1,450 ! Miss Dignity 2 10 1,450 | Moralist 2 0 2 1,450 Jack Snipe 2 1 0 1,450 Following are the jockeys who rode three or more winners: Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unn. P C Gilbert. J 65 26 6 6 27 .38 Hanford, 1 48 16 9 6 17 .33 Anderson. 1 63 11 10 11 31 .17 Litzenberger, E. . 45 9 4 7 25 .20 Kastner. R 49 8 7 6 28 .16 Coucci, S 76 6 17 12 41 .08 Workman. R 57 6 6 8 37 .11 Saunders. W 38 5 7 4 22 .13 Stout, J 35 5 5 5 20 .14 Yager. E 39 5 4 4 26 .13 Seabo, G 29 4 2 3 20 .14 Woolf. G 17 4 3 2 8 .24 Eye. C 44 3 4 5 32 .07 Malley. T 17 3 2 2 10 .18 Landolt, C 14 3 4 1 6 .21 Following are the trainers who saddled three or more winners: Trainer. Wins Trainer. Wins. Jacobs, H 26 Smith, J. P 4 Healey, J. W 8 Winfrey, G. C 4 Kearns. F. J 6 Hirsch, M 3 Fitzsimmons, J... 5 Codd, P. B 3 Smith, R. A 5 Hirsch, Mary 3 Fitzsimmns, J., Jr. 4 Mulholland. W. F. 3 Knebelkamp, C. H. 4 Harlan, L. P 3 Odom, G. If 4 Following are the stakes that were decided: Stake. Date. Winner. Value. Paumonok Handicap, April 15; Cycle. $ 5,650 Youthful Stakes, April 18; Court Scandal 3,825 Wood Memorial Stakes, April 25; Teufel 10,775 Jamaica Handicap, May 2; Sation... 4,560 Rosedale Stakes, May 9; Goldey F 3,525 ! Excelsior Handicap, May 9; King Saxon 5,400 The percentage of winning favorites was above normal, as shown in the subjoined tabulation: Number of days 22 Number of races 136 Winning favorites 66 Winning second choices 28 Winning outsiders 42 Winners at odds-on 25 I Defeated at odds-on 14 I Percentage of winning favorites 49
