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ROMAN SOLDIER WINS ♦ Makes Impressive Showing in Salvador Handicap at Belmont Park. » Runs Six Furlongs in 1:11%, With 126 Pounds Up, to Beat Miss Merriment and Kievex. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18— Roman Soldier, the son of Cohort and Miamba that races for Elwood Sachsenmaier, was winner of the Salvadore Handicap at Belmont Park today, taking the measure of Victor Emanuels Miss Merriment easily in the six furlongs dash. It was swiftly run when the time of l:llrs was hung up, and back of the leading pair was William Grahams Kievex, with Black Grouse the only other starter. Roman Soldier was brought back to the races during the recent Pimlico meeting, where he gave evidence of his condition when he was winner over Trumpery, and in this race he took up 126 pounds and scored with plenty to spare. Conditions were ideal for racing, with a day of summer warmth, and the track was at its best. A goodly crowd was out and the sport offered was first-class. In the feature handicap there was a long delay when Roman Soldier was walked to the post, led by a stableman on foot, and then Miss Merriment was fractious, but the start was a good one. Miss Merriment, as was expected, jumped into command as she left her stall and Workman took her in hand as she reeled a first quarter in :23 and reached the half mile ground in :46%. Roman Soldier was following the mare and Black Grouse was outfooting Kievex in that early racing. Workman saved all the ground possible with Miss Merriment and she was still showing the way when the long stretch was reached, but a furlong out Roman Soldier was drawing up on her steadily and Workman went to the whip. The mare responded, but Roman Soldier was just beginning to run and he was soon alongside. Then he raced past and as he went to the front Richards took him in hand and he could readily have won by a greater margin than the two lengths shown at the finish. Through that long stretch Kievex was making up ground gallantly and he was right at the heels of the Emanuel mare as he finished a length before Black Grouse. Roman Soldier was second to Omaha in the running of the Kentucky Derby last year and the winner of the Detroit Derby. He was beaten in both the American Derby and the Classic at Arlington Park and did not start again during the season. He was brought back by Phil Reuter May 6 at Pim-iico to be winner, and this was only his second start as a four-year-old. Both of his victories were decidedly impressive and he appears to be unquestionably able to carry his speed for a greater distance than six furlongs. The Hirsch Jacobs-Johnny Gilbert combination, so successful at Jamaica, triumphed in the opening five-furlong dash, when Your Honor, racing for B. G. Guth, was an easy winner over George McMit-chells His Nibs, with Harry Neusteters Pass Em By a close third over Thomas C. Right after the break. Your Honor, which left from an inside stall and none too well, swerved to the outside and raced in that Continued on twenty-second page. j I i j | I ] ROMAN SOLDIER WINS •aBDd JSMf. UlOlf P9TIUIJU0Q position all the way. Thomas C. was the one to cut out the running, and His Nibs, running along on the inner rail, was in second place and Pass Em By was in third place. In the final furlong, Your Honor had overcome his early misfortune and rapidly ran down the leaders to go to the front readily and be winner by three lengths. His Nibs hung on well, but was forced to his best to take second place by a head from Pass Em By, and then came Thomas C, which tired badly after showing the way. As the race was run, Your Honor was much the best of the company. It was no trick for Johnny Gilbert to chalk up a double when he had the mount on George D. Wideners swift-running filly, High Fleet, in the second race, a dash of six furlongs over the main course, and confined to the three-year-olds. He had only to sit still on the daughter of Jack High to have her the easiest sort of a winner over Dr. J. P. Jones Deflate, and well back of the Jones filly, third went to A. G. Vander-j bilts Springlock, and Albania, with a long deferred rush, was fourth. One of the most thrilling finishes of the meeting came in the running of the third, a four and a half furlongs dash over the Wide-; ner course, for maiden juveniles. This saw four of the big field so closely lapped at the line that the camera was called upon to render the decision. The photograph showed the Sage Stables Mahdi winner, with William duPonts Fairy Hill second and the Southland Stables Above Par taking third from the Greentree Stables Chicolorado. Hustled along all the way by "Sonny" Workman, Buckley M. Byers Thorson stuck it out to win the fifth, a mile race for those of grade C in the handicaps. At the end the son of Batle was doing his best to withstand the rush of Walter M. Jeffords Giant Killer, and third went to Aperitif, which carried the silks of the Howe stable. Giant Killer had been outrun to the stretch, but at the end he was closing gallantly and would have been the winner in another sixteenth. Aperitif followed the pace of the winner to the final sixteenth, where she succumbed to the rush of the three-year-old. Bogertin, racing for J. H. Logan, showed improved form in the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth when be MOfftd rather handily over Mrs. N. E. Doylei Bright Emerald, one of the beaten favoritM i the afternoon. In this, Dewey BenthaaYl Huffy, after being outrun to the stretch, lost ground on the turn for home, but finished strongly to take third from Aura.
