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GALLANT MAC AND PALMA » Lead Home Two Belmont Stakes Eli- gibles in Ben Brush Handicap. ♦ Corundum and Tatterdemalion Fail to Impress as Candidates for Easts Outstanding Race. , NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20— Two candidates for the Belmont Stakes failed in the feature offering of the Westchester Association at Belmont Park today in the running of the Ben Brush Handicap at a mile and a furlong. These were the Brookmeade Stables Corundum and C. V. Whitneys Tatterdemalion, which finished third and fourth, respectively, to A. G. Vanderbilts five-year-old Gallant Mac and William Woodwards four-year-old filly, Palma. The race was one to suggest that these two do not belong in the Belmont field. In the Ben Brush, Corundum was the one to cut out the pace and Corona had the son of Teddy under a steadying restraint as he showed the way. Gallant Mac went after him, also under restraint, and it was not until well into the stretch that Sammy Ren-ick called on the five-year-old for his best. When he was set down in earnest in the final furlong, he readily ran over the three-year-old to win going away by two lengths. Palma took second place from the Brookmeade colt only in the final stride. She had been outrun through the early stages and hanging to the outside in the run home closed with a determined rush as Corundum tired badly after his pacemaking. The race run by Tatterdemalion was particularly disappointing. The son of St. Germans was far out of it in the early racing, moved up on the inside when in full stride but flattened out again badly in the stretch, where he appeared to have a chance to overtake the leaders. St. Bernard, the only other in this small field, showed a flash of early speed but soon dropped back badly and was soundly beaten when the stretch was reached to finish a bad last. Your Honor, the juvenile son of Justice F. and Miss Kilrane, which races for B. G. Guth, remains unbeaten. He won his third race when he scored easily in the opening five-furlong dash that brought out platers of the better quality. His score was an easy one. with Mrs. G. D. Wideners Planetarium taking second place from William H. Gallaghers Chanting, and John H. Whitneys Danger Point was fourth. There was some ; delay at the post, during which Your Honor was principally to blame, but when he was I quieted the seven left in the same stride ! and Your Honor at once took command to lead all the way and never be threatened, scoring by half a dozen lengths. Another steeplechase went to the Thomas Hitchcock silks, with the amateur. Rigan McKinney in the saddle, when Santi Quar-anti won easily in the Roll Your Own, a gallop over the short course. The son of Swift and Sure was so much better than the others that it was not much of a contest, Frank M. Goulds What Have You finishing second, while Mrs. Gwladys Whitneys Black Bean was third only because the amateur, C. R. White, failed to ride Galley Girl out smartly. Mrs. Lou Schaefers Chirac came back with another good race in the six furlongs for cheap ones that was the third offering, when he scored over Chester J. Bilds Acau-taw. with William N. Adrians Red Badge taking third from Pompeius. Red Badge was the one to cut out the running. The Bubbling Over mare was alert at the start and as she went to the lead she was taken in hand by Yager and she was I Still under restraint when the long stretch I was reached. There Chirac, which had been I following the pace, closed with his winning! rush coming away in the final furlong to be winner by two lengths. Acautaw, which had raced in the contention all the way, closed resolutely to run down the tired Red Badge and beat her half a length for the place. Pompeius had no excuse and, racing forwardly all the way, could not materially improve his position. Fourteen maiden juvenile fillies raced in the fourth race, at four and a half furlongs over the Widener course and, while it appeared that H. W. Maxwells Dizzy Dame was the winner, the judges, without the help of a photograph, awarded the decision to Hal Price Headleys Misapprehension, and third went to Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Peggy Shinpen when she led Premiere over the line. The finish was considerably closer than many in which the placing judges have depended upon the camera to make the decision and there was considerable surprise when the numbers were displayed promptly without its use, particularly when it appeared to so many, including the chart callers, that the Maxwell filly had won. After the finish there was something approaching a demonstration by a crowd about the stewards stand, and there was a general desire to see the photograph of the finish, but it was not shown. Johnny Gilbert completed a riding double when he scored with Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Jesting in the six furlongs of the sixth. This also completed a double for Hirsch Jacobs for he had saddled Your Honor, Which won under the B. G. Guth colors in the opening number. While Jesting won by two lengths it was a close fit for the other divisions of the purse when Fair Deal, Epical and Zay followed the winner home closely locked in the order named. There was a considerable delay at the post during which Richards was slightly hurt by the unruly actions of Zay. He finally remounted and the start was a good one. Polycletus and Epical had more foot than the others and were the ones to step to the front, and then came Emileo and Zay, while Jesting was slower to find a racing stride. Polycletus and Epical continued to fight along in command until well into the stretch, and there, as Yager made his move with Emiloo, he ran into a pocket on the inside and had no chance to come through. In the meantime, Jesting was making up ground steadily and in the final furlong she had more left than the others to come on readily to her handy score.
