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• , ! : j ! j | j j I I I j I ! j j I | I ! | ! | ! I j I I | j j i | ! j I ! i j j S BLUE SHEEN STILL UNBEATEN I « Swift -Running Daughter of Toro Victorious in Firenzi Handicap. « Registers Her Fourth Straight Success in Taking Measure of Good Gamble and Rust in Belmont Feature. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 21.— Whitney Stones swift-running Blue Sheen, daughter I Of Toro and Blue Eagle, kept her unbeaten I I record clean at Belmont Park today, when I I she was winner of the Firenzi Handicap, a I seven furlongs dash confined to fillies and j mares. Her only start last year saw her winner at Saratoga Springs and this was her third winning effort this season. A candidate for both the Acorn and the Coaching Club American Oaks, this miss has a real importance in both of these prizes. In the Firenzi Handicap she whipped A. G. Vanderbilts Good Gamble and Louis Strubes Rust, a pair of four-year-olds, as well as the Wheatley Stables Mag Mell, A. G. Vanderbilts Parade Girl, and Split Sec- j ond, which races for the King Ranch, and j I each of these is also engaged in both of I the approaching big prizes for three-year- j | old fillies. I An excellent day of racing was furnished for another big crowd, though the card was I J made up entirely of overnight events. j In the Firenzi, while Good Gamble was j Brat out of the stalls, she was almost instantly j headed by Blue Sheen and as Stout [ took her to a clear lead, he dropped down on the rail and took her under a steadying restraint , to always hold the company safe. ! : Good Gamble, after her alert start, dropped ! back slightly but came again in the stretch | and was going well at the end, while Rust, j j sluggish in the early stages, as always, swung out in the stretch and finished in de- j j termined fashion. Mag Mell also finished ■ going well. j There was some excuse for Split Second, | winner of the Selima Stakes at Laurel last | j fall. It was the first start of the season j for the daughter of Sortie since last October I and after dwelling at the break she was | blocked leaving the back stretch when mov-bag up smoothly and was never able to make up the lost ground. Parade Girl showed a flash of speed but dropped back badly and her race was a disappointing one. Thomas C, the son of Greenock and Lady Gallivant, that races for I. J. Collins, proved easily best of the cheap juveniles that came together in the opening five furlongs dash over the Widener course. Always close in I | contention, he came away readly in the I final furlong to score by two lengths over i Victor Emanuels Sword Queen and Mrs. | j J. J. OByrnes Ann Joy was only beaten a j i nose for that part of the award. ! The Carabinier Steeplechase, over the short course, brought a rare finish when the Greentrce Stables Sumatra, ridden by the professional W. Collins, and Thomas Hitch- j j cocks Baffler, with the amateur Rigan Mc- I Kinney in the saddle, fought it out over the i j i last three fences to finish closely locked in , the order named. A dozen lengths back of ! j I them third went to Mrs. S. Bryce Wings i j Trojan Racket and Clonard was fourth. J There was one mishap in the running i when Thomas H. Somervilles Syriac unseated A. Bauman at the lower field er.d fence. Samuel D. Riddles War Admiral, a son of I Man o War and Brushup, was an easy winner of the second juvenile race of the day, run as the third. It was only the second start for this fellow, his other being a vie- | ! tory at Havre de Grace, and while he was i neglected in the betting the performance i j l was a decidedly impressive one as he readily , took the measure of Scintillator, that races | for Alvin Untermyer, and the odds-on choice Of the field. Joseph Pepps Papenie was a j | distant third, beating Exhort, from the j Howe Stable. i There came a demand for the camera to , decide the finish of the fifth race, a mile, ! for maidens, when A. G. Vanderbilts Spank and William Woodwards Merry Pete crossed the line locked and well before Mrs. A. B. Hancocks Star Scout, which was coupled I with Merry Pete, both being saddled by j James Fitzsimmons. The photograph re-i vealed a finish as named and as was called from the press stand. Merry Pete, breaking well, quickly went into command, and Spank raced alongside, J with both under slight restraint, while Sea- myth was in third place and Binks and j Count Stone following these closely. Before ! the stretch turn was reached Spank dropped ! back slightly and Merry Pete drew out to a lead of two lengths and at the same time j Seamyth went into second place to chase after the Woodward colt.
