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GALLANT PRINCE HANDILY Carries Belair Stud Colors to Victory in Peter Pan Handicap. Leads Home Brown Twig and Gillie in Best Offering of Mondays Program at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 1. Gallant Prince, four-year-old son of Gallant Fox Merry Princess in William Woodwards Bel-air Stud Stable, did not meet with the hard luck he encountered in his last race and, displaying more speed, he defeated the five other Class B performers opposing him in the Peter Pan Handicap, feature of Mondays program, which opened the final week of the .Belmont Park spring meeting. Leading most of the way, Gallant Prince scored by a length and a half over Brown Twig, racing for Mrs. Robert H. Heighe, while Greentree Stables Gillie was a head farther away in third place. Ridden by Jimmy Stout and carrying 116 pounds, Gallant Prince ran the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:45. Coupled with Wheatley Stables Seabiscuit in the wagering, Gallant Prince went to the post a strong favorite. Stout got him away quickly from his inside post position, but Brown Twig set out to make the pace. After a quarter mile Stout sent his mount up on the inside to take command and he rated the Gallant Fox colt along steadily thereafter, with the result the Belair representative did not enjoy much of a lead. After the field had straightened for the stretch run Stout gave Gallant Prince his head and he gradually drew away until he was in front by himself. Brown Twig held on determinedly or otherwise he would not have had the place over Gillie, which was hard ridden through the stretch to make up ground steadily. Chicstraw tired after making his bid at the turn, while Goldeneye was tiring throughout the stretch run after getting into a good position by skirting the rail on the final turn. Seabiscuit was always a trailer after stumbling at the start. The final week opened with clear and warmer weather in evidence, and a good-sized Monday crowd was in attendance. Favorites generally were in evidence in the winners enclosure. Harry Neusteters Pass Em By scored his second straight victory at Belmont by outrunning a half dozen other middle grade plater juveniles in the opening event, in which the son of By-Pass II. and Step Lively ran the five furlongs in 1:00. Harry Richards again rode the colt, a staunch favorite, stepping him away in front and rating hjm along as Lucy Glitters challenged and then Continued on thirty-eighth page. GALLANT PRINCE HANDILY Continued from first page. calling on him to move away from Papenie in the final quarter to defeat the latter by a length and a half. Another favorite to score was Pretty Busy, which carried the silks of Mrs. E. D. Jacobs to an easy triumph over ten other ordinary platers in the second race at six furlongs. Rushing to the front at the start as Ira Hanford hustled her along, the three-. year-old daughter of Busy American and Pendleton had Impromptu to race into defeat in the opening half mile. Thereafter she drew away to win by four lengths over Drawn Sword, with Alanad third, Sea Myth fourth and Dedication fifth. The latter four, were so closely aligned that the judges called for the picture to determine the order of placing. Many promising youngsters were among the fourteen maiden colts and geldings asked to go four and a half furlongs in the third race with the J. E. Widener entry of Advocator and Optic, finishing first and third, being separated there by Alvin Unter-myers Gurkha in a finish that called for a photograph. Advocator, ridden by Wayne Wright, got , the -verdict by a head over Gurkha, with Optic, making his first start, a neck behind. Stand In was fourth and Rebellion, the favorite, was fifth. J. J. Meehans Patsey Begone, benefiting from her last effort in which she tired in the stretch, came away when called upon to capture the fourth event by three lengths over Down Under, which just got up to nose out Galloping On for that portion of the purse. Sun Rap was the favorite but he displayed a dismal effort after being away poorly. Nine fair three-year-olds made up the field. Red John, slight favorite in the sixth race, made good with a stretch run that brought Mrs. A. P. Doyles bay son of Reigh Count to the wire a length before Billowy Wave, while Beveau was a length and one-half back in third place among the seven middle grade platers going a mile and a sixteenth. ;
