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3 High Fleet Earns ,575 in Coaching Club American Oaks Blue Sheen Finishes Fifth in Belmont Filly Prize Daughter of Jack High Stays Well Over Long One Mile and Three-Eighths Route. NEW YORK, N. Y., Juno ?. George D. Wideners sprinting filly High Fleet, stuck it out for a mile and three furlongs in the Coaching Club American Oaks, to be winner of that great prize for three-year-old fillies at Belmont Park today. This gave thp daughter of Jack High added importance and added 0,575 to her earnings. Lapped on her at the finish was Split, Second, from the King Ranch, which was giving the winner ten pounds, and well back of these Elmer Dale Shaffers Floradora beat the Wheatley Stables Reminding for third, while Whitney Stones Blue Sheen, which had beaten High Fleet in the running of the Acorn Stakes, was fifth. This mid-week filly prize attracted a big crowd, and weather conditions were ideal. The supporting card was an interesting one and finishes for the most part were exciting. From a good start High Fleet was first to show in front, and she was soon under steady restraint. Blue Sheen went along with her and then came Sea Cradle. Han-ford was waiting with Split Second, while Floradora and Reminding were the trailers. This was the order in the long run to the turn of the back stretch, and there Sea Cradle was beginning to show signs of weakening and Blue Sheen was finding her weight troublesome. Split Second was still galloping strongly but so was High Fleet, and the Jack High miss was showing no signs of shortening stride. Turning into the stretch, High Fleet opened up slightly and a furlong from the finish was two lengths clear, but there Split Second had moved into second place and as Hanford went to a drive the daughter of Sortie began to gain on the Widener filly. Stride by stride she drew up but Johnny Gilbert realized the danger and rousing High Fleet, kept her at it to have her past the line winner by three parts of a length. This chase after the winner had carried Split Second out five lengths before the others and Floradora, by a belated rush, was the one to take third, while Reminding also came with courage to be just a length and a half away. In the Acorn High Fleet had faltered to lose to Blue Sheen and it suggested that the mile and a furlong would be a bit too Continued on thirty-eighth page. HIGH FLEET VICTORIOUS Continued from first page. far for her to show to advantage, but in this race she was in receipt of. ten pounds from both Split Second and Blue Sheen and she also ran a greatly improved race to stay the exacting. mile and three .furlongs. The Ridge Handicap, a six furlongs dash over the main course, brought out an excellent field of sprinters, so that it resulted in a thrilling contest, in which Pullman, from j the Sage Stable, outgamed John Hay Whitneys Gleeman, and third went to Mrs. Marian Cassidys Bill Farnsworth when he led Pretty Night home. From a good start, Gilbert at once went out to make the pace with Gleeman, and the son of Royal Minstrel was soon under a steadying restraint as he showed the way, with Nautch and Exhibit racing after him, while Pullman was not far back of these and running along on the inner rail. Before the stretch was reached Gleeman had disposed of both Nautch and Exhibit, but Pullman was holding to his task resolutely and moving strongly on the rail. He was right after the Whitney colt a furlong out, and in that last furlong, where Balaski had to come outside of the leader, the son of The Porter proved the gamer and was going away the winner by three parts of a length. Bill Farnsworth, in the meantime, was closing well under a drive and while about a length and a half from the place he readily led Pretty Night home. The filly had made her move on the outside, and she also closed some ground,, while both Exhibit and Nautch stopped badly after having attempted to go with Gleeman. Handle Cross, a gelded son of Haste and Diamond, carried the J. E. Widener silks to victory in the opening four and a half furlongs dash through the straight course. This was for maiden juvenile colts and geldings and under claiming conditions. J. D. Norris Ground Oak took second place, with Donald Duck, from the Manhasset Stable, beating Gold Cross for third. There was a very unusual happening in the short course steeplechase when Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Amagansett, after unseating Little at the second fence, continued with the field and, timing his run perfectly, was home first by several lengths. He made no mistakes and while he interfered to some extent with the others, it gave evidence of how perfectly the old son of Embargo knows his racing. The winner turned up in Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes National Anthem, when he led home Sumatra, from the Green-tree Stable, and What Have You easily beat Danie Boy for third. A
