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SINGING WOOD BEATEN Wise Prince Neck Victor in New England States Handicap. Spixi Also Outfinishes Favored Whitney Star at Rockingham Days Attendance Reaches 10,000. SALEM, N. H., June 3. Felix Spatolas Wise Prince drove to a neck triumph in the New England States Handicap, which featured the mid-week sport here and was decided before a throng of 10,000 persons. At the end Hilton Dabson was driving hard on the winner to get him to the judges in front of Spixi, from E. A. McManns stable, a horse that dropped from the clouds in the race and appeared to be hopelessly outclassed in the calculations of most handi-cappers. The latter was a length in front of the disappointing choice, John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood; Happy Knot, the early pacemaker, was fourth in the field, and C. V. Whitneys Trumpery; a horse "Sonny" Workman came here especially to ride, ran fifth after a very rough trip. He may have been best as the race was run. He was knocked back at the start, trailed the others down the back stretch, was in close quarters on the turn, then came through next to the rail in the stretch and for a moment appeared a possible winner. However, he had to make up too much ground and that took it out of him in the final drive. Happy Knot, a mare with plenty of early speed, showed in front at the start and led the field by several lengths in the run down the back str.etch and around the turn, with the gray gelding Candy Prince, coupled in the betting with the winner, in nearest pursuit. When Candy Prince tired on the turn Dabson drove Wise. Prince up to pursue the leader and ""he was in front at the head of the stretch. Spixi, which began fifth and rah in that position all down the back stretch, had moved up gradually around the turn and loomed up at the head of the stretch with the tiring Happy Knot fourth. Heads and necks separated the first four horses as they swung for home and it was evident the stretch battle would be a hot one. Then Workman began to drive Trumpery up from nowhere to enter the argument. At the sixteenth post it seemed Trumpery would be rio worse than third, but he had little running room and tired seventy yards out. His race was a good one and indicates he will go beyond six, furlongs successfully. Singing Wood .had laeen racing fifth, but within striking1 distance, Knott driving him up smartly, and he appeared to have no excuses. He simply could not catch the leading pair. In the last seventy yards it was Wise Prince and Spixi, neck and neck and nod for nod, and Wise Prince, a horse that looks better: than ever before, was the better of the pair. Singing Wood has either gone far back or he does not like this track. He had given away a lot of weight under his top weight of 128, but the crowd again made him the choice. The winner ran: in 1:11, which is extremely fast for this track this8 year. The winner- earned ,490. It papeared the handle would run, around 75,000. The large crowd had not proved a betting one up to the fifth race.
