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PLAY CHANCE BIG SURPRISE 4 Outsider in Exile Handicap Outruns Invermark by- Inches. Close Finisli Although New York Judges Fail to Ask for Film Patsey Begone Scores. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 9. Play Chance, racing for Sam Deutsch and a long shot oi the field, was winner of the best offering ol the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct today when he scored over the Wheatley Stables Invermark in the Exile Handicap. This was the most exciting finish of the day, though the judges did not ask fpr a camera verification of their placing. Third went to the Brookmeade Stables Time Clock, the choice of the field. The day was a gray one and rain threatened, but a big crowd was out and there was the usual interest taken in the racing offered. In the Exile Handicap Invermark went right into the lead leaving the stalls and dominated the race. Hanford raced hfm along on the rail and it was not until inside the final sixteenth that he suddenly tired and bore out rather badly. As he bore out, Play Chance slipped through on the rail to drop his nose down in front. In the early stages, Play Chance was far back but he saved ground in the stretch when he raced along next to the rail, and as Invermark bore out in the final stages, he carried Time Clock with him. The Brookmeade horse was sluggish in the early stages, was closing ground steadily in the final quarter, but could not run down the leading pair, though it is possible he might have, been the winner had it not been for the bearing out of Invermark. As Invermark was setting the early pace Black Grouse went after him and Star Shadow-was close after him, but these efforts took care of them before the stretch was reached. Ward-in-Chancery showed a flash of speed but he was plainly not up to a race. This effort should do him much "good. Patsey Begone, racing for J. J. Meehan, took the measure of Mag Mell, from the Wheatley Stable, in the Snowflake Purse, which was for three-year-old fillies, and Mag Mell was generally considered as one of the sure winners of the day. Third went to J. P. Jones Deflate and Edward R. Bradleys Bonnie Lois took fourth from Reminding, a stablemate to "Mag Mell. Hanford had Mag Mell under restraint as she followed the pace set by Patsey Begone and Deflate, but as the stretch was reached, he called on the daughter of Pompey, which was racing on the inner rail. With a few strides she answered the call to run down Deflate but she was unable to catch Patsey Begone, which was over the line the winner by a length and a half. Old Portden proved best of the platers that met in the opening six and a half furlongs dash, and under an able ride by Jack Westrope, he carried the silks of Thomas Malone to an easy victory over Mrs. J. M. Blacks Waterset, with George H. Bostwicks Pompeius just saving third from Black Mischief. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Lord Johnson, carrying all the pace, was winner of the two-mile stepelechase that was under selling conditions. Second place went to Mrs. T. W. Forbes Little Woman, and Wide River, from the Groton Stable, took third from Flying Feathers. J. P. Jones Capstan was a close contender to the final fence, where he bolted around the inside wing. He was taken back in the course to finish, but this prevented his having any share in the money. There was one other mishap when Budget Boy, from the Greentree Stable, fell at the thirteenth fence. The third, a five-furlong dash for better class plater juveniles, brought an excellent finish when Ira Hanford, by a hustling finish, landed Mrs. Parker Comings Merry Maker the "winner over Pass Em By, which raced for Samuel Deutch, and at his heels third went to J. M. Zimmers Yetive. Pass Em By had speed to cross over from the outside shortly after the start, and he was showing the way to the final sixteenth when he tired. Merry Maker, slow at the break and racing on the outside, closed a big gap and, finishing with courage, raced past Pass Em By readily and was going away at the finish to be winner by a length. Yetive was another that finished well, but Chanting was in considerable interference and was taken up in the "early running. Samuel Riddles Over the- Top, a son of Man o War and Cresta, graduated from the maiden class in the five and a half furlongs of the sixth race but he was guilty of considerable fouling before he was over the line. Breaking slowly, the colt had to make up a lot of ground, but as Westrope drove him to the front, he bore over on the other runners and one that suffered considerably by the interference was Wonderobo that raced for Marshall Field. The Brookmeade Stables Monument took second place in this running, with Harvesting, from the Wheatley Stable, racing third, and Gay Jack finished fourth. .
