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HANFORD STARS AT AQUEDUCT Pilots Shot and Shell, Jesting ancL Exhibit to Victory. Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Scores Double Triumph -Camera Decides Finish of Two Races. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 11. Little Ira Hanford was at his best at Aqueduct today when he scored with three of his mounts, though in two races it took a camera to decide the winner. These were Shot and Shell, beating Distracting, and in the feature race of the afternoon when Mrs. C. Oliver Iselins Exhibit was decided the winner over William Woodwards Palma in the best race of the day, the Short Hose Handicap of a. mile and a sixteenth. His other score was with Jesting, which, with Shot and Shell, made it a double for Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs. It was a delightful day for racing and another big crowd was at the old course. Finishes were excitingly close in most of the events and altogether it was a good day of sport. In the running of the feature race there was a bit of rough riding in the stretch by Jimmy Stout on Palma that for a time held up the final official result. He had interfered seriously with Old Story in the stretch, but no claim of foul was lodged and after some delay the order of the finish was not disturbed by the stewards. From a good start, Esposa, Sunport and Exhibit were the ones to step out and show the way, with Old Story and Chicstraw racing along closely lapped back of them , and both under slight restraint. Then it was Sunport that took command, but both Esposa and Exhibit followed him closely. Through this stage of the running Palma was last of the small company, but they were all in fairly close order. Going to the stretch turn Gilbert called on Chicstraw and went to the outside to find racing room, and Westrope at the same time moved up with Old Story, taking an inner course. Sunport was tiring and Exhibit was showing the way, then Palma rushed up on the outside, but she went over sharply to interfere with Old Glory and knock him out of contention. After this roughing of the Pennant colt, Palma went on resolutely, but she was a nod short at the end and Hanford had ridden his third winner. Chicstraw finished with good courage under .a drive to take third, but he was four lengths back of the battling pair before him and Gillie ran into fourth place, with Esposa fifth and the unfortunate Old Story sixth. After a camera decision had proclaimed Shot and Shell the winner of the cond race for Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs there . came a double for the stable silks and for Ira Hahr ford, when "the consistent Jesting "was an easy winner of a; six and a half furlongs dash for platers of the better quality, run as the fourth offering. The daughter of Snob II. easily led home Marching Home, from the Middleburg Stable, with Quel Jeu, which races for the Arden Farms Stable, third before Thorson, and the only other starter was Ceaseless. Quel Jeu was responsible for a long delay at the post, but, the start was a good one and Marching Home sprinted into a long lead, with Thorson chasing after her, but Jesting and Quel Jeu were not far back of these and that was the order as the field headed for the long stretch. Thorson was first to weaken and then Hanford moved on Jesting to readily go to Marching Home. A surprise came in the opening five-furlong dash, for plater juveniles, when Lucky Ducky, a long shot that carried the silks of the Southland Stable, was an easy winner over William H. Gallaghers Chanting, and George McMitchells His Nibs took third from Eight Oclock. There was considerable crowding and Grand Jester and Chanting were the chief sufferers, with Eight Oclock also an unfortunate. The camera was kind to Hirsch Jacobs -j when it declared Mrs. Jacobs Shot and Shell the winner over Richard Pendings Distracting in the mile and a sixteenth of the second race. There was no agreement with this placing by the callers, who declared Distracting the winner. Closely lapped on the pair, third went to William Gallaghers Moralist and Aladdins Dream was fourth.
