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MR. BLAZE AGAIN TRIUMPHS Seidenberg Eacsr Leads Throughout in Suffolk Downs Feature. Impresses Spectators WJth His Brilliant Speed Second Falls tb Suncrax, With Somali Third. EOSTON, Mass., June 19 Miss Rose Seid-enbergs Mr. Blaze, a horse Woods Garth has brought to razor sharp condition, won his second straight and scored the most important victory of his brief career when he led a fast band of juveniles home in the Brookline Purse, feature of a sunny afternoons sport. He finished the distance in 1:00, handily, but the manner in which he scored impressed more than his final time. The dark brown son of Blazes, which had won in deep slop here on opening day, was simply romping on the front end for the entire journey and not once did a challenger draw near enough to loom up as a serious menace. At the end he was two and a half lengths clear of Colin McLeods Suncrax, which was driving hard to stave off Green-trees Somali by half a length. Calumet Farms Greedy finished fourth in the field of a dozen. The winner was ridden by Willie Nertney, who made the best use of his fine early speed and rode strongly on the stretch turn to keep him from bearing out, as he has a tendency to do. The start was delayed for several minutes, but Jim Milton sent them away in line, with Mr. Blaze going to the front immediately . and beginning to draw away as soon as he hit his stride. Down the back stretch he was more than two lengths in front of Suncrax, a horse that pursued him most closely from the start. Le Blanc attempted to drive the latter up on the turn, but he could not cut down Mr. Blazes lead. Greedy began with the leaders, but was laboring hard to stay in third place as she entered the stretch, while Somali, from a slow, beginning, was moving up rapidly. Mr. Blaze came into the stretch well in the lead and even before they reached the sixteenth post it was apparent that nothing would catch him. He was running more smoothly than anything else in the field. Suncrax was - driving behind him in a hopeless attempt to catch the flying leader. Greedy quit right at the end as the fast-charging Somali came through to take the minor spoils by a neck. Jack o Spades was close up for half the journey, then tired. The others were never in the race. Mrs.. F. A. Carreauds Glad Wings was an easy winner of the first event on the card, leading Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Bala-dine to the finish by two and a half lengths, Gleaming, from Paul Codds stable, was third in the limit field of a dozen and Phil Chinns Consistent finished fourth. Happy Dinah, a filly that is reported to have worked faster than horses are running here, began speedily and led down the back-stretch and around the turn. She was far short, however, quitting at the head of the stretch and winding up tenth. Blue Day, the string-halted veteran from A. G. Tarns barn, is Mr. Hawkins horse in this part of the country. He brought his string of victories to five in a row when he drove down on the outside in the stretch under Longden, to beat J. Y. Christmas Rough Party by a head. Phillips had Rough Party bearing out a trifle in the stretch, but Longden rode cleverly and did not suffer interference. Miss Ethel Hills The Bailiff was third, beaten four lengths. C. W. Phelans Long Bit, rated a router and coming off a distance race, drove home by a head in .the. six furlongs third event, beating LitHe Dinah, the hottest choice of the meeting by a head. The winner was showing a surprising amount of early speed and wore down the pace-making choice in the stretch. The favorite, a sore-going sort, was dropped down into. the softest spot of her life. She took the lead a few yards out but never was able to gain a clear advan- tage. Merovech went with her for a half, then Long Bit took up the chase on the turn and outgamed her in the final yards. The fact that Luther, on the winner, finished better than Jackson, on the runner-up, was a contributing factor in the score. W. G. Clysdales Moisson came from w the ruck in the stretch to take the third award and My-ponne finished fourth. Charles Miller sent out Martin Maddens Blue Larkspur three-year-old gelding Casca-pedia to earn his second consecutive purse when he ran the mile and seventy yards of the sixth in 1:45 flat. Nicely ridden by Arthur Cooper, who restrained him, the horse improved his position on the far turn until in the stretch he straightened the gelding out on the outside and, with slight urging, had him home safely in front.
