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CHICOLORADO REPEATS Successful in Stuyvesant Handicap for Second Straight Win. Qualifies Well for Engagements in Wood Memorial and Kentucky Derby Moon Side Wins. NEW YORK, N. Y.. April 24. Chicolorado, from the Greentree Stable, moved up a bit closer to the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby, which follows that 0,000 prize, when he was a game winner of the Stuyvesant Handicap at Jamaica today. It was a revival of the six furlongs sprint feature which had been discontinued since 1934, and the running carried a value of ,425 to the winner. Back of the son of Chicle were several candidates for both of the engagements to which he is heading. Second was taken down by the lightly-weighted Vamoose, from the Falaise Stable, and A. C. Norris Guy Fawkes was third, neither being a Derby eligible. For the second Saturday of the Metropolitan Jockey Club meeting there was a crowd of some 15,000, although the weather was disagreeably cold, but the sport furnished was of an excellence that made one forget that discomfort. POST DELAY. There was some delay before the start of the Stuyvesant, for which Savage was chiefly to blame, but the start was a good one with Gold Band first to show from the company. Airflame was close after the Bomar Stable gelding, and Guy Fawkes was in the first flight. Charing Cross had left from the inside stall and before he had a fair chance to extend himself he was caught in close quarters. Later, when Gilbert attempted to send him through, he was forced to take up sharply and there was no stage of the running in which he had a free racing chance. The Parole Handicap of a mile and a sixteenth brought a surprise winner when Cleaveland Putnams Moon Side, making his first appearance since his arrival from Tan-foran, scored in a driving finish Over Mrs. Continued on twenty-third page. : i . CHICOLORADO REPEATS Continued from first nage.J John Hertz Count Arthur, with C. V. Whitneys Piccolo a close third and leading the Greentree Stables Memory Book, top weight of the company, past the line. Thorson and Esposa were the only other starters in this first class field. START FROM STALLS. In this the horses were sent away from the stalls, though the Australian gate had been used in other races of a mile and a sixteenth. The six went away in close order, and Thorson was soon showing the way, with Moon Side chasing him closely and Count Arthur third. Through the back stretch Litzenberger calle don Moon Side and, racing away from Count Arthur, the son of Broadside drew up on Thorson until they were going stride for stride. Then it was Thorson which cracked, and Moon Side drew away slightly as the stretch was reached. In the run home Moon Side was bearing out slightly but was not seriously threatened when his winning margin was a length and a half. Airflamc soon put Gold Band away, but was unable to draw out from the fast field and Guy Fawkcs was racing stride for stride with him, the pair soon opening up a lead of three lengths. Chicolorado was racing well out from the rail and in fourth place going to the turn from the back stretch. The next change came in the running order when Guy Fawkes put Airflame away and drew out to a lead of three lengths. Gold Band was racing with the Vanderbilt colt and Chicolorado was beginning to draw up on the outside. BEATEN A HALF LENGTH. This was the order as they swung into the stretch, but when the straightaway was reached Arcaro roused the son of Chicle and he responded cheerfully to race by both Gold Band and Airflame and he was soon alongside Guy Fawkes. But as Chicolorado moved. Vamoose also dashed up with him and thus it was that the Blue Larkspur colt was only beaten a scant half length, beating Guy Fawkes a neck for place. Airflamc had dropped back badly. Melodist showed little in the running while there was P an excuse for Charing Cross in the interim ference he suffered in the running, fe Great Union, a son of Sir Gallahad III. and My Flag, that races for Mrs. E. Gra- ham Lewis, was an easy winner over the big field of maiden juveniles that met in the opening five furlongs dash. Setting all the pace, he never left the result in doubt to score by a wide margin over Show Up, from the Howe Stable, and Maesak, from the Maemere Farm Stable, beat Mrs. George D. Wideners Happily for third. Mrs. P. D. Watts Golden Vein shipped from Havre de Grace, where he was winner of his last previous start, was victorious in the second race, at six furlongs, while a length back of him John Simonettis Free Again and Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Deduce finished in a dead heat for the place well before Sir Ten. It was the first dead heat of the meeting. RARE BLOOM REPEATS. John Hay Whitneys Rare Bloom, the daughter of Sir Gallahad III. and Rowes Bud, won her second race in as many starts when she scored easily in the third, which brought together some of the better class two-year-olds. She dominated all the running and performed even more impressively than in her previous effort when she led home Family Friend, from the Paragon Stables, and A. H. Watermans Miyako was a distant third before Cape Race. 1
