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CAMERA SHOWS RUST WINNER Mare Gets Verdict Over Treford After Stirring Drive Raceland Handicap for Grade B Racers RacersFeature Feature at Belmont Park Triple for forEddie Eddie Arcaro NEW YORK N Y May 11 In one of the best finishes of the season Louis Strubes good mare Rust earned the decision by a nose over Thomas H Somervilles Tre ¬ ford in the Raceland Handicap at Belmont Park today This was the mile and one sixteenth feature offered for those of class B in the graded handicaps and well back of the battling pair Robert H Heighes Pur pie Knight led home Star Shadow and Gean Canach the other starters startersAll All through the race it was a twohorse affair and after Rust seemed to have Tre ¬ ford beaten the gelding came again and it appeared he was winner but the photo ¬ graph disclosed that it was the nose of the mare that reached the line first firstThe The card was one without any special fea ¬ ture but some excellent sport resulted and another big crowd was out outThe The Raceland Handicap was started from the stalls and the five engaged left on the same stride with Peters at once going to the front with Treford Rust raced at his heels and Gilbert had her under slight restraint Purple Knight was galloping easily back of the pair As the turn from the back stretch was reached Gilbert moved with Rust As she drew alongside Peters shook up Treford and he went stri3eforstride with her until near the stretch turn turnPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHIC FINISH FINISHIn In the meantime Purple Knight began to move up on the pair steadily but on the turn for home Richards rapped him sharply with the whip Then Rust gamely raced past Tre ¬ ford and a furlong from the finish she had a lead of a half length Gilbert was keeping her right at her task but Treford was not through and he came again while Purple Knight wilted under the drive Thus it was that Rust and Treford swept over the line in such close order that only a photograph could decide the result resultStar Star Shadow and Gean Canach were al ¬ ways outrun though Star Shadow was right at the heels of Purple Knight as he crossed the line lineThe The opening dash at five furlongs that en ¬ gaged plater juveniles of the better variety saw Charles S Bromleys Our Ketcham the winner over Coal King from the Natoma Stable while Wm Ziegler Jrs Papa Jack the favorite and winner of his last previous race at Jamaica was a distant third The only other starters were Sing Low and Cape race and they were soundly beaten beatenBUSY BUSY K WINNER WINNERThirteen Thirteen of the cheapest sort met in the seven furlongs of the second race and it produced a good finish in which P Dale E Watts Busy K was winner over Grand Jes ¬ ter which races for Mrs Ethel D Jacobs and closely lapped on him Mark Fators Galon Boy beat Black Witch for third thirdCrop Crop took the lead and was out in front until the long stretch was reached where there was a general closing up back of him and Galon Boy came into the contention while Grand Jester was fighting his way through between horses as Stout brought him off the rail A furlong out Grand Jes ¬ ter looked the winner but Busy K was closing strongly under a powerful ride by Arcaro and he showed in front when inside the final sixteenth He held his lead to cross the line winner by a length and a ahalf half halfThe The Joseph E Widener silks were first and second in a close finish of the third a four and onehalf furlongs dash for maiden juvenile colts and geldings Transmitter aj gelded son of Sickle and Zephyretta was winner by a matter of inches over Bucking a son of Chance Shot Transmitter is an eligible for the Juvenile while Bucking does iiot enjoy the engagement Three lengths back of the Widener pair John Hay Whit ¬ neys Gallery God saved third from Stephen Jay JayEddie Eddie Arcaro rode his third winner of the day when he piloted Seamyth to victory in the mile and a sixteenth of the final race It was for platers and started from the Australian gate Perfect Devil finished sec ¬ ond and third was the portion of Narise one that left the post slowly and met with some interference in the running runningNorth North Riding the threeyearold daughter of High Time and Scarborough won her third race in a row when she proved easily best of the fillies of the same age that op ¬ posed her in the six furlongs of the fifth race This was run around the turns of the main course and taking an early lead North Riding was never seriously threatened to win by two and a half lengths from Mrs Robert H Heighes Lady Maryland and well back of that one came Flyanetta that saved third from Whichprint
