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STAGE BEAUTY-WINS LASSIE Shaw Filly Scores in ,500 Added Stake at Rockingham Park Adds ,955 to Earnings. SALEM, N. H., June 24. Mrs. P. A. Shaws Stage Beauty led the procession all the way to score a two-length victory in the Lassie Stakes, ,500 added attraction, which topped todays program at Rockingham Park. The winner ran exceptionally fast, going the distance in :59 flat, time that was just one-fifth of a second off the track record, held jointly by Cat Tail, Grannys Trade, Marooned and Silver Cord. Eccard was whipping her through the stretch, although such tactics did not appear to be necessary as she never was in serious danger. She finished clear of T. P. Morgans Sparkling Eyes. Bill Gallaghers Miss Apprehend took third, three lengths back of the runner-up. Royal Rhapsody was fourth and Spindletop, outweighted under 122 pounds, finished last in the small field. Stage Beauty, handling her 106 pounds as if it weighed very lightly on her, began extremely fast and had increased her lead to a daylight advantage before they approached the far turn. Sparkling Eyes was second and remained second for the entire journey, but after the first sixteenth she was never within less than two lengths of the leader. As they straightened out for the run home, Stage Beauty was running easily, but Eccard began to look back at the eighth post and apparently thought he was in danger, even though the second horse was laboring much harder than his mount. He went to a whip ride and continued to look back and use the whip until they were at the seventy-yard marker. Sparkling Eyes, under the same weight as the winner, was no match for her, but was easily best of the others. Miss Apprehend was well back early and did most of her running in tha final eighth. The package of 122 was simply too much for Spindletop. The winner earned ,955. The Salem Center Handicap, at one mile, was not as valuable as the feature, but was an even more interesting race. It was won by the highly regarded Heelf ly, from the Three Ds Farm, one of the ranking three-year-olds of the course, but the public who backed the horse to odds-on would have sold its tickets very short when the field was midway of the back stretch, for Heelfly, who was a wild horse at the post and started from outside-the gate, simply refused to run until they hit the far turn, but once he started running, he really ran, racing past horses from next to last place and making up some fourteen lengths to start drawing away by two and a half lengths. It was a great exhibition of running.
