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WAYNE WRIGHT HAS BIG DAY Pilots Trio of Winners at Jamaica Black Look Wins. Redbreast and Gentle Savage Soundly Beaten in First Appearance Under Silks This Year. JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., April 20. Black Look, the son of Whichone and Beaming that Thomas J. Healey purchased at the C. V. Whitney dispersal sale last fall, appeared for the first time under the new silks in the Devon Handicap at Jamaica today and earned back part of the purchase price. In a good, game finish and fof tunate to find racing room on the rail, he was just up to score over Mrs. E. Graham Lewis Great Union, and J. D. Norris Sandy Boot was i rather a distant third before Spillway. This was a six furlongs dash and the best offering of an interesting card. With delightful racing weather a big crowd was out and the racing was first class. Only six went postward in the Devon and Sgt. Byrne was made the choice, but the old fellow was never able to get to the front and that spelled defeat for him before a half mile had been covered. Great Union was hustled away by Nick Wall to take the lead from the break and, smartly nursed along in the front position, it was only in the clos-i ing strides he hung slightly to lose a close decision to Black Look. RIDES WELL. Wright rode a heady race on the Healey colt when he avoided the early pace and, saving ground on the stretch turn, moved through to be second a furlong out and, in a desperate finish, scored by a neck. It was the third winning mount of the day for Wright, he having scored with Cantwell and Rosemain earlier. Great Union, which is a nominee for the Kentucky Derby, was making his first appearance under silks since the running of the Futurity of last October, and, though beaten, he ran a smashing race. He is not in the Wood and has not "been seriously considered as a Derby eligible, but he, at least, is a top sprinter. Black Look is an eligible for the Jamaica Handicap, a six furlongs .dash, and he qualified nicely for that prize. Opera Hat, the three-year-old son of Cocked Hat, returned to the races under the silks of A. L. Haskells Woodland Farm stable, in a measure qualified fp.r his engagement in the Wood Memorial, when he was an easy winner of the Malvern, a six furlongs dash that engaged two other candidates for the 0,000 prize in Redbreast and Gentle Savage. The Cocked Hat colt was winner with ridiculous ease when he led home William Ziegler Jr.s Suburbanite by half a dozen lengths, and Mrs. John D. Hertz Count DOr was a close third before Ron. Both Redbreast and Gentle Savage were soundly beaten, their first appearance under silks this year, and they will have to improve considerably to merit any serious attention in the Wood, for which both are headed. Undoubtedly the race will do considerable good, but the race run by Redbreast was particularly disappointing in the light of the way the son of Chicle has been training. The sport opened with an upset when through the stretch J. Dushocks Cantwell ran down Victor Emanuels. Modest Queen, the favorite, to win going away, while Guitar, from the Wheatley Stable, was a rapidly closing third. WitE little delay at the post, the eight engaged left on the same stride and Modest Queen, more alert than the others, was soon two lengths clear and racing along under a slight restraint as she showed the way. Cantwell was well before the others with Bright Gray just heading Conduct, and Guitar was slow to be in full stride. Modest Queen held to her lead until well into the stretch but there she began to shorten stride, and Cantwell began to draw up on her. Wright went to work seriously pn the son of John P. Grier and he steadily wore down the filly as she collapsed badly in the final sixty yards, going on to win by two lengths. SCHUTTINGER SADDLES WINNER. Andy Schuttinger saddled a. smart sort of a maiden in the second race, a dash at six furlongs, when he sent out Bell Ringer, an unsexed son of Dunboyne and Minister Bell, for M. Van Buren. Hustled away from the post by Johnny Gilbert, he dashed into the lead in the first few strides and steadily opened up on the field until his winning margin was eight lengths. The place went to John Simonettis Squirrel, and the Howe Stables Consul was only third because of the energetic riding of Arcaro. The third was a split of the first race, five furlongs, for plater juveniles. It brought another victory for the George D. Widener silks, when Rosemain, a daughter of Hi-Jack and Rosebloom, appearing for the first time, was a handy winner, giving Wayne Wright his second winning ride of the day. W. H. Gallaghers Dark Sweet, seasoned in Florida, took the place over Hugh W. Jacksons Gin Fritters, which was also raced in Florida. This was a bit of an upset when General Howes, the favorite, left the post so slowly as to have scant chance, and he was outrun all the way to finish last.
