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MARE BEATS PASTEURIZED Little Miracle Outruns Wood Memorial and Derby Candidate. Weather Too Cold for Comfort at Jamaica Bridgehampton Handicap Heads Mondays Card. i NEW YORK, N. Y., April 25. Little Miracle, the game daughter of Bud Lerner and Nida, which races for Mrs. E. Graham Lewis, was brought to the races a fit mare by Louis Feustel at Jamaica today, when in . a driving finish she was winner of the Bridgehampton Handicap. Closely lapped on her at the end was Mrs. W. Plunkett Stew- , arts Pasteurized, an eligible for both the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby, while J. D. Norris Danger Point, the only other starter, was soundly beaten. Pasteurized had been campaigned, through the Florida season, while Danger Point, like the winner, was making his first appearance under silks since last October. It was entirely too cold for comfort at the course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, but a race crowd is a hardy crowd and there was a goodly turnout for the seven-race program that was offered. In the Bridgehampton no time was lost at the post and Longden at once went out with Little Miracle. Danger Point outbroke Pasteurized, which had the outside berth, but his disadvantage was slight. Wall soon moved into second place with Pasteurized while having the son of Milk Man under restraint, and he was racing smoothly at the heels of the mare leaving the back stretch. DROPS BACK. Danger Point vas already dropping back and it was evident he was not entirely ready for such a task. Wall still had a slight hold of the three-year-old heading for the stretch turn, but there he asked him to run. A furlong out he was alongside the mare, but Little Miracle had plenty of courage and as Longden roused her she fought along so gamely that her head was still in front passing the judges. Danger Point was five lengths back of the duelling pair, but the race will undoubtedly do him some good and he should show to better advantage at the next asking. W. Hirschensohns Retlaw, a colt that showed good form in Florida, was winner of the six furlongs dash for platers that was the opening race. The son of Time Maker was rushed into a long early lead, and while he was winner by three lengths after making every post a winning one, he was doing his best. Second place went to Mrs. C. E. Coates Ace of Trumps, and Notoriety barely saved third from Pytchley. Polly Jo left the post fast, but she was quickly headed by the winner, while Ace of Trumps was in close quarters leaving his stall and badly pocketed in the early racing. When he found racing room he closed ground, but Gilbert was forced to go to the outside to find room on the stretch turn, and he failed to run down the Time Maker colt. BIG THRILL. ; One of the big thrills of the day was-furnished by the cheap ones in the second race, a split of the first, when J. D. Norris Mae-mute, Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Gert B., and W. F. Morgans Labor Day flashed over the line closely lapped in the order named. The pace in this was set by Gert B. and Battle Call. They were along closely lapped to the head of the stretch. There Battle Call weakened slightly, but she had hung on long enough to take considerable out of the daughter of Microphone, and in a desperate drive that followed, Maemute was along in time to earn a head decision. Modest Queen, the juvenile daughter of Burgoo King and Belittin, that had a sea-j soning in Florida with a busy campaign, was winner of the third, a half-mile dash fashioned under claiming conditions. Smartly ridden by J. Bailey, the Victor Emanuel miss dominated all the running and at the end had a length and a half to spare over rW. H. Gallaghers Dark Sweet and T. P. Morgans Billabong took third from Gin Fritters. The race was marred by a bad start in which Marshall Fields Cherachin had no chance, and Cantwell was also off badly. The Hazelwood, a six furlongs dash for maidens, was the fourth contest, and it resulted in another battling finish when The Story, from the Crescent Stable, under a powerful ride by Wayne Wright, was just up to beat Edward Coats Clarion Call and it took a photograph to determine that the Howe Stables Consul had saved third from Mollie Swain. Clarence Buxtons Billy Van Nuys was favorite in this but after attempting to run off vith Howell on the way to the post he left none too well and, afer racing his way into fourth position, weakened to finish fifth.
