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. . i ; ; RUDIE REGAINS BEST FORM Defeats Sandy Boot in Graded Handicap at Jamaica Course. Jacobs Silks Score Triple on Alarming, Sandy Bill and Epical Double for Longden. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 27. Rudie returned to winning form in the featured class "B" handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, at Jamaica today when he flashed to the front in the opening strides and set a stiff pace all the way to defeat J. D. Norris Sandy Boot by a length and a half in 1:45. Third to the Gallagher four-year-old and a length off the runner-up, was Ogden Phipps Teufel, which was racing under the colors of his new owner for the first time. The winner, fourth choice of the day to score, was the light weight of the field under 116 pounds. He was so erratic at the gate that he was finally taken outside and that seemed to work to his advantage, as he cut a long diagonal to the first turn and never left the result in doubt once in front. The Parole, as the feature was styled, marked the second 1938 appearance of the winner, and the first for Strabo, as well as the first North American appearance of the Long-champs Farms South American invader Maraton. The five-year-old stallion, perhaps the largest horse in training hereabouts, did not raise a respectable gallop until the last sixteenth, where he closed gamely. EDEAL WEATHER. The midweek program was favored with another excellent weather break, and a good sized crowd was out. Favorite players had the largest afternoon they have enjoyed thus far in the meeting. The baby race carded showed what may prove a good colt in Belair Studs Johnstown. Rudie was led to the gate by a stable hand. He had an advantage from being placed on the outside at the start, and had matters his own way throughout. Although starting to tire a bit, he bore out the last few yards. Sandy Boot displaced Strabo in second place on the clubhouse turn and held that position to the end, despite the efforts of Longden, on Teufel, to beat him in the stretch. Strabo seemed to need the race. There came a third score for the silks of Mrs. E. D. Jacobs, and a double for Johnny Longden, when he rode Alarming to victory in the mile and a sixteenth for platers at the end of the card. The other Jacobs scores came when both Sandy Bill and Epical won, and Longden had the mount on Epical. Sandy Bill, the old son of Wise Counsellor which, after having been away from the races for two years, was brought back at the present Jamaica meeting by Hirsch Jacobs, hung up his third victory in the opening six furlongs dash. The old fellow was taking up 126 pounds and he ran by long odds his best race since his return when he ran in 1:11 to easily lead home Paul B. Codds Brogue, with Flying Victory, from the Short Brook Farms, a distant third. EPICAL IN FRONT. Hirsch Jacobs made it two in a row for Mrs. Jacobs when Epical was winner of the second, another six furlongs dash and a split of the first race. Like Sandy Bill, the son of Epinard was top weight of the company and he was going away at the end when he led home Mrs., Kate Lauras Eldee, with W. L. Johnsons Col. Greene finishing a close third before Hermanita. Johnstown, making the second start of his career and one of the swiftest workers among the juveniles on Long Island, earned brackets under the popular Belair banner in the third event when he beat Hash a Jength and a half, pricking his ears. Third, four lengths farther away, was King Cotton. Chant DOr was fourth. The winner went the five furlongs of this maiden dash in :59 under Jimmy Stout. He was the sec- ond choice to connect. J. M. Roeblings Invoke proved best of the three-year-old sprinting fillies which met in the six furlongs of the fourth. She outgamed the Howe Stables Rissa to win going away, with the Brookmeade Stables Handcuff finishing with good courage to take third from the Wheatley Stables Cita-1 del.
