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■ I I I i j | j I I j I i I PASTRY REPEATS AT BELMONT Gallops to Four-Length Victory in Troubador Handicap. May B. Victress in Photo Finish Over Boar in Secondary Attraction — Crepe Disappoints at Odds-On. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 24.— Pastry, eight-year-old son of John P. Grier and Muffins, registered his second successive trilumph and his third in half a dozen chances this season as he galloped to a four-length victory in the mile and a sixteenth Troubador Handicap, principal event on to-I days Belmont Park program. The score of Solly Pisacanos gelding was so decisive that it made the claim of foul against him appear frivolous. So the stewards decided in confirming the official placing. Closest to Pastry at the end was W. F. Whitakers Masker, stablemate of Crepe, which was beaten at odds-on in the afternoons principal upset. He was just up in the concluding yards to snatch secondary honors from the tiring Knights Haven. The winner did not have to run as swiftly as in his previous race, completing the distance in 1:45%. Despite his age, he appears better today than at any previous time in his career. BATES HOBSE. Bianco, who seems able to get plenty of run out of Pastry, was content to have him in a rear position during the back stretch run, having only a single horse beaten leaving that lane. Then he sent his mount up rapidly turning for home to take command at the top of the stretch. Though he appeared to have his rivals well beaten at the furlong pole, Bianco kept after the veteran with whip, hand and heel right down to the winning post. Masker, far out of it early, cut through on the inside making the turn and then came around Sea Voyage and Knights Haven in the stretch to wear down both in the last sixteenth. CLOSE FINISH. There was a smashing finish in the six furlongs Hewlett Handicap, the days secondary attraction when Bill Gallaghers May R. was just up in the final stride to nose out the pacemaking Roar, with At Play a neck farther away. However, the majority of those present did not appreciate the thrilling battle through the last three-six-| teenths, for Crepe, a 7 to 10 post choice, was not in it, showing a form reversal, quitting through the stretch to be six lengths in the rear at the end. Roar had the speed to be head and head with Crepe for the first three-eighths of a mile and then drew away quickly to hold a commandnig advantage turning for home. He looked all over the winner at the furlong pole, but in the last sixteenth he hung, and May R.s gallant rally earned her the photo decision. She finished out in 1:12, a fair race over a lightning fast track.
