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IDLE MISS THIRD STRAIGHT Scores Easy Victory Over Pixey Dell in Little Neck Handicap at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 26.— Idle Miss maintained her unbeaten 1938 record as she breezed to victory in the Little Neck Handicap, the mile test for fillies and mares, which featured todays competition at Belmont Park. Through a lightly falling rain, but over a track which had been deadened only slightly, the B. F. Christmas four-year-old galloped the distance in 1:39% to register with plenty to spare. At the winning post she was three lengths in advance of the gamely-closing Pixey Dell, with Alexandrine finishing fairly well to be another two lengths away. The successful daughter of Distraction and Misleading was the best backed favorite of the afternoon, closing at 3 to 5, after opening at 6 to 5. The runner-up was the only one of the remaining five starters to close at lower than her opening price. Ten had been named overnight, but Catalysis and Fair Stein scratched in the morning, while Reminding and Clean Out were withdrawn late, through the fear of an off-track. The score was the third of the year for the Maryland-owned filly and her second of the meeting. Westrope had Idle Miss under light restraint in the early running, as his mount galloped along on the inside for the first five-eighths of a mile. However, she was in tight quarters with the chance for interference ever threatening. Turning for home, the leaders fanned out and this enabled Westrope to bring his mount around Citadel and move away to a handy lead once straightened out for home. It was only a breeze in the last three-sixteenths. »
