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ROYAL EMINENCE WINS PURSE Defeats Gridine in Close Finish for Jamaicas Headliner. Track Still Muddy From Rain Earlier In the Week Partridge Stable Scores a Double Triumph. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 7. Royal Eminence in a gruelling stretch run was winner of the best offering of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today when he earned a close decision over J. D. Norris juvenile Gridine in the Worthmore Purse, a test of a mile and seventy yards for all ages. Third went to Vamoose, from the Falaise Stable, with Gino Rex, another two-year-old, a distant third. It was a day of overnight races and with the track still muddy from the rain earlier in the weak, the conditions were not altogether agreeable, though form was fairly well conserved. In the Worthmore Purse under the conditions, the two-year-olds were required to give away considerable weight to the older horses, but the result proved that the race was "well devised for it brought an excellent contest. GRIDINE RATED. Gridine was rushed through on the inside going to the first turn and when Anderson had him clear he steadied him along handily and eased out to the better going. Gino Rex was galloping strongly and then came Equilibrium, so that the first four were overnights. Vamoose was well back of these and Haas was making no serious move to improve his position. Gridine finally put Gino Rex away, but by that time Yarberry had moved into second place with Royal Eminence. Into the stretch Gridine went along gamely, holding to his lead, but in the final drive he tired and the three-year-old was winner by a neck. Two lengths back Vamoose had closed some ground to easily take third from the tired Gino Rex. SUNTIME WINS. There was a double for the J. B. Partridge silks when Suntime was winner over a rather nice band of platers that raced six furlongs as the fifth race. Partridge waived the apprentice allowance and had the son of Sun Meadow take up 114 pounds when he used Irving Anderson, but he made no mistake as the result proved. It was Charles S. Bromleys Crimea that raced to the place, and W. C. Winfreys Fogoso, the favorite, took third from Deep End. After leaving the back stretch, Anderson sent Suntime up on the inside accepting the deeper going, but saving ground. A furlong out, Suntime was in second place, having Fogoso beaten, and from there to the end he was bearing out somewhat, but was safely over the line the winner by two lengths. Crimea had beaten Fogoso a length and the Winfrey gelding in turn was only half a length before Deep End.
