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JOHNSTOWN ANNEXES REMSEN Belair Colt Succeeds in Smartest Effort of Career. Lovely Night Takes Place Honors Secondary Feature Falls to Louis Strubes Rust. NEW YORK, N, Y., Oct. 15. Johnstown, disappointing favorite in the Futurity, accounted for his second straight stake since that downfall, as he said farewell to racing for the 1938 season in the Remsen Handicap at Jamaica today. The largest crowd of the meeting, one estimated at 14,000, saw the Belair Stud colt make a show of the five that opposed him in the six furlongs juvenile number, which was the headline attraction on the final program of the regular autumn season on Long Island. The son of James ktown and La France turned in the smartest effort of his career to gallop home seven lengths in advance of his nearest rival, being eased at the end to complete the distance in 1:11, time which was only three-fifths of a second off the track record. It was a dazzling effort under 126 pounds. Closest to him at the end was Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Lovely Night, which finished in stout-hearted fashion to take the place from the exhausted Beau James by four lengths. The field was well spread out at the end, with Book Plate another three lengths away as he earned fourth money. There was plenty of support at all times for the winner, as he opened at 9 to 10, drifted to even money and then was backed down to 4 to 5 at post time. The effort netted his owner ,100 in prize money, that being considerably more than the ,690 Rust took down for Louis Strube when she awoke in the Long Island Stakes, the mile and a sixteenth claiming affair which was the secondaiy attraction. GOOD WINNER. Johnstowns victory was his fifth in eleven starts and his third stake. Last Saturday he accounted for the Richard Johnson at Laurel, while on Labor Day. he ran off with the Babylon Handicap at Aqueduct. He set a whirlwind pace to cover -the first quarter in :22 and the half in :454,$. Johnstown stood at the post as quietly as a mule while Beau James and Hants were making considerable trouble, the antics of the latter finally causing him to be banished outside the stalls. However, Stout had him away like a flash to immediately take command, with Beau James lapped on him : on the outside. So they raced for about three-eighths of a mile, with the latter colt then crying "enough" and the son of Jamestown drawing off to a long lead turning for home. Through the stretch he was only romping and not extended seriously. Rust could not run a lick in the Continental Handicap last Saturday, and to say that her effort in the Long Island was a considerable .improvement is expressing it only mildly. Roguish Girl won the previous stake in the indifferent time of 1:45, with Rust eleven lengths away. Today she took on ten pounds additional to skip over the jsame distance in 1:43. Incidentally, she whirled the first mile in 1:37, which is a full second faster than Ordinances track record for the distance. It was the second straight for Johnny Longden, as he had. taken the previous dash with Soigne. Due to a heavy play on Our Ketcham, the daughter of Spanish Prince II Anna Horton receded to 3 to 1 at the post, after opening half a point lower. The Louis Strube mare -broke far more alertly than in any of her three previous starts on Long Island this fall and Our Ketcham never could steal away fromher. She forced the pace of that three-year-old for the first five furlongs and then moved around him to put away the Spanish Play colt after a brief duel. Turning for home she drew off to a two lengths advantage and this she maintained to the finish. .
