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UNHERALDED SCORES IN MUD Proves Best of Four Starters in Main Race at Jamaica Track. Hirsch Jacobs Saddles Bareback, Lee S. and Spanish Way for Winning Efforts Don Meade Astride Lee S. NEW YORK, April 18 Unheralded, Maryland-bred and owned, proved the most capable mud-runner of the four distance performers assembled in the high-priced claiming race which attracted todays best field at the Jamaica course. The son of Canter and Unfurled, which races for B. F. Christmas, came from far behind the pace of White Hot in this event to score over that Maryland-bred performer in the final yards, after a bitter duel from the top of the stretch to the winning post. The pair was far superior to the other two contestants, for Cisneros was a dozen lengths away as he took third money from Traicionero with little difficulty. It was the first score in half a dozen 1939 chances for the successful five-year-old. Faust had a bit of trouble with Unheralded in the first furlong, as he was forced to take him back sharply going to the first turn, when Wright hurried White Hot to the front. His charge galloped strongly in third place to the far turn and then cut through inside of Cisneros, while making that turn. Swinging for home Unheralded went around White Hot and then engaged that gelding in a duel which resulted in the pacemaker giving it up in the concluding yards. ALSELEDA GRADUATES. Jake Byer uncovered a real good thing In the opening race, a five furlongs dash for juvenile fillies, under claiming conditions, when he saddled Alseleda for the Paragon Stables. She was a handy winner, after having been played from 12, down to 5 to 1 at post time. Marie Minors Ballyhaste raced to second place, and Pirate Ship, from the Wheatley Stable, was a distant third, beating her stablemate, Mess, for that part of the purse. All three of the placed horses had a seasoning at Hialeah Park in Florida. The fog that settled over the course before the running of the second race, a six furlongs dash for cheap platers, made it impossible to distinguish the horses until they Continued on twenty-third page. UNHERALDED SCORES IN MUD Continued from first page. were inside the final furlong post. There it was seen that W. H. Berris Early Evening was showing the way, but in a hard drive through the closing stages, Ronnie Nash brought Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Bareback along to earn the decision by a short head. At the heels of the pair, third fell to Paul Codds Lucky Star, and another three lengths away it was Broad Tail that saved fourth. Bareback was top weight of the party, under a burden of 121 pounds, but he was at all times the favorite, going to the post at 4 to 5. FOG OBSCURES HORSES. There came some breaks in the heavy fog while the horses were at the post for the third event, another six furlongs dash for platers, but it was still impossible to pick out the horses through the back stretch. The race resulted in another close finish, in which George D. Wideners Trustworthy, under an energetic ride by Harry Richards, just scored by a head over Capt. Andy, and Shuchor was third, with Be a Belle fourth. There was a mishap in the running when Max Hirschs Horsepower went down with Kenneth McCombs, but both horse and rider escaped serious injury. The players continued to pick winners when W. J. Adrians Lee S. splashed home before the platers that met in the six furlongs of the fifth race and it gave Don Meade a winning ride, also completing a double for Hirsch Jacobs. When Spanish Way led from end to end of the mile and a sixteenth at the end of the card, it chalked up a double for Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs silks and it gave Hirsch Jacobs, her talented husband, three winners, giving him winners in half the card. The others were Bareback and Lee S.
