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SALAMIS WINS IN SLOW TIME Brown King Chases Filly Home in Glenmore Handicap. Daughter of Jamestown Nicely Rated by Harry Richards Bill D. Carries 121 Pounds to Victory in First Race. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 21. George D. Wideners Salamis, beaten soundly in the Harford Handicap at Havre de Grace last Saturday, was winner of the best offering at Jamaica today in a card of overnight events, with four over the six furlongs distance. She was favorite of the half dozen that went to the post and the place went to Joe W. Browns Brown King, an importation from Chile that raced in South America as Palais Royal. Incidentally, it is more than likely this fellow will develop into better than a useful horse on this, his first showing. Scrooge finished a close third and fourth money went to Indomitable. While there was plenty of sunshine for a crowd of goodly proportions, the weather was unseasonably cold and a wind that blew over the course did not add comfort. The sprint that went to Salamis was titled the Glenmore Handicap and it was fashioned for class "C" performers. It was not much1 of a race when the daughter of Jamestown1 was doing her best to finish in 1:13, while1 in the previous race Postage Due had raced over the same route in 1:12 and both Ric-cadonna and Bill D. won in 1:13. FAST START. With little delay at the post, the start was a good one and Harry Richards had the; Widener miss off on her toes, with Rock Maker in second place and Indomitable right I with the other two. Brown King evidently! has not yet learned the American trick of1 breaking swiftly and he was a bad last be-1 fore he had reached a racing stride. j Richards took Salamis into a lead of three lengths, where he took a slight hold of the filly and rated her along, with Rock Maker and Indomitable going like a team back of the daughter of Jamestown. Scrooge was moving up on the outside and At Play was a full four lengths before the horse from Chile. Salamis was handled nicely and permitted! to race fast enough to meet every challenge, ! first putting Rock Maker away and thenj attending to Indomitable, but Scrooge was still a threat at the head of the stretch. In j the meantime Brown King was fairly flying along the inner rail. He was fortunate to j find room all the way and thus it was thatj he reached the place, just a length and a! half back of the filly and half a length be-1 fore Scrooge. j BILL D. WINS Dewey Benthams Bill D., making his first appearance of the year, was winner of the opening dash at six furlongs for platers when he led home Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Bareback, a winner at the meeting, and C. S. Madisons James N., the favorite, just saved third from Alanfox. As the race was run it appeared that Bareback was best, but he was In some trouble leaving his stall and when taken up by Nash, was off so badly that he Buffered a serious handicap. Bill D. on the other hand, was away in stride and Sammy Renick made every use of that advantage when he rushed him along in front all the way. "Bobby" Doyle furnished a surprise winner In the second, another dash at six furlongs for platers, and a split of the first race, when he saddled Riccadonna for S. Bachrach. The daughter of Lucullite was responsible for a considerable post delay, was finally banished to a place outside the stalls where she was away last, but proved good enough to win. It was a close fit for the place, with J. B. Partridges Mintson just saving that part of the purse from Addis, from the Tourneur Stable, and Fooled led home Spanish Way, the favorite of the small field. Riccadonna was the longest priced starter when she went to the post at 20 to 1. Riccadonna was a good length and a half back of the field as the others left in fairly good alignment and with Mintson just showing the way. Spanish Way was in second place but, when not able to go up in the early pace, he dropped back Blightly. MEADE SCORES. Mrs. G. C. Winfreys Postage Due, under a hustling ride by Don Meade, was winner over a fairly good band of sprinting platers in the six furlongs of the third. It was the first appearance of the season for the Van-derbilt castoff and, to score, he whipped Shoulder Arms, from the Longchamps Farm stable, which had a seasoning in Florida and Cuba. Third was the portion of William H. Gallaghers May R., and High Vote was a distant fourth. Eight maidens met in the mile and seventy yards of the fifth race and Parker Comings Chip In, which, by the way, is a nominee for the Kentucky Derby, was the winner over Capt. Andy. Teddys Girl took third from Black Demon, a Wheatley Stable colt that raced coupled with Capt. Andy. Hirsch Jacobs saddled his eighth winner in six days of racing when he sent out Old Story to carry the silks of Mrs. Jacobs to victory over a cheap lot in the mile and seventy yards at the end of the card. Chief Mourner, racing for Alfred Friscia, took second place, and John Simoncttis Hasty Wire beat Bright Chance for third. Hasty Wire and Buena Oro were the ones to set the pace but, going to the stretch turn, Ronnie Nash passed the pair of them with Old Story and through the stretch he was not threatened, to be winner by two lengths.
