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BE BLUE TRIUMPHANT Continued from first page. horse entered for the races at Narragansett Park yesterday, and Goldman was the first horse to win a race at the 1939 Narragansett meeting. Harry Krovitz had to drive the Breadman gelding hard in the final strides to stave off Mrs. C. P. Lindners Spitten-image by a nose. Letang and McKays Epitaph, the favorite, which fought a head-and-head pace battle with the winner from the start to the head of the stretch, wound up third, a length and one-half off the runner-up. To the Rescue, which moved up with good speed on the outside as they made the turn for home, finished fourth, hanging in the final drive. The winner completed the six furlongs in 1:12. Mrs. Floyd Wests Jack Sting, ridden by Earl Maloney, took the lead on the far turn and never relinquished it, to win the three-quarters second event by a length and one-half over Mrs. M. H. Charles Maebeau. Tobey Trotters Glenbroom was third, two lengths farther back, and Steel King finished fourth. The winner finished out in 1:13. Ball-o-Fire set the pace for a quarter mile, with Blue Grotto in closest attendance. Just as the latter appeared to be ready to take the lead, on the far turn she tired, and Jack Sting went into command. The son of Sting showed in front by two and one-half lengths in the stretch, but Maloney had to ride out his mount, as Maebeau made a belated challenge in the final sixteenth. CYRUS P. GAINS. Cyrus P. closed extremely fast in the final eighth to win the six furlongs third event by a neck over B. M. Smiths Float Away. The latter got to the front just past the eighth post but dogged it under a hard drive in the final yards. He saved second place by two lengths over Mrs. Floyd Wests Nicholas S., however. My Day, which set the pace until they were making the turn for home, finished fourth. Snider lashed the victor home in 1:12. Mrs. V. Wyses Trickwick charged up fast from the middle of the turn to the end, to win the three-quarters fourth event by three lengths over G. H. Coyles well-meant Goster. F. Beloins Cruising took the third award, a neck off the runner-up and half a length in advance of Minimum. W. L. Taylor, who rode well in New Orleans this winter, put up an energetic finish to land the winner home in front.
