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GREAT UNION SUPERIOR Wins by a Head Over Sceneshifter in Neptune Handicap. Pasteurised Wheels Soon After Start and Proves Big Disappointment Equal Choice With Winner. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 24 Great Union, a good stakes winner under the colors of Mrs. E. Graham Lewis during 1938, suggested he will be a capable performer again this year for that lady by his handy performance in the Neptune Handicap, the six furlongs dash which featured todays program at the Jamaica race course. The four-year-old son of Sir Gallahad HI. and My Flag stepped the distance in 1:11 to register in a hard drive over Col. Maxwell Howards Sceneshifter, the latter missing principal honors by a scant head. The race was robbed of much interest when Pasteurized, surprise winner of the Belmont last season, pulled up after going about fifty yards and refused to "carry on" any farther. As he shortened stride abruptly, the temperamental Milkman colt ducked to the outside and immediately was eliminated from contention. His sourness was costly to many as he closed equal choice with the winner at even money. However, Pasteurized receded in the market with Great Union being backed down from 7 to 5. The latter had been seasoned by a race in the Paumonok Handicap, where as the runner-up was making his first appearance since last April. VIGOROUS DRIVE. Sammy Renick sent Great Union away from the barrier at a lively clip to have his charge in front for practically the entire trip. He steadied the four-year-old nicely to the top of the stretch and then drove him vigorously with whip, hand and heel to turn back the determined challenge of the Sickle horse. The Sir Gallahad HI. colt was as straight as a string at the end. Sceneshifter, full brother to Stagehand, an able racer himself, went amiss in the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs last spring and has been absent from competition since. He had his early training for the race at Columbia with recent gallops being over the Belmont Park oval. Earl Sande had the five-year-old just about at Continued on twenty-seventh page. GREAT UNHW SUPERIOR Continued from first page. tops, and he was not disgraced in defeat. Chief Onaway, a son of Trace Call Noise, which is E. W. Duffys candidate for the Wood Memorial on Saturday, looks a fair prospect for that stake following his game score in the mile and a sixteenth Oceanic Purse. He completed the distance in 1:45 as he drove to a neck triumph over the pace-making Book Plate, with Bostwar just another half-length away. Six lengths back was Counterpoise. It was the first 1939 outing for the winner, which had won only a single race in eight chances last season. The score gave jockey Haas a double for the afternoon as he had taken an earlier dash with Brazado. For an opening race, the offering was a five furlongs dash for plater juveniles, and it was won rather easily by Marie L. Minors Ballyhaste, ridden by Jimmy Stout, an 1 favorite of the company at 13 to 5. William Wicks Maechance raced to second place, with Milltea, from the Millsdale Stable, beating Shepy for third. The placed horses all had a seasoning with winter racing. The start was a ragged one, with Mrs. Philip Igleharts Gambit leaving so slowly as to have no chance. Maechance was first to start from the stalls, but Ballyhaste was right with him and Staff Sergeant was barely showing the way to Milltea. Maechance was rushed along until he had established a lead of two lengths, but then he began to bear out slightly and Stout shot by with Ballyhaste to take command. Three-year-olds met in the second, a six furlongs dash, and it saw another favorite score when W. N. Adrians Lee S. won his second race of the meeting under an able ride by Ronnie Nash. He went to the post at 11 to 5. Trustworthy raced to the place and Broad Tail took third from Poesy. There was a considerable delay at the post and the field was not sent away until Blue Tints had been moved to a position outside the machine. Nash had Lee S. away in stride to lead from end to end and win with something left by two lengths. Max Hirsch sent out the nice three-year-old Brazado, a son of On Watch and Kippy, to race for the King Ranch in the third race, fashioned for three-year-old maidens. The On Watch colt, which was appearing under silks for the first time, ran down John Hay Whitneys Whisperer, the odds-on favorite of the field. Flying Lancer was a distant third over Irish Echo. In a previous start at the meeting Whisperer had shown a great turn of speed, but was plainly short today and was beaten by a 1 better colt. Brazado is an eligible for the Kentucky Derby, but he will not be sent after that prize. Whisperer is in the Wood, but on this showing today there is no good excuse for racing him with such a field. W. C. Winfreys One Jest won her second race of the meeting and her fourth in a row when she scored in the mile and a furlong of the sixth race, which brought together half a dozen platers. Watersplash raced to the place, with Cisneros, the favorite, easily taking the show from Birdlea.
