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I , j I r , HALF TIME AND DON MEADE Milo Shields Horse and Crack Jockey Prove Winning Combination in Ridgewood Handicap. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 5.— Milo Shields Half Time, racing in his best form, was winner of the feature offering of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today. It was the Ridgewood Handicap, a sprint of six furlongs, confined to Class "C" performers. The place went to Hal Price Headleys Bourbon King, while the Paragon Stables Deep End, rnade favorite of the field, saved third from Vamoose. Half Time paid 6 to 1 and completed a double for Don Meade, who had won with Lee S. in the previous race. Overnight races, fashioned for platers, furnished the setting for the sprint, but interesting sport was furnished and with seasonable spring-like weather, conditions were agreeable for a big off-day crowd. In the handicap Nodarse was so tardy in sending Indomitable along that he was hopelessly out of it before the horses had raced a furlong. Meade had Half Time away in front and he made every use of that advantage as he raced the son of Time Maker right along to open up a gap of two lengths. Deep End was under a slight restraint back of the pacemaker and then came Bourbon King, whose last effort was in the Philadelphia Handicap at Havre de i Grace. DEEP END TIRES. Shortly after rounding from the turn it was apparent that Deep End was beaten for when Wagner called on him he hung badly and Bourbon King closed on him steadily, but Half Time was still well clear and racing in hand. Going to the stretch turn, Arcaro moved to Deep End with Bourbon King and a furlong from home he had the Reigh Count gelding headed. In that last furlong the Headley colt hung on well under punishment, but Half Time had plenty left to be winner by a length and a half. Bourbon King was two lengths before Deep End and that gelding had taken third from Vamoose by three lengths. This was the second appearance of Half Time at the meeting and was a decided improvement over his previous effort, when he was badly beaten by Guy Fawkes, Deep End and Spill- j way. E. W. Duffys Ballinderry was a surprise winner of the fifth, a mile and seventy yards under claiming conditions, but he had some help when he had the best of a bad start and likewise aided by a bad ride of Arcaro who had the leg up on John Hay Whitneys Slave Charm. This one was beaten for the place by M. McGonigles Jest Once when it appeared the usual Arcaro energy and skill would have landed the Whitney filly first instead of third. There was a considerable delay at the post for which Slave Charm was to blame and when the field was sent away she and Ballinderry had all the best of it with Poesy leaving a bad last of the six that were en-I gaged.
