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SASSY LADY AND ROBART STAR Filly Turns in Front-Running Race to . Win Commonwealth Handicap. Jockey Eddie Robart Rides Winners in Four of the First Five Races at Suffolk — ,- Crowd of 30,000 Present. - BOSTON", Mass., May 27 —Snow White Stables Sassy Lady won her fifth race of the year and the most important score of her career when she took down ,270 as the winners share of the ,000 added Commonwealth Handicap, for three-year-olds, featuring the Saturday program at Suffolk Downs. The running time was 1:11% and Sassy Lady won by a length and one-half from the odds-on choice, Ariel Toy, which closed gamely through the stretch to be two and one-half lengths ahead of Roll and Toss at the wire. Kenty Miss was next in line, with Gossip Time and Farrago completing the small field of starters. A crowd estimated at better than 30,000 was on hand to back Ariel Toy into a 9-to-10 choice, but Sassy Lady beat him out of the gate and her victory was a front-running one throughout. Kenty Miss pursued the winner down the back stretch, with Ariel Toy and Farrago next in line. On the turn Ariel Toy made his bid between horses, but his rider, Lee Hardy, had apparently overestimated the stretch drive of the son of Ariel. While he closed some ground on i Sassy Lady, he was never able to menace her for first place. Roll and Toss, a trailer in the initial stages, came with a belated rush for third place. A photograph was needed to separate Kenty Miss and Gossip Time for fourth position. POPULAR WINNER. Sassy Lady, winner of her last two starts at Empire City, was a well-supported second choice and her victory was a popular one with the crowd. Her early speed, coupled With her late courage, brought a large round of applause when she returned to the winners ring, apparently little the worse for her strenuous effort. Earlier clouds had disappeared before post time for the feature and the competition of a doubleheader baseball game from the pennant-ambitious Boston Red Sox was not reflected in the large attendance. The day was warm and the track at its best. The time of 1:11% for the feature race was the fastest time for the distance at the current meeting* • The moans of the favorite players turned to cheers of joy as War Minstrel, backed down to even money, justified their faith in stepping a fast mile and seventy yards in 1:42 to win the fifth race, secondary feature of the afternoon. The Mrs. Emil Denemark star was one length clear of Silent Witness, which nad two lengths on Be Jabbers at the end. The winner carried Eddie Robart to his fourth consecutive victory. Be Jabbers, tiring badly, was all out to save third place from Topee. Skipped gave Eddie Robart his third victory of the afternoon, outgaming Tutticurio by half a length in the mile of the fourth race!- Traggat was another length and one-half to the rear, in third place, and well in advance of the gamely-closing Distractible, which chalked up another loser for the favorite players. i !
