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I , • I ■ I I i . , [ : - 5 j , . t , . t i 5 i » j f . * I | e , r j | A . j i "_ j i t : j I B I j c j * " | 1 I I ■ t [, BELAY VICTOR IN GREY LAG Bostwick Colt Proves Second to Johnstown Was No Fluke. Done Gone Breaks Run of Losing Favorite3 at Aqueduct at Fourteen Straight —Rain Falls. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 13.— Proving that his recent second to Johnstown in the mile and a half Belmont Stakes was by no means a fluke, Albert C. Bostwicks Belay, three-year-old brown son of Display and Scuttle, ran a mile and a sixteenth in lAZ-a to win the Grey Lag, fifth and top offering on todays attractive program at Aqueduct. The hard-hitting colt missed the track record established by Mad Hatter by only two-fifths of a second, and scored by one-j half length. Second honors in the Grey Lag fell to the Millsdale Stables Sun Lover, which set all the pace. The Greentree Stables Day Off finished third and Belair Studs Challenge fourth. The winner was co-choice in the betting with Sun Lover. The program was notable in that in the fourth event it brought through T. P. Morgans Done Gone, the first winning choice in fifteen races, and because it was attended by rain. The precipitation set in about post time for the third race, and by the time the fourth came up the downfall was quite heavy. It was the first rainy racing afternoon in at least a month, and proved a welcome relief from the hot, dry, dusty fare with which racegoers had been fed up. SIX FACE STARTER. Six high-grade three-year-olds answered post call for the Grey Lag, with two of them —the Wheatley Stables Devils Peak and the Belair Studs Challenge — coupled in the betting. The entry was second choice in the wagering at 9 to 2. Starter George Cassidy sent the small but fancy field off to a perfect start with Belay and Day Off first from the stalls. Raymond "Sonny" Workman immediately took back with Belay, and Basil James shot Sun Lover to the front. Chief Onaway, with Johnny Barba in the saddle, slipped into second place to force the early pace. Chal-a lenge, showing a nice turn of speed, ran third through the first half-mile. Then, when Chief Onaway began to shorten his stride coming to the three-quarter mark, the Belair representative slipped into the second place. Workman was content for five-eighths to rate Belay along in fourth place in front of Day Off and Devils Peak. The Bostwick colorbearer moved up sharply on the turn and, coming to the quarter post, showed he had plenty left. In no time at all Workman had Belay in front of Challenge and then, about three-sixteenths out, in front of Sun Lover. " BELAY UNDER PUNISHMENT. Belay had to be placed under punishment in the final eighth and punish him his rider J . did. It appeared that the son of Display 1 wanted to "dog it" once he reached the top. j But in doing it under the powerful Work- • j ! man, as Belay discovered, just isnt in the t i books. Sun Lover came strongly at the end and nothing but the hardest kind of riding by Workman enabled Belay to save first honors. Day Off, with which Eddie Arcaro waited and waited, turned on a great burst of speed I in the final quarter mile and got up in time i to earn the show award by a neck. Chal- f- lenge lasted to be fourth. The other two r were hopelessly beaten. r Belay, trained by Mrs. Elizabeth Crom-». well Bosley, of Monkton, Md., in winning t . the Grey Lag, boosted his score for the g year to four victories, two seconds and one I- third in eight outings, and increased his t- earnings to ,740. r- .
