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SUN LOVER TAKES KENT 1 Eight Thirty Second, While Favored Challedon Finishes Third. Millsdale Star Runs Right Back to i His Good Race in Dwyer — New Record for Race. STANTON, Del., June 24.— Coming back with a performance that topped his fine showing in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct, ; when he extended Johnstown, of the Belair Stud, Millsdale Stables sturdy three-year-old " Sun Lover earned his most important victory of the year and became one of the j | leaders in his division when he accounted j . J for the third running of the 0,000 added Kent Handicap. j J The mile and one-sixteenth attraction featured " ; the program of the Delaware Steeplechase j ; and Race Association at the Diamond State track today. Meeting the best in his i division, with the exception of William Woodwards Johnstown, the dark bay son of Sun Beau, worlds leading money winner, J made his accounting in one of the greatest renewals of the young stake when he ran ! the distance in 1:44%, the fastest time of i . any previous running, to beat George D. I Wideners Eight Thirty by a nose and i 1 earn ,975. THRILLING DRIVE. Battling furiously after hooking up in 1 their duel at the turn for home, the fighting leaders were two lengths before William 1 L. Branns Preakness winner, Challedon, which was installed the favorite and at his ; | j I | heels to be beaten a length and one-half | , came Hash, one of a pair performing for the Greentree Stable. The others in colors were Gilded Knight : and Thellusson, which raced coupled for the Wheatley and Belair Stud, J. A. Man-fusos Affair, Third Degree, a stablemate of Hash, and Tiberius of the Robert Harris 5 stable. With ideal weather prevailing and the 5 racing strip returning to normal condition | after being in bad shape on Friday, a good * crowd turned out for the program and wit-hessed some of the best entertainment of ° the current meeting. NINE STARTERS. The Kent was the first handicap to be | I arranged for three-year-olds in that c]ass this year, and it was listed fifth on the card, and all that were named overnight started, j i The nine starters were in the stalls five and i ! one-half minutes before the start was ; : effected, and Thellusson was alone responsible for the delay by his repeated lunging. When the start came all left in good order and it was the Wheatley colt which took the lead with Eight Thirty going along r nicely in second place. Affair was in ad-vance of the others, of which Sun Lover I I trailed. • In setting the pace, Thellusson ran fast I and enjoyed a clear margin all down the , far side of the track. For the first six furlongs . no change occurred in the positions of f . the various starters, but there was a closing r up near the final turn and it was here that t Affair, on the inside, stepped up to offer the j first serious threat to the leader. i They were heads apart on the turn, with i I Eight Thirty right alongside and just making his move, while Sun Lover had come up 3 from the tail end to be in sixth position. . j With the turn completed Eight Thirty edged I j to the front and then Sun Lover came up on ! i the inside to dispute the lead, after which i | they battled on almost even terms to the ; I end, and Sun Lover was rewarded in a i ! camera finish.
