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SUCCESSFUL SEASONS DEBUT George D Wideners handicap star Eight Thirty who won the Toboggan Handicap at Belmont Park yesterday with speed in EIGHT THIRTY WINS TOBOGGAN HANDICAP AGAIN GLENVIEW PURSE AT CHURCHILL TAKEN BY TOPIC GEORGE WIDENER RACER IN AUSPICIOUS 41 BOW BOWDuplicates Duplicates Feat of Last Season in Easy Score Over Stablemate Dr Whinny Spanish Moss on Top TopNEW NEW YORK N Y May 12 George D Wideners great Eight Thirty returned to the racing wars as Belmont Parks stake studded spring meeting opened just as he began his 1940 campaign with a breezing score in the fortyeighth running of the Toboggan Handicap HandicapHe He can have no excuses trainer Bert Mulholland said while tightening the girth on the big chestnut and he needed none moving to the front when jockey Harry Richards was ready near the furlong post to make the accounting in this six furlongs by two and onehalf lengths at the direct expense of his stablemate Dr Whinny re ¬ cent winner of the Jamajca Handicap HandicapJust Just a neck behind Dr Whinny was Doubt Not flying the colors of Mrs Tilyou Chris ¬ topher and beating Parasang nearly a length for the show award in a brilliant field of half a dozen of the lands ablest older horses The triumph of the Philadelphiaowned pair was tremendously popular with the big crowd for they were oddson and paid a win mutuel of 340 The Teletimer showed this Toboggan to have been traversed in 22 46 and 111 even though Eight Thirty dwelt slightly at the break breakEight Eight Thirty added 5275 to earlier earn ¬ ings through his successful seasons debut and indicated that he must be reckoned with again for the Suburban which he won last spring and other major handicap offerings offeringsSECONDARY SECONDARY ATTRACTION The Toboggan was the headliner on a sunny May days inaugural card but not the lone stake offering Earlier in the after ¬ noon Mrs Payne Whitneys wellseasoned Spanish Moss registered a hardearned vic ¬ tory in the fortythird running of the Fash ¬ ion Stakes Belmonts twoyearold filly test testAlfred Alfred Vanderbilt enterprising young head of the Westchester Racing Association could not have hoped for a better break in weather for the opening of his meeting and the pub ¬ lic response was indeed liberal The turn ¬ stiles showed a gathering of 15877 against one of 13314 for the opener last year Indi ¬ cations were that the handle also would mark an increase over that of the opening day 1940 especially with a larger crowd and the helpThe Daily Double to help The crowd included many notables of east ¬ ern racing among them C V Whitney who presented the Fashion trophy Alfred Van ¬ derbilt H B Swope Charles Howard George D Widener E R Bradley Warren Wright Geo Bull and John Hertz HertzThe The Erdenheim camp declared to win the Toboggan with Eight Thirty ThirtyGeorge George Cassidy sent the half dozen ac ¬ cepting for this sprint special away fairly well but Eighty Thirty who had the inside stall dwelt slightly leaving there and Roman ever a quick beginner went into command with Dr Whinny angling over to the outside to hang to his throat latch in the run down the far side as Dtfubt Not Continued on fourth page MARKET WISE Louis Tufands good threeyearold who finished third in the theKentucky Kentucky Derby will take up 126 pounds iri the Hastings Purse a seveneighths vdash at Belmont Park today EIGHT THIRTY WINS TOBOGGAN HANDICAP TWO YEARS IN ROW ROWDuplicates Duplicates Feat of 1940 in Score Over Stablemate Dr Whinny WhinnyContinued Continued from first page pagewent went along a length or so away in third place Eight Thirty was next nextAround Around the turn Eight Thirty continued to lope along on the rail and saving ground while Richards riding confidently had not asked him for speed speedDr Dr Whinny meantime was outrunning Roman and held about half a length on Doubt Not as that gray speedster made his bid Near the furlong marker while Meade on Dr Whinny was holding Doubt Not safe under a drive Richards found room along the rail and asked Eight Thirty to run The response of the big chestnut was no less than magnificent He gathered speed in ¬ stantly and projected himself through the opening in a twinkling changing the whole aspect of the race in a flash From the sixteenth post home it was just a question of by liow far Richards elected to win and Eighty Thirty was airing along as he flashed under the wire wireHe He galloped on out to the seven furlongs in 125 and pulled up without having turned a hair hairDr Dr Whinny who had opened up the hole on the rail for Eight Thirty while battling Doubt Not continued to hold the latter safe to the line and Parasang who took the over ¬ land route on the turn was lapped on the gray sprinter for fourth money Mettlesome broke slowly and never could gain conten ¬ tion while Roman quit and was last at the finish finishARCARO ARCARO ON SPANISH MOSS MOSSMrs Mrs Payne Whitney won her first Fashion Stakes as the winterraced Spanish Moss re ¬ sponded to Eddie Arcaros strong urging through the final furlong to impose her will upon Jock Whitneys filly Banjo Eyes by a head Three lengths away Hal Price Headleys Pig Tails picked up third money well in advance of Escarpment and Miss Q who deadheated for the fourth award awardThe The time for the Fashion which was hav ¬ ing its fortythird running bettered that of the initial dash over the new juvenile course and so Spanish Moss 100 becomes the track mark for five furlongs on that course Following the Fashion C V Whitney pre ¬ sented the trophy going to the winning owner to trainer John Gaver who accepted it in behalf of Mrs Payne Whitney C V Whitneys aunt auntSpanish Spanish Moss winner of the Rosedale at Jamaica was a slight choice in the wager ¬ ing and paid 510 The failure of C S How ¬ ards Chiquita Mia was a source of keen disappointment to many She broke well but failed to show any of her usual speed speedSpanish Spanish Moss had the outer station in the stalls arid broke swiftly but was taken in hand while Banjo Eyes furnished the early pace with Kind Gesture right on her heels Straightening for the run home the winner came outside the pair with a bid that car ¬ ried her to the front near the finish She was hard ridden however as Banjo Eyes continued fairly well under severe pressure Pig Tails was outrun early but picked up the tired horses for the show award awardThe The race was worth 6950 to the Green tree coffers coffersPETE PETE BOSTWIC1 IN ACTION ACTIONGeorge George H Pete Bostwick champion amateur chase rider of about five years back returned to action at a major track astride his own Sussex in the two miles of the Trillon Steeplechase but the best his mount could do was to finish second behind Log Cabin Studs Chuckatuck Sussex an oddsbn choice was trying to give Chucka ¬ tuck fdur pounds and was beaten a length and a half E J Husteds Rosarium wag third another two lengths away
