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SCRAPPY W AND BUSHWHACKER SCORE AT CRETE PRINCESS DOREEN HANDICAP FALLS TO LEVEL BEST SHOWS READINESS FOR COACHING CLUB OAKS OAKSFleet Fleet Equipoise Filly Finishes Length and Half Before Laatokka for Initial Triumph of Season SeasonNEW NEW YORK N Y May 26 Level Best raced her way into favoritism for Saturdays renewal of the Coaching Club American Oaks as she gave weight on the scale and a sound thrashing to several of the best older mares in training when she captured the Princess Doreen Handicap mile and a six ¬ teenth feature on a sunny afternoons pro program gram at Belmont today Crispin Oglebays filly passed the final marker in the feature with a length and a half to spare over Hal Price Headleys Laatokka while E D Ax tons Bala Ormont was a weary third six lengths farther back Two such capable mares as True Call and Dini brought up the rear rounding out the light starting field of five fiveThe The crowd sent Level Best to the post an oddson preference in the tote specula ¬ tion and she returned just 320 for each 2 win ticket Ira Hanford had the mount on the brilliant daughter of Equipoise who carried 110 pounds and raced over the mile and a sixteenth in the ordinary time of 144 on a fast racing strip The time is partly explained by the fact that when her field took a run at her swinging for home she moved off from them with amazing ease disposing of them in less than a six ¬ teenth of a mile The fractions for the Prin ¬ cess Doreen were 24 414 113 138 and 144 then the Ohioan worked out the mile and an eighth in 151 mile and a quarter in 204 and pulled up the mile and threeeighths of the Coaching Club in 218 218The The perfect racing weather and promise of an entertaining Monday program found a crowd that counted 12527 at the turnstiles filing into the Nassau County course It was an uncommonly successful day for the chalk players as numerous stoutly backed choices registered Incidentally two of those who trailed Level Best in the feature Bala Ormont and Dini are eligible for the Top Flight Handicap later in the season seasonASSERTS ASSERTS HER SUPERIORITY SUPERIORITYLevel Level Best never left the slightest doubt of her superiority to this field though at a disadvantage in the weights She broke on top and was going to take the lead from the speedy Dini but Hanford took her back to that mare and was content to rate the Ogle bay filly at the saddle girths of the Winfrey fiveyearold Before they went a half mile True Call was beaten half a dozen lengths as she followed in third place placeLevel Level Best stuck determinedly to Dinis flank down the far side and around the turn At the quarter pole when Hanford finally let out one of the numerous wraps on his charge as True Call and Laatokka moved up Level Best went to the front and andContinued Continued on thirtythird page CRISPIN OGLEBAY His silks were werecarried carried to victory by Level Best in the thePrincess Princess Doreen Handicap at Belmont BelmontPark Park yesterday PRINCESS DOREEN HANDICAP FALLS TO FLEET LEVEL BEST BESTEquipoise Equipoise Filly Qualifies for Coaching Club American Oaks OaksContinued Continued from first pae paewas was only galloping the rest of the way wayLaatokka Laatokka caught the weary Dini going to the threesixteenths pole and drove hard in a vain effort to get to the winner but had to be content with the place while True Call was limber herself and lost the show award to Bala Ormont who had trailed far back early earlyJ J H Miles Play House whipped a light field of four other classy performers in the mile and a sixteenth of the Arsenal Handi ¬ cap which was the seventh race The Dis ¬ play fouryearold handled by Basil James was a length and a half in front of Winsjon Guests Yankee Party at the line as the latter led the pacemaking favorite Crispin Oglebays Ocean Blue a like distance for the place The race was run in 145 with the winner returning 1040 1040The The rest of the field followed in a com ¬ pact group as Ocean Blue moved off to a long lead down the back stretch But he began tiiing on the home turn and faltered badly at the furlong pole as Yankee Party and Play House swarmed down outside him In the duel for the first money Play House proved stouter than Yankee Party and won drawing off offThe The Filigrane Purse a dash of six fur ¬ longs fashioned for threeyearolds which had never won 1300 or three races brought one of the real thrills of the day when after R J Klebergs Itabo won by daylight the other three were very closely lapped with the camera placing John Hay Whitneys Gun Bearer second and the Greentree Sta ¬ bles Swing and Sway third over Livelyhood LivelyhoodItabo Itabo was first to show from a good start but the others soon swarmed close up on him and then Springwood was showing his head before War Relic and Swing and Sway while Itabo had dropped back well off the leading trio trioWar War Relic and Springwood continued to show the way until the stretch was reached where the Man o War colt quit and then Arcaro charged up with Swing and Sway but Bierman moved at the same time with Itabo and he proved to have more left when he steadily drew out to win by a length and a half halfLivelyhood Livelyhood in the meantime was closing rapidly on the rail while Gun Bearer was making his run on the outside and there ensued the battling finish Itabo had some following and paid 870
