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LINCOLN FIELDS FEAUft TAKEN BY TO A TEE NEW WORLD RETURNS TO RACES IN WINNING FORM TAKES FLYING HEELS HANDICAP WITH EASE Sheriff Culkin Is Second Length and Quarter Behind Vanderbilt Colt Halcyon Days Pays 22330 22330NEW NEW YORK N Y June 19 New World returned to action in the six furlongs of the Flying Heels Handicap this afternoon at Aqueduct and demonstrated he has lost none of the speed that characterized his juvenile campaign as he romped to a frontrunning triumph before H L Myers Sheriff Culkin and George Wideners Overdrawn his only rivals Alfred Vanderbilts colt was only coasting and a length and a quarter in front of Sheriff Culkin as he passed the final marker in 111 under his top weight of 122 pounds and a smooth ride at the hands of Ruperto Donoso The Sheriff was driven out to the last ounce by Eddie Arcaro to maintain the same nose advantage over Overdrawn that he had enjoyed all around the turn turnThe The strapping Sagamore homebred had worked well for his threeyearold debut but the public sent Sheriff Culkin to the post a slight favorite over New World because he had shown his fitness under colors The Discovery colt however ran right back to his works and looked the same keen racer who beat Whirlaway in the Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga last summer Those who fancied his chances received 470 for the usual 2 He was never off the lead never extended and never in the slightesl danger of being headed putting in fractions of 22 and 46 46CLASSIC CLASSIC BIG OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVEThe The Flying Heels was the first of several races in which it is intended to start New World in order to bring him to peak condi ¬ tion for the rich Arlington Classic Donoso handled the big colt so well that he probably will continue as his pilot pilotAlfred Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt owner and breeder of New World William Woodward Herbert Bayard Swope Al Jolson and numer ¬ ous other prominent racing enthusiasts were in the sizable offday gathering Overheac and track conditions could not have been Improved upon though once again there was a liberal sprinkling of upsets upsetsIn In fact the biggest surprise thus far in the New York season came in the running of the third race when the fielder Halcyon Days won and paid a 22330 mutuel mutuelThe The tote department reported that six 10 tickets eighteen 5 tickets a hundred 2 tickets and thirtythree 6 combinations were dispensed on this Eagle Bird The crowd counted 11426 against 10169 the same day last year yearThere There was little to the running of the Flying Heels George Cassidy sent the trio trioContinued Continued on fortyfourth page NEW WORLD FRONTRUNNING WINNER IN SEASONS DEBUT DEBUTTakes Takes Flying Heels Handicap Easily Sheriff Culkin Second SecondContinued Continued from first pace paceaway away on the same stride and they were head and head a few yards then New Worlds long striding motion carried him slightly in ad ¬ vance of the other two The three were steadying along lapped on one another in this fashion for the first quarter where New World moved away and put a scant patch of daylight over the other two as they followed head and head headThey They went around the turn in the same fashion with Donoso repeatedly glancing back over his shoulder at them to prevent either stealing a march on him Entering the stretch Richards on Overdrawn and Arcaro on Sheriff Culkin bent those two to their best efforts but still New World only romped along in front under a steadying hold holdNearing Nearing the finish Donoso took one last look around and then started easing his mount slightly while the other two drove furiously for second money with Sheriff Culkin maintaining the narrowest of mar ¬ gins over Overdrawn OverdrawnThere There was no chance that either would catch the winner no matter how the race was run but it appeared that Overdrawn might have beaten Sheriff Culkin for the place award only for the fact that he raced widest from the start startThe The third offering was something less than exciting on paper with fourteen maidens three years old and upward going a mile and a sixteenth But it was an eventful affair in which Swamp Fire fell with Wayne C Huff at approximately the spot Llanero had fallen the other day midway the home turn Neither horse nor rider appeared seriously injured and Huff said that his mount stum ¬ bled The winner was a fielder Mrs G H Pete Bostwicks Halcyon Days who was ridden by Joe Renick and paid 22330 for 2 to win 85 to place and 2770 to show It was a record payoff this season in New York
