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y a e t e e 2 1 j i r j ; 5 . j I Ships Run Makes Good at Jamaica Prevails in Front-Running Style to Take Measure of Air Current in Meridian NEW YORK, N. Y., May 4.— Racing on Long Island came into the final week of the Jamaica meeting today with an in-;j teresting card of overnight events, with the Meridian Handicap as the feature race. This was a gallop of a mile and a six-teenth, for three-year-olds of grade "C" and it resulted in a clever victory for Ogden Phipps Ships Run. He led home Louis Lee Haggin II.s Air Current, with Mrs. W. A. Crawfords Blue Gino easily saving third from Aletern, the only other starter. In the Meridian no time was lost at the post and while Aletern was first from the stalls, jockey Westrope sprinted Ships Run to take the lead when the first turn was reached. There, Aletern showed a disposition to bear out and Robertson, fol-i lowing with Air Current, chose the inside for the Haggin gelding. Bluefeino was being badly outrun and the trailed the other three into the back stretch. Two-Horse Race It was apparent early that it would be a two-horse race, for Air Current moved to Aletern easily and soon was in second place and going smoothly under slight restraint. It was after rounding from the back stretch that Robbie made his first move with Air Current, but as he drew up on Ships Run, Westrope had only to shake up the son of St. Germans to hold his lead. Through the stretch, Air Current was hard ridden with hand and heel, but to no avail and, while Westrope rapped his mount twice to keep him at his task, he being badly outrun and then trailed the had plenty left when he crossed the line Wayne Wright rode another winner for Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable when he had the leg up on Bushel Basket in the fourth offering. This was a dash of five furlongs for juvenile maidens and, going into an early lead, the colt was never headed, to lead home Bossuet, with Dove Pie saving third from Hidden Ace. Water Pearl stumbled badly, unseating Don Meade, left his stall riderless, raced with the field through the stretch and went to the front, to lead Bushel Basket over the line. The loose horse swept up on the outside in the stretch and interfered slightly with Bossuet. Meade, fortunately, escaped injury. Louis B. Mayers Domingo, a Preakness eligible, qualified handsomely for that engagement when he romped to a seven-length score in the sixth race. Great Rush was second and Omasari third. Domingo ran the mile and a sixteenth in 1:4415.
