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Coward Silks in Double Score at Jamaica Track Hypocrite Takes Days Feature And Ariel Toy Second Offering NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.— With six of the seven races at Jamaica today fashioned for the selling platers, the program was not a particularly attractive one, but it was in keeping with the inclement weather and the sloppy footing for the sport. Then, there came three falls during the day, involving T. Flynn, Tommy May and M. Basile. The latter rider was the only one to suffer a serious injury when he came out of his fall with a fractured shoulder. The best field of the day paraded in the sixth race, a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth for those valued at ,000, and here Jackie Westrope rode his second winner of the afternoon, and there was also a double completed for the R. A. Coward silks when Hypocrite scored over J. H. Miles Argonne Woods, with Jake Freed-mans Trimly taking third before The Fop. The gate count was 10,293, which was an excellent showing, considering the weather that prevailed and the lack of quality in most of the offerings. Only six raced in the best offering .of the afternoon, and the start was a bit off when Argonne Woods was not exactly ready as the word was given, while Hypocrite left in stride. Equalize, the lightweight of the party, was rushed along from the gate and rounding the first turn was going stride for stride with Hypocrite and Continued on Page Forty I Coward Silks in Double Score at Jamaica Track Hypocrite Takes Days Feature And Ariel Toy Second Offering Continued from Page One the pair were soon four lengths clear of the others. Westrope, when he found the pace a bit stiff, eased Hypocrite back slightly, but little Mann went right along with Equalize to send the Widener three-year-old into a lead of almost three lengths. Rushing the gelding, at a sprint clip, he gave the son of Equipoise no chance to take a long breath, with the result that before the stretch was reached his mount was beginning to shorten stride. Argonne Woods was moving up steadily, and then it was that Westrope called on Hypocrite again, and he had little trouble going to Equalize. In the stretch, Hypocrite came clear and at the end was going away winner by two and a half lengths. Argonne Woods saved the place, and right at his heels came Trimly, with The Fop also leading home the thoroughly beaten Equalize. A second accident of the day came with the running of the fifth race, a dash of six furlongs, when Marshall Fields Mersa Matruh went down with Tommy May and Briansan, ridden by M. Basile, fell over her. This dash was confined to three-year-olds and went to War Melody when she outgamed Hubbub through the stretch, with Anytime, the favorite, beating Toujour, the one to cut out the pace to the stretch, for third. With selling platers dominating the program, the race for maiden juvenile fillies, run as the fourth offering, took on importance. It was a dash of five furlongs that only brought out half a dozen and Andy Schuttinger sent out two of them.
