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Another of Equipoises Offspring Proves Best Mackerel Overtakes Scenic in Stretch Run of Toujours Purse NEW YORK, N. Y., May 8.— Mackerel, the handsome big chestnut daughter of i Equipoise and Call Girl, carried the silks Of her breeder, C. V. Whitney, to victory j in the best offering at Jamaica this after-HOOD. This was the Toujours Purse, a dash of six furlongs confined to three-year-old fillies, and the victory gave the Whitney miss some new importance for , the Acorn, Coaching Club American Oaks and the Top Flight Handicap, her three engagements at the Belmont Park meeting. It was Marshall Fields Scenic, who raced to the place here, and T. Heard, Jr.s Draeh beat Lotopoise for third. In this filly dash that went to Mackerel, what impressed particularly in her performance and itsrelation to her important coming engagements, was the manner in which the Equipoise miss raced through the final quarter. Basil James had her out of the inside stall on her toes, but she was almost at once outrun, as Scenic and Picture Hat went by her. Then Draeh moved into third place and, for an instant, it appeared that Mackerel already was well beaten. Picture Hat went stride for stride with Scenic and Draeh was readily holding to third, three furlongs from the finish. Then it was that Mackerel really found her running legs and she began to close steadily on the leaders. Nick Wall had plenty left with Scenic and he shook up the Field filly when the stretch was reached, but Mackerel continued to close smoothly, under a drive by Basil James and, right at the end, she was by to win by a half-length and going away. Scenic readily outfinished the others, when she saved the place by two and a half lengths from the tiring Draeh and Lotopoise was another length and a half off the Heard filly. In the last race of the day, Maepal, the favorite, went lame before the start and was ordered withdrawn, with wagers refunded. Here the C. V. Whitney silks completed a double when Happy Family was winner over Bygone Star and Dinsen.
