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Ocean Blue Back in Form at Belmont Defeats Bay View In Fast-Run Race f Santa Anita Handicap Victor Extends Oglebay Racer to Limit for HeacJ Decision ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., May 22. Ocean Blue recovered his peak form at Belmont Park this afternoon to carry the green and white colors of Crispin Oglebay, Gates Mills, Ohio, Great Lakes shipping magnate, to a hard-earned accounting in the six furlongs of the featured Lion dOr Handi-cau. Smoothly handled by Don Meade, the Blue Larkspur gelding sped to the front at the drop of the flag and fashioned a sizzling pace, then pegged back a determined bid from Mrs. Anthony Pelleteris Bay View to win by a "profile" in the smart time of 1:10. It was a fast race throughout, with the quarter traversed in :22M and the half mile in :454. Bay View, making his initial appearance in more than a year, gave the winner a stern battle from the top of the stretch home, coming back to the turf wars apparently as formidable as when he committed a 00,000 lapse of memory when he "forgot to stop" in a memorable Santa Anita Handicap. Three lengths to the rear of the first two in the Lion dOr, C. V. Whitneys Para-sang was nosing Doublrab out of third money. Overdrawn, wearing blinkers, brought up the rear in a small but distinguished field of six, of which the winner and the Wood-vale colt are Suburban eligibles. Ocean Blue was the public preference and paid .60. A large and enthusiastic "off-day" crowd witnessed Ocean Blues stirring conquest in the Lion dOr. The gathering counted 14,631 at the turnstiles. Several of the afternoons choices ran to general expectations, and C. V. Whitneys Coat of Arms, a Belmont Stakes eligible, raced a mile and a furlong in 1:50 to capture the mile and a furlong of the secondary offering. Overdrawn Dwells at Break Ocean Blue was never off the lead in the Lion dOr, breaking swiftest in an even start and opening up a pair of lengths on Bay View, the "chaser" throughout, moving to the far bend. Nearing the quarter-mile pole, at the head of the homecoming lane, however, Nick Wall went to work on Bay View with a will and received such excellent response that Bay View was lapped on Ocean Blue all through the stretch. Ocean Blue appeared inclined to quit about the eighth pole, but Meade kept him going to save the day. Overdrawn dwelt at the break. Parasang and Doublrab engaged in a secondary duel for the show with Parasang gaining the nod. Our Boots was a straggler throughout. C. V. Whitneys Coat of Arms, the handsome big chestnut son of Equipois and Motto, by Sir Gallahad HI., escaped from the maiden class when he was winner of the mile and a furlong of the fifth race. Carrying all the pace, the big colt opened up a good lead in the first furlong, but through the final furlong he was doing his level best and Basil James had to drive him out vigorously to have him winner over Chickore and, well back of that gelding, Bygone Star saved third from Cross-tide. Earlier in the year there was high hopes for Coat of Arms, but he never raced to expectations. He is eligible for the Belmont Stakes, but there was nothing in this, his first victory, to suggest that he will measure up to that gruelling mile and a half test.
