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Aloraye Aloraye Popular Popular Winner Winner at at Churchill; Churchill; Night Night Glow Glow in in Third Third Jamaica Jamaica Victory Victory Bieber Mare Takes | Featured Glenmore Flak Finishes Half Length Off Victress in Route Test — Grant Rice Garners Purse e . JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., April 24.— Night it Glow kept her record clean at the Jamaica a meeting this afternoon, leading throughout it the featured Glenmore Handicap and d staving off Flaks closing rush to win by a a half length, with Transformer two lengths ls farther back. Air Current was a distant *r fourth, while Trierarch completed the field for this mile and one-sixteenth test for a prize of ,600. A warm favorite with the ie crowd of 16,331 who passed through the ie turnstiles despite a driving rain and mediocre i- program, the Isador Bieber mare paid d .00. She was clocked in 1:46, which was us excellent in view of track conditions. The ie strip resembled the Missouri River from the ie inside rail to near the middle of the track. c- The faithful were rewarded by unusually v formful racing. Chance Mate and Turbulence - were favored in the first two offerings " and combined for a Daily Double of f 8.60. The favored Valdina Lord could d finish no better than third in the third i race, which was won by F. Karns Sight, t. who led all the way, with Mrs. T. J. Carrolls m Arrive On Time taking the place. Then in n the fourth number, the prescience of the * public was again demonstrated when Grant Rice scored at jslightly better than even money. Todays crowd was the smallest of the « meeting thus far, but was remarkable under * the circumstances and would have been n considered a good week-end gathering a a couple years ago. Transformer Gives Way Vera S. Braggs Transformer struggled d for the lead with Night Glow for six furlongs ■- of the Glenmore, while Mrs. Beatrice ;e DiGorgios Flak was a rather distant third. l Curving for home, Transformer wilted in the slop and Doug Dodson saved much ground with Flak, cutting the corner and d forcing the run for home only a length h back of Night Glow. Dodson whipped and hand -rode alternately •- through the stretch, while Johnny iy Longden was busy holding Night Glow together as the daughter of Pharamond II. I. was visibly tiring. She stuck it out gamely, f, however, and maintained a half length h margin at the wire. Though Transformer was a weary horse ;e at the end, he had little trouble saving third d honors from Air Current, who raced dully ly throughout and the sulking Trierarch. Grant Rice was a popular winner of the ie secondary feature, the six furlong Flushing lg Handicap, in which he carried Henry •y Lustigs Longchamps Farms colors to a a length and one-half victory over the pace-making . Flying Doug. This was strictly a a two-horse affair from the break, with h Continued on Page Twenty-Four Night Glow Scores Again In Handicap at Jamaica Bieber Mare Leads Throughout — Grant Rice in Popular Victory Continued from Page One Nursery Tale running third, five lengths s back of the Allen T. Simmons colorbearer, and a similar margin before Jake Freed-mans Super Marines. . Flying Doug, who was making his first start since October, when he had been a * breezing winner at Hawthorne -in the last t of his three starts of the season, quickly , opened up a daylight lead, which he held rounding the far turn. Gilbert was evi-I dently trying to rate Flying Doug in front, and he continued to hold a slight advantage " as Steve Brooks ranged the favorite up alongside on the stretch turn. They curved into the home lane on a line, with Flying Doug on the inside, but far enough off the rail to avoid the deep water on the inside. Grant Rice steadily 7 forged ahead under an energetic ride in the J drive to the wire. Gilbert cut Flying Doug * , twice with his whip at the sixteenth pole, and he responded momentarily, then stopped as if short, and Grant Rice drew away to score cleverly. The dash was timed in 1 :1245, which was i . excellent, considering the water-soaked j track, and Grant Rice paid .40.
