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■ill ► Blue Yonder Extends Win Streak To Five as He Scores at Suffolk JOCKEY CONN McCREARY— Was the riding star on Aqueducts opening program at Belmont Park yesterday with three winning mounts. Overtakes Flag Drill With Ease to Be Going Away by Two Lengths in Route Test SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 3. — Running so confidently that it seemed his opposition was held cheaply, Mrs. E. H. Augustus Blue Yonder stamped himself as the chief contender for top money in the Yankee Handicap, Suffolk Downs three-year-old stake Saturday, as he scored an easy victory in the Cohasset at a mile and 70 yards before 19,076 enthusiasts this clear and sunny June afternoon. This marked Blue Yonders fourth straight score in as many starts this season. Blue Yonder, chesinut colt by Ariel out of Reighzelle, was the seven-to-ten choice over a field of five rivals that included Weston Adams Flag Drill, M. A. Tuckers Vassallo, Irving Gushens Lusty Tidbit, T. C. Melroses Mel McCready and Mrs. D. M. Hollings worths Kendor. The only opposition came from Flag Drill, who cut out the early pace. Blue Yonder seemed to loaf for the first half-mile and then jockey Georgie Hettinger began to put down his mount. Blue Yonder just cut down what had been at one time as much as six lengths and at the turn for home was about two lengths away. However, he collared the Adams colt at the sixteenth pole and won by two lengths. Vassallo was third in the running and Lusty Tidbit fourth, but there was really no contest for the winner. Blenweed Easily Best Despite Misfortunes As he went the mile and 70 yards on a good track in 1:43%, Blue Yonder revealed that he was truly a rival for the 5,000 Yankee Handicap and that he would be a worthy foe for William Helis Phidias, the colt who won the Constitution Handicap the past Saturday. Neither colt had too much trouble, but the Yankee no longer figures as a one-horse proposition. The second odds-on choice in a row won when J. L. McKnights Blenweed, dropping 14 pounds off his previous start, went overland, drifted in the stretch and still laughed his way home in the Cambridge Purse, at a mile and one-sixteenth, the sixth race on the program. Blenweed always close to the pace, was sent to the front at the half mile pole and then jogged home. The only battle was for the place money with Sam Garfields Valdina Vicar coming up to take second money from W W. Waters Land Cruiser. Hetting rode this winner, too. The third race, for maiden two-year-old colts and geldings, was noted more for its mishaps than for the race itself. Before the horses even left the walking ring, L. C. Youngs Silver Sweep broke out from his lead, galloped down the runway to the track and then fled to the stable area, being scratched by the stewards. Then during the race itself. Boone Hall Stables Chaithan was crowded right after the break. Rider C. W. Smith took up and Chaithan stumbled just enough to unseat him. The rider was shaken up, but on first examination uninjured. The race itself was won by Little River Stables Bosoi, almost 6 to 1 in the wagering, and partly the cause of the jam. The daily double, over a slow track, was worth 8.20 to those who combined Jerry McCarthys Miss OBlocky, better than 8 to 1, in the first with the favorite, Martin Levels Easy Blend in the second race.
