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Historian Historian Annexes Annexes Lincoln Lincoln Handicap; Handicap; First First Flight Flight Speeds Speeds to to Astoria Astoria Victory Victory — i Cable Carries Off Honors in Yankee New York Invader Takes Measure of Blue Yonder Before 31,362 at Suffolk SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 8. — Brought up from New York, after his running third behind Assault in the Belmont Stakes, Mrs. Aksel Wichfields Cable won the 5,000 added Yankee Handicap, for three-year-olds, before 31,-362 enthusiasts here today. The brown colt by War Admiral out of Miss Brief was co-favorite with Mrs. E. H. Augustus Blue Yonder, and these two dominated the event in the important stages of the running, and there was no question as to which was bette* as Cable drew away to win by more than a length and thus take down the 3,475, the net value to the winner. It was a truly run race and if there was any surprise it was that William Helis Phidias, rated as Miird choice in the small field, could not finish third, winding up in fourth place behind Weston W. Adams Gay Moonbeam, who ran an improved race but could not cope with the class. Gay Moonbeam set the pace for about seven furlongs, with Brosnan and Halleys Danny J. second. Phidias was second and third at intervals in the early part of this mile and three -sixteenths event, but as the field was leaving the backstretch Blue Yonder went up on the inside and Cable moved overland. Begins to Close Gap At the three-eighths pole it was a race between Cable and Blue Yonder, and here jockey Herb Lindberg had too much colt under him for Blue Yonder to stand off. It was a duel about half way down to the sixteenth pole and then Cable drew clear. Suffolk had its second dead heat for win in two days when the camera could not separate Weston Adams Fore and Aft, and Mrs. E. H. Augustus Surrender in the fourth race at six furlongs. Fore and Aft was the odds-on choice and jockey Rocco Sisto took him right to the front and had him six lengths in front turning for home. The first half mile was traveled in :45y5. and Fore and Aft was walking in the final strides, while Surrender, seemingly the victim of obstruction in the early running, came down the middle of the track.
