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Spy Spy Song Song Never Never Headed Headed at at Arlington; Arlington; Bridal Bridal Flower Flower Takes Takes Gazelle Gazelle in in Upset Upset Bradley Filly Turns Tables on Hypnotic Victress Scores With Ease By Six Lengths at Aqueduct To Avenge Recent Defeat AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 20. Col. Edward Riley Bradleys Bridal Flower presented the veteran turfman with a whole wreath of posies when she scored an easy victory in the fifty-first running of the 0,000 Gazelle Stakes today, reaching the wire six expanding lengths before Belair Studs Hypnotic, who led her stablemate Bonnie Beryl by the same margin as she was beaten by the winner. Robert Greens Station was a remote fourth in the field of six fillies, who were strung out over a furlong at the wire. A. DeLara rode Bridal Flower, and made no mistakes, forcing the pace of Earshot to the far turn, then drawing clear to score at will. Ignored in the wagering, Bridal Flower, who was giving Colonel Bradley his first victory in the Gazelle, paid 6.40 and ran the distance in the creditable time for the slow Aqueduct track of 1:46. Earns 6,950 Purse Bridal Flower, besides amazing the 20,076 fans who turned out in unseasonable weather, also earned 6,950 for demonstrating the uncertainty of horse racing. In her last start, the daughter of Challenger H. Big Hurry had finished six lengths back of Hypnotic at this same track and distance in a race run in 1:47. On that occasion she was receiving six pounds from Hypnotic. Today she got 10, which is hardly enough to account for 12 lengths. Earshot, who had won the Acorn Stakes, took the lead at the start of the Gazelle, followed closely by Bridal Flower, while Bonnie Beryl was in third place rounding the clubhouse turn, before Station, Red Shoes and Hypnotic. As the field sped down the far side, Earshot continued to lead, but was pressed hard by Bridal Flower, while Hypnotic began to move up from the rearguard. Earshot had enough at the top of the home lane, and Bridal Flower took command with ease, quickly opening an insurmountable lead. Hypnotic came from far back for her share of the purse while Bonnie Beryl was staggering at the end. Walter P. Chryslers Stage Mother gave Sam Williams his first winning ride since he came out of the Armed Forces, though the Lad has turned in several capable performances on inferior horses. Taking the track at the start of the fifth race, a dash for maiden juvenile fillies, Williams kept Stage Mother going all the way to beat C. V. Whitneys favored Fire Bomb a diminishing nose.
