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C -:::-"" ~~ :"": I H Wandk. JOCKEY DOUGLAS DODSON— Registered with all four of his mounts on yesterdays Churchill program. ► 1 Owners Choice Leads Throughout In Belmont Parks Swift Stakes / Will Winds Up Closest to Hertz Homebred; McCreary Unseated From Half Hour BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 7. — Mrs. John D. Hertz Owners Choice found the seven furlongs of the Swift Stakes at Belmont Park to his entire liking today and led from wire to wire, scoring an easy triumph over Jaclyn Stables I Will. The favorite finished three lengths back of the son of Blenheim II., and a length before Walter P. Chryslers Brabancon, who led Deering Howes Donor another two lengths. A well-played second choice, Owners Choice, returned .60 and ran the seven furlongs in the passable time of 1:25% over the good track. Johnny Longden hustled the winner along from the start, but was sitting still in the stretch. A crowd of 22,278 turned out in almost every possible kind of weather, including a brief period of bright sunshine and only lacking a blizzard to be complete. Form held up reasonably well, with favorites winning two of the first five races, a second choice winning the forty-sixth edition of the Swift, and no real surprises after the opener. Half Hour Wheels Leaving Gate Longden shoved Owners Choice to the front at the start of the Swift, breaking from the outside stall, while George D. Wideners Half Hour wheeled leaving the gate and deposited Conn McCreary in the mud. McCreary was shaken up but otherwise uninjured, to the best of his knowl- Continued on Page Twenty-Six Owners Choice Outruns Rivals in Swift Stakes I Will Winds Up Next to Hertz Homebred in Sprint at Belmont Continued from Page One edge and belief. After a similar spill a couple of years ago, it was almost two weeks before it developed that he had suffered a slightly fractured skull. I Will broke almost as swiftly from his rail position, but Mrs. W. M. Jeffords Tavistock, showing surprising speed, quickly moved into second place, as Owners Choice opened up a daylight lead in the run down the far side. Brabancon was a close fourth before Kerry, Donor, Khyber Pass and Resistant. The order did not change rounding the far turn, but nearing the head of the stretch Tavistock and I Will began to close on the leader. Owners Choice had speed in reserve, however, and when Longden shook him up near the top of the home lane, he drew away again, staying well away from the inside. As Tavistock quit badly, I Will moved into second place and Brabancon made a futile bid, while Donor began to close some ground on the extreme outside. Owners Choice coasted through the stretch with ears pricked, while I Will drove on gamely, but was just not good enough. Brabancon finished well, but was never a serious threat. Donor wasnt asked to run until the race was all but over, and passed beaten horses, Just landing fourth money over the weary Tavistock in the final strides. Eddie Arcaro scored a double in the first two races, taking the opener with J. P. "Sammy, the well-dressed man," Smiths Lenore and the second with Walter M. Jeffords Snow Goose. Both were comparative outsiders, Lenore paying 6.50 and Snow Goose returning .90. Arcaro sent Lenore up along the inside rail of the Widener course to win the opener by a length from Mrs. W. Thorn Kissels Youllbesorry, who led Jaclyn Stables My Year by a little longer margin at the end of the four and a half furlongs. The white-faced Snow Goose charged through the middle of the pack in the six-furlong second number, drawing away in the stretch to beat J. T. Maloneys Gaelic Gift by a length and a half, while Elmen-dorf Farms pacemaking Shoe Buckle was a weary third before Joe W. Browns Miss Reckless. Gaelic Gift might have been best but after a slow start, rushed up on the outside, then suddenly stopped for a breather and came on again at the end.
