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Sandslinger Sandslinger Returns Returns to to Winning Winning Form; Form; Inroc Inroc Scores Scores Easy Easy Victory Victory in in Roseben Roseben Fog Lifts for Stake Running at Belmont Fighting Frank Second to Jaclyn Colt as Polynesian Finishes in Fourth Position BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y.. May 21. Several years ago, the late Joseph E. Widener, when president of the Westchester Racing Association, employed a character with a strange device guaranteed to prevent rain at Belmont Park. One would have thought that George D. Widener, current head of Belmont, had made a hurry call for the same mans services just before the featured 5,000 Roseben Handicap today, for the dense fog which had obscured the first five races almost completely, suddenly lifted just as the preceding race was declared official. After the running of the Roseben, it was the form players who were in a fog of their own. Jaclyn Stables Inroc, the extreme outsider of the field, was the winner by daylight over Mrs. Louise Donovans Fighting Frank, second longest price in the field. Joe W. Browns Brown Mogul was a well-beaten third before Elmendorf Farms Polynesian, the favorite. Degage, Cassis and True North completed the field in that order. Inroc paid 0.80, though his last two races were a place of second and a victory. Johnny Longden, who had won the fourth race on Red Risque, piloted Inroc, who steeped the six furlongs on the Widener straightaway in 1:10, excellent time for the muddy track. Takes Command Early Brown Mogul and Inroc slightly outbroke the field as they left the gate up the Widener chute, followed by Degage, True North, Fighting Frank, Polynesian and Cassis. As Brown Mogul began to drop back rapidly, Inroc took command and True North surged up on the outside, while Arcaro tried to rush Polynesian into contention between horses, but appeared to lack racing room. As the field neared the stands True North moved to the front on the outside, followed by Fighting Frank, Degage and Inroc, who were fairly closely grouped, before Polynesian, Cassis and Brown Mogul. The latter was allowed to drop back to last and when Guerin asked him to run, Continued on Page Seven In roc Scores Easy Success In Roseben at Belmont Continued from Page One instead of staying along the rail, he began to veer to the outside.weaving his way through horses and losing much ground. True Norths bid was short lived, and he was collared by Fighting Frank at the eighth pole. Degage stopped at that point and Inroc was coming on strongly, while Brown Mogul, though hopelessly out of it, was gaining ground. In the final sixteenth Inroc drew away to score by more than three lengths with the greatest of ease. Fighting Frank maintained a daylight lead over the fast-finishing Brown Mogul, while Polynesian finished a length out of the money without ever threatening seriously. Inroc, a bay four-year-old colt by Only One Noble Gift, by Toro, a running family if ever there was one, earned 1,975 by todays triumph, his second in eight starts this year. A crowd of 21,745 was in attendance. Mill River Stables Secnav stood a long drive gamely to conserve a nose margin over Belair Studs Hyblaze at the end of the Plum Island Purse that followed the Roseben. Earl Sandes Stage Kid was eighth lengths away in third place at the end of the mile and a sixteenth, and daylight before William Helis Ladys Ace. Secnav was the public choice, paying .10. Conn McCreary was in the saddle. Hyblaze propped at the start of the race, then appeared a certain winner in the stretch, but hung when Guerin stopped whipping at the sixteenth pole. Dense mist mantled Belmont Park for the early races and the horses could only be seen in the final furlong of the opener as they emerged from the thick mist. The moving figures of the teletimer gave the first inkling that the race had started far up the Widener chute. The fog began to lift by the second race and the horses came into view soon after the start and could be followed in the run down the far side, then disappeared into a patch of fog at the far turn to come into sight again nearing the final turn. J. P. Smiths Lenore, finishing fast along the rail, took the opener by a length from I. Biebers Empty Noose, who led Mrs. Louis Lazares Frisk by a length and a half. Lenore was the outsider of the small field, while the favored Lieut. Ben K. finished a nose out of the money after being in front when first glimpsed from the stands. Lenore was ridden by Eddie Arcaro and paid 8.40 after stepping the five furlongs in :59Vs over the muddy track. Fantasy Farms Maintaining charged up along the inside rail to score a popular victory in the second race, beating S. Lein-wands Marine Sweep by . five lengths. Short Brook Farms White Field finished another two lengths back and five before T. P. Morgans "Scotch Count. Eric Guerin was astride Maintaining, who paid .20.
