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Faultless Annexes Gallant Fox Honors HonorsLeads Leads Stablemate Fervent Home by Head as Gallorette Js Third in Jamaica Event EventJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y May 15 Warren Wright took all the money as the Jamaica spring meeting came to a brilliant close with Faultless beating his more highlyre ¬ garded stablemate Fervent by a head at the end of the mile and threesixteenths and W LBranns Gallorette finishing a halflength further back Josepli Tuccis Incline was more than three lengths out of the money in fourth place a halflength before Mrs Ethel D Jacobs Stymie who began his usual rush from far back at the far turn but had to go wide at the head of the stretch then lacked his onetime fin ¬ ishing drive Hedley Woodhouse rode Faultless while Newbold Leroy Pierson was on Fervent and Ted Atkinson piloted Gal ¬ lorette The time was 157 just two sec ¬ onds slower than the track mark set by Lucky Draw in 1946 The track was as fast as it has been this season which is about two seconds slower than in former years yearsA A throng of 43854 packed the Metropoli ¬ tan Jockey Club stands for the closing program The weather was ideal and the Gallant Fox proved to be a worthy finale to the 39day session Stymie was made a sentimental favorite while the Calumet Farm entry as a strongly supported sec ¬ ond choice paid 6 530 and 370 across the board Faultless added 60300 to ear ¬ lier 1948 earnings of only 6100 while Fer ¬ vent enriched the baking powder magnate by another 15000 second money Tommy Carroll actually tightened the girth on Faultless while Ben A Jones general man ¬ ager of the Calumet Farm racing interests saddled Fervent FerventAge Age May Be Telling on Stymie StymieJorge Jorge de Atuchas Endeavour n and Bayard Sharps Tide Rips were late with ¬ drawals from the Gallant Fox suitable riders not being available for either horse horseLast Last week Fervent won the Dixie Hand ¬ icap at Pimlico getting six pounds from Stymie and leading him a length and a half Faultless was fifth in that race under underContinued Continued on Pace Three Faultless and Fervent OneTwo in Gallant Fox FoxCalumet Calumet Entry Drives to Wire Half Length Before Gailorette GailoretteContinued Continued from Page One 117 pounds picking up one pound today while Fervent added four Stymie bene ¬ fited by a weight shift of five pounds in relation to Fervent and lost another three lengths an indication that the popular son of Equestrian may be feeling his seven years yearsThe The field got away to a good start in the Gallant Fox leaving the gate at the head of the stretch Knockdown appeared to come over on But Why Not in the first stride or so while Gailorette was hustled to the front followed by the Maine Chance Farm veteran Faultless was some three lengths away as they rounded the club ¬ house turn followed by But Why Not Hal conero Fervent Incline Elpis Miss Grillo and Stymie who trailed the field by 10 lengths lengthsNearing Nearing the far turn Faultless ranged up on the outside of Gailorette to take a slight lead while Fervent was lapped on the tir ¬ ing Knockdown and racing on the rail Stymie began to run at that point and quickly drew up to the stragglers picking up his horses with a tremendous rush It became evident as the leaders swung into the stretch that there was going to be no racing room on the rail and McCreary guided the chestnut to the outside outsideMeanwhile Meanwhile Faultless Gailorette and Fervent were moving on as a team heads apart and with all three driving to the utmost For an instant at the eighth pole it seemed that Gailorette would come on again but first Faultless then Fervent who was hidden on the inside forged away from her Stymies bid began to falter at the eighth pole and Incline saved fourth honors without much trouble
