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Ponder Ponder Heads Heads East East for for Preakness; Preakness; My My Emma Emma Scores Scores in in Water Water Blossom Blossom Belair Stud Miss Whips Back Talk Victress Ridden Out Hard By Bernhardt After Cutting Stretch Corner Along Rail BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 9. — Belair Studs My Emma, the lightweight of the small field, cut the stretch corner in the featured Water Blossom Classified Handicap to score by three and a half lengths over Edward Dibes Back Talk, who led Blue Circle Farms Challenge Like another length and a half. Mrs. Til-you Christophers Spats was a length out of the money, while King Ranchs Scattered, the favorite, completed the field and never looked like doing more than that at any stage of the mile test. Bobby Bernhardt rode My Emma, who paid 1.20 and stepped the mile in 1:38*5. On April 29 at Jamaica, My Emma was beaten 10 lengths by Challenge Like at a mile and a sixteenth under the same 109 pounds and had not been in the money in five starts since last October. This was the first time Bernhardt rode the daughter of Isolater — Marigal. Spats First in Motion Spats was first out of the gate in the Water Blossom, but Danisi tried to rate her and she was quickly passed by Challenge Like, Back Talk and Scattered, while My Emma brought up the rear ranks. Challenge Like quickly opened a daylight lead and skipped down the backstretch a couple of lengths before Back Talk and Scattered who raced as a team, slightly before Spats, with My Emma several lengths in the rear. Challenge Like continued to lead around the far turn, but Spats moved up on the outside and My Emma began a brisk run along the rail, while Scattered dropped back abruptly. My Emma kept on running along the inside and took command at the three-furlong pole, drawing away rapidly, to come into the stretch two and a half lengths before the early pacemaker. At the same time, Back Talk made a strong bid on the extreme outside. Bernhardt applied the whip to My Emma to the sixteenth pole, then hand rode her vigorously as she added to her lead, through manifestly tiring. Back Talk finished willingly, but never threatened the winner, while Challenge Like ran out of wind. Spats took fourth honors by default as Scattered left her Continued on Page Three , j I ; My Emma Outruns Back Talk In Water Blossom at Belmont Continued from Page One reputation in tatters at the three-furlong pole. Alfred G. Vanderbilts silks finished one, two, in the Pillory Purse that preceded the feature, but the winner, One Hitter, was only carrying them temporarily, as he is owned by Greentree Stable, which is in mourning for owner John Hay Whitneys mother-in-law. The Shut Out colt got home a neck before Vanderbilts Bar Sinister, who finished a length to the good of Brandywine Stables Low and High, who appeared to be squeezed a little by the entry when the tiring Bar Sinister came off the rail in the stretch. F. A. Blasers Count-A-Bit was a well-beaten fourth at the end of the mile and a sixteenth, before Engel Man and Prop. The entry paid .90, and One Hitter gave Ted Atkinson a double, the veteran having won the opener on Jersey Bounce.
