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» ■ I JOCKEY D. GORMAN — Piloted Fully Aware and Fennelly to victory on yesterdays Belmont Park card. » Word of Honor Rolls to Easy Win in Don Bingo at Belmont Inseparable Trails Isolater * Colt by Five While Nosing Out Marchons II. lor Place BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 10. — Phantom Farms Word of Honor, ridden for the first time this year by Ted Atkinson, rolled to an easy triumph in the featured Don Bingo Classified Handicap at Belmont Park today. Five lengths back of the Isolater colt came Brookmeade Stables Inseparable, who finished just a nose before Hamandy Farms Marchons II. Isidore Biebers Fire Point was a length farther back and a dozen lengths before Lazy F Ranchs Calvados, who completed the field. Word of Honor paid .20 after racking up his first victory in two seasons and stepped the mile and a furlong in 1:51% over a thoroughly sloppy track. The smallest crowd of the season, 14,-893 turned out in gray, dismal weather. The favorite players in the throng had little to warm them. Inseparable, Word of Honor, Calvados, Marchons II. and Fire Point came out of the gate in that order as the field for the Don Bingo started where the Widener course crosses the main track, but Calvados soon took a slight lead over Marchons II., who was on the inside. Inseparable was a close third, followed by Word of Honor, while Fire Point trailed by several lengths. Inseparable took command at the far turn, where Calvados dropped back and Word of Honor moved into third place behind Marchons n., with Atkinson sitting still. Inseparable continued to lead Marchons n. around the curve to the stretch, but Atkinson had only to cluck to Word of Honor to get an immediate response. The Isolater colt lapped his two rivals as though they were bogged down in the slop and quickly opened up a daylight lead, then merely coasted to the wire, adding to his margin with every stride. Engage in Duel for Place Inseparable and Marchons II. engaged in a bitter struggle for the place, with the Brookmeade gelding holding on desperately. Fire Point closed a little ground in the stretch and would probably have been second had there been another furlong to go. He would probably have still been second at the end of two miles, as Word of Honor only had to run a sixteenth of a .mile to make a show of his rivals. Atkinson completed a consecutive double when he brought Short Brook Farms Strutin up on the outside to run down the pacemaking Cacique, from the Al-Jo Sable in the seventh race, and score by a half length. James Cox Bradys Basis, the heavy favorite, was a well-beaten third. Wheatley Stables Summerlight drove straight down the Widener course to win the Perida Purse, fourth event, by a length from Vera S. Braggs Wise Cutie, who led C. T. Chenerys Vanetta by a neck. William Helis Spring Vogue, the favorite, was a close fourth after swerving sharply to the inside after the start and came back with a bruised left eye, having evidently hit herself on the gate, and bleeding at the mouth. Eddie Arcaro was the innocent recipient of a booing from the crowd as he rode back on Spring Vogue.
