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Flower Bed Earns Honors In Belmont Motto Purse Dell Stables Oaks Candidate Shows Way Home to Blue Row BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 20. — Herman Delmans Flower Bed, who was making her first start since Washingtons birthday and the fifth of her career, outfiriished Lester Manor Stables Blue Row to win the featured Motto Purse at Belmont Park today. The dark bay daughter of Beau Pere was hustled under the wire a half-length to the good. John S. Phipps Gay Mood was three and a half, lengths farther back at the end of the six furlongs and a neck before J. C. Bradys Tassel and G. D. Wideners Show Time, who finished in a dead heat for fourth honors. Brookmeade Stables Sunny Vale, the favorite, finished another neck away. Warren Mehrtens rode Flower Bed, who paid .50 and stepped the three-quarters in 1:12% over a sloppy track. A crowd of 14,026 hardy fans endured several varieties of bad weather at Belmont Park today, drizzling rain, alternating with spurts of penetrating downpour, while a chill wind blew down the Widener straightaway. Some of the early comers were unprepared for the sudden change in the elements and there were many wilted straw skimmers discarded in the grandstand. Only one favorite, Intrepid, rewarded the form-players, and he was a tepid choice in the fourth race. While Tassel was first out of the gates in the Motto, Blue Row quickly swept into command, followed by Nasophar, Gay Mood and Flying Ship, as the early leader dropped back steadily. Blue Row led by daylight at the far turn, with Gay Mood a head before Flying Ship and Nasophar, who raced as a team, and stopped in the same way a little farther on. At this stage, Flower Bed was in fifth place, but going easily on the outside, followed by. Tassel, Show Time, Sunny Vale and Sub. Curving into the stretch, Flower Bed moved up with a rush on the outside, while Blue Row continued to lead along the in- side rail. Flower Bed drove up to the leader in a few strides, though bearing in sharply, and quickly dominated the pacemaker. The Beau Pere filly was level with Blue Row at the eighth pole and gradually drew away, though the latter held on gamely under Gordon Glissons urging. Gay Mood, top weight with 121, ran a good race on the sloppy track that she likes best, while Show Time and Tassel both passed beaten horses in the stretch. Sunny Vale ran a dull race all the way. Flower Bed was a 0,000 yearling purchase and won her first two starts last year in style that caused her shoe manufacturer owner to receive a 100 per cent profit. After failing in her first start at Santa Anita, she was injured in the Santa Anita Stakes, but was brought back to the races a fit filly by G. P. "Maje" Odom. She is a candidate for the Coaching Club American Oaks.
