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: i MARABOUT — The Belmont Juvenile Stakes winner of 1948 registered his first success of the current season yesterday at Delaware Park when he accounted for the second -division of the Kensey Johns Purse. Three Dots and Equibit Dead-Heat Sensational Finish In Delaware Sprint Camera Shows Pair Even at Close of Felton Purse With Tacaro Briar in Third Place DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 2. — In one of the most stirring stretch battles in the history of this course, J. Howard Rouses Three Dots and Ella K. Brysons Equibit finished in a dead heat for major honors in this afternoons featured six-furlong Felton Purse. Three placing judges, approximately 10,000 enthusiastic fans and the photo-finish camera were unable to separate the two as they crossed the line in 1:10% and with an advantage of three lengths over Robert L. Hall, Jr.s, Tacaro Briar. Three Dots had bowed to Equibit by three-quarters of a length in his only other start of the year, but a five-pound shift in the weights figured to bring them together this afternoon. That is exactly what happened. Johnny Gilbert, astride Three Dots and Bobbie Strange, rider of Equibit, put on a beautiful exhibition, one that demonstrated why they are regarded as the top reinsmen on this circuit. Three Dots paid .70, while Equibit was a close second choice £o that one and paid .20. The race was a spine-tingling affair right from the outset, with Three Dots, Erigeron and Irrawaddy racing on almost even terms along the backstretch and to the half-mile pole, with Equibit just a half length farther back. Irrawaddy, making his seasonal debut, was the first to show signs of the telling pace and dropped back near the three-eighths pole. Trio Races Abreast Into Stretch Equibit moved to Three Dots and Erigeron at that point and that trio raced together into the stretch, when Erigeron had quite enough of it. The Bryson colt had his head slightly to the fore at the furlong pole, gave way near the seventy-yard pole, than came again to reach even terms just at the wire. George D. Wideners Marabout, a three-year-old Mahmoud gelding who won last years renewal of Belmont Parks Juvenile Stakes, reached winning form in his second start of the season when he was first home in 1:11% in the six-furlong fourth race. Harry L. Straus Nokomis, also a stakes winner as a juvenile, having accounted for the Maryland Futurity at Laurel, was a length behind the winner and a similar distance in front of Brookmeade Stables Sky Miracle. In the other division of the Marabout race, J. Howard Rouses Bravo was a surprise winner at 2.50 for . Bravo held a commanding advantage at the furlong pole but had to be hard ridden by Willie Seaman to take a nose photo from Brandywine Stables Lowandhigh". W. T. Leatherburys favored Vagrant Cloud was third in 1:11%.
