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Recover Leads From Start to Finish Wins Cherry Hill T By Four Lengths Runner-Up Next to Headley Homebred Filly at Belmont; Elixir Scores in Comeback a BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., h May 23. Hal Price Headleys Recover de- n lighted a crowd of 21,777 today by leading Q from start to finish of the featured Cherry n Hill Purse."The Revoked filly reached the a end of the six furlongs four lengths before ri A. G. Vanderbilts Runner-Up with Jimmy Hardinbrook allowing her to keep busily S1 about her business on a loose rein through g the stretch. Belair Studs Golden Gloves o was almost a length away in third place j and a similar margin before Allen H. jj it Smiths This Side. C Recover paid .60 and chugged the six " in furlongs in a respectable 1:11 on a fast track. A half-sister to her sire, Belle Re- to belle, scored a mild upset two races earlier. c Gerald Porch starred in the saddle with a v double on the straight course, winning p both juvenile races with Real Brother and f Belle Rebelle. It was an eventful after- j. noon, with the stewards taking two trips c to the movies. s Golden Gloves was first out of the gate in the Cherry Hill, but Recover passed him a before they had gone a sixteenth and s quickly opened a daylight lead, while Run- j ner-Up moved into second place. Golden Gloves was a close third, while Giorgetti c was lapped on him and This Side not far j way. j Golden Gloves Drops Back Recover, who has a brisk action, con- j tinued to lead around the wide curve to the stretch, with Runner-Up living up to j his name, while Golden Gloves dropped j back passing the three-furlong pole as though momentarily in distress. Recover added to her lead steadily in the stretch, with Hardinbrook allowing her to go along as she pleased. Runner-Up ran a steady race, while Golden Gloves finished well. This Side moved up menacingly at the head of the home lane, then hung as though in need of the race. D. J. Schneiders Elixir, who had been idle since last July and had not won since scoring in the Bahamas Handicap at Hia-leah in February 1951, stunned the throng by .taking the fifth race by a length from David Shaers Springtale and paying 9.80. Sanford Stud Farms Little Falls was a length farther back and a head before Fortune P. Ryans Blue Helmet, the favorite. The stewards asked to see the movies before making this result official. George Schifters Quick Fire, another returning to action after a long absence, racked up several of his rivals when going to the front near the far turn, with Little Falls being the chief victim, then dropped back abruptly and finished last. Dr. Eslie Asburys Belle Rebelle outfin-ished Ogden Phipps short-priced favorite, His Duchess, in the fourth event, then had to withstand a foul claim by Eddie Arcaro against Gerold Porch. Ri P. Sherwins In the Van was only a neck farther back and less than a length before Greentree Sta- . bles Blue Green at the end of a hotly contested four and a half furlongs. In the Van, . who was disqualified after finishing second in her last start, again bore in near the finish, while Belle Rebelle, who led from the start, and His Duchess were closely locked through the final furlong. After viewing the movies, the stewards decided that it was all in fun. Belle Rebelle paid 1.60 and was teletimed in :52. She is a daughter of Count Fleet from Gala Belle, ; dam of the costly Speculation and the sire ; Revoked and was making her second start.
