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Happy Happy Carrier Carrier Accounts Accounts For For Primer, Primer, Golden Golden Gloves Gloves Prevails Prevails in in Shevlin Shevlin Gives Belair Stud Double at Aqueduct Charges to Wire Neck Before Quiet Step After Overtaking Pacemaking Hitex Near End By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 18.— Belair Studs Golden Gloves charged through on the rail to win the twenty-fifth running of the Shevlin Stakes today by a neck from Apheim Stables Quiet Step, who finished even faster on the outside. Ben F. Whitakers Hitex was between them and a head farther back after setting the pace for all but the final yards of the mile and a sixteenth. It was another seven lengths back to E. P. Bixers Count Flame. Nick Wall rode Golden Gloves, who was scoring his first "stakes victory and paid .60 as the public choice. The time was a moderate 1:44 Ms. A crowd of 18,831 turned out in hot, but breezy weather, including William Woodward, master of Belair Stud and former chairman of The Jockey Club, who was making his first appearance of the year. Woodward netted 5,500 as the winners share of the Shevlin Stakes. Son of Saratoga Cup Winner, Isolater Golden Gloves is a bay son of Isolater, who won the Saratoga Cup for Woodward in 1939 and 1940, from Valse dOr, by Eight Thirty. Though the Shevlin was Golden Gloves first stakes, it was his fifth victory of the year and his second straight. His success completed a double for trainer Jim Fitzsimmons, whose charges, La Perouse and Wilful, ran one-two in the fourth race. Golden Gloves is the 103d stakes winner developed by Mr. Fitz in his long career. Hitex was hustled to the front by Dave Gorman at the start of the Shevlin and quickly opened a daylight lead over Golden Gloves, who was several lengths before Potpourri, while Quiet Step was a distant fourth. Mixture, Count Flame, Cold Command and Air Service followed in the run around the clubhouse turn and down the backstretch. Cold Command, who looked well bodily, was unable to stride out freely. Hitex continued to lead Golden Gloves by a couple of lengths in the run down the far side and around the turn to the stretch, while Quiet Step, who was conceding eight pounds to his rivals, began to move up steadily on the outside. Straightened away for the run to the wire, Hitex was still daylight in front, but beginning to shorten stride. Wall sent Golden Gloves over to the rail, while Atkinson continued straight down the middle of the track with Quiet Continued on Page Three Golden Gloves Accounts For Shevlin in Thriller Charges Home Before Quiet Step And Gives Beiair Stud Double Continued from Page One Step and both colts swarmed on the pacemaker. Hitex, though obviously weary, held on to the final strides, where Golden Gloves slipped through on the rail to take command and had enough left to hold Quiet Step safe for the last stride. The latter finished fastest of all, but ran out of ground. Count Flame ran over beaten horses in the ast three-sixteenths, while Cold Command also passed a couple of horses in the stretch, but appeared a bit "ouchy" after the race. There were two sets of couplings in the fourth event, a dash for maiden juveniles, and they had the race much to themselves. Beiair Studs La Perouse won by daylight over Wheatley Stables Wilful, while War-bern Stables My Cut In and Perfect Hit finished third and fourth, respectively. Bill Boland rode La Perouse, a daughter of Apache-Humility, by Hyperion, and the Jim Fitzsimmons-trained entry paid 8, 6.50 and 1.40 across the board. La Perouse was timed in 1:07% for the five and a half furlongs. Short-priced horses prevailed in the earlier races, with Woolford Farms Equa-bleu and Frank Kearns Rambling Mary combining for a 1.70 Daily Double after leading throughout the first two sprints. L. W. Jennings Eolus proved much the best in the hurdle race, leading under restraint from Frank "Dooley" Adams and having no trouble disposing of Allison Sterns Solar Count at the end of about a mile and a half. Eolus returned .
