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— ♦ Thelma Berger Nips 5 Marta Near Finish Joe W. Brown Mare Prevails By Head in Fairy Chant at I Aqueduct; Runner-Up Scores s AQUEDUCT, L. I.. N. Y., June 20.— Fast t fillies and mares met today in the mile ie and a sixteenth Fairy Chant Handicap, p, feature of the days card and a warm-up p for the 5,000 added Vagrancy, a little ie . more than a week hence, and the associa- l" J tions big treat for this always interesting • division. This preview went to Joe W. Browns fast-closing Thelma Berger, that |* five-year-old daughter of Brown King, = who had not previously reached the winners l" circle in 10 tries this year, just getting l?= up in the final strides to snatch a tight j" decision from Wodvales Martha by a head. "* The latter was three -parts of a length before *" Who Dini. who had set all the pace f and only weakened inside the final sixteenth. Who Dini. from the Jan Burke barn, ?• and the only one of the band of five who is J | | ! not eligible for next weeks Vagrancy, set ?* I all the pace in the Fairy Chant. Ted At- Z j •■ kinson had her under a snug hold most of i the way, and it was only at the far corner ;r I I that McCreary, on Martha, gradually began l_ to close ground on the Hypnotist II. I J I i filly. Little by little, Martha lessened the gap separating her from the still redoub-tale leader, and it appeared, at the sixteenth c_ pole, that the patient McCreary .y had timed his drive to perfection, and was about to be rewarded. Stuart Bides His Time Keith Stuart, however, with Thelma Berger. had also waited, and then waited ;j some more. He moved on the outside, late, ;e, it must have seemed to his backers, but ut j j decisively. The camera showed that the ie I New Orleans mare was just up. As for or Renew, the favorite and the. winner of the .e recent Top Flight Handicap at Belmont, she appeared anchored under 122 pounds, [S[ and was never a serious factor. Moderately warm summer weather saw a a crowd of 18,701 out for the afternoons s sport, and form was prominent throughout 1_ the session. The card contained no stake, but several of the events saw horses es of stake caliber in competition, the featured Fairy Chant, named for Foxcatchers rs I winner of a Gazelle at this track, bringing ig out a particularly nice field. Alfred Vanderbilts Runner-Up, a three-year-old e- chestnut son of Discovery, may ay never emulate his brilliant sire, but he did id score a free -running victory in the Stagecraft e- Purse, stepping the seven furlongs in 1:25, and holding the favored Grover B. quite safe in the drive. Snugged along close to the pace in the early stages of this dash, lh Runner-Up had plenty of early lick, and £d Guerin moved him up confidently on the rail to take command as the field approached the far turn. Between the turns, J* the Vanderbilt colorbearer had a clear advantage, *■ but Danny C, eventually third, was momentarily a strong competitor. *« Guerin plied his whip and the Discovery ry colt responded, drawing away and then e*J holding Grover B. safe. This interrupted 6°- the series of winning choices, Runner-Up JP paying better than four to one. The Wheatley Stables Hilarious whipped George D. Widenors Platan, Joe Browns *■ Mr.. Midnight and three others in the El E1 Chico Purse, an overnight event for two-year-old o- non-winners of a sweepstakes at at five and a half furlongs. The winner, who ho is trained at this track and hails from m •Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons barn, all in form at present, raced head and head with th Retrouve for a way, and then Platan moved up as if he could snatch it all.
