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Ill ■ Kiss Me Kate Easy Firenze Winner Jeffords Mare Has ] Three-Length Edge Whips Parading Lady and La Corredora as 20,956 View Final Jamaica Card JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 5.— Walter M. Jeffords Kiss Me Kate delighted a closing day throng of 20,956 at Jamaica by romping through the slop to score an easy victory in the sixth running of the 5,200 Firenze Handicap. With Dave Gorman taking her under a snug hold at the sixteenth pole, the five-year-old Count Fleet mare carried her 126-pound topweight under the wire three lengths before Joe W. Browns Parading Lady, who had saved ground all the way. Marian W. OConnors La Corredora was another two and a half lengths behind at the end of the mile and a furlong, while Hal Price Headleys Aesthete finished a little less than a length out of the money after setting the pace. Kiss Me Kate was a solid choice and paid her numerous backers .20, .00 and .80 across the board. The daughter of Count Fleet — Irish Nora, by Pharamond II., required 1:50% for the journey over a track that resembled the Los Angeles River. She had finished second to Swoop in her only other start this year, but that horse made the race look good by coming back with another triumph yesterday. The Firenze which has been won by such good distaff runners as Carolyn A., But Why Not and Next Move in its brief history and is named for a brilliant race mare of the 1880s, netted 4,350 to Jeffords. Aesthete Hustled to Front Aesthete was hustled to the front by Hedley Woodhouse at the start of the Firenze and quickly opened a lead of a little more than a length over Islay Mist, who was followed by La Corredora and Parading Lady in the run around the clubhouse turn. Curving into the backstretch, Parading Lady slipped up on the rail into third place, while Kiss Me Kate was running smoothly in fifth place on the outside behind La Corredora. Islay Mist stopped near the end of the backstretch, while La Corredora and Parading Lady swarmed on Aesthete. Gorman let out a notch on Kiss Me Kate near-ing the three-furlong pole and the big chestnut mare went to her horses with obvious authority. Disdaining to save ground, Gorman steered Kiss Me Kate around Parading Lady, Aesthete and La Corredora, who were racing abreast at the head of the stretch and literally smothered them with speed, surging into command with a rush passing the eighth pole in the short stretch. In two or three strides, Kiss Me Kate was three lengths in the van and she maintained her lead to the end, through Gorman took hold of her the final yards. Parading Lady fought on gamely, but was no match for the winner, while La Corredora tired badly at the end, though not quite as much so as Aesthete. Sufie ran an even race to be fifth, followed by No Score, who lacked speed all the way and appeared to dislike the going. Marta, who trailed from the start, and Islay Mist completed the field.
