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► 4 Native Dancers Performances Highlight of Jamaica Meeting Scored in Gotham and Wood;* Vanderbilt, Winfrey, Guerin All Head Respective Fields Jamaicas golden jubilee spring meeting, comprising 30 days and which concluded last Tuesday, drew attendance of 854849 fans. This figure represented a daily average attendance of 28,495, slightly under the 29,233 mark enjoyed by the track during the previous season, but better than the 26,900 daily average turnout in 1951. This springs Jamaica meeting comprised 30 days, against a corresponding 24 days last season and 36 for two years ago. Highlighting the entire meeting, of course, were the two victorious appearances of the then undefeated 1952 two-year-old champion, Native Dancer, in the Gotham Stakes and Wood Memorial. Native Dancer picked up an even 7,000 in the Wood. Those twin triumphs enabled the gray colts owner, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, to emerge as the leading money-winning owner of the meeting with a bankroll of 81,705. Vanderbilts earnings far outstripped the 0,200 that Mrs. Ethel duPont Weir compiled for runner-up laurels, mainly on the strength of Royal Vales success over C. V. Whitneys Cold Command in the 0,000 added Gallant Fox Handicap last Saturday. Naturally, Native Dancers duo of victories in as many Jamaica starts left him at the top of the leading money-winning horses list with 11,500 to his credit. Royal Vale earned 9,600 in his Gallant Fox victory, plus an earlier third-place finish. Laffangos score in the second section of the Gotham helped boost his winnings to 9,900, while Cold Command was the fourth biggest money gleaner with 8,575. The Whitney four-year-old won three straight races, including the Blackstock Handicap on April 27, before bowing to Royal Vale last Saturday. The Blackstock, incidentally, was named in honor of William Collins Whitneys winner of the Excelsior Handicap which featured the opening day program at Jamaica on April 27, 1903. Mutuel Handle of 3,336,667 Jamaicas pari-mutuel handle reached 3,336,667 against 8,986,553 for the 24 days last year and the 6,321,859 that flowed through the windows in the spring of 1951. Broken down, this entailed a daily average mutuel handle of ,444,556 for the 30 days. The 24 days of 1952 saw the daily average reach ,457,773, while it was ,-120,051 in 1951. A total of ,422,935 gross was distributed to horsemen this season, the net dis-. tribution hitting ,337,900. Percentage of winning favorites again was high, 94 choices in the 240 races run getting to the charmed circle for a .39 mark. Victorious second choices won 46 events, while winning outsiders were successful on 101 occasions. Twenty-one odds-on horses got down in front first; 20 at less than even money failed to win. There was one dead-heat for first place recorded during the 240 races. Eric Guerin, contract rider for Vanderbilt, finished atop the jockey standings with 30 victories in 104 mounts for a percentage of .29. Eddie Arcaro, the ol stakes specialist, while accepting only 30 mounts during the meeting he was at Keeneland and Churchill a good portion of the meetings duration, won with eight of those mounts, for a .27. percentage. Willie Lester was runner-up to Guerin with 26 successes in 152 tries. Bill Winfrey reflected the highly successful Vanderbilt campaign at Jamaica, in addition to Native Dancers duo of triumphs, by heading the trainer parade with 13 winners. Winfreys total was two more than Ed Jacobs could muster, and three more Continued on Page Thirty-Seven Native Dancer Big Horse Of Meeting at Jamaica Won Gotham, Wood; Vanderbilt, Winfrey, Guerin Top Their Fields Continued from Page Four than the once perennial national leader, Hirsch Jacobs, clustered. Complete Jamaica statistics follow: April 1 to May 5—30 Days Gross distribution ,422,935 Net distribution ,337,900 Daily average net distribution. 4,596.67 Attendance 854,849 Daily average attendance 28,495 Mutuel handle 3,336,667 Daily average mutuel handle. . ,444,556 Leading Money-Winning Owners Owner. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Won. Vanderbilt. A. G. 13 4 4 81,705 Weir, Mrs. E. D. 10 1 50,200 Trio Stable 3 4 0 47,050 Whitney, C. V. 7 3 3 46,925 Jacobs, Mrs. E. D. 8 10. 5 30,705 Whitaker, B. F. 2 2 1 29,800 Brown, J. W. 12 1 28,690 Chenery, C.T. 4 6 2 27,585 Saxon Stable 2 4 3 27,450 Jeffords, W. M. 110 25,350 Leading Money-Winning Horses Horse. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Won. Native Dancer 2 0 0 11,500 Royal Vale 10 1 50,200 Laffango 2 00 39,900 Cold Command 3 10 28,575 Parading Lady 110 27,000 Kiss Me Kate 110 25,350 TahitianKing 110 24,875 First Glance 110 24,750 Squared Away 10 0 21,650 Sagittarius 2 0 0 20,085 Leading Jockeys Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. PC. Guerin, E. 104 30 14 12 48 .29 Lester, W. 152 26 15 15 96 .17 Green, B. 125 22 14 14 75 .18 Woodhouse.H. 137 22 17 26 72 .16 Gorman, D. 113 16 15 20 62 .14 OBrien, C. 83 15 16 8 44 .18 Boland.W. 121 12 15 13 81 .10 Chester, J. 64 9 6 9 40 .14 Nichols, J. 107 9 14 18 66 .08 Arcaro.E. 30 8 6 4 127 Leading Trainers Trainer. Wins. Trainer. Wins. Winfrey, W. C. 13 Stephens, W. C. 7 Jacobs, E. 11 Williams, H. W. 7 Jacobs, H. 10 Veitch, S.E. 7 Hirsch, M. 7 Bieber, P. 6 Jerkens, H. A. 7 Fitzsimmons, J. 6 Martin, F. 7 Following is the list of stakes that were decided : Stake. Date. Winner. Value. Paumonok Handicap, April 1, Squared Away 0,650 Excelsior Handicap, April 4, First Glance 20,500 Experimental Free Handicap, April 8, Laffango 15,400 Jamaica Handicap, April 11, Sagittarius 16,150 Prioress Stakes, April 15, Grecian Queen 17,300 Gotham Stakes 1st Div., April 18, Native Dancer 24,500 Gotham Stakes 2d Div., April 18, Laffango 24,500 Rosedale Stakes, April 20, Sitting Duck 9,825 Correction Handicap, April 22, Parading Lady 21,000 Wood Memorial, April 25, Native Dancer 87,000 Blackstock Handicap, April 27, Cold Command 10,075 Youthful Stakes, April 29, Revolt. . . 10,975 Gallant Fox Handicap, May 2, Royal Vale 49,600 Firenze Handicap, May 5, Kiss Me Kate 24,350 The percentage of winning favorites was above normal, as shown in the subjoined tabulation : Number of races 240 Winning favorites 94 Winning second choices 46 Winning outsiders 101 Winners at odds-on 21 Defeated at odds-on 20 Percentage of winning favorites .39 Dead-heats to win 1
