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Area ve Triumphs Over One Hitter HitterDiscovery Discovery Gelding Leads Foe by Over Two Lengths In Spendthrift Handicap HandicapBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 5 Greentree Stables One Hitter demonstrated once again that he can do just about anything except carry weight when he failed to rally effectively in the final furlongs of the featured Spendthrift Handicap finishing a little more than two lengths behind Cockfield Stables Arcave The favorite appeared anchored under 126 pounds while Arcave a big Discovery geld ¬ ing carried his 122 pounds with ease Ogden Phipps Ancestor was another two and a half lengths in arrears at the end of the mile and a furlong and a length and a half before C Mahlon Klines Kaster The field was completed by Harpes and King Jolie who were never in the hunt huntArcave Arcave was made second choice to One Hitter by the crowd of 19741 that turned out in hot humid weather and paid 620 Eric Guerin sent Arcave over the distance in 150 looking back for Ted Atkinson and One Hitter all through the stretch run This was Arcaves third straight triumph at the same distance and was the fastest of the three threeAncestor Ancestor King Jolie and Kaster raced almost as a team in the run down the back stretch in the Spendthrift with Kaster in the deeper going along the rail while Guerin had dead aim on the leaders while keeping Arcave in fourth place on the out ¬ side Harpes was a distant fifth ollowed by One Hitter Ancestor Continues in Front FrontAncestor Ancestor continued to lead rounding the far turn while King Jolie dropped back nearing the threefurlong pole thoroughly beaten One Hitter began to move up slowly at the same time while Arcave began to get into high gear gearArcave Arcave moved up to challenge Ancestor on the final bend and quickly took com ¬ mand while Kaster began to drop back along the rail and One Hitter surged up to challenge challengeAs As Guerin looked back as though wonder ¬ ing when the favorite was going to come to him Atkinson got into One Hitter but the little son of Shut Out was unable to gain on the winner though passing Ances ¬ tor and Kaster in the final furlong furlongArcave Arcave and One Hitter are both eligible for the Massachusetts Handicap next Wednesday in which both are assigned considerably smaller packages One Hitter has been definitely announced as a candi ¬ date for the stake which he won two years ago while Tom Waller has not made a final decision concerning Arcave who is in the best form of his career careerEddie Eddie Arcaro received a nice hand when he came back on his first winner since he captured the Queens Plate on Canadiana last Tuesday This was C T Chenerys Permian who was backed down to oddson over 20 rivals in the fifth race and scored easily by three and a half lengths over James Cox Bradys Artismo a debutante halfbrother to the Metropolitan winner Casemate King Ranchs Pelouse who was also making his first start was a half length before Brae Burn Farms Striking Hour Permian who was narrowly beaten by Catspaw in the Juvenile Stakes last out paid 360 and stepped the five furlongs on the Widener straightaway in 57 He is a brown son of the speedy Bossuet from Consolida by Blue Larkspur THOMAS M WALLER Saddled Arcave Arcavefor for his winning performance in the theSpendthrift Spendthrift Handicap at Belmont Park Parkyesterday yesterday
