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Flaunt Lasts to Win Feature at Monmouth Son of Challenge Me Gains Neck Margin Oyer Favored My Celeste By FRED GALIANI MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 16. — A. A. Maus and A. Skjevelands hard-working Flaunt lasted to win the Johren Purse here this afternoon by a neck before the last-ditch charge of Mrs. Constance Morabitos favored My Celeste, who passed everybody but the winner after coming from next to last place. Jacklyn Stables Setubal was a head farther back in the close finish. Apprentice Henry Schab rode the winning son of Challenge Me over the mile and a sixteenth in 1:50%, and Flaunt returned .60 as the second choice. For the third consecutive day, the crowd surpassed the previous years mark, an estimated 11,900 turning out in clear and sunny weather for the sport. Flaunt, who raced 34 times as a three-year-old, winning two, including the Lamplighter Handicap over this strip, was making his eighth trip to the post this year, and this was his first victory. Something to note for those who follow a horses-for-courses system. My Celeste, who finished second three times in a row in renewals of the Molly Pitcher Handicap, is being pointed for that stake again this year and this was only her third outing of the season. Ruthred and Setubal were closely locked as they left the gate and swept around the turn as a team. Ruthred, who had delayed the start by throwing her rider in the gate, could not keep up with Setubal and dropped out of it, while Flaunt moved up into second position. Down the back stretch, My Celeste was only ahead of Freedom Bell. Setubal continued to lead Flaunt and Pasatiempo, who had moved up on the rail, as they swung into the far turn, while My Celeste then made her move midway of the bend. Straightening away for home, Setubal still maintained his advantage, with ! Flaunt and Pasatiempo following next in | line, and My Celeste, now ranging up on the outside. Flaunt gradually overhauled Setubal and passed the Argentine-bred to take the lead and then had to be all out to stave off My Celeste, who ate up ground with every stride in the final sixteenth, but failed to catch Flaunt. Pasatiempo was a neck in back of his fellow countryman at the finish, after having to be straightened out passing the sixteenth marker, when he ducked in behind Flaunt. Finishing fifth -was another Argentine-bred, Mrs. John P. Adams gray Heraclito, but he was quite a distance behind the other two South Americans.
