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Georgian Romps Home at Belmont Reaches Wire Five Before Blue Quest Laugh-Dark Ruler Entry Finishes Third, Fourth; Reneged ties World Mark BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y. June 7. — The favorite players in the crowd of 19,173 here this gray, chilly afternoon were sadly disillusioned at the finish of the featured Flushing Purse, when the Wheat-ley .Stable entry of Laugh and Dark Ruler could finish no better than third and fourth in the role of odds-on choices. Hal Price Headleys Georgian, reversing his usual procedure, came from behind to romp home five lengths before Woodley Lane Farms Blue Quest, who got up in the final strides to take second money by a neck over Laugh. Dark Ruler was a length and a half farther back after having to ease out of a tight jam at the end of a quarter. Conn McCreary rode Georgian, who paid 1.30 and stepped the six furlongs in 1:11% without much urging through the final sixteenth. George Cassidy sent the field of seven in the Flushing away to a perfect start, but Hedley Woodhouse got Laugh to the lead in a couple of strides, while Dark Ruler was soon squeezed back to next-to-last. At the end of a quarter, Laugh led Battle Dance by a half length, with Georgian only a head further back on the outside, while Decimal and Bunnys Babe were between horses in the compact group. Blue Quest was kept out of the speed jam by Paul Bailey and trailed the field by a length. McCreary Makes Move Laugh continued to lead around the turns and into the stretch, but was never able to draw clear. Straightened away in the stretch, McCreary roused Georgian and, the bay son of Revoked responded with a rush, going to Daugh above the eighth pole and taking command with authority. At the same time, Bunnys Babe began to stagger as though "in need of the race, while Dark Ruler found racing form, but was unable to take advantage of it. Blue Quest, who was still last at the three-furlong pole, began a strong run on the turn for home. As Georgian drew away cleverly, adding to hios lead with every stride, Laugh weak* ened rapidly and was unable to withstand the belated bid of Blue Quest. After a promising bid near the furlong pole, Dark Ruler hung, while Decimal, Battle Dance and Bunnys Babe all ran out of wind, finishing in that order. Blown down the Widener straightaway by a brisk breeze, Woodley Lane Farms Reneged equaled the worlds record for four and a half furlongs by stepping the distance in :49%. The bay son of Revoked from White Samite, by Gallant Fox, reached the finish three lengths before Darby Dan Farms Wild Chorus, a "good thing," who led Jaclyn Stables Espea another two and a half lengths. The latter broke in a tangle. Mrs. Mickey Walshs Dans Dance was another thre and a half lengths out of the money. Paul Bailey rode Reneged, who paid .20. The track and world record was established by the late W. Goadby Loews The Pimpernel, also a two-year-old at the time and also aided by a tailwind that -afternoon of May 17, 1951. Reneged was making the third start of his career, had finished fourth, in his debut on May 13. second on May 27, beaten by Postal. Wood-ley Lane Farm is the nom de course of Steven B. Wilton, of Barrington, R. I., and Joseph R. Straus and Lafayette Ward of San Antonio, Texas. Their stock is trained by Homer Pardue. Reneged was bred by John A. Bell, Jr., but was sold to Woodley Lane Farm at Keeneland by the NuckoLs Brothers for 3,700.
