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Weighing In . — By Evan Shipman - ■ Bunnys Babe Shows Return to Best Form Colt Was Cut Down in Last Falls Cowdin Erb Deserves Praise for Cool Ride on Swaps AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 14.— With all due respects to the High Tide Stables gray gelding, Fabulist, winner of the Queens County Handicap yesterday under the feather of 111 pounds, the most interesting performance on this initial program of the Queens County Jockey Clubs spring meeting was furnished by Colonel E. P. Bixers similarly robed three-year-old, Bunnys Babe, victor in an overnight six-furlong dash for those of his age. Last year, this angular son "of Attention — Mad Bunny, by Royal Minstrel, was ranked as" among the leaders of the generation. but he was cut down during the running of Summer Tans Cowdin here at Aqueduct in September, and when not accorded sufficient time to recover completely from that injury, his chances for any classic engagements this season were hopelessly compromised. Those who watched Bunnys Babe carefully in his juvenile engagements are agreed that this was .cut out to be a high-class colt, aside from the color his resemblance to his sire, the Equipoise stallion, Attention, being immediately evident. Whether or not he possesses the essential quality of the older horse, it is obviously much too soon to say, but we have already seen enough of Bunnys Babe to know that he is a far more reliable race tool than was the mercurial Attention, a horse whose top form was as effervescent as it was brilliant.
