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Two Duels in Henry Hudson at Jamaica With Gray PhantomWinning Major One Wheatley Colt Tops Belzami While Alibhai Lashes Edges Noorsaga for Third Position By BOB HORWOOD JAMAICA, L I., N. Y., May 9.— Todays featured Henry Hudson Handicap was run in two divisions of two horses each. Wheatley Stables Gray Phantom delighted the throng of 19,984 by defeating R. O. J. Streubers Belzami by a length and a quarter, while a dozen lengths behind them, William Ewings Alibhai Lashes from the second division of the test of less than a length over Mrs. C. Ulrick Bays Noorsaga.. Ted Atkinson rode Gray Phantom, the prohibitive choice, who paid .20 and stepped the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:44%. He was the second straight wining odds-on choice, Mrs. Tom Wallers Mustato paying .80 after winning the fifth event under Raul Sterling, who was on Belzami in the feature. Gray Phantom, who had not been able to win at Jamaica in two years and was unplaced in his last three starts here, as well as in the Valley Forge Handicap at Garden State, was extensively warmed up before todays event, jogging almost a mile. At the start of the Henry Hudson, young Sterling rushed Belzami into command while "Atky" hustled Gray Phantom in pursuit, the pair quickly leaving Alibhai Lashes and Noorsaga several lengths behind. In the run down the backstretch, Gray Phantom was lapped on Belzami and Noorsaga was lapped on Alibhai Lashes with a wide "gap of daylight between the Continued on Page Six ■ » . _ _ Gray Phantom Is Best In Duel With Belzami Jamaicas Henry Hudson Handicap Results in Two Separate Battles Continued from Page One tandems. Both Sterling and Atkinson seemed to be getting as much run as they could out of Belzami and Gray Phantom without actually driving. The favorite moved up on the outside to take a slight lead nearing the final turn, but Belzami fought on gamely. At the eighth pole, Gray Phantom was a length in the van, but Belzami gave it one more try and for a stride or two passing the sixteenth pole seemed about to regain command, but Atkinson roused the gray colt sharply and drew away convincingly at the end. The duel for third and fourth money between Alibhai Lashes and Noorsaga was almost identical with the struggle for the major honors that was going on farther and farther away from them. Returning to the races in better form than she has ever displayed, Harry La Montagnes Plotter made a show of her five rivals in the Higfh Hill Purse, literally strolling to the end of six furlongs seven lengths before Sanford Stud Farms pace-making Louise Bell, who led Circle M Farms Medal Play another three and a half lengths. Raphael Hakims -Torreta was just a nose out of the money. Eddie Arcaro rode the big four-year-old daughter of Double Jay from the grand racemare, Conniver, whom she resembles, and began to ease her up at the three-sixteenths pole. Though winner of three of her 11 starts last year, Plotter was devoid of early speed and could not win at less than one mile. Today, she could have been in front at the end of the opening quarter, which was run in :23%. Paying .70 for her first start since November 12, Plotter coasted the six furlongs in l:12I/5 and indicated that she may be a formidable factor in the filly and mare handicaps this season. Bobby TJssery rode the winners of both ends of the Daily Double, moving to within one winner of Ted Atkinson in the local jockey standings, as he took the opening six furlongs on Charfran Stables Araway and the nine furlongs second on J. D. Wimpfheimers Assignment. The pair returned 13.40. Second choice to J. M. Loebs Onmyway in the first race, Araway had no trouble running that one down to score by six lengths and pay .40 straight and was teletimed in 1:13 Vs. Ussery had a much harder time with the surprising Assignment, who just lasted to take the second by a nose over Lottie Wolfs Gentle Knock, who led Johnny Neruds Royal Review by seven lengths. Assignment returned 7.70 straight and required 1:54 for the journey.
