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Pillow Talk Never Headed In Black Eyed Susan Win Headley Filly Shows Jota Jota, Woodlawn Way Home at Pimlico By CHARLES HATTON PIMLICO. Baltimore. Md.. May 15. — Taking the track at the drop of the flag, Hal Price Headleys favored Pillow Talk left nothing to the imagination as she beat 12 rivals pointless in the mile and a sixteenth of the 4,600 Black Eyed Susan— the filly Preakness — before a summery days attendance of 10,342 here this afternoon. Jockey Willie Hartack gave a demonstration of the classical exercise known as waiting in front to the furlong pole, where the strapping bay Kentuckian began to tire, prompting him to ride her out over the last yards to repulse Cain Hoys Jota Jota by two and a half lengths. So badly had Pillow Talk strung out her presumptuous rivals that Mrs. William Veenemans Woodlawn, another invader Continued ©n Page Fifty-Two Pillow Talk Takes Black Eyed Susan Headley Filly Star Outruns Jota Jota at Pimlico While Hartack Takes Another Bow * Continued from Page One from the dark and bloody bround," was as four lengths farther back in finishing third, d. Another gap of three and a half lengths is and the mutuel fielder Hoosier Honey ?y earned the fourth award. Pillow Talk returned her large cheering tg ._ section for in the tote, while picking up a check for 7,600 for owner Headley, y whose net return was 7,350.. Each of the ie field carried 121 pounds and the lovely visitor from historic Beaumont Farm skipped d over the mile and a sixteenth of fast race ;e track in the creditable time of 1:11%, 1:38 18 and 1:45. Hartacks 17th Stakes Score For Willie Hartack, it was the 17th stakes is success of the new season. For H. P. Head-leys |- daughter. Mrs. Alice H. Bell, it was s the gratification of having bred a serious ls bidder for championship honors. And for * trainer Maurice H. Dudley, "victory was is good.* Dudley accepted the trophy from n Mrs. Redmond C. Stewart, MFH of the ie Greenspring Valley, in the winners enclosure - when the red board was flashed. Headley saw the race from a point along g the backstretch. He had only 15 minutes :s in which to catch a train for his return n trip to the Blue Grass when Pillow Talk k flashed by the finish. Upon dismounting, Hartack said: "I was told to let her run right along the first ;t part of it. When the field broke, I got the lead easily. I nursed her along until we got t into the stretch, when I had to get into her ,r a little bit. But I thought she ran a really * v big race." This was the second stakes success in the f burgeoning career of the winner, who with I1 this performance matures into a classicist. L She had started only once last year, and in n five chances thus far at three has won the e Kentucky Oaks Prep, placed in the Kentucky Oaks itself, and towroped the best 1 fillies who could fce mustered against her * in the Black Eyed Susan. A daughter of Mr. Trouble she is out of the mare Hippar-ete, a sister to Menow whom Headley gave e to Mrs. Bell, as the nucleus of a stud. Pete Anderson on Jota Jota dismounted d to say his mare had no excuses, and "ran n damn game." Willie Carstens said "Wood-lawn - tried hard, but just couldnt catch h up. My horse was cupping just a little and 4 with a firmer track I think she would have e run a better race." Eldon Nelson thought t "Cousin Con was going perfectly on the e backstretch, but when we got to the far turn she suddenly humped up her back, :, acting as if she were in distress, blowing I hard and tried to pull herself up." The story of this Black Eyed Susan is s soon told. Pillow Talk had drawn in number one in the gate, with Slipperoo just t outside her. She was eager to be off and became momentarily excited by Slipperoo s s unseemly behavior in breaking through repeatedly. . When the break finally came, t Pillow Talk dashed into a clear lead going 5 into the clubhouse turn, with Slipperoo and j Therapy prompting her pace most closely, rf about two lengths back. Going up the backstretch, Slipperoo 0 stopped as if outclassed. At the end of the backstretch, Hartack let out a wrap, and Therapy then called it a day. Behind them B Jota Jota was working her way forward from midway of the pack. Woodlawn gaining " along the rails. But it was perfectly clear from the stands as they turned for r home that Pillow Talk was "home free," M the others contesting the minor awards. . Jota Jota dug in gallantly under pressure the last furlongs, but could only be within t three lengths at the end. Woodlawn hung v * after her brief move entering the stretch. The others were never really "in the hunt."
