New-York tribune., 1920-06-16
Faces
Supreme Test
In Race To-day
I Favorites Reward Back
ers by Bobbing Down in
Front at Jamaica Track
By w. J. Macbeth

Just how good flly Walter J. SAL
mon has in Careful, which has won all
seven Of her two-year-old starts, may
be determined this afternoon at the
Jamaica race track in the running of
the Rosedale Stakes of $4,000 at five
furlongs.
This feature race Of to-day's card
is for fillies only, but though only six
have been named over night, it is safe
to say Careful will be called upon
if she Is to maintain her unsullied rec
ord-to beat better thoroughbreds than
the ones that have taken her dust and
mud to date.
This two-year-old daughter Of Wrack
Mindful, because Of her exceptional
class in her Maryland races, was
dubbed Miss Man O. War; by the rail-
birds. She has won all of her races In
the first furlong. She anticipates the
gate and is in motion the moment the
barrier starts to spring. At no time
IN her racing career at any stage of a
trial has any thoroughbred ever been
in front of her. She has never yet
been extended at any time No one has
any idea just how fast she could run
If hard pressed, for nothing ever has
been able to keep close to her.
With Careful it seems only a ques-
tion of whether she is at her best.
Unless she were at her best it is not
likely Trainer Wayland would send the
hlly to the post, for Mr.. Salmon is very
solicitous of Carefuls reputation. 1t
is known that the Wrack flly went
wrong in training at Belmont Park.
She bucked so badly in her last work
for the Fashion that she had to be
scratched. Careful wears a hook boot,
which is somewhat of handicap, but
so far she has been able to stand all
opposition on its head and breeze home
on the bit.
Careful Carries 125 Pounds
If Careful is halfway right it is
doubtful if any filly in training can
take up even weights and give her an
argument: For which reason Harry
Payne Whitney's Prudery will not find
joyed had she had pull. Prudery,
like Careful, is asked to carry 1875
pounds. This Whitney hlly has won
both Of her starts in common canters
and from high class fields, racing them
quickly into submission and breezing
through the end. Prudery has never
shouldered more than 1l2 pounds.
In her only start around here-the
Colorado Stakes, a five-furlong dash at
the first Jamaica meeting-Careful car
ried 127 pounds, and still tow-roped a
field comprising East View, Runatrx
and Our Boots. This wonderful flly
was under strong restraint every foot
of the way, but simply lost the others
The Greentree Stables Costly Colors,
which is in at l12 pounds, is more
likely than Prudery to be closest to
Careful at the finish Of the Rosedale.
Costly Colors has improved in tempera-
ment with each start and on Monday
last won over the distance at Jamaica
in very impressive fashion. The P. A.
Clark affiliations have not yet lost faith
in Nancy Lee, which was supposed to
be about the speediest two-year-old
miss in training, but which has re-
peattedly disappointed. Clifford A,
Cochran's Cimarron is an unknown
quantity, having never started
The racing at Jamaica yesterday was
exceptionally spirited, and popular to
boot. 1t is usually popular when four
favorites bob down in front. The two
upsets, so far as that goes, were some
what mild.
Fred Johnson cut a real melon IN
the first race, five furlongs dash for
maiden two-year-olds, wnen his filly,
Sheba, OUTRAGED and outgamed the ia
yorite, Polly Ann, in a gruelling drive
through the stretch. Little Callahan
more than held his own in the argu
ment with Teddy Rice. Polly Ann,
which had never before started, wa.