Evening star., 1950-10-29
First Three FiIIies
Finish in Same Order
As in Jamaica Stake
By Lewis F. Atchison

Smart-looking, mooth-running
Aunt jimmy showed plenty of
stamina as we'll as speed to beat
Vulcania by a head in the 25th
running of the Selma Stakes for
2-year-old f1llies before 1928 fans
yesterday at Laurel.
The game daughter of Hello
polls. top-weighted at 122 pounds,
ran the mile and one ne-sixteenth in
1852 for her second straight
stake victory, thereby strengthen
ing her claim to the 1850 cham
pionship of her class. The pre-
race favorite, Aunt jimmy, paid
$4.60. $500 and $2.40 across the
board.
Rose Fern. a 7-to-1 shot, closed
fast to take third money with
Signal fourth.
Aunt Jinny's owner and trainer,
Duval A. Headley, one-time man
ager of ALI Vanderbilt's Sycamore
Farm, didn't see his game f1lly
win. He was in Lexington, KY,
where his mother died last
Wednesday. In his absence.
Trainer Bowes Bond, a close
friend. saddled the filly and ac-
cepted the trophy presented by
Henry A. Parr, III.
Same Order of Finish.
The finish was an exact, dupli-
cate of last Saturdays Demoiselle
Stake at Jamaica, although much
closer. Vulcania, after setting the
early pace, was only a neck in
front of the oncoming Rose Fern
at the finish. Last week Aunt
jimmy won by two lengths and
Vulcania had a 2l2 length mar
gin over Rose Fern.
Jockey Nick Wall. who rode the
winner, said the track was deeper
and the going harder than it had
been in New York.
The victory was worth $37,170
to the winner and boosted Aunt
Jinny's earnings for the year to
$75.370. The champion 2-year- old
f1lly probably will be decided in
the Marguerite Stakes. a $4,000
added race at the same distance,
in the Pimlico meeting scheduled
to open this week.
Brookmeade Stables Atalanta,
entered along with her stablemate,
Two Rainbows, was scratched
about an hour before the race.
She prefers a muddy track and
Trainer Preston M. Burch said
she would be pointed for the
Marguerite.
The 42-year-old Wall, laying as
fiat as postage stamp on the
saddle all the way around, rated
his entry nicely, breaking third
from the No. 7 post position and
moving into second on the back
stretch. Vulcania. hugging the
rail, set brisk pace under Jockey
Robert Bernhardt's handling and.
for brief spell in the stretch, it
seemed that she might win.
Two Rainbows Fades.
Two Rainbows, with Bobby Mar
tin up, ran with the leaders three
quarters of the way but folded
badly in the stretch and finished
eighth. Rose Fern, under Eric
Guerin, came fast from the head
Of the stretch, but seemed to hang.
David Evors, an apprentice
jockey from Jacksonville, Fla, won
the first race of his career on
Walters Boy, an even SIG mutual,
In the first race, beginning a
S234.20 daily double that was COM
pleted by Night Count. paying
s13.40 and ridden by Robert Bauer,
in the second.
Terry's Cane, Ronnie Nash up,
paid the days biggest price of
$20.60. in the. fourth.
1t was almost dark when the
last race at a mile and one-half
got off. 1t was the closest thing
to a dead heat seen recently at
Laurel, with Deux- Moulins de-
feating Country Boy End by a
nose for an $500 pay-off. 1t was
dark when the prices were posted.
The mutuel handle for the
eight races, 1851, ,730 was the best
Of the meeting, which will close
"Wednesday