Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-24
AT GRAVESEND TRACK.

| The Favorites Have Losing Day, Ban
quet Being the Only One to Get Home
All Right-Garrison Scores a Brilliant
Victory on Walcott, Although Much
Over Weight.
GRAvEsEND. Sept. 23.-Only about 1000 per
sons witnessed the eleventh days racing at
Gravesend, although the programme was
fairly good, the weather fair and the track
good. Favorites were beaten In five Of the
six races, Banquet, 4 to 5, being the only
winning first choice.
Gold Dollar and Chesapeake were backed
to the exclusion of everything else
for the first until two minutes before the
race was on, when plunge on Tormentor
sent his odds tumbling from to to to l..
Littlefield held him back until Gold Dollar
and Chesapeake had raced themselves leg
weary. He then brought Tormentor up
with q rush in the home stretch and won an
easy race by an open length. Garrison then
scored brilliant victory with locke Jimmy
McLaughlin's Walcott. the7 to favorite.
Garrison has been indulging himself. He
rode Walcotr at 1854 pounds, ll1a over
weight.
Mary Stone, second choice at IL to 8. led all
the way in the third and beat Homer, 4 to s..
out a neck. Penn, who fell with Ha'-Penny
from 8 to to to by Mayor Hugh Grant,
Park Commissioner Nathan Strauss and the
Tammany Hall sports. took the fourth race
The spectators were disappointed because
Jeter Walden, who owns Sir Richard, and
who formerly owned Extra, did not bid up
ably decided not to prolong the fued
Lepanto, 80 to ], acted rs pace maker for
mile of the fifth race. Banquet, to 8, then
came away and won in gallop by four
lengths. King Crab brought disastrous
days racing for the talent to a close by win
ming tho last race at odds ranging from 20 to
l to 80 to !.
First race, three-quarters of mile-Tormentor
1iO. Litteheld first: Chesapeake 1l0 Daggett sec
1sh also .pa Tine Betting to against
to Roller Mut4as PAID SAG slS is y 90
Boundiess also ran. Time. 1:l5. Betting: Against
Annie colt i IL to 4 Meianfe y IL to /; Boundless, %
to L Lizzetta, Is to /. Muiuals paid sll s., s. S.
Third race, one mile-Mary Stone 197. Penn. first;
Homer 107. Sims, second; J. T.James I04b. Bergen,
third Lizzie and Nero also ran: Time l;asx
Il ss1s PAID e H'sas j : st. James
o MGsey Ts Gh-Gs ss Rehard m
second; JapOnisa loe, Penn. third. Psnsy. Pat
Jodan, Shelly Tuttle and 30 Peep also ran. Time,
l:C9h. Betting: Against Japonica to 5: 3tol
Extra; to Sir Richard; 10 10 Pat Malloy Jr.;
IL to Pansy; Is to Jordan: % to l Shelly Tuttle;
30 to Forest Rose; 80 to Third Cousin illy; 90 to
Bo Peep. Mutuas paid $22 Is. sl1 40, s13.
Fifth race. one and three-siIteenth miles-Ban-
quet 1922 Taral, first; Fidelio 103 Bergen. second;
Lepanto 100 J. Lambley, third. Masterlode and
Correction also ran. Time, 2:02%. Betting: Five
to on Banquet, to against Correction, ~ to
Masterlode Z to Fidelio. 80 to 1 Lepanto. Mu-
tuals paid Is 80, s6 %. 81 So.
Sixth race. one mile and furlong-King Crab
1O7. Blake, first; Now or Never lO7. Simms. Sec
ond: Strephon 1l2, Thorpe third. Roquefort
Willie L and Tom Rogers also ran. Time 56.
Betting; Against Now or Never, to 5: Willie l.,
8 to S: Tom Rogers, to /; Roquefort, 20 to /;
Strephon, 30 to /.