Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
AQUEDUCT RACES.
Zig Crowd Saw Six Favorites BOWED
Over,

Twenty thousand racegoerS oVerran tlo
Aoueduct track yesterday afternoon. "here'
through the defeat of six faVorltes' lho
bcokmakers won thousands OF dollars anu
went home in rare good hu NOR
R. T. Wilson, jr.'s. Dolly Spanker won the
Election Day handicap. for all ages, at
mile and a furlong, in royal style she PICK
ed up 123 pounds. giving by the scare
nineteen pounds to Eugenia Burch, fifteen
to James r. keene's Israelite and L.V.beli
Grenade, twenty-three to Sonoma behe
thirty-one to st. Valentine and thlrty-sN 10
Ostrich. Israelite a hot faVoflte at o
to : while Grenade was hammered down
to ID to ). Dolly Spanker went back III tne
betting from 3 to l to SKIES. with STEADY
play on Burch at sevens. GRENADE stai'eu
off in front like a wild horse, Cannon TAX
ing a firm hold on the reins. AT the emu
OF the first furlong Israelite was at his
side and then went to the front as he
reached the far turn. With an ADVANTAGE
of two lengths the keene colt swung INTO
the stretch and the crowd roarer with de-
light Then Dolly Spanker and St Valentine
8 to / began to move up CALAMITY, ana at
the last furlong pole lsraehte was seen to
falter ur der the whip. H. Phillips, mean
W hile was riding Spanker for his llfe, ana
the crack Kingston gelding responded with
the pluck of a bulldog. In a hard drive he
won the race by length in 1.52 20 new
record for the track, while st. Valentine,
under Hildebrands whip. nabbed the place
from ISraelite by a head. Eugenla Burch
closed gamely and was length and half
back. Grenade stopped to nothing.
Mr.. Keene's Butcher carried the smart
money in the Creedmoor stakes for two
year-olds six furlongs, closing fayorite at
Pirate Polly, who went up to e to /. made
a runaway of this race and won in a drive
by length and a half in IA 2-5. oxford,
10 to l. ridden by Shaw, swerved all over
ha tran in ha CT afph md a
both Cairngorn and Butcher finished sec
ond, a length before r. T. Wilson, jr.
Sufferance, an added starter, who was
quoted at 20 to L A protest of foul was
lodged with the stewards against Oxford,
and the colt promptly disqualified,
which gave second money to Sufferance and
third to Butcher, who had been beaten
head by the Wilson representative and had
finished three parts of a length before
Cairngorn.
For Luck was heavily backed to win the
first race at six furloTgs at 3 to l, but after
leading we'll into the stretch she blew up.
Then it looked like T. D. Sullivan's Old
England, to l favorite but in a rafting
finish Frank Farrells King Pepper, II to
l shot, got up in time to win by nose Old
England beating Right and True, 10 to /,
by head. Lord of the Valley, 6 to l, was
three parts of length away The race
was run in LIS.
A splendid run by Cannon enabled Albert
Simmons High Wind a to 1 shot to win
the second race for maidens at mile. Can
non got him out of pocket in the last fur.
long and he won by length and half in
l42 Ben Crockett, the favorite, who was
prominent all the way. ran into the place a
neck before Arietta, 7 to 2, who was the
pacemaker for three-quarters of a mile
Atwood. to 2 made all the running in
the fifth event at mile. and came home
on the bit in 1.39 4-5. He beat Flammula,
~ to ., by three lengths, with Red knight,
10 l. the same distance back. Coppelia
10 . favorlte, was never dangerous and
turned up in fifth place.
Albert Simons' Red Ruler, a warm favor
lite IN the last race, for maiden two-year-
olds at six and half furlongs. was beaten
oefore ne had covered a quarter of a mile.
ana tralled home in the dust cloud p &
r Randolph's Master of Craft. 16 to <
proved TO be real good thing for he romp-
ed nome in front with four lengths over
imam Astor Chambers Light Note. a Is
time was 122 2-5 ~