The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-18
Yankee Girl, SplendidIy Ridden
By Mountain, Won.
Sir ToddingtOn Set Fast Pace
aud Tired Somewhat.
WINNERS SHARE SIS, 200
Largest Crowd Ever Out at New
Orleans Track.
Was a True Run Affair and the
Best Horse Won.

New Orleans, La, March 1S--
Yankee Girl, daughter of Sir Dixon
Bridgewater. running in the colors OF
Charles Ellison, won the rich City
Park Derby before the largest crowd
that ever gathered on New Orleans
race course. The race was true run
affair and the best horse won. Yankee
Girl was ridden by Mountain, and was
heavily played by her owner, who won
a small fortune over her victory. There
were seven started-Gild and Allonby
being withdrawn. The Burlew &
O'Neill pair, Sir Toddington and Judge
Post, were the ones most faneied, and
were always favorite over the field.
Yankee Girl, backed from a high
price of to down to IA to 5, was
next in demand. Tileing had many
admirers and came in for some little
play. Temaceo, which was sent here
from California to duplicate his Oak
land Derby victory, was the extreme
outsider.
There was little delay at the post.
and when the barrier was sprung it
found the field off to a good break,
with Judge Post the first to show. Be
fore they had gone a quarter Hen
messy had shot Sir Toddington to the
front, and passing the stand he had
a. two-lengths lead, which he inereas-
ed to three entering the backstretch.
The big chestnut was fighting for his
head, with little Hennessy Juggling
away In an effort to husband his
speed
Sir Toddington was a good horse,
and he bounded along like great big.
powerful machine, his long, sweeping
stride being as frictionless as it was
attractive to the eye. He was eating
UP space at a rapid gait, the pace be-
ing very fast for SO long a race. En-
tering the back stretch Mountain had
brought Yankee Girl around on the
outside and showed second a head in
front OF Judge Post, with Tileing
fourth, another head away. Mountain
had a restraining hold on Yankee Girl
and was content to rate along within
striking distance of the leader. Round
ing the far turn he began to get anx-
ious. The other riders in the race
looked to see Sir Toddington stop at
this point, but the big son of Todding-
ton was still going on without any
noticeable shortening of his stride. I'm
der slight urging Yankee Girl began
to creep up, and at the furlong pole
she was within a length and a half of
the leader. In the last sixteenth Sir
Toddington began to weaken. and then
Mountain brought Yankee Girl up
with a rush. and taking the lead in
the last hundred yards, she won going
away at the end by a length.
The disappointmen of the race was
the poor showing Of Judge. Post.
O'Neill got him away in front, laid
well up with the leaders until round
ing the far turn when he began to
stop, and after Tileing bumped him
couple of times just as they were
Strengthening out he had enough and
dropped back beaten.
Tileing closed strong at the end, af-
ter running under stiff restraint the
first six furlongs. Had Garner per-
mitted him to have gone on about his
business he might have run a better
race.
Temaceo plodded along at the one
gait all the way, and at the end he was
beating firing horses. Pink Star, with
Nicol up, was never a factor in the
struggle, while Planute failed to run
within pounds of his previous form.
The race was worth $3.50, the win
ner's portion of which was $500.
Ellison won heavily in bets, and his
total winnings to the race, together
with the purse, amounted to about
$4,000. Sir Toddington was limping
when he pulled up, but the Iameness
was not of a serious nature.