The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
KOERNER'S NARROW ESCAPE
JOCKEY KNOCKED SENSELESS AS
INCACHEE FALLS.


Stewards DlsquaIify Park Row. 90 "a I.
the Winner, Because or the Accident
-GrappIe Wins the Myrtle Stakes
-. @. Core Comes Home In q Drive.
The racing at Gravesend yesterday bristled
with sensational incidents. Five favorites
were beaten. there we're close finishes In four
Of the events. and In the last race there was q
spill. a seriously Injured jockey and a dis
qualified winner at 60 to 1. On the days
speculation the ring was a comfortable
winner.
Charles Koerner. H. p. Whitney's jockey.
had a narrow escape from death in the con-
Guiding event. He had the leg up on Incachee,
and as half a dozen horses we're fighting 1t
out in thrilling fashion down the homestretch
Park Row, a 90 TO l shot. ridden by p. Kelly,
took the bit In his teeth and fairly burst
through a narrow space bet ween two horses.
In the collision which followed Incachee went
down and Koerner was thrown headlonR under
the flying feet Of the racers. 1t was q miracle
that he was not trampled 10 death, but as II
was when several men hurried to the spot the
boy was lying face downward with q big cut
OH the back Of his head. His horse also was
bleeding from the mouth and a gaping wound
al the shoulder joint.
ambulance and was hurried of to the paddock.
where a doctor sewed up the wound In his
head and said that the Jockey was not seriously
injured. lie was taken to his home In Sleeps
head Bay after an hour or 30. Meanwhile the
steward calledP Kelly up for an explanation.
Park, Row had finished first. a nose in front Of
Wardine. backed from 9 down to to 2, who
came from nowhere in the stretch under a
persistent ride by E. Dugan. Kelly told the
s sucIdnT, II that Ir his horse ny vas St to blame sd Tor tS Sae
it could not be helped. The stewards then dis
qualified Park Row, giving the race TO Ward
inc, with William Lakeland's Coat OF Arms.
is to /. in the place and G. C.. BENEFITS Remiss,
Z TO 2, third. Brother Thomas. the f~avorite.
after showing in front for th~ree-auarters Of a
Little Beckman. who is coming rapidly to
the front as a good lightweight, rode q beauti-
full race on Frank j.. F~arrell's Grapple in the
Myrtle Stakes, for platers at a mile and sew
enty yards. Grapple was backed from 4
down to IS to 8. willie Rye was lowered from
8 to 2 to 0 to s., At the outset Rye and Masan-
iello went to the front and raced each other
into the ground in the first three-uuarters.
Then 1t looked as il Hyperion IL, 10 to !,
his run with Grapple to the second. and putting
up a brilliant finish took the race by a neck
IN IA, equalling the best record for the track.
shilling. He finished two lengths in front
of Rye. Angler. heavily backed, was never
The Newcastle Stables j. C. Core, backed
from 3 down to ~ to 8. made all the pace in
the handicap fol, all ages at about six %furlongs
from hRa won e. K q T fT,Hs Ss thrsS RFsT's even Ss a m leossS
%favorite, who got a weak looking ride from
hotter. Voorhees,, 7 to 2. was a length back.
The time was I 90 3-5.
Ray fell with California King. 3 to 2~favorite.
in the Kensington Steeplechase, while Dick
Shaw, backed down to 10 to S. ran third.
Delcanta. who went up to s. breezed home.
with Sheriff Williams. s to 1. taking the place
from Dick Shaw by a neck.
Hal. overlooked at IL to l by the smart
bettors. made a runaway Of the first race, for
two-year-olds, five and a half furlongs. win
ming by five lengths in 1907 SIS, Herbie, %
TO /, ran into the place. a length and a half
before Helen r. * tn l. Joe NpalOn a hot
f~avorite. was of poorly and had no chance
thereafter, although he ran a game race.
S8ylor, a lukewarm ~favorite, got up In time
to win the fifth race, for platers at a mile and
n sixteenth, by a nose from Orphan Lad.
& TO 1 who in turn had three parts of q length
over Ed Ball. backed dow to 7 to 2. Ed Ball
was probably best, but had the toughest kind
OF a journey. The time was l37 3-5. +.
Du gan rode two winners. The summaries;