Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
GREAT SPRINTER
ENTHUSESCROWD
JACK ATKIN GETS OVATION
WHEN He WINS
CLASSY Exhibition of Six FurIongs in
Nearly World Record Time
Arouses Thousands at
Santa Anita
BY JAY DAVIDSON

Ideal weather. classy horses, a stake
feature and a high-class handicap were
sufficient to attract one of the largest
crowds of the season to Santa Anitu
yesterday afternoon, and the sport fur
nished was sufficient to justify the ex-
pense and time involved in a visit to
the world-famous course. While tho
Santa Anita handicap was the real
feature event on the good card offered
it had to divide the honors with the
Poinsettia handicap because of the
great class Of the eontending horses in
the latter event.
Red Walker won the Santa. Anita
handicap and the $3.50 first money prize
with his consistent and classy Canopus
colt, Stanley Fay, which beat Gar a
head after a fierce drive, King James.
Meeliek and Glorio were withdrawn be-
fore post time and Stanley was made
an s to favorite. Vox Populf, which
barely beat Stanley at nine furlongs
the last time they met, ruled second
choice. with any old price available
against the others.
Gowan darted into the lead after a
rough house mixup at the start and
set a sizzling pace for seven furlongs,
but tired of the efforts, and Stanley
Fay, which had been forcing the pace,
and CZar passed her. 1t was a terrific
drive between Stanley and Gear all the
way from the stretch turn to the wire,
and it seemed that the latter would
win in the final jumps, but Stanley fin
ished with his usual gameness and got
his snout on the imaginary line a
flash quicker than Car. having the
advantage of the nod at the crucial
moment.
1t was a whipping finish that Gre
ated great enthusiasm and called forth
the cheers and applause of the multi
tudes as never before this season. Co
wan lasted long enough to finish inside
the money division, but was nearly
ten lengths behind the first two Czar
fouled nearly every horse in the race
when he cut across the field at the
start, particularly interfering with VoX
Populi. Husky and Magazine, all three
of which were thrown out of the run
ming by the foul. The judges decided
that it was Stanley Fay that did the
humping and promptly fined Treubel
$500 and suspended him for thirty days,
modifying the latter penalty by per-
mitting him to ride for his contract
employer, Chinn, during that period.
Horsemen, several of them, standing
in the paddock and opposite the start
ing point vouch for the statement that
it was Czar and not Stanley Fay that
did the humping.
Jack Akin Likes Weight
Jack Atlsin received an ovation that
seldom is given to a winning horse
when he carried his 130-pound impost
to an easy victory over his lightly
weighted rivals in the Poinsettia ham
dicap at six furlongs. Despite this high
weight the big bookmakers who had
laid against his chances with high
weight up and in classier fields, only
to lose their money, took no chances
yesterday, to being the best price
obtainable, and at this price he was
well played.
Colloquy rushed out in front imme-
diately after the barrier arose and
Jack was at her side in a jiffy. Colo
quy led into the stretch, but from that
point there was nothing to it but Jack
Atkin. When he Strengthened out for
the run to the wire he began that
thunderous striding that scares the
weaker-rated sprinters half to death,
and he soon assumed the lead and won
eased down to a length advantage at
the end. Glorio came strong in the last
sixteenth and ran over the tiring Col
louuy, getting the place by half q
length Hasty Agnes would have been
closer up had she been able to get
through, but she was hemmed in from
the stretch turn to the finish. The time
for the six furlongs was IL 2-5, within
a fifth of a second of the new world
record set by Ninbus and equaled Il
few days ago by Glorio.
1t was far from being Sucker day" "
as all stake and holidays are termed
as five well played favorites got the
judges attention first, and Maid of