New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
SP00NER WINS ARROW
III. SMITH RIDING AGAIN.
paestiou Marx Equals Track Record
in Handicap at YonkerS.

r. Ieu1aire's Spooner won the Arrow Stakes
= -sps- closing DAY Of the Empire City Jockey
>--N-e fsu meeting at Yonkers yesterday, beating
=. hest sp-inters now in training Slow 10 settle
- >,e stride he looked hopelessly beaten IN the
=, r., the backstrctch. when he bad last
80 fsr behind the pacenakers. He moved up fast
-,sug the turn. but Bosom. which had raced
-..-,ou- into submission. carried him wide as they
- snro the stretch. so that The Squire headed
80 f2r few strides by saving ground the
= when Strengthened out however, Spooner
f-ts,- u-ozed himself the best, and after a short
-. decisive struggle came away to win cleNerly.
y hs-d drive for the place Bosom beat The
e5ai7e head.
. Smith the negro 3ockey who hung between nfs
- death FOR several days few weeks ago after
- accident al Gravesend when his mount Miramar
- had tie mount Arasee IN this The crowd
Clsn2ed vigorously and gave him e warm welcome
* re horses paraded 10 the post and the young
- r-4nned his acknowledgements. He rode 6 fair
- m Arasee. saving ground sill the way. but the
,or O.: Blues did not run Up 10 his best form
z smallest crowd OF the meeting was in attend
80 IS me Vanderbilt Cup race and the opening
- the fall meeting AT Pimlico were rival attrac-
Rms TIE usual number OF policeman and deteo-
..zas was on hand there less activity than
- rrevfous days OF the meeting snd no arrests
,-s-e made Only ave races were on the pro
came as tie third event failed to MI and q new
one was not opened. due 10 the fact that most OF
,Ae horses lecJ al the track were entered IN the
othe- races
ssv Of the meeting. last Tuesday, And race at
Tsrr7.s on Thursday. back the East again
--se.e-5av and went 70 the post IN the handicap
me r-lle and seventy Yards he could make
=; three straight however. and barely lasted long
enough 10 be third after following the pace closely
:. -re las <ixteenth pole Tneing made all the
---nrt1E and looked al = winner 10 the last
few strides when Billy IsJzeIand's Question Mark
closed with a well timed rush and won going away
by half O length Cowan. swsy badly and none
ys---z -
Mz-k rau the dsstaace, cne mile and seventy
-s-zs IN the fast tine Of 70 1-5 which equsIIed
the track record
Erbe-- Was pounds the best horse in the n-st
-sce hu. Schmidt inexperieDoed Jockey, messed
hin about and SPeIhound won driving by half
length E--ber- vas six lengths or 20 behind the
rsce rounding the far turn and Schmidt allowed
Hi-n - wide e. the home corner but n spite
of this - closed strongly on his own courage
and would have beaten the winner in e few rno--
strides Jeanette NJ n close quarters most Of the
vsy Cculd never get within striking distance Of
the leaders
Ear c. which hss not been 70 the post sincs
Julv 10 whispered about as a good thing"
:u the second event, but 10 ran as Il short and
tired badly after forcing the pace for six furionss
When Ea-l G.. dropped out OF it Fancy went TO
the front but had nothing left to finish with
iu the lasr Surlong, that GoIconds- running n
tHe colo-s Of d c. Johnson came from behind and
IS, L--.tzro- neck
lanes Butler. president OF the F--r7uf-e CITY Rzc
t-E Association, Instructed Lyman Davis before
lsa--g -Ls course 70 plough I'd the track on Non
zzy E2o make & ready for 6, new TOD dressing
E1A -1e -des q making n one 81 the fastest
tracks II TIE circuit next yesr.
EGEE CITY RACING sUoc1A sns
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