Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-18
THREE HORSES
FALL AT TURN
BAD SPILL HAS NO SERIOUS
RESULTS
JOCKEYS SHAKEN UP, BUT ARE
OTHERWISE UNHURT
eemmeIl Comes to Life Long Enough
to Annex Observatory Handicap
After Running in His Old
Time Form
ny JAY DAVIDSON

BY JAY DAVIDSON
The first accident of the season at
Santa Anita occurred in the NTH race
Yesterday, when Lee Harrison IL, The
Sultan and Airs fell on the oack
stretch. throwing their jockeys ana
probably interfering with the result
af the race that otherwise would have
obtained Lee Harrison II, ridden by
Archibald. stumbled on the back
stretch turn and went to his knees.
The Sultan. ridden by Page, and AIRS
ridden by Schilling, fell over him. Ihe
spill created much eXcitemtnt, put
neither riders nor the horses We're
injured beyond minor bruises ana d
stiff shaking up. All the jockeys IN
the spill rode in the sixth race.
The sport was unusually good for
an off day, and fast time was made IN
all events. The feature of the card
was the Observatory handicap at SIX
and a half furlongs. Good class was
involved in this race, and Genmeli'
one of the cleverest sprinters on the
coast when right, came back 10 FORM
and easily disposed of his Held atter
a hard tilt with Prince Ahmed. Both
sprinters were right on edge and wei
supported. Gemmell was first to nash
in front at the start, with Dandenoh
and Prince Ahmed right with hlrn'
Gen1mell and the Prince drew away
from the others at once and the race
was between them all the way. Prince
passed Gemmell at the half and held
the lead to the paddock gate, where
they hooked up heads on for the drive
to the wire. Gemmen was the
stronger and went under the wire less
than a length in front, while Prince
beat Dandelion a similar distance for
the Mace The time, 1:17 40, equaied
the track and coast records.
Woodcraft Is Good One
woodcraft made his first start of
the season in the third race and
showed excellent form, fully justify
ing the odds of faVoritism laid against
his chances by winning in hard drive
with Ida May. Royal Ben made
heartbreaking pace to the stretch, put
tired fast thereafter and was tnlrd,
four lengths away, at the wire. Wood
craft followed the pace closely until
entering the stretch and then he set
out to win the money. Ida May,
which had stayed out of the hot pace
to this point, made a strong bid for
the honors in the last sixteenth, and
really was running stronger at the
end than Woodcraft. Neva Lee
showed marked Improvement, running
In second place to the stretch before
and probably was best, but was left
at the post and never could make up
the lost ground.
Haensel finally found a soft spot,
although it was not as soft as 1t looked
beforehand, and won the first race at
to l. Belle of Iroquois, Haensel and
Frontenac ran their heads off out in
front, but were SO exceptionally good
and so thoroughly outclassed the
others that this did not permit any
thing else to have look in for the
money cut. Frontenac was favorite
and almost delivered the goods, but
was beaten two heads and had to take
the short end of the purse. Belle of
Iroquois held on longer than usual,
after setting a brisk pace all the way
to the last sixteenth, and got the
place, q snoot behind the winner. A
good-sized napkin would have served
as a sunshade for the first three, as the
finish was so close that hackers of the
horses in this bunch were unable to
decide whether they had won or lost
until the judges flashed the numbers.
Although absolutely the last one to
leave the post, Fleming was so much
the best of his field that 1t was duck
soup for him to run over the field and
win by nearly three lengths. Car
thage, the famous sprinter, made his
first start on the coast in this race
and ran creditably for first out, get
ting the place with ease from Translu-
cent. All these were behind the trio
that fell, and the accident probably
enabled them to show to better form
than otherwise would have been the
case.
Inclement and Prudent had a tough
duel for half a mile in the second race,
when Sorrowful came along and split
the pair at the wire, Indictment win
ming and Prudent quitting to third
place. The Peer, favorite, was away
poorly and showed little speed until in
the stretch, when it was too late, and
he finished out of the money. Fifteen
horses went to the post in this event,
and the prices ranged from to on
the favorite to 100 to 1 on couple
of others.
Through the assistance of a bone
head exhibition of riding, when Gold
stein on Niblick carelessly tossed
away a race he already had won, Skye
got up in time to shove his snoot out
in the air first at the wire and get first
money and lose several round dollars
for the public that backed Niblick for
the best horse in the race. Niblick
was best and should have won easily.
He was two lengths In front at the
paddock gate and running easily when
Skye came alongside. Goldstein was
too sure that he had the race won
and drew a fine finish. He drew 1t too
fine and he tossed it off. Haber
showed under a good ride by Schil-
ling. Monvina was played from 3Os
down to IS, bnt had an assistant
cook in the saddle and only got fourth
place, which she accomplished solely
ON her own courage.
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