Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-25
PRINCE AHMED
BREAKS RECORD
LOWERS COAST MARK FOR
SEVEN FURL0NGS
ANNExEs EsTRELLA HANDICAP
BY NARROW MARGIN
Finishes First with Doninus Aroi and
Lee Rose Only Whisker Behind.
Joe Gaitens Reduces Five
FurIong Time
RACING
BY JAY DAVIDSON


Record breaking performances again
furnished the feature of the racing
card yesterday afternoon at Santa
Anita. fast time resulting in all races,
while a new coast record was set at
seven furlongs and a new track record
was registered in another. The coast
record that went a-glimmering was
that for seven furlongs, Prince Ahmed,
owned by Ed Alvey and trained by
Grover c. Baker, which won the Es-
trella handicap by stepping the dis
tance in 1928 40 reducing the former
coast record of 1:24 1-5, held by Stanley
Fay.
The performance of Prince Ahmed
was not surprising except, probably,
because he was away so poorly ana
had such a big task cut out for him
in beating the clever sprinters, Dom
mus Aroi and Lee Rose as classy
pair OF short distance runners as can
be found on the coast Go Between
was left standing at the post when the
barrier went up, refusing to break, ana
Prince was last of the bunch that left
the barrier He was last to the back
stretch. where he began to move up
quickly. At the stretch turn he was
two lengths out of it, but running
strongly and apparently fresh and
willing to win. Dominus and Lee Rose
ran heads ON to the stretch and were
out of wind when the Prince came
along.
However. Dominus and Lee Rose
kept up their heartbreaking pace down
the stretch and seemed to have the
purse between them until Prince made
a final squirt in the last sixteenth and
under a vigorous ride by Musgrave,
got up in time to Outsnoot Dominus.
Lee Rose tired under the pacemaking
strain and was third, but the three
cracks were so closely punched at the
wire that it was next to impossible to
tell ''hoss from hoss."
Makes New Track Record
Joe Gaitens was the medium of
we'll planned coup in the last race, but
the crack son of Sorcerer had to set
new track record for five furlongs to
turn the trick successfully. Gaitens
was held at as good as to l, while
Short Cut, with Schilling up, was Ia
beled as a good thing and plunged on
by all the big bettors, the smaller spec
ulators and the stable connections go
ing to the support of Gaitens. Short
Cut set a killing pace for half a mile
and then stopped to nothing, finishing
seventh. Gaitens waited until in the
stretch to make his run and Treubel
again rode in that old-time form that
made him famous and landed the
Chinn candidate in front at the wire
by about a length and in the fast time
of 50 1-5 seconds. Balerian ran gamely
and placed by a head in a drive with
Reformation.
Lord Nelson took a fall out of the
books when he won the opening event
in easy fashion, beating Mary F. nearly
two lengths. He was plunged on at IS
and backed down to 5s- Mary was
favorite and took a lead of two lengths
at the quarter and held this margin
of advantage until after turning for
home. Lord was forcing the pace and
ran under mild restraint until straight
ened out in the stretch. Mary began to-
tire and Powers became negligent, al
lowing Lord to creep up until he had
his head out in front before Powers
went to bat. Then it was too late. Lord
went on and won by nearly two
lengths. Pal showed.
Duke Runs Consistently
Duke of Bridgewater, one of the most
consistent horses running on the coast
this season, won his third successive
set of brackets when he romped away
with the capital prize in the second
race. Despite his consistency, good
class and sensational finishes, the
bookies laid as good as 8 to 1 against
his chances. Burgher was plunged on
by some wise old owls who have been
trying to make this good son of old
Hamburg win at every start this sea-
son, but he was last to get away from
the barrier and only scored second
money L. C. Widrig finished like a
shot and showed by nose in three
horse drive.
Adriuche showed that she had round
ed to her best form by handily dispos-
ing of her field in the first half mile
of the six furlongs dash. third on the
card, and simply breezed under double
wraps from the first quarter to the
wire. She was held at to and fully
justified the price Hazelthorpe placed
in hard drive with Catherine f. 1T
was strictly a three-horse race, with
Adriuche standing out like a sore
thumb as the class of the race and only
two others figuring to be in the money
Alma Boy also showed much consis-
tency In coming right back and empha-
sizing the brackets he earned in the
previous out. Despite that he was
away poorly, he easily worked his way
up to the front and won going away by
four lengths. while Daruma and A.
Muskoday, both making first starts of
the season, fought 1t out for the place,
the former getting the money. Har-
court. the false favorite, finished
fourth Somebody got a hunch on
Financier, held at 30 to 1, and backed
him down to to at post time. He
finished away back in the ruck.