The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-05
HORSES FALL AT FINISH
AT LAGOON RACE TRAN
Slippery Going Causes Spills, but Rider
Mounts Escape lnjury-Rosen Rides Ths
Winners and One Second

A sensational spin In the hfth race AZ |
Lagoon Yesterday gave the racesoe'"
thrill. TWO horses falling right at rue
finish end In front OF the grehus'hn''
yoladgv. Jr ridden By Raiph l"uIe''
wac closing strong in third place ""e"
he slipped in the treacherous e"'hS anu
fell. throwing his rider. Whldden' WIZ"
. Murray in tine saddle. coald not cheek
his stride and fell over Nol'aaay. "
po,n r,rs.a and their riders slid fuilT
twenty feet In the mud and across inc
finish line. scramblne UP unhurt'
The track was deep In mud and tHe
going slippery and uncertain. DorolnE
fedcott. u starter In the last race. fell
at The far turn with Jockey Groth, Dn'
both horse and rdcr escaped unhurn
Roscn was the riding star WIN wv ,e
orsts and one second In four mounts.
Despite the handicap OF bad gong lne
fnIent was in good form and WhiIe niost
Of the public choices were ueIeatca ilc
winners were all We'll backed. The ring
was given a ''scorching' on The FAD In
the third race and Dorian Prince IN we
last and the books quit losers on 'ne
day. z,, -
The good performance OF hinkand on
his recent outs were overlooked pS tuH
players and the Neil horse went TO thc
most I'm the first race IT TO !. He was
outriIn In the carly part, but GloSen
strong and lasted It out we'll Burneil.
shut or Oh The far turn. closed gaHlel>
into second place. with Auto Glrl hahg-
Ing ON well FOR show money. Clara W
tho lavorite, was bumped into at the
eighth pole and Knocked out OF con
King Lear proved tho best OF the field
OF eight that went to the barrier in the
second race. lie came along when Lee
| Harrison and Abe SlupsEey mad raced
| ench other INTO submission ana won very
| easily at the end. Abe Slupskey tired
| badly in the going. but lasted II out for
| second place. No Quarter came from
many 1ongths back 10 third position.
| The Fad again had the benefit OF Dave
| Nicol's plotage and ran much better FOR
the veteran pilot than he did fnr Grand
on his last appearance, lie was thor,
ougl,ly at home In the going and led all
the way, Nicol preventing him from rum
ming out as lie has done on previous oc-
casions. He permitted The Fad 10 i'm
pede Ben Greenleaf In the stretch and
Riddle. on the latter. made a claim OF
foul but after consideration the judges
let the the result stand, Ben g Gresn,eat 4 e,"as was
hrd T2e FSd ssSe"q Sas ps2"G from to
down to 3 to I at post time.
| The fourth race produced an exciting
| finish, Jack O'1.antern ran surprising
| ly we'll In the going and lasted II out 20
beat Mycenae a short nose. The latter
was six lengths in front OF the others.
with Mandadero, Discomfort, Miami and
heads and nccks apart. The winner was
quoted at 10 to /, Mandadero and Miami
closing equal favorites at IL to D.
| Rosen brought home his second win
| ner of the day in the next event, when
he piloted Keep Moving. an to chance
| first past the wire The Yankee mare
| forced the issue and proved the gamest
at the end. Mike Donlin, AT 20 to l. was
B, the favorite. firing badly In the last
100 yards, but finishing third. His back
ers would not have had even this salts
| action had it not been for the accid ent
| 10 NOlatay .Jr and Whiileu.
Rosen bad the mount on Dorian Prince
and this one was heavily played, closing
at / TO . after a high offering OF b to
won easily by three lengths from PRETTY
| Soon. with Gala. which was away poor
| ly, In third place.