New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
More than Eight Thousand
View Finishes from
Lawn and Veranda.
RELLUF CAPTURES
WHITNEY MEMORIAL
Grab Bag Handicap Goes to
Prince Henry After Contest
Filled with Thrills.

1t was Piping Rocks best and biggest
day yesterday. There have been big
crowds and enthusiastic crowds at the
race meetings OF this American Good
wood. but there never has been so big or
enthusiastic a crowd as that at the second
day of the spring meeting at Locust Val-
ley, Long Island.
a conservative estimate of the crowd
would be eight thousand persons. The
throng filled the long tiers of boxes and
the rows on rows of chairs in the special
Enclosure. 1t packed the lawn in front OF
the paddock and ranged four deep along
she greensward around the clubhouse.
And it was as gay spirited as gal CARRIED.
The Piping Rock Racing Association
outdid itself in furnishing the sport with
seven bang-up races.
Despite the fact that some Of the events
were riddled with scratches, the small
fields made up for it in racing that was
worth a long ride TO see. The day was
ideal not too hot, and both men and
women donned their brightest array.
The gowns of the fair devotees turned
the paddock and lawn into the proverbial
sea of color and Wed with the silks Of
the Jockeys in hues.
To give it all an international touch.
and a welcome to the English polo team,
which. by the way, refused to sit in its
box. a big red ensign swung lazily in the
light breeze from one of the clubhouse
nagstaffs.
II would be hard to say just which was
the best race of the day. The Whitney
Memorial steeplechase, won by j. E.
Wideners Relluf divided the honors with
the Piping Rock Grab Bag Handicap.
II anything the Grab Bag furnished the
more thrills for it had the bigger field.
II. p. Whitney is $500 richer through the
victory of his Prince Henry in this dash
of four and half furlongs.
bad spill, IN which two jockeys had
a close call, was the only mar to the
days sport.
Double Eagle, with Burlingame up, and
Golden Plume, ridden by Wolfe were
forced into one of the beacons and
thrown. The crowd shrieked for 1t
seemed as II the field was riding over the
fallen boys.
Interest wavered from the race until the
boys picked themselves UP and started
toward the stands. Wolfe was badly cut
over one eye, the DIuSe L1Hi ioOh
like a Billiken, his nickname among
the stable boys.
The Duke OF Dunbar took up the pace
for a furlong after the mishap, then
CAPTAIN z. B. Cassatt's Trial by Jury
went out In front. All this time Prince
Henry had been moving up. AS they
swung into the stretch the colt came
around for a driving finish that was,
without doubt, the most thrilling of the
day.
Walther's riding had lot to do with
the victory for the Whitney stable, for
he used rare judgment in handling his
mount Trial by Jury was head be-
hind for the place. c. K. G. Billings's
Lampoon was third.
J. E. Widener became permanent pos
SCISSOR Of the Whitney Memorial trophy by
the victory Of his Relluf. He won a leg
on the prize with the same horse at the
spring meeting last year. While 1t was
not necessary, he decided to cinch the
honors by winning with the same horse
this year-and he did, handiy.
californian set the pace for about two
miles, with Relluf rating behind. The
PACE told. for Californian began breaking
and bobbing at the jumps. Then Relluf
closed with a rush, as did Compliment,
the other Widener entry.
In the last couple OF furlongs Mission