New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

j. ". Messervy's Addie Y. also fn-
ished strongly, ana closing from far
Lack chased the winner hom,. while
Sam Jackson drifted in third. with the
others struggling and Roamer as SAID
before, pulling up, a bad las.
Addie NJ was badly outrYn for the
first six furlongs, but this in a meas
ire worked to her advantage II Me-
Cahey had kept her up with the pace
the chances are she, too, would have
stopped in the last quarter, but a it
was she ran on and altogether gave
ar excellent account of herself.
1t isn't possible to make any excuse,
for Roamer. He did not rIn to his
best form, it is true, but to all appear
ences he gave freely of his g",st speed
and simply was not up to standing the
pressure under his impost of 1873
pounds. Naturally his defeat vas i:s-
appointing. He has come % be ooe
of the most popular horses in training,
but the emphasis laid by some after
i. was ell over on the snortre5s o. tia
price offered against MS chances sbsS
/ lutely had no bearing.
The rank and file of handlcaputrs
seemed to feel that W. S. Nos5urgh
! had thrown him in" under 1919 pounds,
sc general was the disposition TO pick
him out, even at the weights. as the
surest winner of the day. But once
again the official Handicapped showed
that his figures must not b accepted
50 Lightly.
Hodge, the Western horse. which ran
second to Borrow in the rich Hentucky
Handicap last spring, has not run up
20 that promise since his arriva! in
the East. He, like Roamer, appeared
to suffer from the effort 10 stay with
tie pace and he tired badly when the
real pressure came in the stretch.
The crowd, as said before. was big
and strikingly enthusiastic. More per-
sons took advantage Of the free inteld
than ever before, while the clubhouse
stands and lawns were fairy OVER
flowing.
Next to the Empire City Handicap,
chief interest centred in the Floral
Park Steepechase, which Rail PAIRS
Shannon River was lucky TO win. +. 4.
Burke. who owns, trains and rides Old
Salt, was unfortunate, 10 say the least,
in failing to get his mount 1cme N
front.
II was hard 70 say whether horse or
rider was chiefly responsible for three
damaging blunders, but the fact re-
mains that these blunders cost the
Purse. The first amounted to little;
the second, at a jump on the back
stretch, was damaging; the third, nc
the last jump, was fatal.
Burke was almost unsea.ed az tbs
second blunder, and not only lost six
or eight lengths. but his stirrup. Old
Salt made up the lost grounl after
turning for home, and racing up 20
shannon River rose TO the last jump
read and head with the winner and go
ing much the stronger Of tn" TWO. Put
Rurke had not reganed his stirrup,
ard failing 10 give the necessary help
found himself up on the horses neck
instead of in the saddle for the c.
ord time as Old Salt crashed through
instead of over the hedge. That ended
il Shannon River went on. 20 win
easily, while Dixon Park and Sene-
gombian fought it out for he place.
Doublet ran a distressinply bad rcce
in the lightweight handicap for ap,a-
tour riders. 1t begins TO look as II ne
is beginning to feel the eFsc o. a
rather strenuous campaign and needs
a rest Lieutenant Alpers role Ii le
/ Nearer to victory, coming from be-
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