New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-21
McTaggart Gives the Whit
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SLUMBER II WINS 10
THE MONTAGUE
Four Favorites Come Home First
at Jamaica-Weather
Favors Sport.
BY f. ID. BURROWS.

That captious, capricious old lady,
Dame Nature, took pity on the Metro
poitan Jockey Club yesterday after
noon and dispatched a regiment Of sun
beams and a squadron Of balmy zephyrs
to Jamaica track in place Of the ty-
phoons and cloudbursts which held
forth on Monday.
The result was pretty afternoon OF
thoroughbred racing, free from all dis
traction, criticism and controversy
Four out Of six favorites won their re-
spective events and enough wagers
were made on the two other winners
to make the attending crowd as
whole a happy band OF pilgrims.
The feature event Of the afternoon
the Youthful Stakes, for two-year-olds
was captured by Harry Payne Whit
ney's fast coming chestnut youngster,
Tumbler, ridden by Tommy McTaggart.
This rider, having just annexed the
Montague Handicap while riding j. U.
Talbott's gelding, Slumber ii, came
right back in the Youthful and gave
Tumbler such a strategic rein that the
son of All Gold and Flip Flap could
not help but win.
Basil, from the Wickliffe Stable, and
Dunga Din, an added starter, owned by
c. n. Darke, made gallant effort 70
keep pace with the Whitney flyer, but
without avail. Koh-i-Noor, from the
stables of Schuyler L. Parsons, proved
q big disappointment, finishing in
fourth place after being carefully
proOne cd for the event
Z. l.. Bressler, whose string Of thor
oughbreds has been creating quite a
stir in the metropolitan district this
year, dropped an asphyxiating bomb on
the allied players in the first race,
when his FLY Sky, recently purchased
from John +. Madden, took the meas
ure of a field OF seven other two-year-
olds, including the favored Meliora,
from the Wickliffe Stable, and Friend
less, a Parsons colt. Sky was off like
a rocket with the springing Of the
barrier and was never headed.
The form students were victims OF
another miscalculation in the second
event, which was captured by Brig
house, fve-year-old speed burner
owned and trained by Louis Becker.
Brighouse had to beat thirteen fairish
selling platers to win; but the son OF
Joe Carey had a world of speed and
led his field from wire TO wire. Al
Bloch, the supposed sleeper" IN the
race, closed stoutly and finished sec
ond. Humiliation, heavily played, was
caught in a jam at the start and
never got up.
After that, however. the long shots
blew up, and the favorites romped
home practically by themselves. Stun
Der II took the Montague by three
lengths; Tumber captured the Youth
full by two lengths, pulled up; Sam
McMeekin took the fifth race by a
length. going away; and Sasin beat his
only rival, Sky Eliot, by three generous
lengths in the last event of the after
noon.
Woodward. the Brighton Stable colt
which was 10 have started with Sasin
and Sky Pilot in the last race of the
day, went down with collie in the morn
ing and had to be withdrawn. George
Odom presented a veterinarians certifi-
cate confirming the illness of the horse.
Patrick S. the recipient of several
good-sized wagers, apparently broke
down in the second race, coming home
with a bad spread" and none of the
speed he has shown in recent workouts.
SO well had the gelding performed in
practice that several of the wise ones
were hoping to make killing with
him in this event.
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