New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-14
Hitchcock Hunter Comes
Home Alone When All
Other Entries Fall.
FAVORITES BEATEN
IN THREE RACES
Cheer, at | to ~, Wins Easy
Victory Over Field-Naushon
Defeated by Outsider.
By Z. d. BURROWS.

Dy Il ~. d. hhONos
Favorites and long shots divided the
honors Of the six-race programme Of
fered by the Westchester Racing Asso-
citation TO the big crowd which assem-
bled at Belmont Park yesterday after
noon.
As has been the case on previous
days of this meeting. however, the IA
vorites were held at such prohibitlye
prices by the memory brokers that the
racing fans made little or nothing on
the day, whereas the genial layers
gathered quite juiciiy when the long
shots romped home ahead.
The feature of more or less unin-
teresting card was the steeplechase, in
that only one jumper out of the five
which faced the starter was able TO ne
gotate the two-mile brush course and
finish on his four feet, with a rider
in the saddle. Welsh King, a chestnut
gelding, owned By Thomas Hitchcock,
was the one entry which stood up,
Rusila, Lenavaal, Guardian Saint and
Brotherstone falling before the final
barrier was passed.
fBrotherstone Played Heavily.
While Welsh King was favored by
those who enjoy having wager on
the flying steeds, Brotherstone, an i'm
portation from England, owned by IL.
". Sage, was played heavily by the
wise ones, who expected this son Of
Ian Bettyfeld to take the measure Of
his field This Brotherstone undoubt-
eddy would have done had he not mis-
judged the methodist obstacle from
home and come a cropper
AS it was, Welsh King finished alone,
| the other horses in the race having
fallen at one or another of the twelve
barriers.
The highest odds-on favorite of the
1916 meet captured the initial event or
the afternoon, when the Brighton Sta
ble's tilly Cheer, held at 10 II in the
betting, literally ran the legs off Mrs.
7 Godfrey Freezes gelding Radiant
/ Flower, Mrs. j. Carson's imported colt
| Moonlighter and Mrs. s. McNaughton's
/ young marvel Spinster in five-fuTlong
dash down the straightaway. Cheer,
once she had tested the pace of her
competitors, danced into the lead and
was never headed.
A field Of nine whizzers faced Start
I err Mars Cassidy for the second race,
a MISUNDERSTANDING scamper on
/ the main course. W. j. Anderson's
/ -year-old gelding, Sir William
Johnson, proved to be the class of the
nonette, Jockey Sehuttinger rating
him along nicely to the top Of the
stretch and then rushing him through
at pace watch none of the other
entrants could challenge. Sir Will
lam jumped ahead, with W. p. Burch's
Corsican and John Whalen's Pullux on
his trail. Heather Moon, another i'm
ported speeder, was cut off at the
start and could never get up. The
rest were outclassed.
There were ten starters in The next
event -four and half furlongs down
! the straightaway-o which Yankee
Witch proved herself the class, gallop-
ing the favorite, Felieidad, into knots
and then coming on TO win IN easy
fashion from Mr.. Bureh's geldIng, Al
word. and Mr.. Earle's colt, Arnold
| which finished two-three. YANKEE
Witch proved herself to be a better
fllv than John Madden believed her
\ 10 be when he sold her, quite recently
to the Glen Riddle Farms.
Rolv. a four-year-old son of Golden
Maxim and Lotawanna, was far ana
awav the best of the quintet when
lined up for the Quogue Handicap tn
fourth event Of the afternoon. Inc
picturesque bay colt, under me ape
guidance of Everett Haynes, lay be-
hind his pace until halfway down the
stretch. when he pulled away ana won ,,
as he pleased. The Cleveland Staole
gelding. Whimsy, ran a nice race Ioi
he Mace. Sandman II finishing tn'rd,
with Tartar in the near distance anu
Cantara nowhere. 800
Following the steeplechase, hereto
fore described. an octette OF non-Wlh-
ners al the Belmont meeting llheu up
FOR a mile chase after SOW purse
Naushon and Fuzzy Wuzzy were con,
sidered the best Of bad buncn, oul
Mrs G., /. Peine sprung a big surprise
when her gelding, Republican, sPrln 1.
cd 10 the fore in the stretch and psa'
Naushon home. The Wilson entry IN,
isbed second. few scant inches anead
an IN Newman's erratic Daingerheld',
Today is getaway day at the Dis
track the bangtails moving oacA 10
Iaraica for an eight-day programme
beginning Thursday. weather anu
other conditions considered, the spI.mi
net neet At Belmont may safely be voteu
a great success, and the Weste,hesler
Association is to be congratulated upon
tbe snlendid manner in which the en-
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