The sun., 1918-09-19
DOUBLE VICTORY
FOR h. P. WHITNEY
Borrow and Cirrus Garry His
Famous Colors Home in
Front at Aqueduct.

Harry Payne whitney scored a double
victory yesterday afternoon at the AQue-
dnct track. His aged bay geiding Bor-
row won the Arverne Handicap and his
brown colt Cirrus defeated a big field
q, Juvenile maidens in the last race.
Each was much tho best OF his field.
Rorrpw's success was q big surprise.
The old campaigner has Travelled all OF
iris country and England and won race
after race and hung UP many records.
hut almost all of his great perform
snees we're over q distance Of ground.
While he Is known TO possess o good
,urn OF speed, he never has been con-
,,dered a first class snyinter. As q re-
,ult he was made the outsider in the
Aryerne, which was six furiong dash.
His only opponents were Naturalist.
which was added at the last minute. and
High Cost.
because of his fondness for heavy going
Naturalist was made an odds on ia
yorite at to 2. with High Cost the
second choice. When II came to racing
,he result never was in doubt. High
cost sprang away from the barrier on
his toes and led a merry pace up the
backstretch, but while he was stepping
slcng at his best Borrow was under a
stout pull two lengths back.
Naturalist Runs Out.
Rounding the bend Naturalist made a
bid for the lead. but in taking the turn
into the homestretch bottled to the outer
fence This cost him a dozen lengths
and killed any chance he might have
Mad OF winning. When he ran out Rob-
n.on sent Borrow after the leader. Be-
ore the eighth pole was reached the
whitney gelding was swinging along In
mont and he galloped homo the victor
NO lengths ahead Of High Cost
Cirrus. which Is handsome son q
rracery and Morningside, took the lead
a. soon as the barrier was released and.
saloping all the way. won .eased up
Sy half a dozen lengths Hurricane I'm
= shed second and Tableau d'Honneui
was third.
Capt. ]. +. Davis, who recently re-
turned from the battle front in France
saw his brown gelding Brooks. win the
t,eeplechase The Captain was conf.
dent his horse would win and, advised
al! of his friends TO wager on him
Brooks sped over the sloppy field in
front OF his opponents all the way and
won by length. That he was only
that distance ahead at the end OF the
two mile journey was due to the fact
that Jockey Bush pulled him up to a
walk after he cleared the last obstacle
The Jockeys action nearly cost Brooks
the race. Vincent Powers on Crest Hill
never stopped riding and came yer,
rear sneaking his charge home the vic
tor Fifty yards from the Judges Cres'
Hill was at Brooks's saddle girths. but
urged on by the crowd Bush went tc
work again on Brooks and managed te
keep him in front to the end. For pull
Ing IN his mount so soon Bush wa!
called before the stewards and warned
tat similar tactics would mean hi!
armament suspension.
Gamecock Easy Victor.
Herbert l.. Pratt's little chestnut coll
Gamecock showed the way home In the
.th race, a handicap at one mile and
hse-sixteenths. He defeated Little
Nearer and Conduit by half doxer
kngths. Georgia Wallis sent him to the
font soon after the start and rounding
the first turn opened up gap of ter
hnSths In the run down the back.
stretch Walls eased UP his mount and
allowed his two opponents to reacf
Gamecock's heels. When the far turr
was reached he gave his charge his head
md Mr. Pratt's game little colt wen
away again and won eased up with
plenty of speed in reserve.
The third race. at one mile. went tt
Assume, with Kashmir second and Valol
third. Assume was probably the bes
horse in the race. but kashmir woult
have pressed him to the limit IL he hat
left the post on even terms with hi,
field Jockey Hughes did not get Kash
mil in motion until his opponents wer,
half dozen lengths ahead OF him. Thi
handicap proved too much for the col
and Assume led him home by thre'
lengths