New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Jockey Peak Set Down Six
Days-Robin Goodfellow.
Wins Steeplechase
BY w. 7. Macbeth


racing season cost c. P. Winfrey's
brown horse Air Man victory in the
mile and a sixteenth-ffth race--at Bel
mont Park yesterday and Jockey G..
feak all the benefits which might accrue
to nm within the next six racing DAYS.
though the disqualification placed
M nomoy, the favorite, first, this was
not the only reason the action of the
'uqges pes was cheered promptly and long.
ieak committed a palpable foul in
view of everybody at the track by un-
necessary rough riding, which forced
or McIaggart on Monomoy all the way
down the stretch and almost jammed
him into the fence by the judges stand
me racing officials made a big hit
Win MI, the crowd by their prompt action
Ihey called Peak up into the stand
immed!ately, paging Johnny McTaggart
ten seconds to arrive at the proper
conclusion
McTaggart Rode Poorly
While the disqualifcation was just,
Johnny McTaggart never should have
put his mount in the way of being in
terfered with. This boy, who is both
good and bad by fits and starts, rode
particularly headless race Air Man
showed all the early speed, and at the
stretch turn was more than length in
front. Peak swung wide with his
mount, but McTaggart, instead of COM
ing in on the rail, also carried wide.
he would have avoided all interference
and won handily besides had he taken
the short route home.
The race was between these two all
the way. Eight lengths back came
Obolus and Right, running like team.
Obolus, because of the disqualification,
saved the place by a scant nose.
There was great deal of dissatis-
faction over the placing of the first
race. The judges gave the six furlong
dash over the straight to Captain j. E.
though it looked si as f oneo nice won wae'I!9n, By
good neck. The Decision served one of
the best coups of the season. The King
James gelding was bid down from 20
to to 10 to /. He broke we'll and set
the pace all the way. j. Rodriguez came
from away behind and passed The De-
cision, apparently fifty yards from
home. 1t looked as if onico held a
judges, however, interpreted the "diffi
cult angle" differently.
Robin Goodfellow was much the best
of a field of eight timber toppers that
answered the bugle for the Steepe
chase. He fenced we'll, followed the
pace under double wraps and come on
when ready. Little Nearer came fast
at the end, but lost so much ground
taking the barriers that he never was
really dangerous.
Jock Scott ran good race over the
main course in the seven furlong, third,
and beat Battle, the heavily played
favorite, rather handily. The latter
suffered too severely at the start to
overcome the handicap. Panaman, a
heavily played outsider, set the pace
to the stretch, but tired badly.
Big Plunge in Fourth
G. D. Widener's two-year-old chest
nut filly, Wise Joan, was the medium
of big plunge in the fourth race, but
did not have the class to stay with
Penrose, the favorite, which won just
about as she pleased.
John E. Madden, who has the habit
of putting over lot of -year-olds
every spring, increased his striking bat
ting average in the last race when
Passing Shower, an Ormondale filly,
romped away from the odds-on favorite.
Polygon. Passing Shower was as good
as is to in the opening betting.
Jockey C. Peak, whose mount, Air
Man, was disqualified after finishing
first in the fifth race, was set down for
six racing days for his foul riding.
Papp, G. w. Lofts fine three-year-
old colt. winner of the Futurity of 1917,
has been turned out. Papp threw a
curb in his race at Belmont Park Me-
mortal Day
Major Thomas Hitchcock dropped in
on his airplane from Mineola to renew
acquaintances and pay short visit TO
Mrs. Hitchcock.
To- days racing card is perhaps the
most attractive seen in the East this
season. The Fashion, at five furlongss
straight; the Withers, at mile, and
the Elmont Handicap, at one mile and
sixteenth, furnish half the attractions
FOR which many of the best horses are
named. ra There is, in addition, the
Steeplechase feature.