The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
WAR CLOUD is
STAKE WINNER
Macomber S sGelding Steps
Down in Front Of Corn
Tassell In Handicap.

Empire CITY, N. ". Oct. 16.-Andre~
Miller's gallant old geiding, Roamer.
once again bowed to the vigor of
youth at the Empire City Race Track
this afternoon. The champion OF
champions finished third TO A. X.
Macomber's War Cloud and r. I.
Wilson. IRIS. Corn Tassel in the Scars
dale Handicap at mile and seventy
card.
War CloCA was up to his very best
form. He stepped the mile and
seventy yards in l:43 fiat, just one
fifth second outside the track record
for the distance. And he stepped IT
without once having been forced TO
his heartiest effort.
Though Loftus was off last with
War Cloud he raced quickly UP on
the outside, TIL at the first turn he
was almost tapping the speedy Corn
Tassel who broke on the rail.
Roamer, pocketed by the two, had to
be eased up by Schuttinger, until the
old geiding trailed in order to work
clear. Round the turn Schuttinger
raced Roamer up past Dorcas At the
half Corn TasseI and war Cloud were
racing, as n team with Roamer a
length back. In the run uphill to the
far turn Roamer collared Corn Tassel
and made a bid to overhaul the feet
War Cloud. LOTUS, ever on the alert
gave his mount headway and War
Cloud began to draw away again. II
was evident early that Roamer never
could get the pace maker.
Schuttingcr rode with everything al
his command, but LOTUS just sat
tight. serenely confident. Corn Tas-
sell who hugged the rail all the
way. saving great deal of ground.
at the stretch turn moved up on
Roamer again as the field swept into
the stretch. 1t was a case now of
Schuttinger saving second money with
the public idol But the weight and
the pace proved too much for the
gallant Roamer. At the sixteenth
pole the Wilson colt caught the old
gelding and drew away by a half
length at the end.
Today's racing was exceptionally
spirited and the competition keen
and thrilling from start to finish.
War Cloud beat Corn Tassel by a
length and a half In no other race
did more than a half length separate
the first and second horses, each d
driving finish. Thunderclap, in the
opening dash at five and a half fur
| longs, proved the only winning IA
vorite of the afternoon. and he came
very near to being sacrificed through
faulty ride of the sensational HI
| Meyers. Thunderclap came away il
the stretch and beat Osgood by 4
nose after racing head to head fol-
more than a furlong.
Langs weak ride on Tom McTag.
CART cost that odds-on favorite tn
second race. though II must be con
| fessed that Mars Cassidy was guiltl
| of one of the very most atrociou'
starts of his career. He pnlled tht
boner right in front of the stands
Even young Lang could have woI
with Tom McTaggart with a fail
start.
Perhaps the saddest blow of tn,
! afternoon was the defeat of II. y
! whitney's Petrol, backed from ever
to 2 to 5. Robinson seemed to have
the race sewed up at the stretch turn
| but Petrol tailed of TO nothing be
fore the ond. and Alphee succeeded
in getting up in the very last stride
| The summary:
FIRST RACE-Twoy year-old selling. FIVE snt
half furlongs: Won By Thunderciip TO 5
third. MsrInite. out SAILOR and Minute ais
ran.
| SECOND RAOE-Thee-year-old and up
ward. selling; one mile and seventy yards
Won by Columhine. ? to 5. to 5. and out
second. Tom McTaggArt, out and out; third
| Piedra out. Nomine also ran.
THIRD RACE-Threyear-olds and upward
maidens; six furlonss: Won by Sunny Land
8 to l. 5 TO !, to S; second. Bill McCloy
even, l TO 2; third, Santiago. eyen. Peasant
| Driffield Past Master. Liberty Star. CRddi.
Impetus. KOlinsky. Fair Santa and Irish lad
also ran.
| FOURTH RACE-Tbe Scarsdale Handicap 70
all ages. ouc mile and seventy yards: Won b
| War Cloud, to 5. out and out; second. Con
! Tassel. 2>to l and out; third. ROamcr. out
Dorcas also ran
FIFTH RACE-Threeyear-olds and upward
claiming; mile and a sixteenth: Won b
Ninety Simplex. TO /, tn 5 TO s; second
Orderly, even and 2 to s. third. Wild Thyym
| l to 2. Blue Thistle. Iutriduer, Elderken. Am
/ brose. PoIlyannA ard Rose Finn also ran.
SIXTH RACE-Twoycar-old maiden fllie<
| five and a half fuTlongs: Won by Alphee, I
| /. I to S, l to 2; second. Petrol, TO 4. out
third, Maggie Maitland. to 5. Forfsr, Lad
Mary. Chateau BRAND, Tcsletoe and YTstt
also ran