New-York tribune., 1918-10-15

and call it pretty fair afternoon.
Ensor rode four winners and finished
.ecoud another time in six trials. He
sr;shed outside the money only once
anrine the day. and that time with a
-.nt outsider which figured to run just
rhere It did-nowhere at all. Ensor's
.tr;king achievements Of horseman-
hin redounded to his honor and purse,
- course: but in redounding swelled
.ha Golfers of the Bresler connections
mite as much, if not more. For on
lie frat three appearances this jockey
sarr;ed the red, white and blue silks
N victory, though twice he had to take
tbe measure Of favorites to turn the
tricks.
Tho rrandstand behind "Handicappers
Row" throughout the afternoon. Ops
was a boy of twenty; the other his
eiehteen-year-old sister.
Just Miss $500
"Buddy tells me he'll win five races
to-day said the boy.
sThen let's parlay 81 on his mounts" !"
said his sister.
aNo, let's bet each race separately" "
said he. i.
compromised by doing Just az the
feminine wished. That s2 bet almost
nose had been foot longer they would
have had something like s3,5c0, for
heir 81 investment.
lock Scot was the one that spilled
the beans for this particular barlay.
And not betraying any confidence he
spilled few handicappers with it. By
the time Ensor had slashed through
the first three like hollow ground
through a weeks growth the Jockeys
country cousins we're mighty popular
along "Handicappers' Row." Why, even
after the Jock Scot upset, those handi-
cappers got even for the day by shoot
Ing the works on Willis Sharp Kilmer's
Tableau d'Honneur, which E1so rode
in the last race,and rode to victory ac-
cording to the opening day recipe.
ia hopples in the feature race of the
afternoon. Of course, that had to be
Il: just to spoil a good story. Ensor
had swung triumphantly through three
successive victories till it came to the
Kingsbridge lightweight Handicap, with
$1,000 added, at about six furlongs, the
fourth turn of the wheel of fortune.
Twice he had triumphed over the
seemingly inevitable; twice his horse
manship had thwarted odds-on favorite
form. And then, when immortal fame
lay within his grasp, either Ensor got a
bit careless or that old Jock Scot laid
down on him. Twenty yards from the
wire it seemed moral certainly that
trick. Naturalist, which closed with a
rush, got up by whisker in just the
last jump.
1t may have been that Ensor was
Just mite too sure of his mount in
the Kingsbridge lightweight Handicap.
High Cost, the warm favorite, which usu-
ally can outsprint jack rabbit for three
furlongs, never figured hero. Favorites,
for some reason, seldom do. when Andy
Schuttinger or Lyke happen to have
the leg up. The Whitney connections,
it was whispered, were down hook, line
and sinker on Out the Way. And for
wise guess.
Whitney Colt OF Flying
Cassidy's start was anything but one
Of beauty, as about half the field seemed
tangled when he sent the thorough
breds away. But Robinson had the
Whitney colt off flying and in no time
at all opened gnp of two lengths.
Panaman gave chase for furlong;
when he found the gaff a bit stiff.
Jock Scot then set ast after the pace
maker, and around the bend gave Out
the Way more punishment than that
colt ever dreamed possible. Jock Scot
nailed the Whitney colt at the stretch
turn and through the stretch drew
away to an apparently safe lead.
1t seemed all over but the shouting
once Jock Scot showed a clean pair of
heels to Out the Way. And it seemed
more certainty when the sixteenth
pole was passed. The second choice,
Naturalist, which had been slow to be-
gln' had been making up ground quick
and was coming like a whirlwind
through the stretch. His effort seemed
aautiie, however, fifty yards from the
Jock Scot had more than a length to
spare. But whether it was because
hhsor failed to sense the new menace
IN time, whether he wished to draw too
Close finish or whether his mount
aled before he could realize it from
Me earlier pace, the fact remains that
%enty yards from home Jock Scot
SS.opped as suddenly. almost, as if he
mse, msa peen hit by Big Bertha. And Nat
aral'st won by an eyebrow. And so
'Haeth most five-horse parlays.
NOW, it wasn't SO mucn OF trick for
sl shsor to win with Sherman A., in the
Tl.!, rlss race, nor yet again with Ultima
anuie, in the second. If most every
u';ey u1;uy had not thought he would win
w, WIN sherman the Won Tromp colt
Tt TTUu,d not have been favorite. Ultima
mule was expected to furnish the odds
ia lavorlte, Star Spangled, the only
=. I1aGentlVe to romp in the second race.
rs, ,a true, from the ponderance Of Sher-
man h,,an front leg bandages that he might
nave had anything on from the kitchen
ssove TO the SINK But he ran more
a. a. II ne had dynamos concealed there,
~ ia runaway victory. So far as Ul-
UNA thule was concerned. it was much
repetition. The race was never in
r.. ailer the Struggling start.
nut Ensor's victory with Hank O'Day