New-York tribune., 1918-08-28
Scores Easy Victory--Jockey
Lyke Shows Brace, Rid
ing Two Winners
BY w. |. Macheth

at the beautiful Saratoga track. CON
structed exclusively with view to the
Improvement of the breed of horses
proved somewhat of a bust. The breed
WASH improved bit as result of the
hall dozen events contested Indeed
'hefe IS ground for suspicion that ath.
ietlc decay has begun to set in amo,a
'he equine genus here and there and
'hl'her and yon, and that the stimnlps
OF good stewardship is needed 10 eradi-
ca'e certain fungus growths that beset
JocAeyShlp somewhere immediately
about the shoulders.
lhe best thing about Saratoqa,s
merry -go-round this afternoon was the
u 'acA-'he best course in America de
spite the fact that four favorites cheated
the bookies. 1t might just as easily have
oeeh a real Saratoga day, with a sur
prise Tor every event, but for the
perslstency of luck in thwarting the
best laid plans Of mice and men. The
rotten breaks started in the curtain
raiser, so that form players finally got
an opportunity to gather some gelt in
getaway week.
Iorchhearer Wins First
Iorchbearer. the favorite. won the
frst race under u strong ride by Rob
inson from Blue Paradise, the early
pacemaker. because Fairbrother fell
of his mount going to the post. FAIR
brother was up on L1nfilmier. This
geldlng showed enough spirit un-
fortunately wasted. to win all the
races on the card. Whether it was
spirit of turpentine, spirit of nitre.
spirit of ammonia, spirit of endurance
or just plain INT. the fact remains
that the gelding, after throwing his
rider, ran five of the fastest miles ever
seen north of the Mason and Dixon
line
And talk of another race You should
have seen Youneed in the third. Tap
In didn't fall off Youneed. This griz-
zIed veteran is too solicitous of the
safety OF his bones. But in the SIN
furlongs he ran about a mile, a mile
and half or two miles, if one could
only measure the undulations of his
mount over the tortuous course II
would be q travesty on wit to accuse
laplln OF pulling any horse. The horse
Is pulled the minute this fellow gets
on his back Taplin, riding at Il0
pounds, is the same to horse as A
ton Of brick. But he gave pretty good
limitation of fellow trying TO pull
He came down The stretch Swishing
Youneed with the whip with his riqbt
hand and with his left almost uqsettlne
his mount pulling back with every
stride
Lyke Scores Third Win
Perhaps had Taplin been bit more
strongly lntrenched north Of the me-
dulla oblongata the stewards mipht. have
questioned the finish. AnyhoW Ivke
VINO threatened a reformation hv win
nlng with his mount in the second event.
came through the stretch like . thunder.
hoit with Duchess Lace and copped all
the coin and glory. Wyndoyer,the earlv
pacemaker, quit to walk under Rob
lnson, and Triumphant came from
somewhere Immediately behind no
where for the place
Comes the feature Of the afternoon
now, the Huron Handicap. at n,;lo
and three sixteenths. with p ouaran-
teed value of $4,000. This was rather
easy sort OF riddle. Only two went to
the post-Johren, which should have
been about to so but was only to .
and Hand Grenade G. w. PENNY
found) Lofts Papp was scratched.
veil, TINS feature race, this Johren
victory. would have been a kick in the
face anywhere, but it Just had to be
marred by bad start; and, of course.
the start had to be where everybody
could see 1t BEST right in front Of the
stand Mars Cassidy, who has not been
marrlng so much Of late, came in fo~
sound booing and Kissing from the
populace 1t wasn't Cassidy's fault
that Johren broke some half dozen
lengths IN front Of Hand Grenade. Tho
fault lay with Johnny Lotus, who wa
dead asleep and unready for the bar
rier rise
But, anyhow, the start of the race
was ruined. Johren laughed at Hand
Grenade throughout the mile and three
slXteenths and finished in breeze IN
fair time at that. There is little doubt
that Johren would have beaten Hand
Grenade had the break st the start
gone the other way. Bur that j. a
question open to argument and differ
ence OF opinions makes horseracing
Lotus Rides Well
Johnny LOTUS rode a wonderful race
on Hand Grenade and proved him
much better horse than his nest en-
thusiastic admirers believed before.
tie faced the issue with Johren, but
Johnny rode a much better race with
Little Nearer in the mile and five-six-
teenths, in the fifth race. This aged
gelding, with which Lotus set a record
for the distance last Friday at 2:lO
fiat when he carried only lis pounds.
picked up the heavy impost of l27
pounds this afternoon and won in
2:11 As.
Due credit should be given Lotus
and his Judgment of pace. He kept the
gclding well within striking distance
all of the way. but if Deckmate, which
looked like the softest thing of the
week. was not a goat. which none of
even horse sense will not try to deny,
then Lyke was gravely al fault for the
defeat Of the favorite. There was ab-
solutely 10 pace 20 this race. Other
wise Little Nearer would have been
little further, so far as 10 finish il
tie third SLOT at least. 1t was stir
ring finish. 4 half length only separat-
ing the first three.
( The second winning favorite. mark
you. developed as early as the second
race, which proved only cakewalx
Tor the odds-on Princess, ridden as
( I.gke can ride Yhen he. has his mind
o. his work The day closed v ith
favorlte victory. Ophelia, well ridden
by Georgie Walls, came from nowhere
in the backstretch, raced past the field
on the bend and won in a romp by
about two lengths. Day due, heavily