New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
.Odds-On Choice
Badly Beaten in
TwO-HOrseRace
Back Bay, at l to 4, Outrun
by War Note; Numerous
Scratches Mar the Sport
By w. I. Macbeth

that introduced yesterdays Belmont
Park programme and the trials and
tr bulations of the oral layers will
cl -se. The public will walk right out
on the srort. Will-or at least should.
10 begin With, this race at six fur
longs over the main course was ruined
by preclpitate scratching, and the
very nature of the scratching left q
bad taste when reviewed in retrospect.
Sam Hildreth withdrew both Out tho
Way. and Arrah Go On; the Kentucky
Stable withdrew Nightst. while J. j.
Hallenbeck refused to send House
maid to the post. This left only the
North Shore Stables Back Bay and
John Shaughnessy's Wa- Note to com
pete for the glory and prize money.
wa. Note, which wasn't conceded
a chance and which had only one
chance in million, won t. race by
tour or five lengths. This was be-
cause Back Bay ran out all the way
Back Bay ran about quarter of a
mile further than war Note. Meyers
couldn't. or didn't, keep the favorite
straight at any time. Back Bay was
a L to choice. War Note, which
should have been most any price at
all, wa backed from 8 to 2 to 16 to S.
There may have been nothing at all
wrong with this race. 1t may have been
just a case of hard-headcd horse
cutting up with weak jockey. The
stewards called up Meyers for an ex-
planation and evidently were satisfied
with his story. But it behooves them
TO carry the Investigation back further
than the boy. - s4
Winner Is Well Played
Plenty Of IA4laay money of n wall
known raeingMMNs that has been un
der ssuspicioAgs aomes time showed
known that>sNA sta MA Of War Notes
stable connfdfhns lAse close to the
ring in questiena IfSfs difficult to un.
derstand howNNi horse of Back Bav's
experience coultl run out so persistc Mt
ly in six furlongs.
he had the outside position and
started to edge over toward the outer
rail immediately after the start. He
All "H's" Until "' he ~ wi ~ asssss 3ss" sss
tprn Back BY sssqltsre Ed ed to y take se
the truck '''s toy H. sa1sras' a'1asi Sad
to pull up sharply to- keep him from
s"5 s""P:"5 Ha5i - - %]a Sfs f&:o "S!5y ~as
twenty lengths OF more between him
and the finish. ,u{
Back Bay finally did get to running
straight and ne begbn to cut down War
Notes lead He was running over the
other at the end. War Note. which
hugged the ~ail' all the Way and when
was under DIR 10 at the end. raced the
SIX 1urlonys in ,the rcmarka bly,. slow time
Of IL ) % alill5st i've seco1lds slower
q ri
wlsc ones were predicting that Back
Bay probably would ran out, just the
way he did, leaves suspicious that the
officials should clear away.
The Nassau Se!linf Stakes, of $500
added, at one mile, was also robbed of
most Of its interest because of the free
use Of the blue pencil. Andrew Mil
ler's Snapdragon Cd and +. y. Wcir's
Tetley were the only two to face the
barrier. Mr.. Mlller's Recount, the
Quincy Stables Elmcndcrf and Sam
Hildreth's Arral Go On were oil
scratched. In passing it may be said
vt Is difficult to understand the whole
sale scratching at Belmont Park, un-
less, indeed, the entries are padded.
Furnish Thrilling Duel
hat there was to the race was
worth going a long way to see. There
WAS more real acilon and excitement
crowded into the stretch run Of these
two thoroughhreds than dcvelopes in
hall dozen congested fields on the
average. Try as he would the light
Weighted Tetlcy could not shake off
Snapdragon ID.
Callahan, with Tetlcy, set the pace
Rice rated Snapdragon about a length
behind the pacemaker until the two
had rounded into the stretch and
Strengthened for the home run. Rice
then let Snapdragon down and busted
him off with the whip couple of
times; Slowly but surely Snapdragon
moved up until at the eighth pole he
was practically on even terms.
1t was a horse race from there
home. Callahan drew his whip and
for hundred yards or more raced
head to head with the challenger with
out noticeable advantage either way.
In the last hundred yards, however.
Tetley faltercd just little bit. Snap
dragon drew off to a heads advantage
at the very end.
Syossct, the odds-on favorite, won
the Whitestone Steeplechase Handi-
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