New-York tribune., 1919-08-08


pointment in a great many ways. The
occasion is always more or less sad
when an odds-on favorite goes
down to crash. The defeat of Milk
maid, however, was particularly dis
tressing, because of the fact that she
was the fourth consecutive choice of
the afternoon to take d croppcr. And
when it was all over the wormwood
was all the more bitter because of the
fact that a supposed cinch was licked
by a maiden. Besides, only five, the
ma jority of them without distinctive
class, accepted the issue in this rich
stake for -year-old fillies.
an infrcquent visitor to the races
these times, was on hand to see his
hlly carry the celebrated light blue to
victory.
Takes Lead at Start
Ambrose, who had the mount, raced
out to the lead from the rail position
at the very start. Nolan, with Jap, the
rank outsider, crossed from the outsd
on the run to the first turn and
dropped in behind the pacemaker.
Milkmaid was in third position, hard
pressed by Polka Dot all the way round
the first bend.
There was no pace worth mentioning
in the first half mile. But such as 1t
was Jap soon showed she had no busl-
ness out with the front runners and
began to drop back to the ruck. Am
brose was only breezing with NeX-
atious, and Sande appeared to be only
galloping with Milkmaid.
Nearing the far turn Sande let down
Mikmaid a bit. But Ambrose was on
the alert and gave Vexatious her head,
too. Try as she would Milkmaid could
not get up to the leader. Loitus about
this time made his run with Polka
Dot, but the last mentioned wasn't in
the same class with the other two.
Sande put everything he had into his
finish, but it was all in vain. Though
the pace the first half Of the way
seemed conservative enough to suit any
thoroughbred the distance, when the
pinch came, appeared too far Tor Ross $
mare. which was under a terrific drive
the entire stretch. Vcxatious at every
stage of the journey was able to meet
Milkmaid's very best while still under
restraint and was cased up perceptibly
at the finish.
Fayorites BOwled Over
Perhaps because of the peculiar and
indefinable condition of the heavy trac x
brela in a deluge. Favorites through
out the day went bowling down and
out, each with a more resounding thud
than the other as the faithful believed
each succeeding race would witness the
vindication of form at last.
The fifth heat was in entire keeping
with the four that went before. The
winner turned up in Nose Lowenstein' S
Kilkenny, the second choice The
heavily played faYoritc, St. Quentin,
cut out the pace in this mile affair and
led into the stretch. But this particular
gelding is gifted of a weak heart and
he did not have the foot to shake off
this heavy field in the early running.
He stopped badly inside the eighth
pole.
1t was a spirited drive between Kill
kenny and Gleipner, an outsider,
through the last eighth, but Glcipner,
which at one time appeared to have the
event cinched, hung at the very end.
Paul Connolly's five-year-old brown
gelding Warsaw, excellently rated by
Jockey l.. Fator, won TIE Pittsfield
Handicap at mile from a field of ten
Wilfrid Viau's Camoufleur, a three
year-old chestnut colt, which was
backed from to l to to 5, had to be