The sun., 1919-10-01
KING PLAUDIT RACES
KINDLY AND SCORES
With Davies in Saddle He
''Breaks'' With Field and
Beats Over There.
by HENRY ". KING.

| ny HENRY W. KING.
King Plaudit, the brown colt which dis
! appointed thousands of racegoers at Aque-
duct last week by refusing to race away
from the barrier. was on his good behavior
yesterday afternoon at Jamaica and
scored an easy victory in the third race.
With Tommy Davies. instead of Fator,
/ In the saddle, he behaved like an en-
tirely different horse. He acted as IL
/ he wanted to race from the time he en-
/ tered the track. He was on his toes
! at the webbing and twice went through
; It. When called back he did exactly
/ what his jockey asked him to do and
when the field was sent on its journey
stepped to the front and galloped all
/ the way to win easily by three lengths.
w. r. Goes over There was second and
the Beach Stables Pastoral Swain third.
Without doing his best at any stage
/ of the journey King Plaudit covered the
one mile and seventy yard route in
the fast time Of / :4S S-5. THIS is only
| three-fifths Of second behind the old
record established by w. L. Crosby's
! Precise in 1917.
/ Despite his cratic temper King
| Plaudit had host OF friends, who
wagered on him heavily at to s.
George Odom, his trainer, was confident
he would win. but placed only a small
bet on him. "I knew he'd win II he
decided to race" he said after the race,
but he has fooled me so many times
that / weakened on him and my wager
was nothing compared to that which
had on him at Aqueduct. But I'm salts
fed. I don't care anything about the
fbet He showed me that he Is a real
good colt. Perhaps he has lost his bad
temper and will race to his work here
after. I'm going to ship him to La
tonia for the $4,000 championship.
which will be run on October IL. II ne
will run his race there even Hildreth's
Mad Halter will have to run the race
# his career to beat him. King Plaudit
has plenty of speed and can carry II
over distance OF ground and is not
a gutter He is as game as they come.
and II he were not so erratic would say
he had no superiors."
No BIinkers on King PIaudit.
When King Plaudit sulked at the post
at Aqueduct and refused to race with
his field there were many racegoers who
criticised Mr.. Odom because the colt did
not wear blinkers. Yesterday he didn't
wear them either and he ran fast and
straight and kindly throughout. The
trainer has not yet engaged a rider for
him for the Championship. He cannot
have Davies. who Is under contract to
John Sanford here. He will try for the
services of Johnny LOTUS or Bill Knapp.
and If he fails to get either of them will
select some other Eastern boy. He will
not ride a Western lad on him.
Albert A.. the four-year-old brown
gelding which formerly sported the silks
Of A. A. Reilly, won the Gowanus Selling
Stakes, the feature Of the card. He ran
the best race of his career. but II Is a
question II he was the best in the race.
He bumped Frank Regan's aged gelding
lWhimsy twice during the contest and
then won by only an inch or two. II
Whimsy had not been interfered with he
probably would have won handily. After
the race crowd gathered around the
Judges expecting disqualification, but
much TO the surprise of all racegoers
Davies, who rode Whimsy, did not lodge
| a complaint.
whimsy.did not leave the barrier any
too well, but he had an abundance of
speed and went to the front before the
first turn was reached. When straight
ened out on the backstretch Albert A.
ranged alongside of him and the pair
raced together almost all the way to the
Judges. Just before entering the home
stretch Albert A. bumped whimsy and
knocked him out of his stride. Whimsy
came on again and at the final eighth
pole the pair were again on even terms.
BY this time both were tired and wabbly
and there was another humping match
in which Whimsy suffered the more,
Whimsy continued the struggle cour-
ageously only to be beaten by the pro-
4 verbal whisker. Tommy Rowan had
the leg up on Albert A. and rode a real
good race. His finish was exceptionally
strong.
Toto Turns somersault.
Toto turned a glaring somersauIt in
winning the fifth race. In his last effort
he couldn't raise a fast gallop and was
beaten off, To-day he was full OF run
ming and following the pace to the fnal
eighth pole went to the front and won
eased up from the Kentucky Stables
Right Angle.
After the race It was explained that
Toto was sore before his last race and
unable to show his best speed. He is q
speedy gelding and when at his best can
hold his own in any company over q
short distance of ground. But he is moi
sound horse and. like Thunderstorm
| belonging tn Richard T. Wilson, he Is
"crabby' more often than he is "f1t"
stable lad named APPEL threw away
! a race on Koh-I-Noor In the second race
and in the fifth was thrown from Ultima
Thule, While racing up the oack'
stretch he lost his balance In the saddle
on Ultima Thule and went headlong t.
the track Al he landed the lad rolled
under the fence. This saved him from
being stepped on by the horses IN bach
OF him.
On Koh-I-Noor he got away from the
barrier well and led the way to the
homestretch. There he guided his mount
Wide and allowed Miss Kruter to sir
through on the rail. Even this woulc
not have defeated his mount IL he had
kept her straight But he didn't. He
/; allowed her to bear out all the way tc
the judges and finished on the extreme
outside. This overland course cos
Koh-I-Noor several lengths and the
purse for Miss Kruter beat her homt
by a neck. Because of the angle some
racegoers said Koh-I-Noor won and that
the Judges had made a mistake In theii
placinga But those on direct line
with the officials were sure Miss KruteI
won with something to spare.
John Sanford put over a good thins
In the last race when his Imported Ally
Pontypridd galloped home ahead OF 8
big field OF good juvenile Niles. Ponty,
; pride took the track at the start and leo
all the way TO win eased up by severa