New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
Uneven Start
Proves Fatal
To Lucullite
Tippity Witchet, Off Wing
ing, Captures Rainbow
From Odds On Choice
By w. !. Macbeth


The Rainbow Handicap Of $4,000, at
SIX furlongs, the feature race at the
Jamaica track yesterday afternoon,
proved somewhat Of 'flivver because
OF a particularly poor start. John
Sanford's little four-year- gelding.
Tippity Witchet, prohted the most by
the accident to the general public
and won in impressive style in the
record equalling time of 1:114-5.
From q spectacular standpoint, how
ever, the heat was robbed of great
deal Of its interest because Of tha
1act that Sam Hilireth's great Lucul
lite, the odds-on favorite, was elimi-
mated at the start.
Tippity Witchet ran like a fine
thoroughbred. But all the luck Of the
start and OF the race was In his favor.
! whether Or not Lucullite, which had
70 concede seventeen pounds by the
scale, could have beaten the Sanford
gelding, had the two encountered
equally favorable advantages, Is be-
side the question. Tippity Witchet
was sent away winging; Lucullite, off
iast IN the field Of five, was next to
left at the post--as good as left. to
an 1ntents and purposes, 80 far as
winning the race was concerned.
Davies Rides Well
Tippity Witchet was we'll handled
by little T. Davies. The boy made
good his golden opportunity. OF two
lengths ahead of the pack, Davies sent
.he Sanford gelding hustling along
Tor all ne was worth, and soon opened
up commanding lead before the turn
was half circled. The lightweight.
Lion dor, hung on gamely for five
furlongs, but at the end was raced
dizzy.
Lucullite, meanwhile, had to race
around the entire field, and as Tippity
Wltchet had the further advantage of
the rail position the chase to make IN
the early disadvantage proved too
great Lucullite, when finally straight
ened for the run home, came along
like whirwind, but Tippity Witchet
already had the race won, and can
tered home as he pleased from the
sixteenth. Hollister and Lanius never
| figured.
Taken by and large the dav was g.
bad one for favorites. The oral layers
have picked up enough the last four
or five days to stand off winning
favorites for a month of SUNDAYS.
Phantom Fair, the odds-on favorite
of the opening dash of five furlongs,
and T. Monahan's King Albert, which
won the closing sprint were the only
two choices to earn brackets.
King Albert was one of the most
heavily played selections of the meet
ing He was hammered down from
to 2 to to S. At that, his victory
was fiuke, as Ormbel carried the con-
tenders to the outside at the stretch
turn and let King Albert through on
the rail to save half a dozen lengths
on the others.
Anzac Keeps Going
Anzac, the second choice, had the
race won before Ormbel forced him
wide. He would have won anyhow if
Ambrose ever could have Strengthened
him again. Anzac kept boring out
and by the time he reached the Judges
seemed bent upon paying a visit to
the grandstand.
j. w. McClelland's Phantom Fair
did not have to work up a decent ex-
ercise gallop to beat the common lot
of two-year- olds she faced in the first
race.
Wessler should be given six months
twice year for the manner in which
he tossed off the mile and seventy
yards fifth. He did everything but
strangle Wilfreda at the start, and
then, after he had raced up to the
front and appeared a sure winner at
the sixteenth, he gaped around in
stead of attending to his business,
with the result that Goaler came from
nowhere and gave him a good trim
ming.
King Herod, fayorite of the six fur
longs second, appeared somewhat
tender when he paraded to the post.
He stopped badly in the last furlong
and had difficulty in saving the place
from Marmite after Elected I'd lost
him in the last sixteenth.