The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-09-01
Defeat of Prudery, Whitney
Filly, Big Disappointment
to Trainer Rowe.
Blu Vincent TreanOr.
CGT'M siclSi" A characteristic Jimmy
Rowe expression. The Whitney

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Rowe expression. The Whitney
trainer wasn't actually suffering
from any physical ailment. he was
mentally sick. The $4,000 Hopeful
Stakes had Just been run at Saratoga
and Prudery, the apple OF Rowe's eye,
had been beaten a nose after a most
thrilling race, in which she had come
from twenty lengths behind the win
ner, Leonardo IT,, only to be beaten
by the width Of a pencil.
Rowe's face was a study. He was
standing with few friends under the
shade of the grandstand almost oppo-
site the judges paEoda. Apparently
he was thinking hard like a man who
wished to be alone with his thoughts.
AS other friends passed near they
walked over to the trainer as II to
sympathize with him.
"She was best" said one. Another
remarked that 1t was too bad and still
another ventured to suggest that with
an even break Prudery would have
walked away from Leonardo II.
Rowe wasn't looking for consolation
He knew all that his we'll meaning
friends were telling him. When he
couldn't stand it any longer he walk
cd over TO the cigar stand and pointed
TO n box.
Forty cents" said the Harry Stew
ems employee who deals out the
smokes.
Rowe bit off the end of a big black
cigar and remarked: Forty cents
Why you're getting as bad as the
cab drivers up here" He then walked
away alone,
Rowe felt the sting Of defeat and
he showed It, 1t was very plain thai
the result OF the Hopeful had disap-
pointed him. He had sent a great
filly to the post, one which had only
on Saturday last won probably the
most sensational Spinaway ever run
He banked on her winning the Hope.
full too, not so much because OF II!
$4,000 value, which at that isn't 4
be sneered at, but because OF tn,
prestige 1t meant not only to the filly
but to him.
A trainer long enough TO know tina
the chief interest in racing lies in IL
uncertainty, Rowe was plainly per
turbed. He knew better, perhaps, thar
had been thrilled by the struggle tina
with a share OF racing luck Pruder.
might have reversed the order at tn
finish.
The racing charts give one a fai
idea of the Hopeful. but one had I,
be present to know the real story
One had to see Leonardo II. breal
from his third position at the pos
and go Immediately TO the front, a
} ne always does. One had to have hi
eyes focused on Oriole and Smok
Screen right behind him, and the,
, cast them back toward the middle o
: the bunch to md Prudery in niue
the same position as she had in tn
Spinaway, only this time her chance
OF getting anywhere near the from
appeared to be more hopeless. Their
! she was about eighth in the field {
{ fifteen and apparently well hemme
in, As Leonardo H.. Oriole an
: Smoke Screen raced on toward tn
1 stretch turn the race looked solel
: between the trio. The quarter pol
Just before the turn for home sa'
Prudery running. but badly ham
. pered. There were six horses
front OF her. She was moving In II
direction of the leaders, but theI
= was no rail opening for her as theI
}. was in the Spinaway, Ambrose, ht
= rider. had to come to the outside, I
= the overland course, as raccgoers sa
q This was at "A cost OF valuable groun
but Ambrose could find no oth'
course.
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