The Washington herald., 1920-04-07
Richardson's Manoeure Lands
"Gouernor Ritchie" Handicap
By HIGHWAY.

Slippery Elm, tne grand httie -
year-old gelding from the Sunny
land stable. who has never been
worse than second in her last eleven
starts, went down to defeat yester-
day afternoon when ]. +. Richard
sons Manoevre beat her by head
TO the wire in the Governor Richie"
Handicap. Slippery Elm in a few
strides would have gotten the deci-
sion, but the top weight she toted
told on her in the stretch. and she
was unable to catch Manoevre,
whose pack was fifteen pounds
lighter.
Arrah Go On. owned by B. Hard
ing, was the first to show in front
in this six and one-half furlong fea-
ture. Ridden by Jockey Haynes.
Arrah Go On held the lead to the
eighth pole when she was caught
by Manoevre, who took UP the lead
and was never headed. Slippery Elm
trafled the field the first portion OF
the journey, and Jockey Morris did
not start her to running until he
came into the stretch. Heroisme
ran fairly we'll in the early stage.
but quit in the stretch.
Manoevre Takes Stake.
Jockey Rodriguez rode Manoevre.
who won the Governor Richie purse
of s1,69S.9S. This capable young
Jockey carried OF the riding honors
of the day by winning four of his
six mounts and thereby setting a
stiff pace for the other boys at the
track. Rodriguez also rode Cobalt
Lass, Satana and Will Do.
Outside of the defeat of Slippery
Elm there were a couple OF other
form upsets. notably the victory OF
Aunt Deda and Satana.
Satana, saddled by G. e. Webb,
showed that his performance of Fri
day was no fiuke when he easily
accounted for the Advance Purse"
in the third event. Ridden by Jockey
Rodriguez, ,Satana commanded an
early lead and was never threaten
ed, The Lamb and Bobby Allen
we're supposed good things in this
race but neither were up to a credit
able race.
Aunt Deda Scores.
A fairly classy bunch of maidens
paraded in the opener, which was
won handily by Aunt Deda, who was
piloted by Jockey Hunt. Omer X.
who ran a poor race the last time
out, showed her true worth yester-
day when she got down in front OF
Repeat in this event to win the
place.
Cobalt Lass. trained and owned by
James Arthur, and Belle Roberts,
from the Pelican stable. who won
on Monday, won purses in the
easiest kind of fashion. Cobalt Lass
won by three lengths.
Mistress Polly showed a sterling
performance in the fifth race when
she ran a bang up second to Belle
Roberts under the hustling ride or
Jockey ColtilettL.
Sets Richcreek Down.
Chill winds again played over
the race course and Erandstand and
caused overcoats to be buttoned
tightly about the majority of the
capacity crowd in attendance. In
fact, a good many of the jockeys
wore overcoats to their mounts.
A fractious bunch of campaigners
went to the post in the nightcap
and Starter Tribe experienced a
good deal of trouble in getting
them off Jockey Richcreek dis
pleased Tribe while the former was
endeavoring to get his mount, lie
Bleuet. in alignment before the
tape and Tribe set him down for
FIVE days. This means that Arthur's
star will not be seen in the saddle
until next Tuesday.
Chief Likely Winner.
4 good card is offered today,
which should be a formful one. II
Chief is anything like the kind Of
race horse his owners think he is
he should certainly win today. He
will be given plenty of opposition
by Bolster, War Mask and several
other horses. which are in the fea-
ture race with a feather on their
back.
There is little class in the open
ing event today and Cullinan. from
the Greentree stable. should take
this purse down with very little
effort. as this flly was unfortunate
in her first start the second day of
the meeting.