New-York tribune., 1920-10-23
Five Favoritcs
Fail at Ernpire;
SOL Shot Wins
LORD Brighton andDunboyne
Beaten in Feature. Which
Goes to Fort Churchill
By W. J. Macbeth

One OF those unacCountable tough
spots that hit race courses now and
then and turn the dope topsy-turvy
descended on Empire City track yes
terday afternoon like an army of
locusts and stripped the gay players
Of all their gaudy plumage Only one
faVorite came out the mess with clean
escuteheon
There were all sorts Of upsets and
st ersaults and hi0-hops to form.
long shots winning from the luscious
Price Of 50 to l down. Even the
feature race did not escape the gem
eral debility Of low Wis; ;bility. They
resuyrected a cripple here that was a
bird and which pranced home in the
tichtest ft Of the afternoon at the
live odds OF 10 l, after having been
hammered down from tens
The feature was tho West Point
Handicap at about six furlongs, for
all ages A we'll balanced (presum-
ably field Of seven went to the post.
Students OF form could see little to
this trial bat the top weights. Sam
HilGreth's Lord Brighton and P. A.
Clarks DunbOyne, each OF which car
ried 1872 pounds. But the big share Of
the, prize money went to Victor Nc
Laughlir's Fort Churchill, which nosed
out DaydUc, another outsider, by
inches at the end.
The highly regarded top weights
never figured in the picture But the
way Forl Churchill was played showed d
more than "a few We're in on the secret.
and the fact that he won in slow time
indicated that some of the crack
riders. or alleged cracks may not have
had their mind strictly on the race.
Daydue Runs Gamely
Daydae, Tabieau d'HoDneur and
Churchill raced III close company to
the first turn. Around the bend
Wiener crowded Fort Churchill to the
front and in the backstretch opened
up lead Of length Of daylight. Day
due hung on gamely all the way, but
Tabieau d'Honneur could not keep .he
pace and dropped back to the head of
the pursuing bunch.
Meanwhile both Lord BRIGHTON and
Dunb9yne we're badly outrun and were
herdel in back Of the pack. Neither
Fa1oE ror Mooney showed much dis
position 20 Get out Of trouble in the
long ran uN the backstretch Ralco
worked ap on the outside and as the
leaders swung for home was in third
post. 9n. several lengths behind Dav-
due.
A. the top Of the stretch Fort Church
III appeared sure winner. but Dav-
due hung on gamely and under d whip
Ping drive beran TO draw up. Wiener
was forced 10 go 10 the whip also
Through tle last sixteenth it was a nir
and tuck tgssle. but right at the end
fort CarNcHils head was down while
tha- OF Daydue was up-and that is
how the result was decided.
''.tl hnscr cone TO Latonia for the
time. Cliff Robinson won the davs
riding Ncrors. K binson brought home
Lic1' Rose winner i'm the opening
even. 8 dash at five ard one-half fur
longs. Tor j. ". NcCle.land. his en-
pioFer For the first time in q long
wai-e Cf got his mount away WI h
the rise of the barrier. Light Rose and
the ctcentrce Stables Goodbye raced
nose 20 nose 10 the stretch turn. where
Goodbye chuched it. Light Rose then
cam on 10 an easy victory The
Quincy Stables Joan Marie, the ia
vofite, ran most disappointing race
and was last
Odds-on Favorite Finishes Third
The second race fell to Cornelia c.,
ov 10 l shot. while Charles A. stone
nam Ross r., the odds-on favorite,
nsd all he could do TO Get third money.
II is performance was one Of those in
dieseriaable annoysnces that all but
the highest class tharoughbreds show
periodically Lancaster, a stable boy
20, torneaa ou wiueing. crowded her
every lnea Of the way. bat only lasted
Just long enough 20 foil Machine Gun
nel, which followed the pace from start
TO finish
Stoneham, however, made amends in
the THIRD race at mile and a Six
1een'h' when his Recount scored under
masteftul ride by c. II. Miller. Re
count squeezed through knothole
coming into the stretch because Of a
iaam caused by the crowding of Tom
NC ] ,gsart. This favorite, which fin
ished second. was rightly disqualified.
Gue-and. which took the fifth race
at miie and sixteenth, proved the
o0niy winning favorite. Lovely and
General Cadorna raced themselves into
me ground for the first mile Robin