The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02

Ever so often there's happening on the race track that savers of fiction as witness the victory of Dough Girl on the closing of the Aqueduct tN. Y.) track, The public usually trails along with the favorites-whom favorites are quoted at even money or trifle better. For two solid days prior 10 closing day the favorites st Aaueduct were bowled over while the layers laughed in glee. And all the while the public was suffer ing one jolt after another.
 Came the. last day at Aqueduct.
 Hope Princess was a seven to five shot to win in the opener and Hope Princess was beaten. Then came the jumping race, with Dorcris installed as nine to five favorite. Dorcris lost-failed to fin ish in the money And the public got another terrible jolt. Billy Kelly was favored to win in the third heat, at even mon ay-and Billys best was 10 land third.
 Tom McTaggart, an in-and-outsr, was quoted at thirteen to five to win the fourth-a favorite. Elmendorf was sec ond choice-at three to one. The dear old public hopped to one or the other. And Thund -rstorm, almost neglected ill the betting raced home in front. Bal last, the even money favorite in the J1tn, ldlieu nlSerdblN, anu never llH- ished in the money.
 And so came the sixth
 THREE STARTERS
 Numerous scratches had reduced the field to three starters-Sporting Blood, Our Boots and Dough Girl On form. it looked like a moral cinch for Sporting Blood. The two-year-old, only a few days before, had run a whirlwind heat back of the sl5o,0oo Inchcape. our Boots,
 4I.1 ANx~ lgI -t,1 much and Dough Girl according to ex- perts, was totally outciassed."
 The layers quoted one to three against Sporting Blood, thirteen to five against Our Boots, and fifteen to one against Dough Girl The public, already whipped in five races that day sought some way to get out" There was but one chance and that was to bet on Dough Girl- the horse without chance"-@nd have her romp home.
 The public did. Never before, accord ing to old-time bookes, has there there been such a tremendous play on a long shot in a small field For time the ''layers' held the price at h to l. but under pressure of many bets, cut the quotations to 12 to 1 and finally to 10 to | And still the publc-known as anna teur bettors-plunged along, with their s1 $2 s and sf0 bets. The public was hookeG. it saw only one way to get out and thaS way was to bet on the 15 to l shot and then root the racing miss home
 With the barriers rise, Ambrose astride Dough Girl, sent her into a two length lead She held it around the far turn, held it around the turn for home and held it as the three horses swept down the long Aqueduct stretch. And then the smart folks asserted:
 Right about here is where Sporting Blood stretches his legs and wins the race by fen lengths. "
 DOUGH GIRL WINS
 Sporting Blood did stretch his legs-as far as he could But Dough Girl did a little stretching. too. And she held tc her two-length lead to the final furlons role Sportin~ Blood challen"ed aoain- and closed length. But Ambrose began tickling Dough Girl with the whip, the miss responded in resolute fashion-ano raced across the line winner by a length and half
 Never has there been a greater demon stration for horse and jockey than was witnessed in that final furlon0 when Dough Girl was holding to her lead never was their wilder tumult or cheer ing than when she breezed over the wire a winner And when Dough Girl and Ambrose strutted back to the judges stand the frenzied cheers caused one writer to assert:
 "It seemed as if the inmates of ten