New-York tribune., 1920-07-14
Racing Scene
Shifts TODAY
To Empire City
Handicap of $4,000 Tops
Program; Thunderstorm
Wins Aqueduct Feature
BY w. ]. Macbeth

The scene to-day shifts to the EN-
pire City Racing Associations mile
track near Yonkers, where for the next
sixteen racing days some of the very
best turf sport of the season should
obtain. 1t is true a number of good
horses that have been seen under silks
throughout the Eastern season will
journey to Saratoga to prepare for the
big Spa meeting in August, but this
slight depletion will be more than
atoned for by new blood from the Mid
die West and from Canada.
The summer meeting at Empire City
always attracts crack horses from the
Blue Grass and from the Dominion,
which acclimate themselves here for
the big Saratoga gathering, and their
stakes and overnight attractions COM
peted for at the Yonkers course.
An attractive card has been arranged
for the opening. The feature will be
the $4,000 Empire City Handicap for
the older divisions at mile and one
furlong. Five of the best handicap
horses in training have been named
over night, and it would not be at all
surprising if one eligible or more were
added IT the track remains fast.
Audacious in Light
M. L. Schwartz's Audacious has been
especially pointed for this race and
the good four year-old colt is in pretty
light at Ill pounds, but he will have
to be at his best to win, as the field
represents unsual speed. Harry Payne
Whitney's DR.. Clark, which has been
showing at his very best in the Middle
H. H.
f.. Wldener's old campaigner, Natural
ist, and J. X. L. Ross's Boniface will
all be out for the honors.
Boniface, which carries top weight,
is as honest a thoroughbred as ever
looked through a bride and will have
the advantage of Sande, pounds the
best rider in the East
The Katonah lightweight Handicap
for the older horses at six furlongs is
secondary feature. No less than ff-
teen of the best sprinters are named to
go here. There will be two heats for
-year-olds. The first, which will in
augurate the meeting, is to be at five
and a half furlongs and is selling
affair for which ten are named. The
closing race at five furlongs, for
maiden -year-olds, has attracted the
heaviest field of the day. No less than
twenty have been entered
The most successful meeting in the
history Of the Queens County Jockey
Club terminated yesterday in a chapter
of disasters for the students of form
Favorites were bowled over six times
in succession.
Thunderstorm in Front
R. T. Wilson jr.'s Thunderstorm won
the feature event, the Speculation
at a mile. He was about the
closest to a winning choice, that de-
veloped all day, as he was held through
out at 4 to l, while Tom McTaggart,
the favorite, was quoted at to l.
showed a marked i'm
provement over his last outings and
won galloping. He had the advantage
of fine start, as Turner got him off
wlnging and was never headed
There might have been different
story had Elmendorf got off as we'll as
Thunderstorm. Elmendorf, which was
nowhere at the first turn, made up a
lot of ground through the long stretch
and was rapping at the door at the
end.
George W. Lofts On Watch was much
the best in the Iroquois handicap at six
and a half furlongs. Barrett was
forced to take the overland route, but
waited to the stetch to make his run
and then came away to a handy victory.
Super, as usual, was very slow to begin.
At one time Super was a sixteenth of a
mile out behind the field, but closed
with a marvellous burst of speed and
was about to run over the winner at
the end. Billy Kelly, the prime fay-
orite, tired at the end under his heavy
impost.
The most astonishing upset of the
day sounded "taps" for the meeting.
}; E. Davis's Dough Girl, a 20 to shot,
showed her usual speed for six fur
longs and held on better than usual.
She actually outgamed Arnold Roth
stems Sporting Blood, the l to A shot,
and won by more than half length
Dough Girl was given such an ovation
as usually is rendered Man O. War, as
many OF the women and not a few Of