New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-09
Rank Outsider
Wins Belmont
Feature Event
LIE Clorierax Home First
When Blue Laddie Bleedss
Three Fall i'm Chase
By W. J. Macbeth

The wonder Of wonders developed in
the running Of the fourth race at Bel
mont Park yesterday afternoon when
the Quincy Stables lie Glorieux won
the Seaside Selling Handicap at mile
and quarter.
Lie Glorieux was the rank outsider
OF field Of three and galloped home
on the bit, as usually happens in fic-
lion and sometimes in real life. LIE
choice by city block and the odds-on
cEolce just had to be away back near
over, very discredited thoroughbred
as always happens in fiction
1t was blood and thunder melo-
Drama, this running Of the advertised
lecture race of a somewhat ordinary
card at Belmont yesterday. The odds
on favorite. the Greentree Stables Blue
Laodle, furnished ali the blood and
most Of the thunder. Blue Laddie was
quoted at to 5 by the oral layers and
PROBABLY would have walked home had
SO badly he had to be pulled up and
that is why he finished very dis
created last in field of three.
Books spurn Blue Laddie Money
~, Everybody got aboard Blue Laddie.
The books were refusing commissions
at any price. Blue Laddie is stable
mate OF Debadou, the old-time timber
topper that came out last Friday and
again Tuesday and raced like a stake
horse over the fat Blue Laddje had
been put over the jumps this wear and
that was enough for the wise fish
1t looked for time as if Blue Lad.
die would do all that Debadou, his
poardlng companion, had done the day
oe1ore. Falrbrother, as with Debadou.
soon took the track and raced out into
a long lead. LIE Glorieux OUTRAGED
Bin Bang, the second choice, but still
could not keep within gunshot of the
iavorlte. And then. midway round the
turn, it all happened. Blue Laddie was
seen to falter in his stride, to waver
and to back up. lie Glorieux raced
around him almost at will on the
wise partial to the track, closed with a
rush on the early pacemaker as soon
as he folded. 1t was then all over
but the shouting. LIE Glorieux won in
a common canter. Bif Bano, which
was lost in the shuttle at the time, had
no difficulty in taking the place from
the favorite. which was pulled to a
walk through the stretch.
Sunny JIM Has Holiday
It was regular old fashioned Roman
holiday for, Sunny Jim Fitzsimmo ns.
He owns LIE Glorieux, which got the
lions share of the Seaside Handicap
and he saddled the Quincy Stable s
Teddy R., the second choice, which won
the Mineola, with $4,000 added, at
six furlongs straight for two year-olds
Teddy R. won just about as he pleased,
but there might have been far differ
ent story if Walter J. Salmon's Bodan-
ky had not been interfered with
throughout the first five furlongs by
Squaw Man, the favorite. Squaw Man
and Bodanzky broke in front of the
others. But Squaw Man refused to run
true. He kept boring out and humping
Bodanzky until finally outside the
quarter. Ponce took up and came to
the inside of the favorite. He was run
ming over the others at the end
The steeplechase for the maiden
-year-olds at about two miles
proved a thriller in more ways than
one. OF field Of five TO less than
three fell in most spectacular spills.
Elmer Johnson was the first to go
down, and his rider, H. Phillips, after
he saw the others fall. remounted and
Such as it was this timber-topping
event was a disgrace to the name of
the sport. w. Blake, on Surf, allowed
the favorite, Frank B.. to steal a lead
of furlong in the first mile and
half. Surf was full of running and
closed like Cyosset, but too late. of
course. Winooski was SO tired IT the
last fence that he simply fell over it
and lay like dead for several minutes.
He fell on R. Hanna, who had to be
rescued, but who, fortunately, was not
seriously injured.
Eight of the Futurity eligibles, many
of which will start OIL Saturday. met in
the Islip Handicap, at five and half
furlongs straight, the opening event
This was won by Max Hirsch's Gray
Lag, which closed with a great rush
Star Voter weakened right at the end
Tom McTaggart, the odds-on favorte
of the fifth race, at mile, romped
home as he pleased. Sam Hildreths
Krewer, the choice of the concluding
number, raced straight as an arrow
through the six furlongs chute course
and outgamed the heavily weighted
King Thrush in the final yards