New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
kilrller Horse
Hard Pressed
By Mad Halter
Midsummer Temperature
apsd Sunny Skies Bring Out
Banner Crowd of Season
BY w. ]. Macbeth

when he beat the Raneocas Stables
Mad Halter in the Long Beach Handi-
cap. the feature of yesterdays racing
card at the Jamaica track. Extermi-
nator had to be at his best-his very
best.
The six~year- r-eld chestnut gelding
hati to clip second and a fifth from
the former track record (held by HIM
seff) for the mile and a furlong in
order to beat Mad Halter by half a
length. Exterminator raced the dis
taMee in 1850 fiat He had set the old
mark at 1:511- on the afternoon of
June 10 last year.
Clear skies ana midsummer tenn
pefature lured out the biggest crowd
that has been to the metropolitan races
this year. 1t vas capacity crowd in
every sense of the word. During the
running of each race clubhouse, ve-
randas, stands and stairs were packed
to choking suffocation without making
any appreciable inroads upon the dense
mass Of humanity that crowded tho
lawns and backfired even under the
stand itself.
- Two Track Records Fall
While the card was nothing to rave
about on paper, it developed the keen
esaecompetition. Superintendent Tom
my Maher had the track in perfect
coJfdition--it was a papier mache
course for the afternoon-and as wind
and weather conditions were ideal for
fast performances, the thoroughbreds
stepped around III most sensational
fashion. Two track records were snat-
tered.
Exterminators was by far the best
performance, from a standpoint OF time,
seen during the afternoon. But the
Rancocas Stables fve-year-old black
gsldinm Thunderclap, also was forced
toaset a record in order to beat out the
Glen Riddle Farms four-year-old chest
nut. gelding, Dinna Care. These two
hooked up in the Hercules lightweight
Handicap at six furlongs and Thunder
clap came down to the wire scant
head in front in I'LL 3-5.
This took one-fifth of second off the
mark, which was established by Sam
HiIdreth's Lucullite as a three-year-old
under 1876 pounds, on October u, 1918,
and afterward tied by both John San
ford's four-year-old Tippity Witchet,
Ills pounds, June II, 1919. and by
Dominique, stable companion of
Thunderclap, last Tuesday.
:. The sensational performances in the
b1 main features, together with a series
lefof exciting finishes, atoned in a great
for the disappointment of the
fapig ghholiday crowd when the scratches
Tere posted Though the fields were
napot unusually heavy the blue pencil
Ine,e&qned working overtime, and in the
iast four races especially the fields an
swered the bugle scant to an extreme.
However, the populace forgot this phase
OF the entertainment when such fields
as they were began to race strictly to
form. No less than FIVE favorites came
home in front, while the other winner
wac well played second choice.
90 ExterminatOr Driven Hard
Extermnator's winning performance
added the neat sum of $4,000 to the
chestnut geldings winnings, and the
honest old fellow deserved every penny
! of it. Andy Johnson had the leg up on
thg Kilmer bread winner. His sound
, judgment alone enabled Exterminator
: to foil Mad Halter, which was admir-
+ ably handled by Earl Sande, doubtless
the best jockey riding to-day. For
Johnson hustled Exterminator away
from the barrier and drove him every
inch of the way SO as not to allow Mad
Halter to gain a winning lead.
1slad Halter was wild horse and
full of running. He shot away on the
rail position in a sprint that took him
two lengths or more ahead of the field
byithe timee the clubhouse turn was
reached. EXterminator, which broke
IN front, was eased over to the outside
meanwhile. Rounding the first turn
Sande opened a lead of four lengths,
but Johnson chased around the others
and Strengthening for the run up the
backstretch placed Exterminator di-
reetly behind the pace.
IL required no stop watch to realize
that these thoroughbreds were reeling
off record time. Sande tried desper~
ftely to shake off the contender, but
lninch by inch Exterminator began to
inelose the gap. Approaching the far
anourn, Johnson decided to race up on
the outside. 1t was a sensible move,
for though it added some to the dis
7 tance home, the turns at Jamaica are
sharp and Exterminator is long strid-
ing horse.
Half way round the bend Extermina-
tot had closed the gap and had his
mQgzle poking around Mad Hatter's
aastie girths. From there home it was
a Face to thrill the stagnant blood of
the most prosaic. Mad Halter hung
on gamely. He put everything he had
in. his answer to the challenge. But
st5ll, inch by inch, the green, brown
and orange eased up and up.
Outslde the eighth pole Extermina-
tor finally was up. looking right into
Mad Hatter's eye. Sande rode a Sande
fipish. He rode his mount with every
trick at his command. johnson, too,
shook up Exterminator with the whip,
and the latter began steadily 30 draw
away. johnson did not keep Extermi-
nator as straight as he might through
the last sixteenth and came danger
ously close to crowding Mad Halter
against the rail. Indeed, Sande made a
clhim of foul. which, rightly, was not
allowed. AS to Cirrus, a stable mate
of Mad Halter, and J. E. Widener's
P4lgrim, the only other starters, they
were outrun from start to finish.
~ ihunderclap was up to a record
pifi treaking performance in the six fur
o'ilQngs fifth, but with an even chance
tsvDsnna Care would have got first money.
ON on 9unaerclap got away winging: Dinna
orCa Was almost left at the post. Sande
|7g put up a million dollar ride. Kelsay
s hdndled Dinna Care very weakly and
Z toRsed off apparent victory in the RIM
Ao Through the stretch.
Sande rode three winners and fin
ished second and third with five
nlpunts. His victories were popular as
ell three were heavily played favorites
Hf scored first with Cum Sab in The
slH furiongs second trial; repeated with
anderclap and closed out the day by
AMONG the last dash with Budana' ths.
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