New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-25
Pen1llala Never
Fully Lets Out
Whitney Colt
Capt. Cassatt's Chesterbrook
a disappointment, Being
Nowhere in His Sprint
BY w. ]. Macbeth

old brown colt Damask added to turf
tradition in winning the Aqueduct
Handicap, at mile and five -sixteenths,
at the Aqueduct racctrack yesterday.
Not only did the handsome son of All
Gold-Crinoline take the measure of
the Rancocas Stables ve-year-old
horse, Mad Halter, and beat him with
ridiculous ease from start to finish
but he set new track record for the
distance as we'll. Under stout re-
straint almost from start to finish, yet
admirably rated by Jockey l.. Penman,
Damask galloped the mile and five
sixteenths in the sensational time of
2:11 As.
This performance shaded by one
ifth OF second the former record of
2:12 fat, which was hung out by John
P. Grier Chen three years ODD in the
running OF the Aqueduct Handicap of
a year ago OF the two performances
that OF Grier, stable companion of
Damask, was the better. Though
Damask yesterday shaded John P.'s
mark he, as four-year-old, carried
only 10S pounds. John P. Grier, as a
three-year-old toted the heavy burden
of 120 pounds.
There seems little doubt that had he
been hard put to it all the way Damask
might have gone on to a record that
would have stood a long test of time.
His performance was thing of beauty
to an eye that admires horsefesh. He
seemed q machine of steel fiber rather
than an animal of bone and flesh. His
action was perfect rhythm, tireless and
sure. His hoofs spurned the little
dustclouds they kicked up as if they
scarcely touched the solid earth.
There was no variation of stride. Dam
lopes, graceful as the bound of the
fallow deer.
Goes Along Evenly
Unfortunately it was impossible to
time Damask's run fractionally, for the
course is one seldom used and is not
provided properly with timing posts.
However, if the eye can be the least
depended upon he ran a wonderfully
even pace from start to finish. He shot
away from the others briskly, yet he
seemed to carry the same even pace all
the way till, having the race won,
Penman eased him somewhat inside
the sixteenth pole.
Yesterdays running of the Aqueduct
throng, one of the very heaviest of the
season, although but three thorough
breds accepted the issue. A. X. Ma
comber's Kingdom II, which made a
reputation abroad, was the rank out
slider and also a rank spectator. With
the students of form it was a toss-up
between Damask and Mad Halter.
There was great doubt as to whether
the Rancocas horse could concede the
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him to a four-vear- that raced the
great Exterminator to a head over a
course of two miles. Several drops out
OF Harry F. Sinclair's multi-millionaire
bucket thought that Mad Halter could
do just that thing. That is why Mad
Hatter's price held steadily around
a to and Damask's at 6 to 5.
Mars Cassidy broke the three per
fectly right in front OF the lower
grands stand. In a few strides Damask.
sure-footed as jack rabbit, sprang
out IN front. He had drawn clear by a
fuil two lengths as they passed tho
clubhouse and hit the first turn. This
was somewhat of shock The early
speed OF Mad Halter is proverbial. The
crowd expected to see Mad Halter 90
to Damask's throat and fight him To
the death. They contented themselves
IN the hope that Jockey Earle Sande
mad the odds-on favorite under trinln
wraps. 'p-o
Sande Uses His Bat
AS they moved up the long back
stretch Damask was still lopin@ easily
out IN front. The expected run of Mad
Hatter did not materialize. The blue
ana brown silks of Whitney held dog
gedly IN front. Kingdom II was stead
ny dropping back. AS they neared the
lar turn the optical illusion of the
angie drew Mad Halter closer ia the
pacemaker and cry of exults+;np
arose. The criers were disillusioned
as the thoroughbreds swung round thc
lar pend. 1t was seen Damask had lost
none of his advantaCe.
turning into the stretch Sande went
to the whip with the favorite. For ~
moment the Rancocas colt resnondad
gameiy, as only thoroughbred can.
he crowded up almost onto even term
with the pacemaker. Then Penman let
loose his hold a trine and Damask
bounded away. Mad Halter, under his
staggering impost, had been raced dizzy
de had given of mis- best, but that was
not enough. Down the homestretch
numbered pamask, relentless as fate
fenman, with an eye on the beaten
1avorlte' sat still as the Sphinx and
rolled toward the goal
IL was a horse race no longer: rather
a procession. Kingdom II was lost Ton
lengths IN the thin dust clouds. Mad
hattef, reeling, was shortening his
strlde with every effort Penman eased
ms mount then and through the last
slSteenth had Damask under 81 stout
Pun. ne rolled home four lengths
anead OF Mad Halter for the easiest
S4,soo that any thoroughbred ever
BUTTS Eye, the odds-on favoritc wor
the Bushwick Steeplechase Hand;car
the secondary feature, lust abont aa ~
pleased. Crawford kept him OFF ~
asiiy pace Tor one turn of the field
~ ~ma 'heh came away at will. Sea Byrn
ps DIS much the best of the others.
noehlN, which finished last, is one
s s.a. VIII pear watching. 1t was his
nist cross-cosEt-y start. Though ha
raced somewhat greenly he fenced like
veteran. "seo IKE
Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons. the een;a,
h .m'msr OF the Quincy Stable, was
anS Il, man an after the final race RELAY
an ,o AL over: the stable pair, finished
Atso w. IN this slx-furlong sprint, Me-
r;d;sg ot Relay off winging, and with
n;ns a'ous ease made every post win
w; ns one. Az Over, which was carried
aaouha the turn, finished out with
sIeas ourst Of speed. Commander
49, esh'h, an outsider, which tool,
1ri.aa money, ran very creditable race
thea was no excuse for +. 3. Cassatt;s
Chesterorook, which was backed ;r.o
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