New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
Oueer'' Betting
Angle in Race
OF Two Horses
1,dacious, Which Broke
Man o. War Record, Is
Cd Choice; Trails Ceorgic
By w. ]. Macbeth

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wen though tho trainers may object
at as most Of them consulted on the
.s.cesition most emphatically did at
p,lnont Park yesterday afternoon, tho
- seratch ruIc which has been
.s,,sed by the stewards cannot be en-
,...d too soon. Yesterdays card once
ne was riddlsd worse than any Pink
I'm that ever fell into the hands of
,ss James boys, and from the fact de-
r.,oped race of peculiar aspect which
x;Il stand official Investigation.
There was good reason for scratch
10 yesterday, perhaps, for the track
=. euppy and uncertain as the result
i drying out from tho drenching of
il. previous night, but there was
,at,s excuse for the wholesale scratch
- that characterized the closing
.yrt the Peconic Handicap, for all
,ets at six and half sariongs. No
aver than five of seven nominations
xre withdrawn, leaving only the Red
s,one Stables George and the Foreign
Stable's Audacious to contest the event.
II wasn't ever q two-horse race. 1t
wasn't race at all. It was process
,ion. George, ridden by Penman,
simply galloped ahead of Audacious,
ridden by Hummer, from start to
Anish. Though never extended, the
fnrther Georgia went the further he
drew away. He WAS dozen lengths to
the good as he pattered under the wire
to The Kisses of the thinning crowd.
There is good reason to believe there
VAS occasion for the Kisses. If ever
horse race looked queer this one did.
And the betting substantiated grounds
for suspicion. Georgia opened favorite
Al odds Of 4 to s. Even money was
laid against Audacious at the start.
Little Betting ON Audacious
Not one nickel of wise" money
showed for the Foreign Stable bread
vinner. though it may be rem embered,
Audacious earlier in the season had
beaten one of Man O. Wars Belmont
records over distance Of ground. The
sharps plunged on George, knocking
him from to down TO to 8, while
tie quotations against Audacious went
kiting from evens to to /.
The race may have been strictly ON
tie sup and up" but those in control
would have hard work convincing any
Of the hissers of the fact. And the
majority Of the onlookers hissed.
As to the racing in general, it was
cheap compared with usual Belmont
standards. The feature event was the
Mneola Selling Stakes. at six furlongs,
for two-year olds, with $4,000 added.
R. T. Wilson's Duncecap, which, coupled
: with Vendor, ruled 2 to l favorite,
won, but had to stand a hard drive
gamely to stand off Charles A. Stone
4 hams Quesada at the end.
p During the running Of this race the
4 Quincy Stables Alice c., one Of the
4 outsiders, that had been we'll played,
4 slipped under Joe Mooney in the un-
8 certain going and fell. Luckily, the
Il boy escaped uninjured. Mooney, it
Will be remembered, was so severely
bruised and shaken up after a fall
at the Empire City meeting that he
was unable to accept a mount at Sara
toga. He had his first mount since
n his recovery, several days after the
y opening Of the present meeting.
Fall Costly to Alice c.
At the time of the accident Alice G..
appeared to have as good chance as
any Of the field to land the big prize
money. Leghorn and Alice C. stepped
Il to the middle of the turn, where the
Il fly went down. Leghorn, which was
low winging out in front by himself,
seemed on the high road to prosperity
when he quit badly in the stretch.
Coltiletti saved ground all the way
With Duncecap, which is always a very
ilov beginner, but which Is partial to
mud. The heavy going seemed to i'm
prove this chestnut filly's chances, for
sne crept up on the others and had
a4 the room necessary to come through
On the rail as the others swung wide
70 avoid the heaviest going. At the
iurlong pole Duncecap finally collared
Quesada, which had lain off the early
PAGE in commanding position.
u was horse race from there in,
but coltiletti outrode Zoeller, and so
saded Duncecap winner by a nose.
snort end of the purse, which was
worth s2375 to the winner.
me fifth race, at hve furlongs
straight, for two-year-oId fllies, was a
\ sort Of qualification for Saturdays
rruturity. Frank ]. FarreIl's Nancy
:. made the pace and won handily,
With My Reverie and Dream of Allah
second and third, respectively, heads
apart. Dream Of Allah is E. B. Nc
leans highly touted Futurity candi-
aa.e. She raced we'll within herself
sa0 as II out for tuning up.
Fayorite Bested in Chase
y. H. Cross's Amstello made show
" field CT four in the steeplechase,
winning from the favorite, Franc
iissur, by fifteen lengths.
The new scratch rule, which will 60
aso effect Saturday, makes it impera.
i've for declarations to be made by
iu:SO a. m. and assesses each with
eiaWai 10 per cent of the purse value
70 the winning horse. The assess
imsents will be divided so per cent to
-. .ss second horse and 40 per cent to
While trainers admit the existing
Nfatch rules ineffective, they believe
sas, sasa rule as the stewards propose
viii put the poor horseman further
under the heels Of the rich. They
soint out that stables such as the
Ssahcocas could enter three or four
aOfses, as now, and scratch or not
sstatch, as fancy. suited, while the
ss0s man would be forced to run his