The Washington herald., 1921-10-12
MISSES TIEING SIX.
FURLONC MARK BY.
2-5TR OF ASECOND.
houghest Day of Meet for
Form Players-Only 2
Fayorites Win.
~ RAY HELGEsEy.


careful. Walter T. salmon.s sood
e S-yesr-old filly. daughter Of
<, came within two-fifths of
ono Pf tieing the track record
\ c:I.1 furlongs when she won the
a. lSurnie Handicap for 3-year-
A. o upward at Laurel yester-
careful romped over the line
Nj, nat Had the track been a
aster and had Baty Grand
ronH ed her a little more. Careful
49,. certainly would have come at
I.N close to tieing the record Of
an5 now held Jointly by Icarus
,h Royce Roofs. Icarus has done
ehe SIX furlongs twice in those fig
ures' once with los pounds up and
otner time carrying l0s. Royce
TOOLS was under 10 pounds. Care
..u ul yesterday was under ia of the
neart break" Carefurs victory
,I also the fastest six furlongs of
'ne present meeting.
the Glenburine, Pride of India
uuen oy Sammy McLane, youthful
poeese of Samuel Ross, broke in
front but was raced into submIs-
oh oy Careful. As they hit the
ead OF the stretch Pride Of India
nau mad enough, but Baby Grand, a
'tt SLOW at the start, came up and
ehalienged Careful, but hadn't
nearly enough to overtake the fly
ing my. Baby Grand, however,
GRABBED second money. while Nc
lane managed to bring Pride of
lndia home in the show hole.
Form players had their toughest
day.
Only one other favorite besides
careful managed to check in first
az the judges stand. That was
Dream of Allah, which disposed OF
good field in the fourth race and
dict -.
outside Of Careful and Dream Of
Allah. those who play 'em on per
,age.
The first. second and sixth events
were collected by, rank outsiders,
the lowest price on any of the
three being $3.50. while both of
the others broke the long shot
record for the meeting, when Fair
way captured the opener and paid
s62.S0. and Caligula grabbed the
second event, paying $3.50 for
two.
The other two events were won.
by comparative outsiders, when
Prodigious captured the third race
and Crack O. Doom won the night
leap
Pathways victory in the opener
was the first blow of healthy "one-
two" delivered the talent. Fairway
went to the barrier completely over
looked by the talent; he broke well,
saved himself in the early going,
found a hole and made the rail at
the three-quarters: collected his
racing legs, coming into the head
IOf the stretch and outgamed Mer-
rimac in a drive to the wire. Mer-
rimac saved second, while Belario
'was a badly beaten third.
The foifow up blew that wobb1ed
the form players came but a half
hour later. when Caligula trounced
n fair field in a siX-furlOng event.
for 3-year-olds- o.
Z Sailing B and Ararat were the
ones whom the talent figured would
increase the old bank roll. But
neither Of these were there. Sailing
|B did manage to give -the- winner
IA battle in the stretch, but Caliguia
had enough when called upon and
|eame through to close victory.
|The winner was rated at' IS to 1.
our Birthday handed the knock
but punch to the performance only
|Cents when he barely. nosed out
Eans Peur in the sixth event, a claim
Ing handicap at a mile and a SIX
keenth for 3-yearrolds and upwards.
hour Birthday came from behind and
lust barely had enough to stave
|o6 the rush OF Sans Peur at the
finish.
Nine entries are scheduled to
Lface the barrier in The National
4 with $4,000 added for 2>year-olds at
ssix furlongs today.
Dexterous, Sletveconard, Care
Itaker and All Fair are some OF
lthose who will tee of in the feat
4 Lure event. Seiveconard is slated
no carry topweight. .120 pounds.
|whiIe Dexterous will tote lis of the
heart break. The Quincy stable has
I,bree horses entered. Ray jay, All
lover and Relay being named to
carry its colors-