The New York herald., 1921-09-24
AUDACIOUS BACK TO
EARLY SPRING FORM
Breezes to Victory in Potomac
Handicap-Ambrose in
Weird Ride.
BY HENRY ". KING.

Audacious Is back TO the form he dis
played in the spring. when he was rated
among the first three horses in America.
In the Potomac Handicap at the Aque-
duct track yesterday afternoon he
showed all of his great speed and stam-
ina and beat George, Copper Demon
and Sedgetield without being urged at
any stage Of the journey. At the end
he was breezing length and half in
front of George, which was a length
ahead Of Copper Demon.
.Audacious carried 125 pounds. and
over a track that was duh lie covered
the one mile and a sixteenth In the
good time of I AS 1-5.
Hummer broke Audacous in front, but
Georgie had more early foot and took
command I'm the first quarter Around
the turn and half way down the home
stretch George led the way. with Au-
dacious under restraint about length
back and Tapped on Copper Demon. As
the Anal furlong pole was reached Kun
mer gave Audacious his head and In
half a dozen jumps he was In front, and
from then to the end was not allowed to
do his best.
Eddie Ambrose has ridden many bad
races around here recently. He also
had ridden some good ones. When he
has ridden worse than an exercise lad
his poor horsemansnip has been excused
on the ground that he Is timid and err
ratio. In the fifth race yesterday he
rode Samuel Biddle's Madesnoiselle
Cadeau so badly that tho stewards are
going to ask him many questions about
1t to-day. He got his mount OF in
front. and with apparent clear sailing
ntana1 xF \, lAl a,,I 10 eyal IL
moisclle Cadeau In last place. This
move called forth groans from the race
goers but they were as nothing COM
pared to the criticism that was heaped
on him when he rode wide entering the
homestretch and all the way home. Be-
Sides there were hundreds of competent
judges present who declared his finish
was great deal weaker than an ap-
prentice boy could put up.
Because of Anbrose's bungling ride
Curfew and Gray Gables beat the Rid
die filly home. Curfew was first BY a
length and Gray Gables was similar
distance ahead OF Mademoiselle cadeau.
There were two sensational finishes
during the day. In the first race Jock
scot beat Fort Churchill on the post by
q nose. Sande rode Jock Scot. and IL
was only his great finish that beat Fort
Churchill.
In the third Tody beat Knight OF the
Heather by a whisker. Tody won be-
cause little Marinelli outrode Babin, who
bad the leg UP on knight OF the
Heather.
The stewards of the meeting are anx-
ious to have the horsemen make all
scratches" at ] o'clock instead of wait
Ing until the last minute. They sent the
following appeal to all trainers yester-
day:
'The stewards of the meeting are OF
the opinion that It would be to the best
interests of racing II you should
scratch" horses from races at the hour
stated in the condition of races and re-
quest you to do so instead Of waiting
until the last minute under the rules"
J.. s. Cosden claimed Tldings for
s2,205 when she finished third in the
first race.
William Shields was fined s25 for
sending Phantom Blue to tho post in
the second race with blinkers without
permission from the stewards.