New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08
Race More Impressive Than
That of Man o War;
Smoke Screen Sets Pace
By w. J. Macbeth

Ths Rancancos Stables Grey Lag, q
,a-ee-yesr-old colt by Star Shoot
m;ss Minnie, emblazoned his name in
as;.al letters in the American turf
III AZ Fame in the fourth running
= the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct yes
strday afternoon.
SIRE Grey Lag, with 123 pounds on his
Asss, simply galsoped the mile ard
ssrlcne under Earle Sande 10 worlds
,,s,srd time fer the distance. Grey
;sg didn't beat worlds record; he
.S~nlv tied it. But under 123 pounds
ssis three-year old raced the mile and
furlone in 1:49 fat, tying Goaler's
verdi breaking effort for the distance
i Belmont Park on June 10 last
Gcaier, a fve-year cid. carried but
s4s pounds.
sive than the winning effort of the
sHorse of the Century" one year ago.
from start 20 finish Grey Lag was
never extended Man o. War was
straight as string to John P. Grier.
For 8 mile and j sixteenth the Whit
new colt raced the eye-balIs out Of the
saper-horse and at a Disadvantage be-
cause Grier had drawn the outside
position and was forced TO carry wide
throughout the entire bend.
Grey Lag in Form
Man O. War that day set q worlds
record for the distance around 6 turn.
At the sixteenth pole Hummer fiicked
the wonder horse with the whip and in
two strides the champion of champions
bounded away TO an easy victory. One
lash converted him from badly beaten
steed into >he easiest imaginable Win
ner Man O W ar might have been able
to better his time under pressure. He
showed 1:49 is for the mile and
furlong. But the Grey Lag of yester-
day would have given the champion of
champions d harQer race than John +.
Grier was able 60 furnish.
BY clipping a fifth of q second of
Man o. War most sensational per-
tormance Grey Lag came into his own
with vengeance. This is a great colt;
By far the best tnree-year-old that has
been shown this year. His victory was
grace and ease personihed. Never once,
save for q sixteenth in the long
stretch. did Sande let his mount down
to the limit.
Clifford A. Cochrane's Smoke Screen
perhaps was responsible for the eleva-
ton Of Grey Lag to the heights Of turf
renown. It was Smoke Screen that set
the sizzling pace which Grey Lag was
forced to follow. The Cochran people
believed they had trick that could
reap the rich harvest of ST,100 for the
winner. The idea was to send the fill
Banksia, cut to kill off Grey Lag.
Banksia Races Poorly
Banksia, however, seemed to suffer
from the heat. She never could I'M
track herself and ran very dull race.
Keogh. who had the leg up on Smoke
Screen, reported back to his boss that
the early pacemaker ran away with
him. Smoke Screen was go full OF
running he was pulling Keogh out OF
the saddle. Keogh, as a mater of self
protection, had to let up. He was
afraid ne would throw his mount if he
attempted furth9r to throttle him
Down the backstretch Smoke Screen
simply made & monkey Of his company.
He stepped out to a lead Of a length
or more in the first furlong, and this
he increase to two lengths as they
began to sweep around the bend. Halt
way around the turn Keogh and his
runaway horse were leading by almost
three lengths. Then Sande made his
move.
Foot by foot he crept up on the pace
maker. As they swung around the last
turn he had cut his disadvantage in
two. Keogh took that last turn as Bar
ney 0lddeld used to take the dirt track
bends in his Green Dragon. He
skimmed it. But once Strengthened out
for the long run home he found Grey
Lag laundering at his heels. Grey Lag.
TO the outside, rolled along till half
way down the stretch he was looking
the pacemaker in the eye. 1t was ali
over then but paying off.
Sporting Blood. which had hung as
closely IS possible to Grey Lag through
the entire run, Numbered up behind.
copper Demon, slow to begin, also
closed up with a rush through the
stretch. And the gallant pacemaker.