New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-09
2O-to-1 Shot
Sta1.tles Talent
In First Race
rrnsefs Feature Card at Local
Track as Dead Ones I'M
expecfedly Come to Life

Audacious, carrying the colors of the
Foreign Stable, had narrow escape
from defeat in the Pierrepont Handi-
ran. the zig event on the card at
. Jamaica yesterday. and it was the
/ .sult of Clarence Hummer. who rode
sbe horse that barely won. Owing to
he poor condition of the track, the
psncocas Stable withdrew Mad Halter,
which left George W. Lofts erratic
nonnacona and Audacious to fight it
| ont,
Audacous looked to have such an
EASY task that he was held at / to s
| IN the betting and the odds were justi-
| fed, for he far outclassed the Loft
colt When they left the barrier,
Hummer sent him to the front and
opened gap of two lengths. Instead
of letting the horse rate along at his
own gait, he took choking pull on
| his head. There was no change in the
| distance separating the two horses
| until going around the far turn, where
Donnacona was taken up for 6
| @breather."
Making the turn for home Hummer
| took Audacious to the middle of the
track, while Marinelli saved lot Of
ground by SHINING the rail with
Donnacona. The Loft colt looked
beaten at the time, but when Marinelli
vent to the whip he responded with
| reat gameness and at the eighth pole
be was within length of the leader.
Hummer seeing the danger went
from pull to drive and they fought
h out, Audacious just lasting long
enough to win by the shortest kind of
| 4 head. In ore more stride he would
| have been beaten. Had Hummer let
his mount down after turning into the
homestretch he would have won off.
| The race was worth $4,960 to the win
| ner.
Good Crowd Turns Out
Despite the steady downpour and
| cold, piercing wind good crowd
turned out to witness the sport. The
wind blew from the back of the stand,
which protected the patrons to a great
extent from the brunt of the storm.
Although the rain fell steadily most
Of the afternoon, the track was in fairly
good condition.
The Montague Handicap for three
ar-olds. distance six furlongs, and
| next in Importance to the Pierrepont,
,resulted in a victory for the Xalapa
lFarms good colt Bon Homme. He had
i no easy time of it, for Schuttinger had
to ride like a fiend to get him down in
front OF Dry Moon. Last Straw was
third.
Bon Homme broke running, with
Tody and Mercury right at his heels.
Last Straw had no early foot and,
tailed the field, going around the far
turn. When they swung for home Bon
weakened in the final sixteenth, barely
managing. to get over the line a winner,
by three parts of length. Last Straw
closed with great burst of speed and
vas running over horses at the end He
vas beaten length and half for the
pan.
Menty-to-One Shot Easy Winner
The first race proved abig upset for
The form players. Grace E., owned by
Mrs. S. A Clopton, widow of the ia
NOUS trainer who died suddenly dur
ing the Saratoga meeting, and held at
y to / in the betting, shot to the front
hight after the start and never left the
result in doubt She raced Castanet,
tie second choice, into submission in
7 the first quarter and then came away
! 70 win with plenty in reserve by two
| sngths Pastoral, the favorite, just
managed to beat Nightboat head for
iscond money.
An unexpected reversal Of form was
Witnessed in the second event when J.
Z. Nash's old gelding St Isidore came
70 life and galloped off with the purse
Some CLIQUE must have known the
vas backed from Is to / down to to
l. Esquire set the pace to the last
furlong pole, where ST. Isidore, which
had been laying in third position TO the
head of the stretch, came on. went to
lie front and won going away by three
l.ngths. Esquire beat Tidings like
distance for second place.
Knight of the Heather Awakens
The sudden change in the weather
vas no more startling than the sudden
Improvement in Knight Of the Hea ther
shen the latter beat a good field Of
s.esets IN tHe NUN event, the duntlnS-
pn Selling Handicap, over the five and
half furlong route. When the field
,sttled down for the run through the
stretch il looked as though Fort
Caurchill, the public choice. had the
face won, but knight of the Heather
laied him at the sixteenth pole, where
be left him, winning in gallop by five
lengths. Fort Churchill was stopping
isss and only beat Mavoureen by half
length
viii wallace's highly tried colt,
horologe, captured the closing race,
si1 furlong dash for two-year- olds.
Hs.hut,inger kept him off the pace to
ne last furlong, where he shot to the
non, nt and Won in hard drive from
klnantel By scant length. ShafFer
saa third, four lengths back. Andy
Nanttinger, the jockey, who barely
sHsped oahcial punishment for his ride
"a VISTA last Tuesday, carried off the
halng honors by plotting three win
aea. Re rode Grace E, Bon Homme
and Horologe.