New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
Column Victor
In the Juvenile
5-Frlrlong Dash
Gladiator Carries OFF Tohog.
gam Handicap for Red
stone Stable at 8 to [
Rv w. ]. Macbeth

nsnv joy ride on the hack OF Man o
var year ago, won the laurel crown
cor horsemanship of the Memorial Day
racing at Belmont Park. Hummer rode
optsiders to victory in both the big
s.ske events of the day. TIis victories
.,arr net exactly what might be termed
ronviar with the %S REQ or more tran
s;rnt visitors, ~ho love 60 play fa-
yorites. but these were good enough
snorts TO give the hero bic hand each
sinoe he returned triumphant to the
scales.
~oal when he brought home nj. L..
Scbwartz's two-year-old chestnut Col
nm 3 winner in thine Juvenile. This.
he richest stake of the metropolitan
season to date, was q dash of 1--WE fur
Iopgs through the straight chute, for
sy,nsvear-olds, and attracted n field OF
sourteen. the best representation OF
ths afternoon. Frank j. Farrelps
Nancy F. was good second, while
George II. Bulls Mustard Seed nosed
o,,t the Cosden entrys Bigheart for
the show money.
RUNNER had the leg up on the Red
stone Stables big four-year-old Gladia-
TOR. that won the Toboggan Handicap,
snother chute race, at six furlongs.
The general public could see little to
mis- trial but the Rancocas Stables
rsnrssentatives, Mad Hattsr and Doni~
ni9ue, which, coupled in the betting,
vera hammered down from to to
to 5.
BuckIed Badly Under Weight
Gladiator scared from to TO 10
"a i and IVES to l st post time. he
was doing his best at the END, IL IS
true, to beat Senuings Park, for the
psncocas pair both bucklGd. badly
nnSsr the weight. The heavy impost
~ 7s5 mounds was too much for the
stout heart of Mad Halter, when hand
icavped by g particularly disadvan~
taceous start. Dominique quit badly
AZ the end of Eve furlongs.
Outside the hurrah Of the big crowd.
the color that always runs riot IN an
sassemblage Of such proportions and
the high lights generally, it wasn't eX-
sctly what might be called an edIfying
dav' Some time the management Of
Belmont Park is going 10 learn that
ehute racing there is decidedly un-
popular, more unpopular than used to be
the English way OF running on the
main course.
The chute racing always was un-
popular, for the fields cannot be seen
we'll more than a furlong away. And
T1EFG is mora COUlQSlOA LNdn GNC4 4AON
that there is q different finish for the
straight races away down in front of
tha former clubhouse, nearly 1urIong
from the judges stand.
Both the stake races of yesterday
were run through the chute and both
we're Ynarred by customary jostliug and
humping and weaving about an over
the track in the run to the wire. Take
the Juvenile. for instance. Column
drew No. 2 post .position-that is, he
was next TO the inside fence but one.
When he finished with Column Kun
mer was on the outside of the track.
His mount had gradually borne over
the entire width of this wide course.
Juvenile Worth $13,8oo
The Juvenile, with $4,000 added, was
worth S13,S00 to the winner, and prac-
tically everything eligible was sent
after the rich prize. j. S. Cosden
scratched Lord Baltimore, which had
been assigned top weight at 126 pounds.
This left two other good two~year-olds
in-Bigheart and Good Times-to rep
resent him. George Odom scratched
Modo, which subsequently won the last
race, while Madden Withdrew Tulwar,
one Of his pair, and left his chances to
postlude.
It was a real old~fashioned betting
race. Everything was supported. But
the big money showed for the Cosden
entry and the Rancocas entry. Sam
Eildreth saddled Little Chief and Bill
~ Watts for the occasion. Letterman
and Gallant Man, Larry Waterbury's
entry, also commanded due respect.
Observers near the start declared
that Column and Nancy Z. were off
winging and beat the others several
lengths Oh the break. This is mat
ter Of heresay. No one in the stands
can tell just what does happen away
sup the road" in chute racing. AS q
matter OF fact, while Good Times, Of
the Cosden stable, got off well enough,
pair which ruled a prime favorite, was
far from ready and forced to take the
dust in the early running.
Teddy Rice eventually got Bigheart
going, and the colt was closing ground
fast when ne was caught in swirl Of
horses bearing cut from the inside
and bumped about q bit. Rice and
Bigheart were carried to the outside
fence and hemmed in. Finally, when
Rice attempted to squeeze through q
hole, he ran upon and badly cut down
Good Times, the stablemate, SO that
Kelsay had to pull I'D and dismcunt
more than furIong from home.
Bigheart Nearly Down
Bigheart almost went down from the
collision and was knocked out of all
calculations. though he was running
strongly al the end and would surely
nave been in the money, II, indeed. he
could not actually have won. had he
bsen able to get through any time in
the last sixteenth.
Nancy f, which ran straight as an
arrows flight down the middle Of the
track, had meantime forced very fast
pace Column, though bearing out all
the way, hung on doggedly. But the
weight was too much for Nancy F. The
fly carried top weight OF 110 pounds
and ran most courageously, but. the
weight told in the last sixteenth. Mus
tard Seed, which ran greenly, had Big
heart pocketed through the last six
teenth.
Some surprise was occasioned when
Giadiator, the winner Of the Toboggan
Handicap, a dash OF six furlongs
straight with $4,000 added, came out
n the colors of the Redstone Stable.
On his last previous appearance, a
winning one, Gladiator, which had been
entered for $4,000, was bid up and
presumably sold to Paul Connolly for
$4,000. Arnold Rothstein evidently
purchased back in private this apple Of
his eye.
Hummer rushed Gladiator into the
;ead shortly after the start and let
MIN step right along at his best.
Dominique, Of the Rancocas Stable,
neld on to the paeemaker for five fur