New-York tribune., 1921-08-12
" Westerners Lose Heavily
When Filly, at 2 to Z,
Takes Saratoga Feature
By w. |. Macbeth


SARATOGA, Aug. Hillary Pavne
Whitney's three-year-old fIly Pruderv,
which was generally recognized as the
best juvenile miss Of year ago
proved her class in winning the s1O.-
600 Alabama Stakes here this after
noon. The Alabama was the feature
of an entertaining card and attracted
the greatest mid-week crowd that has
ever witnessed the Spa within the last
decade.
The Alabama is stake for three
year-old fllies at mile and quarter
and it developed one Of the greatest t
races ir which fllies ever participated.
even though only four went to the
post. Prudery was the odds-on choice.
Naturally so after her wonderful vic
tory of last Saturday, when she gal
loped mile in such handy fashion
that many old-timers predicted she
would lower the colors of Grey Lar if
year. The sharps figured that the race
of Saturday would tighten up and inn
prove the great Whitney flly, and so
they smashed her from the prohbitive
ODDS OF to down TO to T.
Winner Is Extended
Prudery won, and won in a way that
stamps her a wonderful dlly--perhs 9s
the class champion of the year. D4t
she was no 1-to-3 shot. She knew
when it was all over that she had been
in a horse race. She was straight as
string al the end to beat Z. r.
tradley's Bit Of White, which was
backed by the Westerners with all the
confidence of having a ripe melon ready
for the cutting.
The writer does not presume to offer
any alibi for Bit Of White Jockey
J. Carroll, who had the mount, was up
against combination of the greatest
masters Of horsem anship riding OF the
American turf to-day. Earl Sande had
the leg UP on Walter J. Salmon's speedy
Careful; Laverne Fator was aboard
Prudery. And these two leading jock
eys practiced every vile and artifce
throughout the long journey to foil the
less resourcefgl Carroll. But for once
IN his life, at least, Carroll rode fault
for b. of White.
Cassidy got them off in perfect align
ment For the first eighth Careful,
Prudery and Bit Of W hite, in the order
named from the rail. ran head TO head
and nose to nose. Then gradually as
they neared the clubhouse turn Car
roll crowded Bit of White out to the
lead. He took command as they hit
the turn, took the track, and around
The bend opened lead OF two lengths
over Careful.
Fator Comes From Behind
Fator, with Prudery was laying just
outside Careful. to avoid the possible
flick If q tail switch, but it was evident
as they sped up the long backstretch
that the favorita was we'll in hand. BY
the time the half-mile pole had been
reached Bit Of White had opened up q
gap Of nearly five lengths on the other
two. Chateau Thierry, so far as the
race was concerned, was only & specta-
tor.
Nearing the far turn Fator made his
first move with Prudery, but when he
let out wrap or two. Together Care
ful and Prudery moved Up On the pace
maker and the crowd joyously shouted
"Bit Of White is coming back where
she belongs"
But the Rancocas Stable jockeys had
the surprise Of their lives in store. Car
roll was rating his mount out in front,
and when the others got close he
turned, slackened rein and began TO
draw off again. Careful was at the
limit of her speed and endurance and
couldn't stand the strain. Gradually
she fell away. But Prudery gamely
closed ground inch by inch until,
swinging to the outside of the pace
maker on the home turn, none could
tell for a certainty which was in front.
A Thrilling Finish
Carroll hicked Bit Of White with the
whip then, and once more the game
Western FLY drew of slightly. Fator
was hand-riding Prudery. Once more,
inch by inch. the Whitney flly drew up
till they we're again on even terms
Through the stretch they came, stride
for stride, the lead bobbing as each
head alternated up and down. But at
the sixteenth pole Prudery crowded her
1nuzzle to the front.
1t looked then as If the champion
filly Of year ago had her rival at her
mercy. But once again Carroll went TO
the whip, and once again Bit Of White
responded with all the gameness for
which a thoroughbred is noted In the
last fifty yards. Bit of White came on
again and so resolucely she was slowly
gaining on the straight and tiring Pru-