The New York herald., 1922-07-25
FALLS ON TRACK
DURING WARMUP'
Y Doubt About Filly 1t Came
From, but Racegoers Say
Emotion Carried 1t.
HULLABALOO A WINNER
Son of Peter Pan Wins for
Bill Clancy-Thunderclap
Takes Handicap.
HULLABALOO A WINNER
BY HENRY ". KING.

BY HENRY ". KING.
Some despicable scamp put sponge
in a horses nose before the final race
at the Empire City track yesterday
afternoon, but it did him no good. He
didn't do his job well enough. and the
horse sneezed it out in an exercise
gallop before the race. There is a
difference of opinion as to which horse
was sponged, but some racegoers de-
clare it was Robert L. Gerrys fast
filly Emotion. Others said 1t was
either Nancy Shanks or Irish Confetti
belonging to Thomas Fortune Ryan,
while a few said it came from the
nose Of Joseph z. Davis's Prodigious.
The race was the Fernwood purse for
three-year- fillies. On past per-
formances Emotion looked like GER
tain winner, and good judges of prices
said that to 2 would be liberal on her.
But to the surprise of almost all the
racegoers her odds We're as good as even
money. Because of this persons who
knew about the sponging declared that
she was the filly which had been mis-
treated. and that well laid plans for
gigantic coup by laying her had been
foiled when she sneezed out the sponge
Mrs Johnny Dundee, wife of the pugi-
list, who owns small string of platers,
saw horse sneeze out the sponge. but
she isn't sure which one X was.
Horsemen Saw the Sponge.
A host of horsemen saw it on the track
q second or two later ana believed 1t
was a stone. "Puddin" Mcdaniel saw It
and went out on the track to investigate.
He found a sponge, brought 1t to the
crowd standing near the rail and then
placed it on the fence. AS soon as he
turned his back the sponge mysteriously
disappeared. The stewards learned of 1t
after the race, and when most OF the
crowd. including the owners and train
ers of the different horses in the race
had departed. A host of men will be
called before them this morning.
Mrs. Dundee said that while watching
n horse warm up she heard 1t sneeze
fali from it's nose. She called the atten
tion of several horsemen and stable
hands to it. and then persuaded Nc
Daniel to go on the track and get II
The horse dropped the sponge almost II
front of the paddock gate.
George Odom, who trains Emotion
doubts that It came from his filly. He
said that IL his Emotion was spongeo
II must have been an inside job because
he allows no one to go near his horses
unless he accompanies them. He ad
nitted that even money was an excep
tionally big price on her. He said HI
didn't hear or see her sneeze but saw
her buck jumping around and believed
she was in a playful mood.
Emotion Easy winner.
II Emotion was sponged 1t had NJ
effect on her racing. She won tn
race easily by a length and a half from
Mrs. Payne Whitney's Bonus. MI
Davis's Prodigious was third. Emotion
trailed Bonus to the head of the stretch
where she went to the front and gal
loped the remainder of the way to vic
tory
The feature of the program was tn
Arrow Selling Stakes. 1t went to Bi
Clancy's Hullabaloo, a Peter Pan geld
ing which was cast off by Harry Payn
Whitney. Hullabaloo has the most pc
culiar gait Of any horse in training. II
doesn't run like runner, but he ca
fly. He raced TO the front in the frs
furlong and then led the way to tn
judges. He was stopping fast at tn
end but McAtee kept him going Ion
enough to win by a length from 10
Marrone's Daydue. Hullabaloo was @
Is to i in the betting at one time bu
was backed so heavily that at post tim
IL was impossible TO get better tina
s to / on him.
Harry +. Sinclair's horses, Thunder
clap and Little Chief, finished first an
second in the White Plains Highweigt
Handicap Wishbone led for furlon
and then Little Chief went to the from
Turning into the stretch Thundercla
came from the rear with a rush an
beat his stable mate home by tw
lengths. George w. Lofts On watc
finished third.
Suspicion In Front.
The Syndicate Stable added anoths
victory to its list when its Suspicio
beat home bif field of cheap juvenile
ridden by maiden Jockeys. A lad name
Bush had the mount on Suspicion an
he rode a real good race. He got HI
mount Off well, rated him along In thir
place until the stretch. where he ser
him to the front to win easily. Gho
was second and Temptress was thir
Temptress was probably best in IL
race. She got away from the barri,
badly and entering the homestretc
was nearly fifty yards out of II, b,
she came with rush and would has
won in another seventy yards. Ft
his victory Bush was presented with
cup by the Empire City Association.
Bessie leighton led home n sma
field Of fairly good youngsters in II
opening event. Peter Brown was Sc
ond and Ducks and brakes third. Viii
running down the back stretch In tn
race the Shea Stables Louise Grood
was cut down so badly that IL Is like
she will have to be destroyed.
Zed turned a form somersault IN q
second race and led home a big fie
of platers over the one milo and sevent
= yard course. He was different hori
tAan in his last start and displaying
good burst, of speed showed the wa
from beginning to end At the judg
he eased I'D three lengths I'm front