New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

Bunting, making his first appearances
in silks since April 20, when at Havre
de Grace, in his first race as three
year-old, the Futurity winner of 1921
took the measure of Lucky Hour
Bunting, be it known, came back to his
swn after long rest and gave a sound
beating to the Rancocas Stables Mad
Halter, one of the very best handicap
horses in training, not TO mention E.
r. Bradley's Best Pal. The good colt
showed in his race Of yesterday that
Jimmy Rowe has him fit for the effort
CT his life.
Bunting was never fully extended at
any part of the mileand-a- sixteenth
journey after he had drawn off to a
comfortable lead McAtee gave him
breather rounding the turn, so that
Mad Halter and Best Pal both closed
couple Of lengths on the pacemaker,
but, Strengthened for home, the good
colt came away again under restraint,
and at the end was three lengths in
front of Mad Halter, which in turn
beat Best Pal by half a length.
As his was Bunting's final trial be-
fore the Lawrence Realization, Jimmy
Rowe had instructed McAeee to step
the Whitney colt a route of mile and
thFee-eighths altogether. McAtee CON
tinued, then, after the finish in the
same rythmical gallop. Private watches
caught him at various times from
2:15 40 to 2:17 fat His time is open
TO great argument, as few knew Bunt-
ing was to be tried over the longer
route.
However, there is no disputfng the
OFFICIAL time of IA 2-5 for the mile
and sixteenth, and there were enough
competent unofficial clockers on the Job
to get his fractional time for the real
race correct. Bunting ran the first
quarter in 0.24 2-5, the half in O:47
40, the six furlongs in 1:12 1-5 and
the mile in 1886 2-5. 1t was process
sion rather than a race. Mad Halter
broke first, but in few giant strides
Bunting had drawn into the lead, and
in a quarter mile drew away by four
lengths. Never afterward was the is
cue in doubt Best Pal was trailing for
three-quarters of mile. He came
with rush rounding the home turn
and, indeed, headed Mad Halter in the
stretch, but hung inside the last six
teenth. Bunting was backed to odds
Best Pal, which was knocked down
from to l to II to 5. Mad Halter
was neglected, and receded from to
B TO 8 TO /.
Kai-Sang Carries i33 Pounds
AS to relative merits of Bunting and
Kai-Sang on their last races the opin-
ion of smart horsemen seems divided.
It is true that Bunting beat older and
better horses than did Kai-Sang. But
it is equally true that he carried only
120 pounds, while Kai-Sang carried 1873
pounds. Bunting raced the route in
1:44 2-5, as compared to Kai-Sang's
Las 1-5. But Bunting had the benefit
of much faster track, had perfect,
hot day for best efforts and had no
wind to hamper him. Furthermore,
neither great three-year-old was fully
extended. All of which makes the
prospective meeting of the two next
Saturday horse race in every accepted
sense of the word.
If yesterdays very encouraging eX-
hibition is to be taken as a criterion
there is no occ1sion as yet to get oat
the camphoy bc',s for cross- country
racing. A field Of seven turned out
for the chase, and though the great
majority of them were of green ma
terial and all were maidens there was
not the semblance Of a bobble any
where. All finished in manner to give
promise of speedy betterment of this
branch of the sport, which at Saratoga
seemed suffering from dry rot. The
Greentree Stables pair. Our Boots and
Irish Sea, which finished first and
third, respectively were particularly
Impressive as green jumpers. Our
Boots outgamed Quecreek in the final
drive through the fiat, while Irish Sea
showed quite as much spirit in fight
Ing Regalia for the consolation end of
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