New-York tribune., 1922-05-03
Rider, 67, Wins on
16-Year-OId Horse
In Steeplechase

-Nol Always Will youth De served. j
you doubt we gladly refer you to the
United Hunts Racing Associations one
day meet at Belmont Park Terminal
yesterday afternoon The secondary
feature of the day was won by six
teen-year-old chestnut gelding, ridden
by his sixty seven year-old owner.
This unusual combination of eighty
three merry springtimes was vindi-
Gated in the second of five thorough
bred trials that delighted some five
thousand enthusiasts mostly Of OUR
SET-who were out to whct their ap-
petltes for the sterner realities of the
racing game to set in this afternoon
at Jamaica. The event was the West
chcster-B Biltmorc Country Club Plate,
stceplechase Of about two and half
miles over the brush course for hunt
crs. 1t was won by the venerable Gold
Plate, the odds-on choice in the field
Of three.
H. s, Page, despite his three
score and odd years, sat mis- horse like
a centaur and simply cantered in at
the finish. He rides with a black
patch over the left eye "a memento Of
spill in former race at this
course) and monocle in the right.
Monocle, composure, or assurance
was never thr threatened. The fine old
horseman lost stirrup approaching
the last jump, but never his head or
his mastery at horsemanship. He was
cheered to the echo at the end. Sweet
Kiss was badly distanced in the last
half mile. Mar Tom fell at the fifth
fence
The feature was the Master of Fox
Hound Association Plate, test Of
about three and half miles over
timber for hunters. This was won by
the favorite, Daybreak, ridden by
Joseph Neif Ewing, his owner 1t was
thrilling spectacle and a fine race
marred by only one spill. A. J.
Davls's Texas Star, fell during the sec
ond turn of the field. Irish Laddie
fought it out with the favorite, but
tired in the last half mile and
finished outside the money. The Hunt
ngton Valley Farms Huntington Nc
Gee was second, and Sir Ashly Sparks's
Oola third
The summaries:
olds and upward; about six furIongs)-
Vague, 100 C. FairbrotheD, to 2, / to
y,
2 to and out. second aBoxwood,. 1o5
(Thurber). to and out. third Betty
Blue. Royal Jester. St. Patrick Regalia
and Orderly ran named Miss Vanity
pulled up. aCoupled as Greentree Stable
entry.
Second race (purse $500: Westcheeter-
Bitmore Country Club Plate Steeplech Sc +;
bout two and a half miles over brush
course)-Gold Plate, 162 (H. s. Page). 4
to 8 and out. won; Al Davis. l6O (Al
Davis), I to and out second; Mar Tom
l62 o. Bosley), to 1 and out, tell Only
three started.
Third race (purse. $500 steepiechasc
for four-year- -olds and upward. about two
miles, over brush course)--aLochiel. 149
Or, GilberD, to and out. Won Shrar-
mel and Mohican both fell Only three
started. added.
Fourth race (purse. $500 the Masters OF
Fox Hounds Association Plate Steeple-
chase; about three and half miles over
timber1-Daybreak. 1877 o. N. Ewins). s
and to s. second; Oola, $50 CT. Bosley),
10 to I, to and to /, third Irish Lad
die Armadale ana Soleil as named
Texas Star fell.
Fifth race (purse. s4oO; for three-year-
ods and upward. about six furlongs)--
Narosla. 157 penn Smith), - to 5, 10 .
and to 3, won: Piraeus. 100 CT. Leifer),
to 10, / to S and out, second: Mandalay
$50 (F. Alpers), to /, to and ] to g.
third. Fancy Man, Flirter and Bulgaria
Pat named