The New York herald., 1922-07-26
|NOrthclif Returns to
Races and Is Easy Victor
Johnny Lotus Sends Him to Post Fit to Run to His
Best Form and Colt Never Leaves Result in
Doubt-Teddy R. Takes Richmond Purse.
BY HENRY ". KING.

Johnny LOTUS Is becoming almost as
famous as trainer as he was in the
saddle when he was the leading Jockey
In the country. Every horse he sends
to the post runs well for him and he
saddles as many winners as any man
with similar number of horses. His
Judgment In placing his horses is as
good as his training methods, and since
the beginning of the year none OF his
charges has turned q form somersault.
Yesterday he trotted out Thomas For
tune Ryan's Northcliff a three-year-
son OF Sea King and Doria. 1t was the
colts first appearance under silks In a
year. but he ran as II he had a dozen
races in him. Cliff Robinson had the
leg up on him and got him away from
the barrier well. but not In front. But
before the first furlong had been COW
cred he had Northcliffs nose in front
OF Jaunebar, who was length in front
of the remainder Of the field, which was
led by A. X. Macomber's The Dictator.
Rounding the turn Northcliff ran
Jaunebar dizzy. and when the home
stretch was reached Loftus's charge
was two lengths in front and running
easily. In the straightaway he in
creased his lead until at the Judges he
Jaunebar who held on pretty well and
beat Dan Boiling length for the second
end of the purse
LOTUS believed his colt would win
and told all of his friends so. with the
result he was heavily backed at 5 to 2.
Teddy II. Comes From Behind.
Teddy r.. the hour-year-old colt by
Wrack and Marie Frances. who used to
carry the Quincy Stables colors. scored
a hollow victory In the Richmond Purse,
the feature of the program. He won in
a gallop by elk lengths from knight OF
the Heather. Sea Mint. Trevelyan and
Sailing Along. But Teddy gave his
hackers many anxious moments during
the early part Of the race. While round
Ing the first turn and all the way down
the backstretch he refused to do his
best and was a dozen lengths behind
Sea Mint, who was setting stiff pace.
While circling the bend the erratic fell
low got 1t into his head to run, and he
fairly ran over his horses. When tho
homestretch was reached he was In
front. From then to the finish line all
Merimee had to do was sit still on him.
Knight of the Heather was second and
Sea Mint third.
While rounding the first turn Knight
of the Heather and Sea Mint nearly col
lided and Sea Mint narrowly escaped
going over the fence.
For this apparent foul the stewards
hailed George Carroll before them. He
explained that he had done his mightiest
to keep Knight Of the Heather out from
the rail and that II was only because
he had used all of his strength that a
collision was prevented. In view of the
fact that Knight OF the Heather Is blind
in one eye, the stewards let him off with
a reprimand.
Dustabout Romps Home.
Mrs Payne Whdtney's Dustabout, a
black colt. by Sweep and Kopie, won the
last race. He was much the best of his
field and romped home three>lengths In
front OF A. X. Macomber's Bayonet
Amor Patriae was third.
Amor Patriae is the colt which dis
played such tremendous burst of speed
on Saturday and stopped to walk un-
der urging by the little black stable boy
Caldwell. For stopping Caldwell was
blamed. He was accused of making too
much use OF the colt Yesterday Cald-
well again had the mount, and he rode
as good a race as any Jockey could
have done. He got his mount off well
and rated him along in front until well
into the stretch. There the colt began
to tire. and Caldwell put up strong
finish, but his mount would not respond
The race proved that Amor Patriae Is
a quitter or that he Is not partial to a