New-York tribune., 1922-09-14

This feature was the Mneola Selling
Stakes, with $4,000 added, at six fur
longs, over the main course. 1t was
sad race to several people. including
the owner of the winner, but par
ticularly so for j. Merimee,,. who had
the leg up on Blanc Seing. He was set
down for the rest of the meeting. Sam
Hildreth lost his horse. Thessaly was
entered at S4,70o, Sam Louis was on
the job and ran up the Piaudit filly to
$1,000, at which price Mr.. Hildreth
bade the winner goodby.
Blanc Seing was one Of the most
heavily played starters of the after
noon. The colt was backed from to
to 16 to 5. The horse belongs, so
rumor has it, to one of the biggest
operators on the lawn, and the wise
ones supported the widely touted good
thing to the limit. Though the officials
did not act until hearing Merimee, sew
cral other jockeys and patrol judge,
the disqualification was porly re-
ceived. This was because the foul hap
pened near the fve-furlong pole, or at
d spot the furthest possible from the
crowd, SO that no one without power
full glasses could see just what did take
place.
The ruling, however, was just.
Anonymous, the heavily played second
choice, was cut off so sharply that he
strained muscle and pulled up lame.
Until his condition az the end of the
race was noted none could understand
his most disappointing performance.
Thessaly Takes Early Lead
Thessaly had the early foot and soon
drew out to the lead from a good start.
Merimee, who had No. 8 position,
rushed Blanc Seing up quickly on the
outside, but was so anxious to place
his mount before the turn he decided
to get over to the rail at any hazard.
Doing so he piled up practically all
of the feld-certainly all the horses
that had a chance--wthout seattle to
himself or mount. After that it was
a two-horse race. The Hildreth filly
had plenty of speed and was full of
running. She set fast pace, with
Blame seing at her saddle girths and
the Greentree Stables Sunday Best,
first to extricate herself from the jam,
several lengths behind. After straight
ening for home Merimee went to work
with will and Blanc Seing gradually
worked up to and then drew away from
Thessaly.
1t was day of surprises of which
the disqualification in question was
only a circumstance. The spectators
simply couldn't guess right. Crystal
Ford, which won the fifth race at a
mile and sixteenth, was the only win
ming favorite and little was bet on j.
B. McKee's old gelding. The wise money
was all dumped on Slippery Elm and
Charles A. Stoneham's Recount, which
paraded in order at intervals of many
lengths.
Undoubtedly the biggest surprise of
the afternoon was the victory of the
Quincy Stables Bluemont in the clos
ing dash of five and half furlongs.
This one beat out Picketer, of the
Whitney entry, which was Il / to 3
favorite. Bluemont went begging at
80 to /. Indeed, there was plenty of 40
and SO laid. Of late the sixth race
daily has been run through the straight
chute to accommodate Futurity eligibles
for real schooling toward Saturdays
950000 classic.
Bluemont is q Futurity eligible, and
yesterdays victory makes Of the
Futurity even more open race than it
was before. For this race gives him q
look-in for the big prize. The colt
raced greenly after an unfavorable