The New York herald., 1922-06-15
TRAILS FIELD Until
NEARING LAST JUMP
Opponents Kill Each Other
Off and Stagger Home At
ter Three Mile Run.
WHISKAWAY A WINNER
Beats Cheap Three Year-0 -0lds
Easily-L. Fator Makes
Costly Error.
By HENRY ". KING.

There was some real good racing at
Belmont Park yesterday afternoon.
The Grand National Steeplechase was
the feature. 1t resulted in a victory
for j. F. Flanagan's aged gelding
Lytle. The Grand National is at three
run all day. He did not display any
great burst of speed, but at the end
of the long journey he was running
almost as fast and as strong as when
he began. If the race had been a half
mile further he probably would have
won by a quarter of a mile. for Joseph
e. Davis's pair, Phoenix and Earlocker,
and Mrs. Payne Whitney's Kingdom
H., the other contestants. were stag
gering along like drunken men at the
end.
Although only four horses made up
the field the chase was one OF the pest
Of the year. From the first obstacle 70
the last the result was In doubt. Lytle
was the first to go to the front. he
set the pace for quarer OF a mile.
1t was too slow for Earlocker. who then
took command and set a good stln pace
for a turn of the field.
With half the distance covered Ear
locker began to tire and as he fell back
Phoenix stepped to the front, but he
wasn't alone. Kingdom III. was at his
side. Together they sped along at fair
rate OF speed until rounding the last
turn. There Kingdom II. began to falter
and It seemed as II Mr.. Davis's colors
would be carried to an easy victory
by Phoenix. But his duel with Mrs.
Whitney's gelding tended to tire him.
and as he took the last obstacle he
began to stagger from fatigue and
Lytle, who had gradually worked his
way up from far in the rear came with
a rush and easily beat him In the run
home. At the end Lytle was five lengths
In front OF Phoenix, who was three
times that distance in front OF Ear
locker. Kingdom eased UP a quarter
of n mile from home and was distanced.
The race was extremely slow, the
time being s .0S 3-5. nine and four-fifths
seconds slower than that made by Ear
locker last year.
Whiskaway n Good 3-Year-Old.
Harry Payne whitney's big string OF
thoroughbreds arrived at Jamaica on
Tuesday night and yesterday Jimmy
Rowe showed the Eastern racegoers a
sample of his wares. The sample was
Whiskaway, the three-year-old son of
Whiskbroom III. and Inaugural. This
fellow went forth in the MCGEE Purse.
condition affair for three-year-olds
His opponents weren't much. but he ran
like a real great horse. No three-year-
old this season. with the possible excep-
tion of Snob H.. showed better. He
broke rather slowly from the outside
position, but before he had run six
teenth of mile he was three lengths
in front and fighting to go faster.
Rounding the bend little Penman began
to ease him up for a breathing spell
and Comic Song got within striking dis
tance. but in what seemed the next in
stant Whiskaway was again Ave lengths
in front. AS Penman gave him free
rein he bounded forward and fairly flew
and by the time the homestretch was
reached he was half a dozen lengths
ahead of Comic Song and fighting for
his head. Down the homestretch he
came bounding at a terrific pace and,
although under restraint all through the
last quaretr. he covered tho one mile
route in 1 :37 2-5. Whiskaway covered
the first half in 0:46 As and the three
quarters in :12 1-5.
Whiskaway will not be shipped to La
tonia for tho s50.000 special race. Mr..
Whitney will depend upon Olympus for
that event and he is confident he will
win IT. Olympus looks a hundred pounds
heavier than when he beat Boniface at
Maryland early in the spring and he
shows no Ill effects of his recent sick
ness He will be worked this morning.
Norwich showed all OF his great speed
yesterday morning but his trial was
not an impressive one. He stepped five
furlongs in o $50 S-5 and six furlongs In
1:12 3-5 nicely. but then he seemed TO
tire and IL was with McAtee doing his
best on him that he covered the mile
in 40.
Herbert l.. Pratt and Howard NJ.
Maxwell were unanimously elected men,
bers of the Jockey Club yesterday after
noon at the regular monthly meeting
of the club. Present AT the meeting
were August Belmont. Harry X. Knapp,
+. Ambrose Clark, Joseph Il. Davis.
Robert L. Gerry. A. II. Morris, Samuel
D. Riddle, Joseph E. Widener and
Richard T. Wilson