The New York herald., 1922-10-03
BY HENRY v. KING.

Brainstorm. a three-year- son of
Peter Pan. which was cast out OF
: Harry Payne Whitney's stable last
spring, ran like Man O. War in the
October Handicap at the Jamaica
-, =, track yesterday afternoon. With the
AZ feathery impost of ninety-eight pounds
ia on his back he fairly flew. He beat
five good handicap horses, including
Harry +. Sinclair's Mad Halter and
covered the one mile and a sixteenth
- in the unprecedented time of IA 1-5,
4" three ffths of second faster than the
track record held jointly by Sennings
Park and Relay.
Brainstorm proved that he was a good
horse at Belmont Park when he beat
n good field and ran a mile in 1886 90
But most racegoers believed that was
fiuke and that he was ov ,rmatched
yesterday. with the result he was one Of
the outsiders at to /.
= Despite the fact that Mad Halter was
.an extremely tired horse when he was
.beaten a head by Lucky Hour in the
Edgemere Handicap at ,Aqueduct on
s irday Sam Hildreth thought well
enncPh OF him TO send him back again
yestorNay The public also considered
him the certain winner and wagered on
: him with avidity at the short odGs of
10 5.
Until a furlong from home 1t looked
as If Mad Halter was l TO 10 shot. At
that pole he was gallopng along two
= lengths i'm front and seemed to be fight
= ing for his head. But ii was also at
this pole that Brainstorm, ridden by
Marinelli. made his bid for command
He had raced along behind the pace
under stiff pull and when Marlnelli
let him down he bounded to Mad Hat
ter's side in few jumps. Sande lost
no time in getting down to hard work
on Mad Halter but as soon as he was
put to drive the big son of Fair
Play fioundered all over the track and
Brainstorm went on by himself to win
easily by four lengths. Mad Halter
took the second end of the purse a
length and half in front of Frank
Browns IIephaistos
The race proved that Brainstorm Is q,
vcritable whirlwind under light weight
at any distance and three year old
that is likely 10 give tho best horses in
training a hard battle for the stakes yet
to be decided IL also proved that Mad
Halter is not himself. When at his best
he struggles on irrespective of how fas;
his opponents run. Yesterday he stopped
when Brainstrom ranged alongside of
him. 1t seems as IL he has had too
much racing.
After half a Gozen attempts Harry +.
Sinclsir's Rigel graduated from the
maiden ranks in the third event. He
won by a length and half, but he
wasn't the best horse In the race. Sandy
McNaughton's Little Celt "a half brother
to the once noted cup horse Boots, ran
as IL he were twenty pounds his superior,
Gantner had the leg up on Little Celt.
and IL ever Il Jockey messed things up in
"A race Gantner did. lie got his mount
off next to last. and then rushed him
into a pocket from which he was COM
pellcd to pull up to escape being Knocked
down. This cost him half dozen
lengths. but when the colt was straight
cned out again he fairly flew. but Cant
ner guided him into another pocket.
To get out of This the jockey was COM
PEELED to pull up and lose another hair n
dozen lengths. When clear this time he
was compelled TO race around his field.
While Gantner was putting up this ex-
-hibition Sande on Rigel was coasting
along i'm front When Strengthened out
in the homestretch Little Celt got his
nose in 'front.' but the extra ground he
had covered had sapped his strength.
and when Sande went to work on Rlgel
his mount stepped forward and scored
rather easily.