Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-09
TURF COIN LEADER
Il LENGTHS BACK
Staggers Under 131 Pounds
as Lightly Weighted Victor
Sets Track Mark.
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY,

r HAWTHORNE RACE TRACK,
Chicago, August 8.-They
i i conquered old Sun Beau,
winning champion
of the turf, before q stunned
crowd Of $4,000 today.
Sun Beau, weighted down with
131 pounds on his back, was de-
feated by a length and q half in
the fifth running of the $25, 900
added Hawthorne Handicap by
Plucky Play, owned by Norman w.
Church, formerly of Illinois, but
now a resident Of Los Angeles.
Paul Bunyan was third in the field Of
seven, four lengths behind the stagger-
ing and laundering sun Beau.
Plucky Play. which finished third In
the 100000 Aqua Caliente Handicap
and won the $4,000 Stars and Stripes
Handicap at Arlington Park, ran the
mile and an eighth IN 1492s, to equal
the track record held by Karl Eitel.
Runs = Game Race.
sun Beau, the sensational 6-year-old
son of Sun Briar-Beautiful Lady, ran
q game and remarkable race, but the
back breaking impost of 13l pounds,
the heaviest he has ever carried, de-
feated him. II was too much of load
against a game and speedy horse like
Plucky Play, which had q 25-pound
pull In the weights, carrying only 106
pounds.
As a result Of the defeat, sun Beau
picked up q mere $4,000 instead OF
$2s, $50, the winners share. to add tc
his amazing total of $330,044. The race
had gross value of $30,700.
Sun Beau was an overwhelming IA
Tvorite and closed at to in the wager
ing. II he had won he would have
rewarded his hackers with II cents tc
q, dollar. Plucy Play paid $18.6e to
win, $500 to place and $312 to show
The place price on Sun Beau was $3.50
with $3.50 to show, while Paul Bunyan
owned by L. M. Severson of Chicago
paid $500 to show.
Seven Face Barrier.
The race drew q crack field of seven
| starters, with MorSel, Satin Spar and
Ironsides scratched. Satin Spar, an
other California horsep which finished
second to Sun Beau In the Arlington
Handicap a week ago, pulled up slightly
lame after an exercise gallop thi:
morning and 1t was decided not *
start hun.
Sun Beau Once i'm Lead.
After minutes delay at the post
the field bounded away with Dark Sea
| Silverdale and BattleEhip pounding
down past the grandstand, filed with
a cheering, sweltering crowd. Sun Beau
was in fifth place, on the outside, where
he averted interference, and Jockey
| Charley Phillips, astrfde Willis Sharpe
| Kilmer's star. was apparently in nc
| hurry to move up.
Charging around the first turn there
was no change in the leaders, but as
soon as the field reached the back
stretch, Silverdale, q Splinter, flashed
to the front. Plucky Play at that time
was fifth. After Silyerdale made his
challenge Phillips began to urge Sun
Beau and the money-winning cham
pion, racing with those long, easy
strides, caught and passed the entire
field in the next quarter of a mile and
was in front by length when the far
turn was reached.
Rounding into the stretch Sun Beau
increased his lead to two lengths, and 1t
! looked as If he would duplicate his
tr:umphs. in the Arlington Cup and Ar
| lington Handicap. But Plucky PLAY
had moved from fifth to second posi-
ton, and rounding into the stretch,
Jockey Dent Trivett, urging Plucky Play
along, began to race Sun Beau into
the ground. In a few jumps Plucly