The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-07
Old Champ Warns Up
And Also Warns Up
Day for 5000 at Hunts

NEW YORK, Nov. Tt was
dreary, cold and damp at the
United Hunts races at Belmont
Park yesterday.
The first two events were
run off in q silence as thick
as good black bean soup. The
crowd was small and shivery
and most of those who were
there appeared to wish they
weren't. Since it was election
day and against the law, even
Frank Stevens had no cheer
to dispense.
Do I make it clear that it
was a diSagreeable afternoon?
Then, the horses broke in
the third race away off yon-
der up the back stretch. 1t
was one of those delightful
vistas that only Belmont pro-
vides, with the horses so far
away that they look like shet-
land ponies. But a sudden
change came over the spec
tators, expectancy took the
place of. discomfort.
Small as the crowd was. it
came to life. A champion was
lost somewhere in that wave Of
motion that was rolling out Of
the mistS at the head of the
back stretch. He was there
and he was about to be tested.
There was the promise of a
thrill in what was about to
come.
It was white, red dominoed
Blouse of Belair that showed
the way when the field had
reached a point where it was
possible OF distinguish the col
ors. But the first five horses
were closely punched as they
SplaShed their way toward the
first turn. First it was the
white with red spots, then the
light and dark blue Of the
Catawba Farm, another white
and red-dotted blouse, the red
cap over blue of George (Bro-
ther) Bostwick, and finally the
pale blue and brown cap of
Whitney-the colors they were
all watching.
OF the six starters, they were
all there, or nearly there, ex-
cept Bill palmer House, Ryan's
EudeS, French importation.
Eudes must have been dream
ing Of the sometimes sunny
fields of La Belle France. His
heart wasn't in this race-and
neither was he. But any one of
the rest of 'em might be going
to win from where they clay"
The Light Blue and Brown
had taken the overland and
picked up three horses. like
Jerry wrote the note as they
went round the bend. But
Faireno and the Belair colors
were still in front as they swung
in the stretch. Not for long.
Same Old Story
AS Sonny" Workman sat
down for the drive to the wire,
he slashed once at the flanks
of his mount to rouse him, and
quicker than it takes to write
these words the brown cap shot
to the front to come on away
until Workman began to ease
off 80 yards from home. And
as he slipped past the finish
line to the echo of a thin cheer
from a thin crowd, the good
horse Equipoise had showed
once more why, for four years,
he has gone on being the favor
tie of the racing fans.
Going further than his best
distance and taking up 128
pounds, he had raced through
mud and water over a mile and
one-quarter in 2:05 3-5. And he
proved, as he had proved so
many times before, that to beat
him you must send keen horse
on one of his keenest days.
So long as they nail racing
plates on him, I suppose, Elk
kie" will be able to run that
one and a quarter fast enough
to hurt you. AS one of the
gentlemen for whom I work
said, after the race:
swimming or losing, he never
fails to give me that stretch
turn thrill, when he seems to be
the only horse in the race that's
rInuinp -