Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
HigIl Gun Takes
SysonbY, With
Nashua Third
JET Action Finishes
Second, Head Behind
Belmont Winner
BY FRANCIS STANN
star star Correspondent

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NEW YORK. Sept. "A. II
Through the slop and the fog OIL
Belmont Park today foared the
King Ranch's High Gun. CONF
ing from far back to win the
100000 added Sysonby Stakes
and blight the first excursi0nl
|of the favored Nashua against
the handicap professionals.
Never close to the other four
horses until the turn into the
stretch, High Gun and Jockey
IBiil Boland were flying at the
wire 10 beat Main Chance
lFarm,s Jet Action by q head III
ID thriller that twice saw al
Except the eventual winner rum
ming 81 d team.
A length and three-quarters
back Of Jet Action came the 81
|year-old champion. Nashua. fol-
lowed by Helioscope and the
overmatched Splinter. Mr.. Turf
The story which had promised
to deal so much with Nashua
was all High Guns as the brown
4-year-old won the nine-furlongI
classic for the second STRAIGHT
year.
Nashua Breaks ON Top
When the small but select
field broke from the startingI
gate It was Nashua On top,
thanked BY william q. Helis,I
IRIS. Helioscope and Jet Action.
Theh came Mr.. Turf and, sol
far back IS to BE- forgotten for
the moment. High Gun.
II still was Nashua By q head
over Helioscope after d quarter
Of q mile. hut Mr.. Turf, ridden
by Ted Atkinson. moved to the
front hy q length at the half
Jet Action moved, too, TO- take
second place. followed by HGlio-
scope and Nashua. seven lengths
back Of Nashua was High Gun,
with Bolands brown silks spat-|
tered BY the mud thrown up BY
the leaders.
At the three-quarters mark Jet
Action became the third 'front.'
runner as Hedley Woodhouse, i
substituting for the suspended
Willie Shoemaker. hustled the
Jet Pilot Busher colt D head inl
front Of Helioscope, who In turn
was three and one- hall lengths
tn front of Nashua, with Mr.
Turf now NTH and last.
When they hit the stretch it|
looked to be anybody's race, par
ticularly Jet Actions and Ma
shua's. but at this point BolandI
made his move aboard High Gun,
who caught Mr.. Turf first, then
Telescope and, at the eighth
pole. Nashua and Jet Action.
Only 2S.695 See Race
Because OF the weather condi-
tions only 2e.685 saw the race
which brought together the Big
Four" Of racing In America. 81
classic which may have an i'm
portant bearing on determining
the champion horse Of 1855. Com
sidertng the sloppy track, the
time Of i:49.l was very good. less
than two seconds on the track
record Of l:47.4 set BY Counter
point In 1851.
High Gun. who joins Tom FOOL
as the only two-tir1e winner oil
the Sysonby, paid $11 to win and
$3.50 TO place. Jet Action re-
turned 1910 to place and there
was no show betting.
The King Ranch standard
bearer, last years 3-year-old|
chaSnpions was q freshened-upl
colt today. He was starting for
the fifst time since his defeat
on the turf course In the Arling-
ton Handicap when he clearly
showed that grass running was
not his dish. In two other races
High Gun bowed to Helioscope.
giving I'VE pounds In the Sub
urban and four pounds IN the
Monmouth Handicap.
Today, all the horses except
Nashua carried l26 pounds. Be-
cause be Is q 3-year-old, VII
liam woodward, jr.'s Preaknessl
and Belmont Stakes winner
packed only III.
weakened Once
Boland, O. 22-year-old rider
from Corpus Christi. Tex. whol
rode his first winner over thel
Belmont track in 1919 and bel
came only the second apprentice
to win the Kentucky Derby
tMiddleground. i950). confessed
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