view raw text
NOSE FINISHES AT EMPIRE Close and Intersting Racing Is Marked by Several Unexpected Results. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 20. Two nose finishes marked the running of the fourth and fifth races at Empire City today and in both instances the favorite" went down to defeat. In the fourth race, the Lexington Handicap, only three faced the starter. War Mask, wearing the colors of Johnny Dundee, the professional boxer, was an odds-on cohice, with Recount second choice. The apprentice rider B. Marinelli, astride War Mask, went out to set the pace and led the others easily for most of the race. In the last twenty yards jockey Weiner, who rode Recoant, got within challenging distance of War Mask and clearly outrode Marinelli, for the Stoneham colt got the decision. It was a close finish and the deceptive angle played its part again, as naturally the backers of War Mask contended that the horse had won. Recount, however, coming on the outside, passed the Dundee racer right at the end. In the fifth race jockey Kummer reversed matters at the finish with jockey Ensor. The latter was astride Prince of Como, the even-money favorite, and Kummer rode Mars Mouse, for which there was a considerable backing. Prince of Como, after running Larghetto into defeat, looked all over the winner after the field had straightened in the stretch. He is a notorious quitter, however, and Ensor dared not hit him with the whip, as he was told he would quit under punishment. Ensor nursed the Disguise gelding all through the last eighth as he was tiring under him. Kummer, on Mars Mourse, another which has no reputation for gameness, after keeping his mount up well, saved a lot of ground entering ilie homestretch and set sail for Prince of Como with a rush that brought results before the race ended. He gradually cut down, the two lengths a sixteenth out and got up in the last few strides to get the verdict. J. W. McClellands Caligula had little trouble in w.hinitig.-tlieBryarucsetori twe-year-olds5at ;afcout three-quarters mile, the opening race of the pro-r granu The talent would have nothing but La Rablee .in the second and on her past performance shelooked far the best of the field. She lacked, her usual speed, however, and was bumped badly going around the first turn. She never was able after that "to get in a contending position until the field lmdstraight-eued in the stretch nnd then she was so far back of the leaders she was lucky to be third. The winner turned up in Sweep Clean, which won easily nfter he had raced Into defeat The Wagoner in the final eighth. W. C. Clancys Pickwick was a roal favorite for the Fordham Selling Stakes, hut at the close of the operations the smart set went to Ralco. They had It right, for Ralco proved the winner, leading all the way. Pickwick appeared sore going to the post, but he seemed to run out of it, and made a strong bid in the final sixteenth, but he was not good cnongh. Jockey Ensor saved his followers from total defeat when he rode James Butlers filly Foam te ctory in th-j final race.
