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KNOBBIE AND REGAL LODGE Win Principal Races of Fridays Aqueduct Program Day of OldFashioned Sport NEW YORK N Y June 24 There was some good oldfashioned racing at Aqueduct Friday after ¬ noon The best horses in the sis races didnt win The best horses seldom do win them except when the class is high Racing luck settles a lot of things There was class and the form Of public performance in two of the six contests The best horses ran in them as they should have run Three of the four others were for the inaudouters which naturally meet whenever large numbers of horses assemble In these horses with the luck of present doing or those which had been beaten by past bad racing luck won wonOne One of the twoyearold affrays had a false re ¬ sult when Violinist beat Modo But liere racing luck had another turn turnThe The best of the horses iu contest came out for the fourth race the Olambala Handicap at a mile and an eighth There were only four in it Yellow Hand and Thunderclap didnt feel well and stayed in their stalls Knobbie Veto Paul Jones and Bellsolar were left all nicely weighted according to their pasts Knobbie is better than that He is a much improved colt since the skilled Hildreth bought him for 25000 and got a bargain Knob ¬ bie was heavily backed Playfellow imd Tom Mc Taggart iiad caused the stabje recent financial grief Knobbie was chosen to heal some of its financial wounds Fator was up He got the Wrack colt off in a hurry and Knobbie won all the way with a tiptoeing half in 48 seconds the mile in 137 ft and the mile and an eighth in 151 Veto and Paul Jones had a keen contest for second place and Veto got iip in the last few strides or so by Iris necks length Paul Jones pulled up lame lameRespectable Respectable selling platers were in the fifth race under claiming price weights at a mile Sam Hildreth having won something for Rancoeas chose this one for himself Regal Lodge was supported continuously and he and Fator fol ¬ lowed in the way and style of Knobbie and Fator Regal Lodge away fast also won all the wayand was merely cantering at the finish to beaf Ms nearest competitor and the second choice Devasta ¬ tion by three lengths in 138 with a keen half in 47 Regal Lodge was much the best and ran fast and evenly He is a nice race horse just now There anywhereSea is no better looking one anywhere Sea Wold after two educators with The Trout and company had ripened into a good thing for the short course steeplechase for maidens at the jumping sport He had Bush up and was backed as if he were a modern Duqttistc Sea Wold al ¬ ways had the situation in hand He was managed differently and correctly took the lead when Bush called on him and won right early from Overmatch which will not be a nonwinner long and Peccant about which the same estimate can be made madeThe The other twoyearold race a seller for third class youngsters at fiveeighths out of the chute fell to T O Webbers California colt by Runny medc Olathu a recent purchase Ruunyol was backed and Rtmnyol was lucky Turner got him away well and hustled him all the wuy to win by a length from the fragile and fust Mad Nell which ran erratically She was a length before the fad ¬ ing Dick Deadeye Then came Bountiful the sec ¬ ond choice if the race had one Bountiful can run fast and work fast but will not race fast except in spots She failed almost at the end here hereThus Thus three favorites broke the spell against such popular characters by winning their races The air was again too hot for comfort the track smooth and dull and a crowd of 12000 were out to sec and enjoy an afternoon of keen racing by average horses horsesA A large and eager gathering was on hand to sec secretary Fred Rehberger open the claim box after the fifth race Eight envelopes were taken from the box five of them for Regal Lodge and the re ¬ mainder for Devastation S Louis obtained Regal Lodge for 3015 and J E Madden got Devastation for 2950 2950Sam Sam Hildreths second jockey drew a suspension today and he is without a pilot for Thunderclap in the Queens County Handicap or for Little Chief in the Oreat American tomorrow Fator was set down for five days by the starter for disobedience astride Modo in the first race Sande concludes a suspension tomorrow that was sefved out to him on Thursday
