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RANCOCAS DAY OF GLORY Four of the White and Green Standard Bearers Triumph. Grey Lag Wins Dwyer Stakes Mad Hatter the Caughna-waga Handicap. NEW YOKK, X. V.. July 7. Kancocas luck surely changed when Valor won his nice Tuesday. The white iind green and ill fortune Ii:itl boon coupled for somo days. Its horses oaine out as fit as ever, but tlieir ability ran into bits of bad luck, the speculative angles to tlieir action wont wrong and the astute thought that all things were awry. Valor turned the copper and Kancocas had a wonderful Thursday at Aqueduct. No stable ever had more racing glory. In less than tljree hours of action its horses had won four races two of importance its two best horses had broken track records and virtually set a mark for the racing world at a mile and an eighth, Coalers record was a fluke won Slli.SOS and the extras its trainer. Sam Hildreth. had saddled four winners, and its rider, Earl Sande, rode them all. This is a pretty successful afternoons racing doings even for the formidable white and greeil. After the third race, and after P.udnna had won the first. Aqueduct began to glow with the warmth of Mad Hatters fine doings. It was in the Caughnawaga Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth that Mad Hatter, with 1311 pounds, led Koyce Itools a merry chase, the balf in 4i7.-,, three-quarters in 1:11, mile in 1:30, and the mile and a sixteenth in lr43. a new Aquoduet irecjjrd.. Mad -Hatter-was four lengths in advance of Itoyce Kools, which Was forced to the limit to hold Dr. Joe safe. Then the best American three-year-old. Grey Lug, illustrious sou of the dead Star .Shoot and Meddlers daughter. Miss Minnie, came out and did a greater racing thing than his stable companion, for in winning the Dwyer Stakes I icy Lag equaled Coalers American record of 1:40. made last month at llelmont lark, under 94 pounds, and boat the better Man o Wars Aqueduct mark of l:lUli, under lilt! pounds, made July 10, 1920, in the same race for the Dwyer Stakes. The English and French record are some two seconds slower. GREY LAG THE FAVORITE. Crey Lag was the favorite for the Dwyer Stakes, named for one of the bulwarks of American racing, the late Philip Dwyer. The stakes is one of Gra vesends bequests, with with a mile and an eighth of a route and worth while winning. Cpon its roll are many notable American horses from Hanover down and through turf history around Emperor of Norfolk, Dobbins. Major Daingerfield. Peter Pan, Fair Play. Koamer. Omar Khayyam, Purchase and Man o War. Sam Hildreth had won one Dwyer for himself before Grey Iigs victory. That was in 1919, with Purchase, which is in the ltancocas bam and must have told Grey Lag tales to spur him on. A well-balanced field of six came out for the Dwyer. Here it is: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Grev Lag 123 Smoke Screen 113 Sporting Wood 112 Idle Dell 113 Copper Demon 10S Itanksia 108 The oidy absentees were the homeless Playfellow ami Knobble. The public followed the Kancocas way. made Grey I-ig an early odds-on choice and backed him into a shorter price. The lawn was well sprayed, too. with an oily stream. That, is as it should have been. Great deeds merit compensation. Only Sporting Blood was backed to beat Grey Lag. BEST OF THE THREE-YEAR-OLDS. The race itself was an easy one and stamped Grey iig ;m the best of his age. The start was perfect, with Copper Dentons head in front of Idle Dells and Bauksia. Smoke Screens speed was put to us,e at once by Keogh and he rushed the Cochran sprinter to the front. Copper Demon dodged the pace and Grey I-ig and Sporting Blood were taken in band. Smoke Screens pace was fast, with a first quarter in 23,i. the second in 23 and a third in 24. the three-quarters in 1:101s. He was two lengths before Idle Dell, well past the five eighths ground. On the big bend Grey I-ag and Sporting Blood picked up the leaders and once on its last turn Grey Lag under Sandes call in Sandes favorite sport came to the front and hard ridden for an eighth drew away from the fully-stretched Sporting Itlood to win as he chose some pressure taken in the last sixteenth by four lengths. Grey Lags last three-eighths were run iu 3i seconds. Copper Demon ran a fine race, but was four lengths further back. Smoke Screen ran himself off his logs in the first three-quarters, but was fourth and an extremely tired young horse, the powers of which are rather wasted in losing efforts. The- two fillies in the race. Idle Dell and BaifKsia, never forced tlieir company on the leaders. To complete the story of the Kancocas-Hihlretli-Sunile day the stables Little Chief came out for the last race, the Campf ire two-year-old handicap, over the chute five-eighths, and as a stout Tavorite. won it as Budana, Mad Hatter and Grey Lag had won before him. Sande took the Wrack colt to the fore soon after the start and kept there all the way. Little Chief won easily by nearly two lengths from Calamity Jane, which he outbroke and outran. The Whitney filly was always iu pursuit of Littl Chief and beat Violinist a length for second place. It was Calamity Janes first defeat. Merciful pencils kept out of the way half of the twenty second-class two-year-olds iu the opening claiming race, out of the chute at five-eighths. Thanks to Sam Louis recent hors--seeking the purse was .,001 strong. Among the stayaways was the Kancocas filly Kose Brigade. P.udana, an odds-on choice, was loft to boar lb" white and green. She did so successfully under inllil pressure rrom end to end. winning by three lengths and swishing her tail at Kancocas success. There was Plenty of contention behind the Zeus filly. Stock Pin sought to catch ltiulaiia all the way. lie failed and was rather weary at the finish, but managed to stall off the rather late rush of Dick Deadeye. He also was tiring. Zealot would perhaps have given the winner an argument but for being blocked ou her way.
