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MORVICH LOSES AGAIN . Derby Winner Finishes Last in the Fall Highweight Handicap. Careful Wins All the Way Peccant Takes the Broadhpllow Steeplechase With Ease. NEW YORK, N. Y., September 4. It was rather a dismal holiday at Belmont Park today, but a double .feature card, with the Broadhollow Steeplechase and the Fall Highweight Handicap as attractions, drew a large crowd to the big Nassau County track. The going was decidedly sloppy and a heavy rain persisted until after the steeplechase had been run. "Whatever ivestiges of high-class reputation Morvich retained faded away for the time being into the Long Island murk with the running of the Fall Highweight Handicap, at three-quarters. The two-year-old champion of i021 came out on the track without the pretty ribbons which decorated him the day Surf Rider beat him at Saratoga. "He dwelt at the start and after working his way to second place finished last in the four-horse field. The ,300 which fell to the winner was taken by Careful, Walter J. Salmons sterling little four-year-old daughter of Wrack and Mindful. Prodigious was second and Exodus third. Careful began quickly and rushed to the front almost immediately. She drew clear and continued to increase her lead on the last 1 turn, coming into the stretch with a safe margin. Morvich, showing a flash of his old-time speed, had rushed into second place after making his slow start and was leading 5 Exodus when rounding the last turn. Lyke was having his troubles with the latter, which continually tried to run out. Butwell was taking no chances with Careful and rode her out sharply through the I stretch until she held a four lengths lead at the finish. The battle for second place became a hot one through the last sixteenth and the three other starters raced head and head for some yards before Prodigious man- , aged to win her way to a half lengths lead over the others. Morvich was tiring badly and all that Johnson could do was not enough to save him from dropping out of the money for the first time in his racing career. Exodus, finishing gamely, wore him down to take the short end of the money by a head. Careful covered the distance in 1:12, remarkably good time, when the condition cf the course is considered. ARDS FIRST AMERICAN DEFEAT. The English steeplechaser Ards suffered his first defeat on this side of the Atlantic, when he threw Crawford at the third jump , in the Broadhollow Steeplechase Handicap. When Ards met with his mishap he was going along easily in second place, behind Unar. The race with its net value to the winner of ,010 went to the Greentrec Stables 5,000 purchase Peccant, which scored by three lengths from Sea Skipper. Earlocker headed the other two that finished fifteen lengths behind Sea Skipper. Peccant raced easily past Unar when going to the fifth fence and drew away into a good lead in the first mile. Meantime Byers had Sea Skipper under a hard pull far behind the leaders. At the seventh obstacle the Widener horse moved up quickly, bui again Byers took him back in an effort to reserve his speed for the final dash through the stretch. At the last fence he was just one length behind Peccant and appeared the winner, but under severe pressure tired in the final rush on the flat and was beaten by three lengths at the finish. Mahoney permitted Earlocker to canter along in a leis urely manner behind his opponents until one turn of the field had been completed. Whei called upon, however, Earlocker was found wanting and was unable to threaten thi leading pair. Unar and Left Fielder fenced well, but retired after going a mile and a half. HEREAFTER ALL THE WAT. The opening race was a six and a half furlongs dash for selling platers. J. A. Co-burns Hereafter had a flying start and kept the lead all the way to win by two lengths from Knight of the Heather. Valor, which has been a frequent disappointment, saved third place from Dan Boiling. Hereafters early speed carried him into a long lead on the backstretch,. while old Valor was racing along in second place. McAtee called on Dan Boiling, and he responded by moving up rapidly and past Knight of the Heather, which had been holding to third place several lengths behind Valor. But Dan Boilings burst of speed was not of long duration and he soon dropped back after reaching second place. Hereafter made the turn into the backstretch three lengths to the good and although Martz and Merimee were riding Continued on twolftU page. . . I MORVICH LOSES AGAIN Continued from first page. their respective mounts hard neither was able to improve his position in the rush through the stretch. The third race was at five and a half furlongs, for two-year-olds. The Rivcira Stables Prima Donna found the going in her favor and won by a length and a half from Ducks and Drakes, with Peter Brown in third place. There were six starters. Scare Crow, racing in the colors of R. E. Oppen-heim, started away in front, but was crowded badly and forced back at once. Peter Brown took up the running with Three Square and Prima Donna in pursuit. Peter Brown tired after rounding the last turn and Prima Donna raced into the lead. In the meantime Ducks and Drakes was moved up swiftly on" the inside under energetic riding by Ensor and for an instant it seemed would head Prima Donna before the finish. He was unable to overcome the fillys advantage, however, and the latter, hard ridden by Thomas, lasted to win. Peter Brown, although tiring badly, held third place safe. The fifth race; was at a mile and a sixteenth, for three -year-olds and over. Old Goaler, S. Landos mile and an eighth record holder, came back to the races in good condition and took the measure of Sunnyland by two lengths. Trevelyan was third. McAtee rode Goaler out sharply to maintain his advantage from the fast coming Sunnyland. Trevelyan was two lengths farther back holding third place safe from Timbrel by a half length. The other two starters were well beaten. W. R. Coes Wigwam won the last race, one of those somewhat unpopular five-eighths dashes out of the chute for two-year-old maiden fillies. H. P. Whitneys Panache was second and Contour third. T. J. Pendergast of Kansas City, with his son, was, among the visitors at Belmont ParK. Monday. He will remain until the end of. the week, when he will proceed to Louisville, where his stable is now campaigning. Edward K. Thornton, Mr. Pendergast: agent, will remain in the East until the opening at Lexington. M. L. Schwartzs Column, winner of the 1921 Juvenile Stakes, has been sent to Head-ly and Millers farm ta Lexington to be turned out for the year. The colt has been troubled all year with a hoof ailment and his owner will give him ample opportunity to recover fully before putting him in training agairi. i J. S. Cosdens 5,000 three-year-old Snob II. has recovered from his hoof trouble and is galloping soundly again. The colts ailment has puzzled veterinarians and its exact nature still remains in doubt. Trainer Wil-lim Garth does not expect to have Snob II. ready for the Lawrence Realization next Saturday, but will probably bring him back to the races before the fall campaign on the Metropolitan tracks is ended. Among the arrivals from Saratoga was Gifford A. Cochrans 0,000 Goshawk. Jockey D. Byers, who rode Sea Skipper in the Broad Hollow Steeplechase, was reprimanded by the stewards for pulling over in front of Earlocker during the running. There was a bit of scattering applause for Morvich when he paraded for the Fall High-weight Handicap, which marked his Belmont Park debut, so far as racing is concerned There was little chance for his admirers to applaud after the race. Trainer James Rowe of the H. P. Whitney stable will send ;four horses to Louisville Wednesday, to race in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, September 9. These horses arf-owned by Mr. Whitney and the Greentret-Stable. Enchantment, which ran a fine race in the Hopeful Stakes will be one of the quartet. James Rowe, Jr., will go to Louisville to saddle the horses. j j
