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£ B. McLEANS MODEST PROVES BIG SURPRISE 9 - • FIRST IN GRAINGER MEMORIAL ♦ ■ Three-Year-Old Colin Colt Triumphs Over Chacolet, Dazzler and Other Stars-Chilhowee and Beau Butler Outside the Money-Run Fast Race ♦ BOUISVTBBE, Ky., May 21.— Edward B. Mc Beans three-year-old colt Modest, by Colin —Shyness, triumphed this afternoon in the running of the Grainger Memorial Handicap, formerly the Kentucky Handicap. The race was at a mile and a quarter and had a net value of 2,029 to the winner. Eleven of the best racers in these parts, including the placed Derby starters Chilhowee and Beau Butler, made up the field. Modest had a big weight concession. He was ridden by B. Kennedy and he stayed for-wardly with the leaders in the early stages and when called on took command with evident ease and held the fast-finishing Chacolet safe during the stretch. Modest was among the starters in the Derby and she showed a fairly gcod performance in it, though he did not figure seriously at the finish. Chacolet ran her usual honest race. She was conceding . — ■ 1 /W/VlllTllrC! chunks ft of titoict-V* weight f f to /-» all oil the trtA rt others, HlT*Cf actual a r»fn • 1 and -1TH /W/VlllTllrC! chunks ft of titoict-V* weight f f to /-» all oil the trtA rt others, HlT*Cf actual a r»fn • 1 and -1TH by the scale. She closed an immense gap with her usual game style, but her effort to wear down the winner was futile. In the early stages of the race her stable companion Hopeless raced on even terms with the recently acquired Livingston representative. Actuary, and forced a terrific pace. The suicidal tactics was premeditated, for it was believed that a fast pace would combine to kill off Actuary and also work to the advantage cf Chacolet, a known slow beginner. The plans worked well, except that it did not include Modests ability with his light weight to take up the running where Hopeless and Actuary left off and have the stamina to withstand Chacolets determined final bid. Another surprise furnished by the running was Dazzlers good showing. He was among the followers in the early stages and closed an immense gap to finish in third place. CHILHOWEE RACED WELL. Chilhowee raced well from the start, but in the final drive he began tiring and finished a tired fourth. Beau Butler was among the contenders for the first mile and, beginning the stretch racing, found him in a forward position with prospects of victory, but he began fading rapidly from the picture in the last eighth and he barely beat home ; Glide. Considerable attention was centered in the ! performance of Chittagong. but he raced be-j low expectations. Actuary tired so fast in j the stretch that he was far out of it in last ! place at the finish. The time of the race, 2:03%, was a splendid performance, the track showing traces of dullness in its graduating process from muddy in the morning to good before the racing and fast in the final racing. Fine weather following the storm of midnight was responsible for an immense attendance again being on hand at Churchill Downs this afternoon. The racing was the most spectacular of any during the meeting, with close finishes the order in many of the contests. Gifford A. Cochrans Goshawk made his j Kentucky debut an auspicious one by ac-I counting for the Eminence Purse over the I best sprinters that could be mustered here. | The race served as the secondary feature of , the afternoon and brought to the post seven : speedy ones. GOSnAWKS AUSPICIOUS DEBUT. Goshawk, under his light impost, was backed in confident style and he flattered ! by going into a good lead promptly after I the start. He shook off his early followers and at the stretch turn appeared an easy winner, but was challenged in stout style by Audacious in the last sixteenth and he had to do his best to get home a neck in advance. Audacious had been a distant follower in the first half mile but came determinedly during ; the stretch and was going fastest at the end. j Braedalbane raced as if a trifle short and will improve over this race. The disappoint- i ment was Iindar Peel, which quit badly just when expected to be most formidable. The Cochran Stable made it a double when its Flying Ebony, a former double winner ; here, made it three successvile victories when | he won out after a gruelling duel with Step-along to ultimately win out by half a length. Jockey Hum, on the winner, gave a skillful ; riding exhibition and it brought him prominently into the forefront of riders. His ex- ! hibition of changing his whip in sensational utyle from his right hand to the left was ! never equalled here. Finding that lie was un- I able to use it effectively in his right hand on account of close proximity of Stepalong, h I i tossed the whip ahead and deftly caught it in his left hand and begiiii applying it vigorously and effectively. Flying Ebony responding in game style to gradually shake off Stepalong in the last strides. Captain Hal, a reputed good one, finished in close proximity of the pair and the race will improve him. I The time, :53Vs, is only three-fifths from the i track record. i . , Continued on sixteenth page. MODEST BIG SURPRISE Continued from first page. The opener, at one mile, furnished mm ir» "teresting finish of three, with the veteran Sway the victor, a slight margin in advance of Repeater. The Archer finished in third place. Thorndyke, on the winner, rode the best race of his career to get home in front. There was a changing of positions by the first three during the last sixteenth, making the probable result difficult to forecast. Hepeater was in the lead seventy yards from th finish, only to be displaced by Sway, and a. moment later The Archer had flashed into the lead, but in the last few strides Sway again had taken the lead and The Archer, swerving out a trifle near the finish, enabled Repeater to head him for scond The first timer Sweep Park, by Sweep — Floral Park, carrying the colors of E. Gay Drake, made a promising racing debut when she led home seven other highly regarded juveniles and emerged from the maiden ranks at the first asking in impressive style. Chinook v,as held to be best of the starters, but Sweep Park led her throughout after • j i the first sixteenth, and she won command-ingly. Chinook had been away fast and was to a clear lead for the first sixteenth, but ! Sweep Park passed her in a flash and there- j after she was mistress of the situation. Chinook was best of the others, but began 1 I I tiring some in the last eighth. Probity and j Aviette fought it out hard for third place. There was some crowding soon after the , ! j start, resulting in Bit o Honey, ridden by ! j j Stutts, unseating her jockey. He escaped j j injury. ; , An ordinary band made the contest for the third purse, with Sizzle the winner. She was I j ! aided by good riding, whereas Dusty Mary r j i was not. OBrien, who had the mount on her, j almost fell off in the stretch and he re- ! j j tarded her instead of being a help. Sizzle I I ! went into the lead at the stretch turn and [ j ! had the race safe thereafter. Dusty Mary . i was going strong in the stretch, when her ■ : rider began using the whip and she raced I all over the track thereafter, with the result I ! that Colfin got up to beat her for second I place in the last stride, Isaman, another - well-backed one, again disappointed and 1 failed to be a factor at any stage. The McLeans colors made it a double when I Offspring, ridden well by R. Williams, won ! in the final race from Amity Claim, with Fire-tonia . j finishing in third place. Ramkin was I I expected to figure in the result but the incompetent -1 ride he got caused him to be far r out of it all the way. Offspring was claimed 1 for ,900 by F. Weiland, who had Quivero in the race. He recently claimed Quivero from Jefferson Livingston. | | , I j j j j I ! | j j j j j ; I j 1
