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LUCKY PLAY AND NOAH Victorious in Principal Offerings at Empire Monday. Belmont Colt Runs Fast to Win Old Hickory Handicap Noah Takes Capitol Handicap. YONKERS, N. Y., Oct. 27. August Belmonts Lucky Play was winner of the best offering, on. the Monday card of the Empire City Racing Association. This was the mile and seventy yards of the Old Hickory, an overnight handicap. The swift-running son of Fair Play and Lucky Catch took up the top weight of 120 pounds and under an excellent ride by Clarence Kummer made every post a winning one to finish out the distance in 1 :42, just one-fifth of a second slower than the track record. J. C. Claires Feysun chased him home, but three lengths back, and still five lengths further back Marshall Fields Modo was along in time to take third place from Jack Richardsons Rigel. Though there Avas no stake down for decision, this race and the Capitol Handicap that went to Harry Payne Whitneys Noah made it an interesting day of sport. The weather was mild, the track at its best, and a sursprising-ly large Monday crowd was in attendance. The start of the Old Hickory Handicap was a good one and Kummer at once sent Lucky Play into a long lead and it was right there that the race was won. He stole away so far that the others had no chance to catch him, while in his previous start, in which he was beaten, Sun Audience carried him along at such a pace in the early stages that he had nothing left for the stretch run. KUMMER RIDES WELL. In the Old Hickory, after Kummer had taken his long early lead, he rated his mount along in front and it was this handling that enabled him to stick it out successfully. Through the backstretch Callahan had Feysun in second place, waiting for Lucky Play to come hack, but that was not to be, and then when Callahan made his move Kummer still had enough left with Lucky Play to hold his lead through the final eighth. Nancy Langhorne ran along in third place through those early stages and she was showing the way to Rigel, which was running along next to the inside rail and in rather close quarters. The others were more or less strung out, and Modo, as usual, was one of tho early followers. Feysun had no trouble in saving second place, but there was a contest for third when Modo came with a rush to beat home Rigel for that part of the prize. Analyzing the race, it seemed that all of the others in the field were afraid to go after Lucky Play in the early racing for, while that would be calculated to bring about his defeat, the one that went with him would be committing suicide at the same time. Mrs. W. Rosens Potentilla, ridden by jockey Thomas, was an easy winner of the fifth race which engaged a field of platers at a mile and an eighth. East Indian raced second while Scare Crow was third. The Winner dominated the running from the start and held his opponents safe for speed all the way Harry Payne Whitneys Noah came back with another good race in the short three-quarters of the Capitol Handicap, for juveniles, and he was winner over the Robert L. Gerry pair of Peanuts and Emissary, with Richard T. Wilsons Campfire Tales finishing fourth while back of him came Joe Marrone III., Repulse and Faddist, another from the Wilson Stable. CLOSE CALL FOR NOAH. Noah was top weight of the company but he had a bit of luck in the running by being away quickly and rushing into a long early lead. At the end he was dying fast and he only lasted to beat Peanuts by a neck. This same Peanuts and his stablemate, Emissary, were in trouble most of the way, when they were close on the heels of Joe Marrone III., the one that was in nearest pursuit of Noah. Faddist kept the pair of them" in close quarters and this enabled Noah to enjoy his lead long enough to see him safely home. Through the stretch the Gerry pair closed with a great rush but the Noah lead was too great to be closed, though he would have been beaten by Peanuts in a few more strides. Joe Marrone III., had no excuse and after following the pace through the stretch he weakened badly in the final furlong. Faddist quit badly when the pnich came in the stretch. Jack Richardsons Blue IIU1 after having been guilty of two bad races came back with a good one in the mile and seventy yards, that was the third offering and he led home a rather good band of platers. T. Calcinaa Skirmish was the one to finish in the place while W. Kearns Bear Grass beat G. C. Winfreys Insulate for third. The start was a good one and Skirmish and Kellerman were the ones to cut out the early pace. Bear Grass followed them closely and he had Insulate closely pinned in on the rail, where she had scant racing chance. Ther. Continued on sixteenth page. LUCKY PLAY AND NOAH Continued from first page. in the. backstretch M. Fator made his move with Blue Hill going up on the outside. This carried the Richardson plater into the lead on the turn and he was never afterwards headed. Through the stretch Bear Grass made a threatening move but it was short lived and Skirmish stuck it out to be second, while Bear Grass beat the much abused Insulate for third place. This race was a marked improveemnt over what Blue Hill has been showing and Insulate performed below her recent form, but there was good excuse for the Winfrey filly in the trouble she had all through the journey. Five and a half furlongs for juveniles was the first race and W. J. Boths Socrates proved an easy winner from C. P. Winfreys Jedburg Abbey, with A. W. Koivulas Mixture saving third from Fred Tarals Gala Night Socrates began running from an inside position and he quickly went into a good lead where he never left the result in doubt Jedburgh Abbey, also one of the insiders at the start, was the one to race second practically all the way. To the head of the stretch Gala Night was one of the contenders, but Mixture was right with him, and had him put away for the short end of the purse before the stretch was reached. After the finish Thurber lodged a claim of foul against Harvey, who rode Jedburgh Abbey, while he had the mount on Mixture. There had been a bit of bumping in the stretch, but the claim was properly allowed for Mixture did not appear to be impeded and was as much to blame as was Jedburgh Abbey.
