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DOWAGIAC TRIUMPHS1 — ♦ Accounts for Wedgewood Purse at Washington Park. — ♦■ Eancocas Stable Silks Carried to Victory — Tamina in Spectacular Finish. ♦ i The Wild Rosa Farms Dowagiac carried his owners silks to victory in the Wedge- : •wood Purse, featured attraction at Washing-, : ton Park this afternoon. The race was at a mile and seventy yards out of the chute and ] brought together only five starters, of which R, Gooses filly Symphorosa finished two ] lengths in the wake of the winner. Another jthree lengths back came Social Mug, under pressure and hard ridden at the end to save : third place from R. E. Bradleys Buttered Toast, while Wacker Drive was a bad last. Jockey R. De Prema rode the winner. With summer-like weather prevailing, an exceedingly large crowd was out for the sport. The track was at its best and the racing interesting. After the running of the | feature race, there came a serious threat of rain in the scattered but heavy clouds. In the running of the Wedgewood Purse, Dovvagiac, last to begin, was ridden into the lead on the inside in the first quarter. In : his wake came Symphorosa, then Social Mug. Buttered Toast and Wacker Drive. They raced in this order throughout, there being no changes in their running positions at any stage. A feature of this afternoons racing was the Rancocas Stables first victory of the year in the West. Rancocas colors were borne successfully in the third race, when Khara scored and was the easiest winner of the meeting. i ONE FOR C. W. BIDWILL. Tea Cracker, a two-year-old in the stable of C. W. Bidwill, secretary of the Illinois Turf Association, sprinted home the winner of the initial race, fashioned for juveniles, at five-eighths. Altovar set the pace and held the lead to the stretch, where he tired I I and proved an easy victim to the closing rush of Tea Cracker, which showed improvement in his last race at Churchill Downs arid was right on edge today. Port Gar, the favorite, raced well, but was unable to successfully cope with the first mentioned pair. Christie Flanagan, grouped in the field in the second race, won a lucky contest when he just lasted to defeat Black Flyer by a nose at the end of three-quarters. There was a long delay occasioned at the post by trouble •with the equipment on Christie Flanagan, forcing DePrema to dismount. Christie Flanagan began well, raced into a good lead and set the pace throughout, but tired in the final sixteenth and barely lasted. Joining the leaders at the head of the stretch. Black Flyer fought it out to the end and just failed to get up. Vittoria held third place safe from the start. Maiden two-year-olds, racing over five-eighths, furnished the contest in the third race, a purse affair, attracting seven youngsters. The first victory of the meeting for the Rancocas Stable of Harry F. Sinclair was chalked up by the filly Khara, ridden by jockey F. Catrone. It was also this riders first winning mount here. Away fast, Khara raced on the outside of the leading Nazdar to the far turn and, racing the latter into submission, drew away to win hard held by six lengths from Blue John, with Primeval third. The winner was a strong favorite. EASY FOR GOTHAM. Gotham, carrying the silks of Phil Reuter, was returned an easy winner of the one mile and seventy yards race run as the fourth. Princely showed a good effort which netted him second place, while Hazel Denson gamely outstayed Duck It for the minor part of the purse. Duck It was favorite, and raced disappointingly in the stretch after being close up to that stage. He tired badly in the final eighth. Gotham raced under restraint in the early stages, came with a rush on the far turn, moving past Panketa into an easy lead, which he retained to the end. Shropshire rode the winner. A thrilling finish marked the sixth race, in which Tamina, alertly ridden, gamely took the measure of the overconfidently ridden Architect. The latter easily held second place safe, but might have won with better riding. P. Neal, astride Tamina. caught Ayraud napping on Architect, and sending the filly up fast on the outside, just got up. The latter led the tiring George Stack, which was third, by five lengths. Patuxant, the favorite, raced well for tire first three-quarters, but tired and dropped out of it thereafter. R Heigle and W. Rideout, apprentices, accepted their first mounts of the meeting. These lads were unable to ride on the opening day, due to their contracts not having ■ been filed at the racing secretarys office. Applications for apprentice licenses were put in by the following: C. Hawkins, attached to the R. Goose stable, and G. A. Ross, with C. H. Knebelkemp. |
