view raw text
JOHN JOHN HERTZ HERTZ FIELD HORSE WINS INAUGURAL AT ARLINGTON 9 9 Gold Step Surprises Large Crowd by Spectacular Stretch Rush Outstays Polydorus by Head in Thrilling Finish Epithet Third and Jamestown Unplaced 15,000 Witness Races Hertz Horse Scores ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 27. The Arlington Park meeting, outstanding session of the Chicago racing season, got under way this afternoon when a crowd of approximately 15,000 viewed an excellent seven race program. The management, which is .composed of some of Chicagos outstanding businessmen, had the spacious and pic- turesque plant spic and span for the inauguration of the thirty-day session which gives promise of being one of the best ever held in America. With the policy of a stake race every day being followed, interest such as that shown on opening day is sure to be sustained and with the pick of the countrys thoroughbreds ready to race, the meeting cannot help being a success. The Arlington Inaugural Handicap, which was having its third running, was the afternoons feature race and resulted in a victory for Gold Step, an outsider. The winner, which failed to win at Bainbridge Park after being successful in the Washington Park Inaugural Handicap, staged a splendid comeback to defeat a fast band in the race, which was run over seven furlongs. Second place fell to Polydorus, which has been performing in sensational fashion recently, while Epithet finished third and My Dandy was fourth. The time for the distance was 1:24 and the winners margin was a head. The race was worth ,300 to the winner. Jamestown was a well-backed favorite, but My Dandy, the one-eyed campaigner from the Reichert Bros. stable, was responsible for his downfall. Both horses raced themselves into into exhaustion exhaustion setting setting a a fast fast early early pace pace and and succumbed succumbed to to the the JOHN JOHN HERTZ HERTZ into into exhaustion exhaustion setting setting a a fast fast early early pace pace and and succumbed succumbed to to the the challenge of more stout-hearted thoroughbreds in the stretch. Jamestown sprinted to the front of My Dandy early in the race and, although the Widener star made every ef- 6a Jfort f nrt to to get get clear clear under under hard hard riding riding by by jockey jockey Jfort f nrt to to get get clear clear under under hard hard riding riding by by jockey jockey McAtee, My Dandy was obstinate. The pair had spent their energy by the time the stretch was reached and Gold Step, which had been close up, forged to the front when the field was straightened out for home. With Jamestown and My Dandy beaten, Polydorus, which had been rated well, and Epithet, racing gamely on the outside, loomed up as the dangers, but Polydorus was in close quarters near the finish and Gold Step managed to last. It is probable that Polydorus was the best, but Gold Step stuck it out and got the award. The winner paid 5.96 and was grouped in the field and well ridden by jockey Herman Schutte. Warren Jr., highly regarded two-year-old from the Calumet Stable, got the favorite players off on the right foot when he won the opening race. His victory came only after a thrilling stretch struggle in which he got up in time to best Cary T. Graysons -Jt Hope To Do, with Poppyman, bearing the silks of Mrs. John Hay Whitney, third. Hope To Do had the most early speed in the field of fourteen maiden two-year-olds and, going to the front soon after the start, opened up a good lead, while Warren Jr. was in some trouble on the far turn, but the public choice was good enough to overcome the interference and win by a nose. Poppyman was going well at the end. The race was over five and one-half furlongs, and the winner was ridden by jockey E. Steffen. MISS MARR NARROWLY. A second close finish of the afternoon came about with the running of the second race, when Miss Marr, from the locally owned stable of Mrs. E. Denemark, got up in time to best Supreme Sweet. The latter made the pace, but Miss Marr, also possessing good early speed, was never far away and proved the ""gamer of the two when it came to the stretch drive. Portcodine was third, finishing very fast. Jaz Age, the favorite, was off slowly and raced poorly, being outrun all the way. Apprentice T. P. Martin, who struck his stride during the Washington Park meeting, was aboard the winner and rode well. Pairbypair, stake winner at Arlington Park last season, came through with the first Hertz victory of the present meeting when he. won the third race with ridiculous ease. Getting to the front at once, the good son of Noah had matters all his own way and was never headed. War Glow, always closest to the leader, retained second place from the fast-closing Sazerac. A field of seven good ones fought it out for the honors and the winner was odds-on choice. Jockey Steffen, who was successful in the opening race, completed a double by riding Pairbypair. Impish, an outsider racing for J. Parma-lee, proved best of the small field which 1 Continued on tiventy-first page.J FIELD HORSE WINS INAUGURAL f Continued from first page. competed in the fourth race. But five took part in the event and after Sunvir, one of the favorites, had made the pace to the stretch, Impish moved up on the outside to take command and was free to race in front to the end. Yonkel, well backed, was unfortunate when, after saving much ground by clinging to the rail at the stretch turn, was shut off at midstretch and forced to take back slightly. Had it not been for the interference he might have given the winner an argument He finished second, while Prince Tokalon was third. Sunvir tired badly in the stretch, while Kincsen, the only other starter, trailed the field throughout. Prince Atheling, the favorite, had little trouble winning the sixth race, which was at one mile. The horse was ridden with confidence by jockey W. Wright, who remained close to the pace from the start and, passing Outbound, the early leader, when he began to tire in the stretch, held sway to the finish to win by five lengths. A strong stretch rush carried Totem to second place, while Outbound barely lasted to save third money from Portmanteau. Among the many visitors from New York were Herbert Bayard Swope, John F. Curry, chieftain of Tammany Hall, and Phil Dono-hue, Tammany treasurer.
