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RIDGE WISE IS VICTORIOUS $ Leads Smart Lady and Tangalo in Drive at Dade Park. Day Is Ideal for Racing in Kentucky, Although Fields Laclc Class Polly Mac Winner at ILong Odds. HENDERSON, Ky., Aug. 19. While the program offered was one of the less attractive of the week, the racing at Dade Park today was well, patronized, the attendance well camparing with the largest on the grounds since the current meeting opened. It was a day of ideal weather for the sport and with the track improved over the previous day, lack of quality in the performers was of secondary importance to the enthusiasts. A strongly backed choice drove to the wire in front in the five-eighths, third race, for two-year-olds when H. R. Riley hustled the Ridgeview Stock Farms Ridge Wise to a hard earned victory over Smart Lady, Tangalo and the seven others that tried for honors. Riley had the winner in front from the start and, bearing out when put to pressure in the late stages, he sacrificed much of his advantage which dwindled from four lengths to little more than a length as he covered the closing eighth. Brought up on the inside, Smart Lady outfinished Tangalo by a head, with Last Stand fourth. J. P. Sallee saddled another winner for Thomas Piatt, owner of Brookdale Farm, when Polly Mac captured the opening number, in which twelve maiden juvenile fillies met at five and one-half furlongs. Polly Mac was badly neglected by those who speculated upon the outcome, and the few who strung with her were rewarded, the straight return of 5.04 for being the longest price during the current meeting. Polly Mac won by a length and one-half, with the others charging into the finish well spread over the track. Second was awarded Proud Princess and third went to Emmaline H. The latter ruled second choice to Sister Electa, which failed to perform up to her backing. Worthy Polly, among the shorter-priced favorites, again suffered defeat when C. W. Moores Essential downed her in decisive order in the second race. Essential won off by two and one-half lengths as the favorite drove home second, four lengths before Stella F. The winner was ridden by J. McCoy.
