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TWEENY IS GREENTREE WINNER Second to Score at Dade Park With Gilbert Elston in Stirrups. Elegy Proves a Big Disappointment in Opening Event, Losing to Boston Common, a Maiden Filly. HENDERSON, Ky., Aug. 31. Despite the third straight day of intensive heat, one of the best week-day crowds of the meeting was present at Dade Park this afternoon for a program that lacked a feature. However, with only mediocre horses engaged in the seven events, the public installed the most pronounced choices during the session and after Elegy, a prohibitive odds-on favorite, gave way to an outsider in the opening number, the large crowd witnessed the success of their short-priced favorites in the next two races. Gilbert Elston, who piloted Boston Common in the latters first victory, and Mrs. Payne Whitneys Tweeny proved a winning combination in the third race, which engaged a field of nine older maidens at one mile. The daughter of the good stock horse St. Germans, and the great race mare, Untidy, broke in the van of her field and, making every post a winning one, she came to the finish of the eight furlongs two lengths in front of Orchestration, with Bobs Luck third. Tweeny, one of the two horses entered in the race not to be sold, and an odds-on choice, drew away from Gloria Diane in the run to the first turn, but the latter moved into a contending position at the half-mile ground and Elston was forced to shake up his mount before she drew away from Judge Peak, which had succeeded Gloria Diane at forcing the pace. In the run to the wire, Tweeny drew away and Elston had her under a good hold as they reached the finish. Orchestration was two lengths in the van of Bobs Luck, which held the same advantage over Princefeather. The latter was the second choice but, after a short burst of speed in the second quarter, she appeared to sulk. Continued on twenty-first page J I TWEENY IS GREENTREE WINNER Continued from first page. Edward Haughtons Elegy, which was backed practically to the exclusion of others, provided one of the biggest disappointments of the meeting when she finished second to Boston Common in the five and one-half furlongs opening event that engaged a limit field of juveniles. Gun Strap, another outsider, got up in time to hold Wayward Lad. The winner, a home-bred daughter of Bos-tonian, followed Vennie H. and Elegy to the final drive, where Elston drove her through a small opening to have a length and one-half advantage at the wire. In scoring her initial, triumph, Boston Common paid better than 33 to 1 in the betting. Brownell Combs Murky Cloud proved one of the most popular victors of the meeting when she was eased up at the end of the three-quarters second race, that brought together five sprinters. Barashkova, after showing the way for the opening quarter, raced to the place, with Harry Hieover, shouldering the top impost of 118 pounds, nearly two lengths in the van of Ellice. Rugaman, the other starter, dwelt in the walk-up start and was outrun. Rated cleverly by D. Meade, Murky Cloud raced behind the pace of Barashkova and Harry Hieover, until shortly after leaving the far turn, where she went to the front on the outside of the field to establish a long lead. Jessie Carey was excused from starting shortly before post time when she developed lameness. Running the five furlongs in 1:00, track record time, L. C. Youngs Helen Bab scored her third consecutive victory of the meeting in accounting for the fourth race, which engaged a field of the better grade two-year-olds. Little Goblin was second, with Glamorous third. Paul Neal had the victor and favorite under restraint as Billies Orphan and Little Goblin set an exacting pace to the stretch, but, sending the Young filly to the front leaving the eighth post, she came to the wire with a three-length margin. Little Goblin, although tiring, held Glamorous safe for the place. Billies Orphan dropped out of it 1 after a half mile.
