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JACK HIGH TRIUMPHS; EQUIPOISE BEATEN RUSH HODRS FDTDR1TY Largest Crowd of Maryland Fall Season Witnesses Program. Laurel Stakes Falls to Widener Star, With Equipoise Third Labrot Star Earns ,250. LAUREL, Md.f Oct. 15 Jack High carried the silks of George D. Widener to a well earned victory in the Laurel Stakes and Sylvester W. Labrots Rush Hour was an easy winner of the Maryland Futurity. These were the high spots of the big Saturday card of the Maryland State Fair Association on a program that afforded the best sport of the fall season. Closely lapped on Jack High at the end of the mile, which was run in track record time of 1:37, was Normans Churchs good three-year-old Gallant Sir, and the C. V. "Whitney champion, Equipoise, saved third from the Greentree Stables St. Brideaux. It was small wonder that the excellence of the sport brought out a monster crowd, the largest of the fall season. Distinguished guests were 250 members of the American Bar Association, which journeyed over from Washington on a special train. They were the guests of A. J. Cummings, president of the association. In the Laurel Stakes, Equipoise, as he has done so often before, caused some delay at the post. He had drawn the inside stall, and after many efforts to have him take his position, he was placed outside the machine. The start was a good one, but Equipoise was last of the seven to be in motion, and it was Osculator that went out to show the way. Jack High raced closely after him, and then came Gallant Sir. These three rapidly drew away from the others in a first quarter that was run in :23. EQUIPOISE IN LAST PLACE. Turning into the back stretch, Equipoise was last of the lot, and Workman was riding him to improve the position. Then, when the son of Pennant finally settled into a full racing stride, he was taken to the outside, where he rapidly made up ground, but the leaders were still galloping along strongly, and Osculator was showing the way. Jack High was well lapped on him, and Gallant Sir held third place a full two lengths before St. Brideaux. It was heading for the stretch turn, after a first half had been run in :47, that Osculator showed the first signs of tiring, and both Jack High and Gallant Sir gained on him until he was barely showing the way. Workman had gone wide with Equipoise until he had headed St. Brideaux to take fourth place, but it had been a long journey around the outside. Osculator was about through on the turn into the stretch and there Equipoise was gaining on the outside in a fashion that made victory seem possible. But both Jack High and Gallant Sir still had plenty left and, turning into the stretch, Gallant Sir was bumped slightly, being knocked off stride. Then it was that Jack High showed his head in front and he Was fighting along gamely. GALLANT SIRS GAMENESS. Equipoise, a furlong out, tired rather badly, but Gallant Sir, recovering from his slight interference, came again with magnificent courage and it was a battle to the final stride, where Jack High had only earned the decision by a nose. Equipoise was a length and a half back and three lengths before St. Brideaux, while Osculator, after having forced the pace, was fifth. The race had a net value of ,450 to the winner. When Rush Hour was an easy winner of the Maryland Futurity it gave Sylvester W. Labrot both renewals of this breeding stake. Last year it fell to Springsteel. Howard Bruces Acautaw was the one to chase the Labrot colt home and Frank Hayes Can-teria saved third from Damascene, a stable-mate of the winner. The race had a net value of ,250 to the winner, and Mr. Labrot Continued on tiventy-second page.. RUSH HOURS FUTURITY Continued from first page. also earned another 00 for haying bred the winner. There was an unreasonable delay at the post, for which Acautaw and Mintie were chiefly to blame. The start was a good one, but Acautaw jumped into the air as he left and it was a decided handicap. Rush Hour was first to show from the stalls, but he was almost instantly headed by Canteria, and Acautaw, after his bad break, was rushed into second place. The pair, closely lapped, drew away into a lead of a length and a half over Rush Hour, but Workman had the Labrot colt under a slight restraint as the other three set the pace. Acautaw was heading Cantoria as they swung out of the back stretch and Woolf had gone to the whip on the Hayes colt to hold his position, but it was of no avail and the son of Canter was quitting badly as the stretch turn was reached. It was there that Workman made his move with Rush Hour. He had to go around the leaders, but the son of Happy Time was well able to accept that much the worst of it. He circled around readily and a furlong from home was leading by a couple of lengths. In that last furlong he drew away to have an advantage of three lengths at the finish. Acautaw had beaten Cantoria four lengths for second place and, when Damascene was fourth, he was another five lengths back. The three placed horses, as a matter of fact, were the only ones to figure in the running. There was a thrilling finish in the Old Line State Handicap, in which Canron, under a masterly ride by "Buddy" Hanford, was just up to beat George Wingfields Hygro, the sprinting sensation of the fall racing in Maryland. Andy Schuttingers Pilate was a close third, and the only other starter was George D. Wideners Finite. From a good start Hygro was taken to the lead by Woolf, and Finite, the lightweight of the party, went along with him. But Woolf had the son of Epinard under a slight restraint as he raced head and head with the Widener gelding. Pilate was going well in third place and was outside the pair of them, and Canron brought up the rear, but all four were in close order. It was going to the stretch turn that Finite showed the first signs of tiring, and he carried Hygro out slightly. Workman had Pilate outside the Wingfield colt, and it was then that Hanford had his chance with Canron. He rushed the filly up on the inside, but it was not until inside the final sixteenth that she caught Hygro and Pilate. The Wingfield sprinter was holding Pilate, but the rush of the Hanford filly would not be denied, and she was through right at the end to be winner by a head. Hygro had beaten Pilate a neck, and Finite quit so badly he was four lengths away. This completed a double for Hanford, he having scored with Totem in the previous race. Prince Tokalon was a handy winner of the sixth, leading home the Audley Farms Jolly Pilot, and third went to Raccoon, when he outfinished Night Patrol.
