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GALLANT MAC IN FRONT • Takes Measure of Odds-On Hertz Pair at Arlington Park. Wilmette Purse Results in Exciting Race, With Meade Displaying Good Riding Judgment. — ■ ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 16.— Arlington Parks fourth week opened this afternoon with the Wilmette Purse as the principal attraction. This mile race for three-year-olds resulted in an exciting finish with Audley Farms Gallant Mac just lasting to defeat Mrs. John Hertz Red John by a head with the latters running mate, Saint, half a length farther away. The other three starters, Nocturnlabe, Sleuth and Ashen were beaten off. An average crowd viewed the Monday program, but the support given the horses showed an increase over previous Mondays Gallant Macs triumph brought about the downfall of the odds-on choice, the Hertz entry, but only through the superior riding of Don Meade. Gallant Knights brother was rated in front throughout with Meade befuddling the other jockeys, particularly E. Steffen, on Red John and Wayne Wright on Saint, by his tactics in making false moves with the Audley colt. In the early stages Nocturnlabe went along with Gallant Mac, but the pace was slow and the latter was able to draw away after entering the back stretch. Red John was the first of the Hertz pair to move and he drew up steadily on the outside on the far turn. There Meade let out a notch and Gallant Mac drew away again, only to be almost overtaken again by the time the stretch was reached. PLENTY IN RESERVE. Meade had saved plenty for the final run, however, and calling on Gallant Mac, the latter bounded away until he was three lengths in advance of Red John, with a furlong to go. Thereafter the Hertz colt steadily gained on the tiring Audley representative but the latters lead was too great to be overcome. Saint finished fastest of all after being restrained off the early pace. Nocturnlabe tired in the final quarter while the others were unable to threaten. The time was 1:38-3 and Gallant Mac carried top weight of 115 pounds. Mrs. J. B. Partridges Ondott, odds-on favorite for the first race, won his initial purse of the meeting and third of the year when, under a clever ride by A. Robertson, he was returned the winner by one length and one-half. Curb Bit, among the choices, raced to second place, while third went to the rank outsider, Kaposia. Bag Smasher and Hula indulged in a bitter duel for lead honors, with the former holding a slight lead for three-quarters but, when the real racing began, neither of the pair was capable of meeting the demands and readily gave way to the winner when he challenged and, after submitting to Ondott, they subsequently gave way to Curb Bit and Kaposia, which came from behind. RUNS LIKE HE WORKS. Bluebeard, a son of Blue Larkspur and Herodias, raced up to expectations and his sensational works when he won decisively in the second race, which engaged maiden colts and geldings over the five and one-half furlongs distance. In closest attendance to the victorious Coe colt was Gallaclay, which finished second three lengths back and one in advance of Toro Flight, which closed in third place. The winner was benefited somewhat by the ride of Don Meade, who allowed Gallaclay to loaf after racing up fast to a contending position, and which would probably have been closer to the victor with more energetic handling. Miss Melody carried the colors of Stuy-vesant Peabody to a clever victory in the third race when she accounted for her second triumph of the meeting and stretched the string of winning favorites to three in a row. While the margin of the winner was but a neck, she could have won farther if jockey Wayne Wright had chosen to do so, for she finished under a steadying hold, while Sun Boy was under severe punishment trying to wear her down, but his effort was in vain. However, he gave a good, game performance to get as close as he did to the victress and had a decisive advantage over Rizla, which closed her engagement in third place. Racing well up and under stout restraint Continued on twenty-sixth page.
