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NEW ORLEANS TRIUMPH Watercure, Hawthorne Victor, and Jockey Balaski, From South. Victory of Letellier Racer in Feature Decided Surprise Good Cheer Earns Purse. Marred by repeated crowding, the Morrison Purse for three-year-olds and six furlongs sprint feature of Fridays racing at Hawthorne resulted in an upset and victory for the New Orleans-owned Watercure, ace of the stable of Mrs. August B. Letellier. Ridden by Lester Balaski, who also hails from the Crescent City, Watercure scored the triumph by a length in the non-impressive time of 1:13. Blind Pig, owned by Mrs. E. Denemark of Chicago, finished second, a head before another Illinois entry, Frank Abbates Veeks. Included among the others, of which there were four, was the Kentucky racer Grand Duke, which as the entry of Brownell Combs, was the favorite. He, along with Blind Pig and Double Kerry, was forced back leaving the back stretch, while the public choice found himself behind a wall of horses in the stretch. Grand Duke inaugurated his performance auspiciously- but had traveled little more than a quarter when Lady Montrose went to the front. Losing the lead may have rattled H. W. Fisher, astride the Combs horse, as he later permitted others to draw past his mount and lining up in cavalry formation in the stretch those to pass him left him with no chance to race through when he appeared anxious to get down to business in the final straightaway. Blind Pig and the winner both charged on the leading Lady Montrose at the same time in the stretch and when placed to punishment the J. Lowenstein filly did not give her best. Instead she switched her tail, Continued on thirty-ninth page. NEW ORLEANS TRIUMPH Continued from first page. pinned back her ears and shortened her stride. Watercure, the first to head her, slowly shook off Blind Pig as they went into the last sixteenth and in the closing strides drew clear as Blind Pig barely managed to hang on to second over the fast closing Veeks. Lady Montrose was fourth. Watercures victory, his third in four starts during the meeting, was worth 3.20 to holders of straight tickets on the son of Brilliant. A fair sized crowd saw him register the surprise win. Pharosay, three-year-old Pharamond H. gelding from Warren Wrights Calumet Farm Stable and probably one of the most ugly dispositioned horses racing at this time, came through with an unusual performance in winning the Graemere Purse, which was the third race, for his first triumph. Despite running out so badly, he almost brushed the outer rail for the first three of the six furlongs, he arrived at the finish of the three-quarters leading the nearest of his rivals, Ceallaigh, by four lengths. Sun X., coupled as an entry with Bold Bid, finished third among nine, all maidens, making up the field. At the post seven minutes, which was required to bring the erratic winner into a starting position arid immediately following the break, he took to the outside as Kabo went into a short lead. For about three furlongs it was all E. Arcaro could do to keep the Calumet three-year-old from leaving the course. Approaching the stretch, Pharosay submitted to the frantic efforts of his rider and, swinging to the inside, shot into the lead as the final quarter was reached. From that point on it was Pharosays race, though he again escaped Arcaros control in the final furlong, where he swerved far out in the track. This final display of temperament caused L. Haas, on Ceallaigh, to hesitate momentarily in selecting a course for his mount, but it was not enough to have altered the result, as Pharosay swept under the wire four lengths before the runner-up. Black Widow, a filly from the E. R. Bradley stable, was installed favorite but failed to justify the support, as she never was better than fourth and finished fifth, a nose behind Kabo. Form players started the afternoon in stride when the first, second and third choices finished one, two, three in the sprint of cheaper, older performers that opened the program. G. H. Emicks Full Up, a 6 to 5 chance in the betting, raced to the front soon after the start and was never in danger, winning by three lengths as the second choice, Gov. Laffoon defeated Well Heeled by a length and one-half for the place. Gov. Laffoon did all his racing in the runner-up position, while Well Heeled had to pass only Squeeze Out to take third. A second victory was scored by the favorites when Jascha, J. H. Manheimers five-year-old mare signalled her first start of the year with a winning performance in competition with My Gem, Threat, Two Sons and six other cheap ones in the second race, also at six furlongs. The locally-owned winner opened up a clear lead over her company in the first quarter and, easily the best, experienced no trouble remaining far out in front thereafter. In second place for more than five furlongs, Threat weakened just enough for My Gem to push his head in front of him for second, when within a few strides of the finish. Monroe, also making his first public appearance of the year, and the second choice, showed little as he trailed the field throughout. Racing in his best form, Sir Midas carried W. C. Reicherts colors to victory over Fond Memories and Dark Prince in a thrilling finish in the five and one-half furlongs fourth race, for two-year-olds. Ridden by J. Nolan, who earlier in the meeting piloted him into second place back of Quotum, the Reichert youngster gained the victory for his maiden score by a head, with Dark Prince only a neck back of Fond Memories. Originally Fond Memories number was flashed as the winner, but the placing jugdes quickly discovered the mistance in indicating the result to the center field boards, and almost before some of the patrons made vocal protest the error was corrected. This also saw the favorite back of the three leaders, Equanimity, which would have returned only even money, landing in fourth place.
