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DEAD HEAT AT SUFFOLK DOWNS Lady Higloss and Wise Prince Even at the Finish. Camera Fails to Separate Pair in Lenox Handicap Most Exciting: Finish of Afternoon. : BOSTON, Mass., June 23. In another dubious camera finish, Miss A. Doris Lady Higloss and Felix Spatolas Wise Prince ran a dead heat in the Lenox Handicap, a six furlongs event for three-year-olds and upward, which featured a chilly days sport at Suffolk Downs. Those in the press stand who were on a direct line with the finish were unanimous in making Lady Higloss the winner of the event by a narrow margin. However, the picture, taken from atop the judges stand, had the pair nose and nose at the finish. Wise Prince, which chart readers called second, was on the outside and, as is usual in camera finishes here, the outside horse apparently is favored by the film. It was the most exciting finish of the afternoon. Both Longden, on Lady Higloss, and Cooper, on Wise Prince, drove to the utmost in the final yards. Lady Higloss was leading the procession and Wise Prince was coming with a rush. It appeared that Longden held his mount together just long enough. He was beaten a stride past the finish, but few believed he was beaten at the line. E. A. McManns Spixi finished third, two and one-half lengths back of the leading pair, and Donald Christmas Accolade finished fourth. Night Sprite set the pace to the three-quarters, followed closely by Lady Higloss, with Wise Prince rated far back of the pace. Lady Higloss moved up on the far turn as Night Sprite quit and Cooper also began to work on his charge at this stage. Lady Higloss had the lead as they entered the stretch, and Wise Prince had moved up to third. The latter had to come between horses in very close quarters at the sixteenth post, and it appeared he tired momentarily, then came again and drew alongside the leader who was shortening stride in the last fifty yards. The filly was driven with might and main, and it appeared that she just lasted. However, the camera had the Wise Counsellor colt getting up in time for a dead heat. Spixi began slowly and worked his way up gradually to take third. Night Sprite quit badly in the drive. The winner sprinted home in the fast time of 1:11. The race marked a double for Johnny Longden. The first event on the card was a two-horse affair from start to finish. Jewell Dorsett, from the Lone Star Stable, and R. iW. Collins Willow Bud battling neck and neck until they were seventy yards out. At .that point Jewell Dorsett began to draw away and Caperton drove her home a length and a half in front of the Lee O. Cotner filly. The latter was five length in front of P. M. Pikes Swift Flash at the end of the five furlongs journey. Phil Chinns Consistent finished fourth in the limit field. Mrs. Ed. Haughtons Still Alarm made good today in the second. Under an excellent ride by F. A. Smith, the filly came from behind at the head of the stretch to score by a head over J. N. Crof tons. Rams Head. Two lengths back of the battling leaders Harry Fields. Marcleave took the show award. Bernardine W. was fourth in the field of seven. Bernardine W. set the pace most of the way and did not drop back until they swarmed up on her on the far turn. There she began to falter and wound up fourth. Smith rated the winner fifth until midway of the backstretch, where the Haughton filly began to work her way up gradually. She appeared the winner as she charged on the outside rounding for home, and held on gamely in the stretch drive. Miss A. Doris Dixie Princess, with the hard riding colored boy, Griggs, putting up one of his best rides, got home by a neck in the third event, beating Roy Seldens Maple Queen in a whip lashing finish. Mrs. E. S. Walkers Dirigible was third, a half length back of the runner-up, and Strenuous finished fourth.
