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NEW YORK FAVORITES SCORE Three Public Choices and Only One Outsider Win Action Takes Best Race at Odds of 3 to 5 Second Straight for Old Son of ofOlambala Olambala NEW YORK N Yi Oct 18 A featureless p program at Empire City today furnished f formful sport with three choices being first p registering Best backed of all was the1 e elderly Action which went to the post a 3 ito5 favorite and had the toughest sort of ti ask gaining a neck decision over the swiftly c closing Count Dean This triumph came in the mile and onesix onesixeenth t eenth final and marked the second straight fi or the nineyearold son of Olambala Violet F Play Other successful choices were Shadows I Pass and Night Tide while the wellbacked B Mahdi was second only to Stones Landing v when market operations ceased in the short s six furlongs race which drew the days best f field Perfect weather resulted in another large t turnout at the Butler grounds and the man ¬ ner in which wellfavored horses performed I points to another similar assemblage to r norrow GETS LONG LEAD LEADThe The best offering was a five and three e quarter claiming dash that brought out plat ¬ c ers of the better quality It was marred s somgwhat when Shadytown was permitted to ieat the others away by a couple of lengths but he was caught and beaten by Mrs F Ambrose Clarks Mahdi while Bubblesome j from the Snow White Stable saved third j from Deep End EndRollins Rollins took every advantage of his good fortune at the break with Shadytown and j tie sent the son of Jamestown into a lead of a couple of lengths before the others were fairly in motion Mahdi had left well and j he was in second place and just showing the way to Stones Landing and Deep End It i I was after rounding from the back stretch that Workman called on Mahdi and he be i 1 gan to gradually draw up on Shadytown but he was still in command as he swung into the stretch There he bore out slightly while Workman saved ground with Mahdi Around the bend Workman roused Mahdi sharply I with the whip and he came on gallantly to I step to the front in the final seventy yards and win going away by a length and a half i j I The players were away on the right foot when Mrs B Franzheims Shadows Pass the j favorite was winner over the maiden juve niles in a dash of five and a half furlongs i I Steam Roller from the Falaise Stable took1 I the place while M Van Beurens Sting Ray just nosed out Flying Lancer for third and he earned his share of the purse with no help from Stout his rider I I GOOD CONTEST j A battling finish occurred in the second race at one mile and a sixteenth for cheap threeyearolds when Irving Romms Newark was winner with Herbert M Woolfs Belle I Sharmeer just nosing out David Butlers1 Playback for the place while Jack Fly was fourth Magicienne the favorite gave some trouble at the post and she was away slowly but alignmentThe the others left in good alignment The second division of the five and a half furlongs dash for maiden juveniles brought a good finish with Alvin Untermyers Sky flier outgaming War Dog from the Falaise Stable to earn a close decision Four lengths back of these W H Gallaghers Royal Taste took third from T P Morgans Advancer rather easilyMrs easily Mrs A McShanes Night Tide an unsexed son of Hi Jack Crepuscle made favorite over a field of plater juveniles made good in the mile and seventy yards of the fourth race He was good enough to show the way from the first turn and at no time was asked for his best Mrs F Ambrose Clarks Never Right with a rush through the stretch took the place while the Wheatley Stables Short Rations beat Poesy for third
