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GREAT UNION FIRST AT 12li Esposa Suffers Bad Racing Luck but Finishes Courageously Xalapa Clown Takes the Ardsley Handicap HandicapCompanion Companion Feature to Yorhtown Yorhtownat at Empire City NEW YORK N Y Oct 22 Great Union winner of the Merchants and Citizens Handicap at the Spa registered his first triumph since that stake when he drove to victory in the Yorktown Handicap while Xalapa Clown continued on his unbeaten way in the Ardsley Handicap these two stakes being the headline attractions at Em ¬ pire City today on a program which brought a recordbreaking crowd to the Butler track one estimated at 18000 18000The The threeyearold son of Sir Gallahad III and My Flag was just a head in advance in the mile and a furlong feature with Idle Miss only a neck farther away Xalapa Clown in taking his third race in as many opportunities registered in more decisive fashion The ebony son of Eternal was slightly more than a length in front of the filly Ciencia in the mile and seventy yards juvenile affair with the latter nosing the heavilysupported choice Lovely Night out of the place placeFAVORITES FAVORITES FAIL FAILThe The two stakes brought scant nourishment to form followers as Great Union at 12 to 1 whipped another favorite Esposa Great Union took down 6550 for Mrs E Graham Lewis through his triumph that being 550 more than the twoyearold gathered for Mrs Bessie Franzheim FranzheimAs As was the case in the Merchants and Citizens Great Union led every step of the journey after breaking on the head end Sammy Renick nursed him carefully for the first seven furlongs as he galloped along just clear of Count Morse going to a hard drive turning for home to dispose of that fellow then being forced to continue ex ¬ treme pressure through the final furlong to turn back the bids of Esposa and Idle Miss MissEsposa Esposa probably was best but the breaks of racing luck were against her The Espino mare left forwardly and raced stoutly to the half mile ground as she went along in third place At the turn out of the back stretch Nick Wall tried to go through on the inside only to be boxed by the winner and Count Morse MorseENJOYS ENJOYS LUCK LUCKXalapa Xalapa Clown was well favored by racing fortune in the Ardsley obtaining clear pas ¬ sage on the outside all the way after com ¬ ing over on the field going to the first turn At the finish he was a length and a half in advance of the steadily closing Ciencia that filly just nosing the public choice Love ¬ ly Night out of the place award From a time standpoint it was just a soso race when ihe son of Eternal and Loma Linda completed the distance in 145 three full sec ¬ onds off the track record He was well sup ¬ ported by his connections opening and clos ¬ ing at 4 to 1 1The The race proved a fatal one for Privateer that colt breaking an ankle at the top of the stretch He had to be destroyed Skyflier had speed but faltered badly while the others showed nothing
