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GILDED KNIGHT WINNER Captures Wannamoisett Handicap at I Narragansett BeforeLarge Crowd Easily Takes Measure of Heather HeatherTime Time and Ferdinand E Washs WashsRiding Riding a Big Feature of Day PAWTUCKET R I Nov 5 Before the largest crowd to visit Narragansett during the fall meeting thus far Whcatlcy Stables twoyearold Sir Gallahad III Gold Brick colt Gilded Knight made a show of his com ¬ pany to win the 5000 added Wannamoisett Handicap over the one mile and a sixteenth distance Heather Time finished second four lengths back of the winner and eight lengths in front of Ferdinand Briery was fourth fourthThe The Wannamoisett was worth 4130 to the winner and marked the second triumph of the Wheatley Stable standard bearer The winner was ridden by Jimmy Stout who was completing a double doubleFerdinand Ferdinand went out to make the pace He led his rivals around the first turn closely followed by Heather Time and Blacky Bee with Gilded Knight running fourth Going into the back stretch straightaway Heather Time began to move up on the leader and took command Stout elected to race close to the Time Maker filly and overtook her and went on to open up a length advantage He was two lengths to the good rounding the turn lor home and as Heather Time made one more attempt to reach the lead Stout let out a wra wraGilded Gilded Knight responded willingly and drew away at will all through the final threesix ¬ teenths He was ridden out to assure vic ¬ tory toryHeather Heather Time was just as superior to the rest of the field as the winner was to her She finished far in advance of the others No excuse could be offered for any of the other seven starters startersThe The winner finished in 145 and un ¬ doubtedly could have gone faster had the occasion necessitated necessitatedMUTUEL MUTUEL PLAT HEAVY HEAVYThe The large crowd that witnessed the run ¬ ning swelled the mutuel handle considerably over previous weekends Up to and includ ¬ ing the feature they had bet over 300000 which signified that the handle would go over the half million mark markRonnie Ronnie Nash and Gay World attracted wide attention in the opening race and the large crowd sent that combination to the post as favorite Gay World was making his first appearance since July when he was racing on the West Coast CoastNash Nash rode a waiting race with the one ¬ time stake performer He was rated back in the big field for the first half mile Round ing the turn Nash took him to the outside and the TorchBearer eightyearold closed I with a belated rush that carried him out a neck in front of Bugle Ann at the finish finishThe The fourth race brought together a big field of 1000 platers to race over the one mile and a half distance E R Morris nine yearold Axenstein gelding finished out two and a half lengths in front of J H Logans Super John The Singer was a length and a half off the runnerup runnerupTRIPLE TRIPLE FOR NASH NASHBrandon Brandon Prince ridden by Ronnie Nash who was completing a triple was taken to the inside rail almost at once saving many lengths Going into the far turn Nash let out the loops on Brandon Prince and he moved to the front disposing of Bugle Call rather handily Bugle Call then began to retire steadily and Super John took up the chase of Brandon Prince Rounding the turn for home Super John moved to with ¬ in a length of Brandon Prince but when Nash called upon his mount for improved speed Brandon Prince opened up at will Super John hung on determinedly in the final three furlongs while The Singer moved up determinedly to take his portion of the purse The mile and a half was run in 235 and marked the fourth consecutive triumph for public choices choicesThe The parade of winning favorites came to an end with the running of the Golden Rod Handicap sixth and supporting number to the Wannamoisett Eleven fast sprinters went to the post here Mrs W Plunkett Stewarts Milk Punch a threeyearold by Milkman staged a late winning rush to get up in the final stride to snatch victory from Mrs V Wyses Bachelor Dinner Gay Balko the favorite was another length and a half back in third place Deep End was fourth The winner was timed in 111U
