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BLUE LARKSPUR FILLY WINS BassWood Sister to Brooklyn Takes Travers Island Purse Two of Diavolos Get Triumph at Empire EmpireCity City Unusually Small Crowd Watches WatchesProgram Program of Seven Races NEW YORK N Y July 20 Bass Wood Woodfull full sister to the illstarred Brooklyn which whichwent went wrong in the underpinning before he hehad had an opportunity to measure up to or fall falli i before the high expectations held for him himI I by the Edward Riley Bradley stable came camethrough through with a sterling effort to win the theTravers Travers Island Purse mile and a sixteenth sixteenthtest test for threeyearolds that was the most mostp important race on todays program at Em p pire City 1 This bay daughter of Blue Larkspur and i Knockaney Bridge which had been on the sidelines since her fourth on June 7 at Bel mont to War Plumage Hostility and Wise Lady in the Coaching Club American Oaks came back to competition in first class con ¬ dition She was driving under her 112pound impost to win by a length and a half over T Lee Evans Westnesia the second choice Each of the winners three rivals being males carried five more pounds than she did didFoxshade Foxshade representing the Christiana Sta ¬ bles and third choice at 8 to 1 finished third i in the Travers Island and Little Pinkey rep ¬ resenting Jay D Weil was fourth and last It was an unusually small crowd that wit ¬ nessed the Thursday program The racing however was of an interesting variety The crowd took quite a fancy to the Christiana Stables Briar Sharp twoyearold brown son of Sun Briar and Rose Petal by High Time which scored in the third event a dash of five and onehalf furlongs for twoyearold maidens maidensPAYS PAYS 12000 AS YEARLINGS YEARLINGSAt At the Saratoga yearling sales last Au ¬ gust the Christiana establishment took this i colt out of the Willis Sharpe Kilmer consign ment for 12000 The youngster a half brother to CNote which raced well for Mrs Ethel D Mars Milky Way Farm shaped up i as a good prospect for high honors in Sara toga stakes At the upstate course he is en gaged in the Saratoga Sales Stakes the Saratoga Special the Albany Handicap and the Hopeful HopefulThe The program added some luster to the rec orH of the stallion Diavolo two of his get scoring victories The first of these to make the grade was Bad Day a threeyearold chestnut filly from Marshmallow which won the second event under the Joe W Brown colors In the fourth Scandalous threeyear old bay daughter of Diavolo and White Favor therefore a full sister to the stakes winner White Cockade won under Ogden Phipps silks silksAt At the start of the Travers Island the fifth race of the day Donald Meade was first away with Westnesia This gelded son of Westwick and Polynesia opened up a two length advantage in the first quarter with Foxshade nearest in pursuit Foxshade gained on Westnesia near the threequarters mark and a few strides past that point went to the front Coming into the stretch it seemed as if the Christiana Stables was in for a double doubleTAKES TAKES TIME WITH FILLY FILLYHowever However F A Smith had been biding his time with Bass Wood allowing her to take her own good time about settling into full stride The filly was moving up gradually going down the back stretch Just inside the furlong post she went to Foxshade when Smith set her down and without much trou ¬ ble drew into the lead In the last sixteenth she drew away to win driving by a length and a half The time was 145 145Westnesia Westnesia never worse than second had I a lot of run in him in the final furlong al ¬ though no match for the winner and earned the place award by four lengths from Fox shade The latter tiring at the end was three lengths before Little Pinkey for show money moneyThe The second division of the five and three quarters furlongs sprint for cheap three yearolds saw the defeat of the favorite when Mrs A McShanes Night Tide led home Bonnie Dorothy from the Mansfield Stable and the choice Third went to J B Part ¬ ridges High Blame The apprentice E Mower had the winning mount mountThere There was a considerable post delay for which Carouse was to blame The start was a good one and while High Blame from the outside stall was first to show the way he soon gave way to Argella and Phone Dijon while Night Tide moved into third place Bonnie Dorothy had left the post slowly arid was badly outrun through the early stages stagesPhone Phone Dijon was next to tire and Night Tide went to Argella to put her away after the stretch was reached High Blame was going well in third place and it was not until the final furlong that Bonnie Dorothy came into the picture Her move came too late for in the final furlong Night Tide drew away readily to win by four lengths lengthsColorado Colorado Ore a starter tomorrow in the first race is the first of the Papyrus get to race here The miss is a daughter of the Englishbred that met Zev in a match race at Belmont Park
