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LOVELY NIGHT VICTOR Clark Star Triumphs in the 20000 Added Butler Handicap ThreeYearOld Defeats Older Stars Starsof of Handicap Division at Empire EmpireCity City Lowers Track Record NEW YORK N Yf July 22 Staving off challenge after challenge from fit and de ¬ termined rivals and weathering a claim of foul lodged by Tommy Malley rider of the Belair Studs Isolator Mrs F Ambrose Clarks Lovely Night threeyearold bay son of Pilate and Snooze by Peter Pan scored a brilliant triumph Saturday at Empire City in the fifth running of the Butler Handicap HandicapAlthough Although only a neck in front at the end of the long journey the faststepping Pilate colt covered himself with glory in winning the richest race of the Empire City Racing Associations twentyfourday meeting He not only set all the pace but in winning in 15775 clipped a fifth of a second from the track and stakes record established last year by the sixyearold mare Esposa EsposaISOLATER ISOLATER RUNS WELL WELLIsplater Isplater which came back to the races after an absence of about ten weeks made a surprisingly good effort to earn the second portion of the Butler purse Sickle T rep ¬ resenting Mrs B F Whitaker of Texas was a hardrunning third and Alfred G Vander bilts Heelfly was fourth Nedayr repre ¬ senting Willis Sharpe Kilmer finished fifth and Maxwell Howards The Chief was sixth and last lastHenry Henry McDaniel who trains Lovely Night and Nick Wall who rode him ran into hard luck as well as good luck After the former had saddled Mrs Clarks Flying Lancer winner of the opener and the winner of the Butler Handicap as well and after Wall had won the Butler in addition to the fourth in which he piloted Paul Codds Abmeres they were set back in the final placings through the disqualification of A G C Sages Blue Stocking StockingLovely Lovely Night carrying 104 pounds twelve under the scale came up to the Butler fresh from a victory last Saturday in the Empire City Handicap In June he scored in the Constitution and Queens County Handicaps More as a result of his perform ¬ ance on July 15 than as a result of earlier victories he was favored at 3 to 2 to win the Butler Second choice was The Chief at 7 to 2 The outsider was Isolator at 8 to 1 Continued on thirtyfifth page LOVELY NIGHT VICTOR Continued from first pare In the neighborhood of 18000 visitors con ¬ stituting one of the largest crowds of the meeting were on hand for this fifth Butler Among the visitors was Col Matt Winn gen ¬ eral manager at Churchill Downs Louisville Ky who managed Empire City for the late James Butler in its inaugural meeting meetingRAIN RAIN THREATENS THREATENSThroughout Throughout the day a threat of rain was constantly in the air The sky was heavily overcast but no rain fell The track was lightning fast and racing conditions were ideal idealThe The start of the Butler was good but immediately after the break Heelfly ducked toward the inside rail knocking Lovelj Night into Nedayr The favorite bounced off the Kilmer horse and back against the Vanderbilt representative However Nick Wall who had just won the fourth race with Paul Codds Abmeres kept his head and pushed Lovely Night to the front frontAt At the threequarter mile point The Chief drew within a half length of Lovely Night But Wall still had plenty left and at his bidding the Pilate colt drew away At the end of the mile the destined winner was two lengths in the lead In the fourth quar ¬ ter Malley moved up swiftly with Isolater and reached second place shortly before the turn into the stretch was reached From that point to the wire Isolater made a mag ¬ nificent attempt to overhaul the leader miss ¬ ing by a scant neck neckMalley Malley charged that Wall had struck Iso ¬ later with his whip but the stewards ignored the claim saying they had seen no foul committed Lovely Nights victory netted his owner 16950 and increased his earnings for the year to 40350 and for his career to 47395 He has started nine times as a threeyear old and has achieved five victories and one second
