Occupy Displays Speed to Win Again; Pomayya Upsets in Faireno Handicap: Brookmeade Mare Whips Lochinvar; Outsider in Wagering Sets All of Pace to Triumph by Length in Aqueduct Event, Daily Racing Form, 1943-06-15

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Occupy Displays Speed to Win Again Pomayya Upsets in Faireno Handicap Brookmeade Mare Whips Lochinvar LochinvarOutsider Outsider in Wagering Sets All of Pace to Triumph by Length in Aqueduct Event EventAQUEDUCT AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 14 Pomayya thoroughly shocked a vast majority of the 16763 racegoers at Aque ¬ duct this afternoon when she led from start to finish of the featured Faireno Handicap a test of a mile and a furlong that attracted a familiar field of four Mrs Dodge Sloanes lightwaisted Pompey mare was the rank outsider of this quartet and jockey Alfred Robertson drove her over the distance in l52 on a fast sur ¬ face to arrive at the stand a length in ad ¬ vance of J M Roeblings confidently backed Lochinvar Glen Riddles big rough Soldier Song was third a slightly greater margin back and no less a runner than Mioland completed the field an ab ¬ ject five lengths behind Soldier Song SongScarcely Scarcely anybody in the large offday attendance anticipated Pomayya would take the park away from two such rapid breakers as Lochinvar and Soldier Song then utterly discourage pursuit The com ¬ parative few who did were rewardetS for their clairvoyance at the rate of 1450 for 2 She carried 112 equal weight with Soldier Song and both were in receipt of five pounds from Lochinvar and the former West Coast champion Mioland MiolandEurasian Eurasian Annexes Honors HonorsThe The Faireno Handicap was most inter ¬ esting of two Monday attractions the other resulting as unsatisfactorily for the weary favorite players when the Dwyer candidate Gold Shower was beaten at oddson by Eurasian at six furlongs in 111 Efforts to rate Vera S Braggs gelding early failed to have the desired result resultThe The Monday gathering was surprisingly large and among those present in the swank and swish atmosphere of the modernistic clubhouse were Col E R Bradley Tony Pelleted Tom Healey Theodore Knapp and Dr Edward Kilroe The days proceedings were productive of but one winning choice the first six races while riding honors were scattered scatteredPomayya Pomayya just refused to wait for the horses in the Faireno Behind her an in ¬ teresting skirmish developed for second honors between Lochinvar and Soldier Song Atkinson on Lochinvar bothered Soldier Song all through the final furlong as his mount drifted out and finally he heContinued Continued on Page Two Pomayya Surprises in Outrunning Her Three Opponents in Faireno Handicap Shifty Brookmeade Mare Has Length to Spare in Route Event at Aqueduct Course CourseContinued Continued from Page One Onetook took recourse to his whip both as a means of discouraging Soldier Song and urging his own horse No objection was lodged lodgedMioland Mioland made a feeble bid on the turn but obviously is pounds below his best form formVera Vera Braggs Gold Shower was a de ¬ faulting good thing in the sixfurlong Hornpipe Handicap for class C three yearolds He failed to run down Hava horrie Stables Eurasian whom he essayed to spot ten pounds Eurasian led him three parts of a length in 111 while True Blue finished third in a field of seven but was six Jengths farther back backThe The favorite was the lone Dwyer candi ¬ date of the pack and did nothing to but ¬ tress his claims to name horse distinc ¬ tion in that Taturday stake stakePerhaps Perhaps in deference to his having top weight Woolf took this frontrunner back at the break and essayed to come from behind on him It did not work for Gold Shower was held perfectly safe by Eura ¬ sian all the final furlong furlongEurasian Eurasian and Breezing Home followed Joe Burger closely to the turn where Eu ¬ rasian went to the front as the other two stopped stoppedAmerican American Wolf new convert to the hur ¬ dle ranks who races for Mrs Alice F Sherman and was ridden by J Mason defeated a big field of 13 others in the about mile and a half of the George Eno Purse He finished three lengths in advance of Post Haste who in turn was a pair of lengths before Rice Cake CakeAmerican American Wolf never left the issue in doubt whereas the illfavored Bold Stroke could never be a factor factorThis This affair was marred by a pretty nasty spill when Chesapeake fell at a hurdle with steeplechase jockey E Roberts while racing in the middle of the pack packRoberts Roberts was removed in the ambulance Chesapeake escaped serious injury though he scrambled to his feet in the nick of time to be struck by one of the trailers and knocked flat again The winner paid 620 It was a slow race 245


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