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Last week, both oldsters went to the post for the first time at California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...
Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...
...Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again. At the half-mile pole, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery pushed out in front and while his backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed there until the furlong pole. After turning for home, Jockey Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press...
...Crowninshield Scholarships, founded in 1877, by Francis Boardman Crowninshield were awarded to Henry Michael Adlis, of Lynn, Howard Alexander Cook, of New York City, Robert William Furlong, of West Roxbury, and Dean Nevin Shaffner, of Waverley...
Closest event of the meet was the fifty in which George Scott came through to beat Eugene Jennings, the Lion sprint flash, by a matter of inches. Another close race was between Ed Devereux and Tom Wright, in the furlong, which the latter finally won by only a few feet. In the quarter-mile, however, the Columbia swimmer had an easy time...