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Favorite in the Coy Maid Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. galloped strongly on to win, three lengths ahead of Really True who, owned by Major Noel Furlong and ridden by his son, beat out Slater by a neck for second place. First across the line, a length ahead of Kellsboro Jack, was a riderless horse named Apostasy. Apostasy's and Heartbreak Hill's jockeys crossed the finish together last of all, both riding Dusty Foot whom they had caught in open country. In the largest finishing field on record (18 out of 34 starters) Forbra, last year's winner, was sixth; Trouble Maker...
Pelorus Jack cleared the jump. Then, riderless, he swung wildly across the track instead of turning the sharp corner. He crowded Heartbreak Hill, the favorite. He tripped Gregalach who won in 1929 and Grakle who won last year. He blundered into six others, knocking them down. He kicked Sea Soldier (a son of Man o'War), the only U. S.-bred horse in the race. When the field gathered itself from the confusion, a scattered line instead of a close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker...
...checked a little, the horses made rough, desperate lunges to carry, and threw the men. All that Jockey Skinner on Soissons had to do was put the chestnut carefully over the brook and the shallow finish fence and down the midway to win. Reel Foot and Sea Soldier galloped riderless to the finish, Sea Soldier reaching the judges' stand just behind the winner. Brose Hover took second in spite of his fall. For five minutes the judges stood around in the rain waiting for a third, but nothing came along...
About noon a frightened Nicaraguan farmer arrived at Marine headquarters at Ocotal babbling that a massacre was taking place. While he talked a mule belonging to one of the wiring party galloped riderless down the village street. A rescue party was rushed to the scene. Of the ten Marines, only two were living. The dead men had been hacked .to pieces with machetes, their rifles, shirts and shoes stolen. Eleven dead Nicaraguans were sprawled nearby...