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...Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata 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...
...300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races of the day Jockey Westrope's mounts had finished in the ruck. Now, up on Out Bound, he was again wearing the silks of Mrs. A. R. Smith, the owner for whom he had ridden his first victory of the year at Havana last January. Away fast from the barrier, Jockey Westrope lifted Out Bound into the lead, coaxed him along in a squeaky treble, won by five lengths...
Mark Sullivan and other panting contemporary historians, including those runners in the ruck who can spare no breath for comment, would do well to mark this book in passing. In 320 pages Author Brunngraber, with painstaking Teutonic methodism, has compressed a significant world-history of the past 51 (1880-1931). An alleged novel, Karl and the 20th Century focuses from time to time on its little hero's helpless struggles to keep his head above the flood; but Author Brunngraber's dogged attempt toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls...
...back. The rider was Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond. With a generous lead to start, she rode Debenture hard to win by two lengths over Mrs. "Jock" Whitney on Range Finder, Mrs. Barney Balding finished third on Harold E. Talbott's Kummel. Favorites Halcyon and Pompeius gallumped in the ruck...
...rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia swung wide outside her. Three abreast, they drove down the stretch like a cinema chariot race. While the crowd roared at the season...