"Walkover"

Through mud, rain and wind Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee guided the five-year-old gelding, Millwick, at Belmont Park, N. Y., in last week's Hempstead Handicap race. Millwick was not traveling very fast, but the spectators had a feeling that he would win. They had confidence in famed Jockey McAtee. He had ridden Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory the fortnight before in the Kentucky Derby.

Jockey McAtee did not disappoint. Crouched low, but calm, he brought Millwick across the finish line a winner. He was rewarded with booes, because Millwick was the only horse in the race. The other twelve entrants had been scratched (withdrawn) before the start.

Race-track johnnies recalled that Man o' War won a "walkover" (one-horse-race) at Belmont Park in his prime, that Exterminator captured the Saratoga Cup in 1921 without opposition. Walkovers are made possible by the racetrack rule that once a race is scheduled it must be run, weather permitting, unless each and every entry drops out.