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Show Riddle Entry Adjudged Best Race Horse in '37; SeabiscuitrRatesNext By ORLO ROBERTSON BALTIMORE, Dec. 9 (AP) War Admiral, unbeatca three-year-old owned by Samuel Riddle of Philadelphia, today was awarded the turf highest honor when he was judged the outstanding race horse of the year by 258 sports writers. Although they never met In wnai would have been the race of the year, the Admiral and Mrs. C. S. Howard's 4-year-old Seabiscuit staged a nose finish In the poll conducted by the Turf and Sport Digest. Only 18 votes separated them In the final court War Admiral, a son of Man War, polled (21 vote en the basis ef three points for first, twe for second and one for third. 8eaMeeult, himself a grandson of Man o War, received MS. The selves, as William Zriglrr Jr.' Esposa, which finished third, tallied tal-lied only 140 vote. The Riddle ace. winner of eight races. Including the Kentucky derby. der-by. Preakness and Belmont stakes, and $166,300. easily won the 3-year-old title. He was the first cho.ee of every writer for that honor, and outdistanced T. P. Morgan's Texas-owned Heelfly 768 to 311 votes. Third place in the voting for 3-year-olds went to the Shandon farm's Burning- Star, wtt h BS7, Although no provision was made for naming the champion of the handicap division, it was decided to award a special plaque to Sea-biscuit's Sea-biscuit's San Francisco owner. The son of Hard Tack, purchased for S7800 late in the 1S36 season, piled up a record of 11 victories, two seconds and a third in 14 starts and was the year's leading money winner with $168,642.50 to dHte. The two races in which he finished second Santa Anita handicap and Bowie handicap he lost by a nose. There was no argument over Hal Price Headley'e Menow being be-ing the outstanding S-year-old of the year. He faced the barrier only aix times, but won three, including in-cluding a new world record for six and a half furlongs in the Belmont futurity. His earnlncs of $47,820 were tope among the juveniles. The race for 2-year-old filly honors hon-ors was a close two-horse affair, with Mrs. Edward Friendly's Ja-cola Ja-cola of Warrenton, Va getting the decision over the Wheatley stable's consistent Merry Lassie. The vote was 842 to 824. John Hay Whitney's Whit-ney's Inhale, the third horse, polled only 83 votes. |