Who Lost

P: Two aging and ailing champions, Assault and Stymie, in Aqueduct's Edgemere Handicap. Assault, fourth-highest moneywinner in turf history ($672,520), closed gamely despite a patched-up leg and finished third. Stymie, still the world's top moneywinning horse ($911,335), was rapturously applauded as he went to the paddock for his first race since he was retired with a cracked sesamoid bone 14 months ago. After finishing dead last, Stymie was still cheered. In keeping with the quaint custom at New York tracks, the boos were for Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode My Request, the winner.

P: Wizened little Johnny Longden, rider of more winners (3,402) than any other U.S. jockey, who interrupted a visit to his native England to ride -- and finish last --aboard a 66-to-1 shot in Doncaster's historic St. Leger Stakes. "It was a good race, what I saw of it," chirped 39-year-old Longden.

P: Britain's six-girl Wightman Cup tennis team, which sometimes outshone the U.S. girls in looks but not in form, and went to defeat for the 13th consecutive time, at Haverford, Pa.'s Merion Cricket Club, 7-0.

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