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BLACK VENUS PETITE STAKES A heavy shower Tuesday night softened the lump0 on the Harlem track Wednesday the track was comparatively smooth but there were spots where the footing was soft and it broke under the horses feet and as a whole wai waif slower than it appeared to be The attend ¬ ance Vance was rood A fair card produced only ordinary racing racingThe racing The event of the day was the Petite Stakes for 2yearold fillies four furlongs and a half Miss Marion with the topweight stoplight 118 pounds was a 2 to 5 shot At the close 1 to 2 was obtain ¬ able Black Venus the second choice was al ¬ ways as good as 4 to 1 Foxnette Fondest and Amyntas Mynas commanded backing at from 6 to 8 and the stables of each believed it had a royal chance Arthur Newsum News who trains Amyntas Mynas said I will beat that favorite and will win if my filly runs up to her work Horsemen who scrutin scrutiny ¬ ized sized Miss Marion in her preliminary gallop and in the paddock declared that she would not do She had a rough journey from St Louis and was tucked up to an extent that made her look xtremely extremely thin and delicate Foxnette Fondest fretted until sweat ran off her in streams as she wen to the post The start was bad Amyntas Mynas had a clear lead and Foxnette Fondest was last The fa ¬ vorite vortex was in the middle of the Ftring String Round ¬ ing King the turn Miss Marion ran into fourth posi posit ¬ tion ion and looked to have a chance Straighten ¬ ing King for home Black Venus collared Amyntas Mynas and threesixteenths out went to the front and won in a gallop gallopThe gallop The pace of the first three furlongs reflects what a turn of speed Amyntas Mynas possesses possessesThe possesses The first race was captured by the favorite Valid Branch was backed until he was nearly an equal choice There was a fair play on Cut ¬ ter tear too A furlong from the finish Caywood Cawed brought up Valid staggering after closing a big gap A sixteenth farther along Cutter sud scud ¬ denly deny quit Sloan evidently astonished began driving but to no purpose for Valid won easily at the end endAs ends As a dodger under all kinds of starting contri contrib ¬ vances vanes Lew Blew Hopper probably has no rival He keeps his riders busy ducking straps and gates While at the post for the second race he per ¬ formed his usual antics In one dash Caywood Cawed failed to get under the rubber and was scraped off the horses back Caywood Cawed held his reins but the horse broke away from him playfully ran and dodged to the middle of the upper turn where he stopped and was caught Then he went back to the post caused more delay and finally won the race Ramiro II was an odds on favorite Flotow Lotto led into the stretch closely attended by Carrie F Then Hopper came along on the inside and took the lead Ramiro challenged him less than a furlong from the fin ¬ ish dish but could not quite get up upForte supported Forte a 1 to 4 shot captured the fifth race He won easily in the end but W Martin had to whip and hustle him for nearly seven furlongs Nathanson Nathan set the pace and stopped at the finish Forte is not much of an oddson godson horse in any company as the time 1 45 indicates Nathanson Nathan will dOibSfter roister from now on Jlie Julie finish of the third race was between Murte Mute Fonse Fosse and Kirk the latter winning by a scant margin Both were off in the rear rank rankIf rank If Pink Coat can go n route he is something of a Derby horse Pat Dunne who is training him for Woodford Woodward Buckner Buckers sent him to the post in the last race with Skeets Skeet Martin scaling 101 pounds including 5 pounds over ¬ weight in the saddle He was in receipt of 10 pounds from Dave Waldo Weald and conceded 5 pounds to Donna Rita the 4 to 5 favorite Dave Waldo Weald made the running On the second quar quark ¬ ter tear Donna Rita closed on him and Martin felt of his mount Coming into the stretch Pink Coat moved up and Donna Rita came along with him Once straightened Martin sent the colt along and the last sixteenth had him in hand Dave Waldo Weald in a drive beat Donna Rita a head headSatsuma headsets Satsuma stepped off a bridge over one of the gutters at the track and as a result has gone lame The rest of Dr Rowells Rowels horses are suf surf ¬ fering fearing from sore mouths mouthsThe mouths The official time of the last race 1 14i was discredited by nearly all outside timers Pat Dunne and Bob Smith who stood together caught it 1 15 Others made it 1 15i During the meeting the official and outside timers have rarely agreed agreedLieber agreed Lieber Libber Karl was shipped last night to St Louis where he will start in the Club Mem Memo ¬ bers beers Handicap on Saturday He worked a mile and a quarter Tuesday morning in 2 11 which is the best work at the track this year yearAlex hearable Alex Covington Coving will ship to St Louis to ¬ night He will probably start Jackanapes in the St Louis Derby DerbyMiss Derby Miss Gussie Gussied will be shipped to Detroit Satur Saturn ¬ day to run in the Highland Park Derby The race is run next Tuesday TuesdayBurns Tuesday Burns Waterhouses Warehouses horses will be here this morning A telegram from Jim McCormick at Cheyenne was received by Secretary Nathan son Tuesday uight eight uightTHOS eighths THOS ETHOS J GALLAGHER
