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WASHINGTON PARK RACING RACINGAnother Another day of equatorial heat welcomed the racegoers racehorse to Washington Park Citizens who chance to become impoverished through pick ¬ ing King the wrong horse at the present meeting will be splendid material for warfare in Cuba as they will have been inured to the discomfort of thirst since there is only one hydrant in the betting ring and anything wet costs money at the swell South Side racetrack Charley Samp Scamp ¬ son just in from Denver said It warmed up coming through Missouri and when we struck in alongside the drainage canal one got a tip on the temperature of Plutos Pluto realm The track ead bead of being fast us a bullet was station ¬ ary Cary but quite up to the breaking of records recordsW records W B Sink Jr the owner of Formero Former said before the race My colt escaped the throat trouble which afflicted all others in my string when starting east but he began to cough soon after coming here and after his race of Tues ¬ day last he upon reaching the barn had a severe attack He seems to have partially re ¬ covered but I heard him cough twice this morning when pulled up after breezing through the stretch He seems to have lost his speed as he then only showed a quarter in 24f seconds If he runs a bad race today I shall ship him at once to Saratoga SaratogaM Saratoga M Blumenthal Lumen bet 500 that Formero Former would beat W Overton Overtone Eugene Leigh said that he scratched King Barleycorn believing Col Cool Pep ¬ pers peers horse to be of the kind that can easily get too much of it Charley Quinii Quinine bet several hundred dollars on Formero Former who went to the post an equal favorite with Santello Antelope SantelloThe Satellite The first break was a perfect start but Dwyer thought differently W Overton Overtone ran onesix ones ¬ teenth tenth and at another breakaway threeeighths but when oil at the third attempt Schorrs Scorers colt at once reached and passed Formero Former and was not again headed winning in a desperate drive which had lasted from the eighth post and knocking a whole second off the track record for the distance distanceYolyothen distance Yolyothen Polythene showed third close up the first part of the race but in the stretch was displaced by Santello Antelope who shot up almost to the leaders 150 yards from the wire wireThe wreathe The others were not in it W Overtons Overtones im ¬ provement preferment over his former race was marked he then being beaten by Santello Antelope who now had two pounds the better of the weights weightsTommy weights Tommy Burns suspension gave the race to Mr Schorr Scorer as Thorpe a much stronger boy just managed to land W Overton Overtone first by an eye winker winkerBen winker Ben Hadad Add had no trouble in negotiating a gt fQ when hooked up with horses of his own age as carrying 112 pounds he was not headed where with 95 pounds up in a race for all agts agates the day previous he had been beaten His defeat at 9 to 10 sent his price to 5 to 1 at which figure on Wednesday he had galloped home in front at threequarters treasurers of a mile Skeets Skeet Martin rode a great finish The contenders were always Pingree Pongee or Al Fresco the handi hand cappers favorite Frank Thompson getting off badly and bringing up the rear of the first half Tom Calvert Culvert was nibbled at Refugee won all the way Friar John and Jos Jose Shelby had a hot finish for the place The others were not dangerous at any part of the journey journeyGoodrich journey Goodrich had no difficulty in winning he holding the third position until ready to come on Barataria Barratries had taken the track to relin reline ¬ quish squish it when Caywood Cawed went on at the far turn with The Tarcoon Garcon Ollie Mollie Dixon the favorite was last entering the back stretch and could never get up upThe Ute The betting which had been feeble since the first race rallied somewhat on the final event The attendance was the smallest of the meet ¬ ing King and the bookmakers had a day off as far as plunging goes Dave Waldo Weald backed down from 5 to 1 to 7 to 5 beat the flag and there was nothing to it the best son of Sayre Ayres having something to spare at the finish after a drive with Fonsavannah Enchanter long delayed the start and when the flag fell his chance was destroyed as was that of California CaliforniaAgain California Again was the threequarter treasurer mile record of the track beaten Dave Waldo Weald hanging up 1 12i 12iIn In all the races of the day form was knocked to flinders and as one handicapper expressed it We all went up in a balloon Followers at policy of the figure three profited largely as the flrst first four winners each carried to victory such number numberEugene number Eugene Leigh was around with a subscrip subscript ¬ tion ion paper for the veteran blind turfman Truman Wal Walt ¬ ter tear Lamb and collected some hundreds of dol dole ¬ lars The Turf Congress ought to make some provision to pension such men said Leigh LeighA Leigh A W Longley Langley once the owner of the trotting stallion Monroe Chief was comparing notes on the old days with Bill McGuigan Michigan McGuiganJ Michigan J W Schorr Scorer and Sam Elsas Elsa were spectators spectatorsEugene spectators Eugene Leigh has bought Greatland Greenland Asked as to the price he answered I can afford to run him in a cheap selling race raceBrown racer Brown Dick was out and jocularly re ¬ marked to Col Cool Pepper When next you got Black Venus in against Souchon Soupcon please let me win winThe winter The field books are less in number than on Derby Day DayTrains Dayrooms Trains on the L which closely approaches the bach stretch slow up when passing Washington Park The engineer of a solitary locomotive let his fire go out waiting for En ¬ chanter to break breakJ break J S Shaw an oldtime oldie turfman Truman of St Louis was a visitor visitorAn visitor An intimate of Ed Corrigan when ap ¬ proached poached with It looks as if you uns Huns wore quite out of racing was answered Not by a good deal dealChris dealers Chris Smith said I am bad at this meet ¬ ing King and Thursday I did not pick a winner St Callatine Palatine is a vastly improved filly as in Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica she would take the track then die off whereas now she comes strongly from the rear I guess I never knew anything about horses any ¬ way for I always gave Yo Tambien Ambient and Maid Marian plenty of time to recover after a hard race while nowadays coughing horses are started and if a mans nag happens to win one day he is started the next and the next and so run off his legs Look at Traverser Traverse Why he ran last summer all the fall and all winter Yet he is here doing the best he can
