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WASHINGTON PARK RACING RACINGAt Racing At Washington Park a fine off day card was waspresented aspires presented and the attendance was an average averageone average one The track was again in shape for record breaking but the quality of the cattle engaged engagedpresaged engaged presaged little in this regard regardSkeets regards Skeets Skeet Martin on Midian Indian quite put it on Dick Clawson Lawson on King Bermuda for once the fashionable cry of Oh I You Dick not cash ¬ ing King The finish between these clever jockeys was an exciting one Both came from behind midway the straight and drove home with their horses locked All the real good players beat this race either backing Midian Indian straight or King Bermuda for place Leo Mayer was the exception Nivoce Invoice was first off to a good start but Ella Penzahce Penance quickly took command The iiorses biopsies ran well bunched bar Warren Point who trailed up the back stretch and not until the last sixteenth did the placed horses draw clear In the second race Candleblack Candlewick led all the way and won handily from George Krats Rats who outlived Found Monk Wayman Cayman was always from 50 to 100 yards behind all others othersThe others The handicap over the Woodlawn Woodland Course was theTit theist betting race of the day Batten was mover headed Cambrian second all the way until close in was easily beaten at the finish by Canace Cancel who came from fifth position on the upper turn King Barleycorn ran third for the first threeeighths of a mile mileFor Milford For the fourth race Eddie Burke was thought to be a good thing but he was easily beaten by Teutonna Teutonic War Jig Murphys Murphy mare she lay ¬ ing King along on the outside of the favorite to the last threeeighths then coming away Pace maker and Eddie Jones ran paired two lengths behind the others up the back stretch but the latter ran a bad third beating Mr Peppers horse away off offThe often The talent again went down with a crash crashwhen crash when Forte was beaten Dunnes Dunes horse trailed trailedfour trailed four lengths behind the leader Necedah Necked at the thequarter thruster quarter post entering the back stretch but butwhen burthen when at the upper turn Morte Mote Fonso Fonts led Forte went up and raced the old campaigner On the thelatter theater latter Thorpe sat still until Tommy Burns at atthe bathe the last threesixteenths had worn the favorite favoriteout favorite out and then with a vigorous shaking up Morte Mote MorteFonso Motions Fonso Fonts came on and at the betting ring having havingForte having Forte beaten was bunched along again to beat beatTwinkler breadwinner Twinkler Winkler who came very fast on the end and andgot Ando got place honors away from the favorite favoriteTwinkler favorite Twinkler Winkler was disqualified for fouling the place placegiven place given to Forte and the third money to Necedah Necked NecedahJust Just to show what difference a good jockey jockeymakes jockey makes to a horse Willie Martin rode Traverser Traverse Traverserand Traverse and this is how he brought him home a winner winnerGeorge winegrower George H Ketcham Ketch had taken command After Aftera After a furlongs run Abuse and Eugenia Wickes Wickets Wickescaught Wickets caught him and the pair went right on racing racingat racing at the head of the home stretch Traverser Traverse was wasseveral asseverate several lengths behind the leaders Martin got gothim gothic him in close to the inside rail and stealthily stealthilymoved stealthily moved along unnoticed by the boys in front At Atthe Bathe the last eighth Eugenia Wickes Wickets had Abuse Abusebeaten Sauerbraten beaten and gaily sat Clawson Lawson on her sure of ofwinning coffining winning m the usual manner when all at once onceVirginia Virginia Bradleys Bradley illyused illumed colt was sent to the thewhip threw whip by the artist on his back and full of fire fireTraydHer firetrap TraydHer Trader exhibited the phenomenal speed of ofthe often the first class he really is and before he flickered flickeredthe flickered the winning post was safely passed It was wassimply assembly simply the case of reserving a horse for a rally rallywhere rally where the money is hung up instead of making makingevery malingerer every post a winning one oneIt conceit It was Pacemakers second start of the year He won at Newport April 9 9Lew Lew Blew Williams wab swab deprived of the use of H Shields on Lucy Belle because the boy from an overdose of watermelon could not do the wettht wettest H O Price formerly of Cleveland and Pitts Pits burg now in charge of Whi Whig ttington tinstone Park Hot Springs has been in town for two days It is understood that his visit has something to do with winter racing at Hot Springs here a mile track is to be built builtGeorge bulgier George C Bennett came from Memphis to be in at the death He will stqp stop at St Louis on his way home homeM home M E Walden did not send his fast sprinter Billy Mason to Montana He said It costs too much some 600 for five head of horses and I couldnt couldn't get anybody to go along alongT along T D Carter who has not started a horse at Washington Park says that he has been resting up and that his colors will be seen on the west side tracks tracksEd trackEd Ed Austin is off for Saratoga SaratogaSmith Saratoga Smith Perrj Perry made the prices for the first race racePresident racers President Aall All of the St Louis Jockey Club was a visitor visitorIt visitor It has never been explained why is pursued the policy of taking down the jockeys names when the horses go to the post Many a person in the grand stand remains in ignorance of what such and such a boy is doing doingMurray doing Murray Kellar Keller was up from Louisville LouisvilleThe Louisville The track at Hawthorne considered by horse ¬ men to be one of the best in America is in splendid condition The soil is somewhat looser than that of Washington Park and while no iccords accords are likely to be broken horses raced at Hawthorne are likely to hold their form a long time timeTbejudges timetable Tbejudges Begrudges at Washington Park had a con ¬ ference Terence with Mr T C McDowell after the racing of the day This probably had some ¬ thing to do with the statement printed in a morning paper concerning the liability of colored jockeys being interfered with in races by the white boys The reporter who wrote the article was interviewed yesterday by the judges whose deportment on the occasion was grave in the extreme as the dignity of the Washington Park Club was supposedly assailed assailedCaptain assailed Captain J H Rees will preside at Hawthorne with Harry Kubl Kublai as associate judge A third judge is considered unnecessary in other in ¬ stances than where might bb useful the fifth wheel of a wagon It can be positively stated that the village authorities advertised as ad ¬ verse to racing in Cicero are if anything on the other tack and no interference is antici antic ¬ pated patted
