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HAWTHORNE RACING. J The fact that there was to be a steeplechase a over the handsome course at Hawthorne yesterday proved a great drawing card and the crowd was by far the largest of any since the opening. It numbered fully 5.000. The steeplechase was a joke so far as a contest was concerned, bnt it furnished an amusing spectacle and the crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. Five started, but only 1 one, Chenier, finished. That is, be was the only horse that went the course without making a mistake. At the very first fence Sir Hobart iefnsed. At the sixth both Del Coronado and Oxnard ran out of the course. This left Chenier and Jack Hayes to fi»rht it out. The pair raced witbiu reach of one another to the eighth obstacle. Here one of Morrisseys stirrup leathers gave way and he was unseated. Chenier went on by himself and amid deafening applause cantered home with first money. In the meantime Kidd and Johnson had remounted their horses Del Coronado and Oxnard respectively au j were struggling to make the rounds and get second and third places. After falling off. Morrissey did not feel like chasing after Jack Hayes, but Jimmy Boyd, who is a clever cross-country rider, did. and after catching the horse away up on the far turn brought lam back to where Morrissey fell off and going over the course succeeded in getting second place. This pleased the crowd tremendously and for an instant Boyd was the hero of theday. Del Coronado came in several minutes later and got third place. Will Woodard and his friends made an old fashioned killing on The Devil in the nine furlong race. It was third on the card and had but four starters, and on paper looked to be strictly between Al Fresco and Rifle. Both were heavily played. The Woodard contingent, however, had something up their sleeve, and after The Devii had drifted from 6 to 1 back to 8 to 1 they flooded the ring and backed the colt down to 3 to 1. Evidently each of the boys that rode had waiting orders, the consequence was that there was no strong pace made. This was all in The Devils favor, and when it came to a sprint through the last quarter he easily cut-footed the others and won with a lot left. Rifle was second and Al Fresco, who did not near run his race, third. There was a fortune taken out of the ring, and Will Woodard is credited with winning 4,600. Mr. H. L. Frank was a visitor at the track and in the first race of the day had the pleasure of seeing his colors in front. They were worn by Mallakawa, who was backed from 6 to B down to 4 to 5. Beauchamp rode the colt, and after a bumping finish through the stretch with Ostra, beat the filly by a neck. Indian showed a decided liking for the track and won the three-quarter dash for two-year-olds off by himself. He was a 7 to 1 chance and had little or no support The odds-on favorite. Onota, led the field to the stretch, but "dogged it" when Indian got to her and had to be hard ridden to beat Olive Order for the place. Theresa H.. ridden by a midget named Grimes, who seems to understand his business, won the fifth race, and The Dauphin, long overdue, and at 8 to 1, cantered home in the sixth. The latter waa entered to be sold for 00 but Thomas Cosiello. The colt was rnn up 00 by was retained for the odd fiver. Arthur Newsum left last night for Latonia to see his horse Monongah iun in the Himyar Stakes. Jockey "Cash Sloan is making a strong J a effort to get reinstated. He was suspended by Judge Murphy last winter at San Francisco for ride on Abuse. Jockeys Everett and "Skeets" Martin are expected at the track this week.
