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MUD RACING AT HARLEM. To find the traditional needle in a haystack was about as easy as it was to pick a winner at Harlem yesterday. The track waB deep and stiff and the horses tbataran were, as a rule, of the lowest class. Not one decided favorite won and the ring must have reaped a harvest. There was one redeeming feature and that was Jockey Nutts excollentwork in the saddle. He had six mounts and rode four winners. This boy is in the best of form now and seems to ride with more intelligence than any of the other jockeys at the track. Nutts star performance yesterday was on Cuirassier in the last race. There was a delay of over, half an hour at the post and during this time he saved his horse carefully from fatigue, while the other boys and horses were squirming and jumping around like so many insects. When the starter did give the word Nutt was near the front and riding a waiting race eventually won easily by a couple of lengths, A field of nineteen of the moat ordinary plat-era at the track made up the first race which was at seven furlongs, and the ring was at sea as to what to make favorite. They finally settled on Sir Hobart and at post time he was the betting choice at 5 to 1. Springer was next in demand at 6 to 1. The latter proved to be much -the best of the bunch in the deep going and won all the way. Harry Leo was second and Forensic third. Pope Leo was backed from 3 to 1 down to 11 to 5 to win the second race, but after leading to the stretch he had enough and finished far back. The winner turned up in Brulare, well handled by Nutt. It seams that the ring should soon become tired of laying long odds against Pay the Fiddler, and considering the way he won the third race, it probably will. Nutt rode the gelding and after the others were exhausted he came through the stretch with a well-timed rush ana won easily by three lengths from Lord Zeni and J. J. T. Tom Barretts hard luck colt Barrack won the five and a half furlongs spin for two-year-olds handsomely from Dick Furber. Barrack is a slow beginner, but as the field was small he avoided all interferenc3 during the early stages of the journey, and coming with a rush in the stretch he passed Dick Furber and Frangible like a flash, and after a little shaking up to cinch matters won off by himself. After the race there was a lot of talk about Barrack fouling Dick Furber in the stretch. There was some interfering, but Dick Furber, and not Barrack, was the cause of it. F. C. Moshiers speedy mudlark, Evalya Byrd, made her first appearance of the season in the fifth race and after being backed from 8 to 1 down to 3 to 1, spread-eagled bar field, winning by two lengths from Antiquary.
