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TENBI3 FAST MILE. I " A lot of water fell at Hawthorne yesterday and those that went to the track expecting to find the going muddy were agreeably surprised, j Rain was needed as the ground wa3 very dry and dusty. The track was not at its bsst, baing a trifle cnppy, but it was fast as was shown in the mile race which Tenby won in 1 :39l. The Tenby race was the feature of the day and stamps both him and Bonneville as being horses of high standard. Bonneville carried llai to Tenbys 107, and considering that he set the pace and won down such a speedy mare as ZEugenia Wickes in going the first half mile, it was a grand performance. Tenby was ridden to perfection by Nutt, who saved him like a veteran in the first part of the Journey and made his more at the right time. He got to Benneville and had tbo latter beaten at the eighth post and was then easing up at the end. Had the track been at its best and Tenby fully extended he would possibly have made a new record for a mile. Louis Ezell handed the ring one in the fifth race which was a three-quarter condition affair. He had his good filly. Espionage, keyed up to concert pitch and backed her from 3 to 1 -and better down to 11 to 5. Butter had the mount and laying in a good position next to the rail all of the way, he shot out of the bunch like a flash on the stretch turn and bafore the other boys had a chance to realize what had happened he had stolen a long lead and eventually won easily from Sim W. and Semper Eadem. Sim W. had up quite a lot of weight -and ran a cracking good race. A pretty struggle bstween two strong, competent jockeys was seen in the Eecond race. This was a three-quarter daah and fifteen started. Peter McCue jumped oat into the lead soon after the start and led by threo lengths into the stretch. Here he began to show signs of weakness and there was a general closing up. Peter gave it up at the eighth post, and from there to the wire the race narrowed down to a struggle between Lord Zeai and Tappan. Vandusen rode the latter anl Knapp had the mount on Lord Zeni. Both boys are good riders and strong finishers. Consequently the public was treated to a first-class exhibition of horsemanship. Lord Zeni was on the outside and Knapp took particular pains not to let Tappan squeeze through between him and the rail. Yandnsen, however, was determined and would not pull up and go around. So the two boys fought and struggled all the last sixteenth, Lord Zdni finally winning by a short head. Miss Ethel McGnigans handsome filly Unsightly won another line race for her handsome owner in the initial five furlong spin for two-year-olds. Unsightly was the natural favorite and was backed from 2 to 1 down to 7 to 5. She got away third, but immediately went to the front, and leading throughout, won pulling up from Zaza. Unsightly is perhaps the bast of her sex at the local tracks. Uarda, who is in her very best foim at present, had an easy task in the mile and an eighth race. Butter shot her to the front passing the atand and she was never again bothered, winning away off by herself and hard held from PanjCharm. Talbot Brothers Eberhart was backed off the boards to win the last race, bat the bast he could do was to get the place. The winner turned up in Carnero, who pulled up sound and is liable to regain his 1897 form again. Several of the jockeys were sick yesterday. The room they are compelled to stay in is built on the west side of the grounds, and is consequently exposed to the sun all the afternoon. I " j For some unknown reason the windows were all nailed up yesterday, and this made ttie room a regular sweat-box. Captain Bees has this to say of the Henry Launt disqualification on Monday: "Freeman was whipping and driving in a reckless way below the sixteenth post and bore in repeatedly on Del Paso II. Beauchamp, on the latter, was obliged to take up and come around Henry Launt." Mr. Bees also stated that he had made up his mind to disqualify Henry Launt before Beauchamp made his claim.
