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GOOD RACING AT LAKESIDE. " »Sterdays disagreeable weather naturally :old against the attendance at Lakeside, bat • • faithful regulars, whom notres- of weather ,.u daunt, were out in full force, and were as •heerfully interested as though June weather «:nd a June track were in evidence. The racing was as good as could have been expected iinder the circumstances, and was dispatched 1 romptly and in good order. Nothing out of •rdinary line marked the days sport. Sixteen three-year-olds gniHIewi of ever bav- ig won a race contended for the money hung r,p for the opening dash of six furlongs and John Brenocks Emma R. ran away from her tompetitors and won about as she pleased. Ben Magen managed to land the second race i-om Battus by a narrow margin, but it va- due more to the fact that Knight outrode Miller :han superiority on thecolfs part,. Bad riding t much in evidence at Lakeside as at the other western tracks in the present scarcity of good riders. Frank Kittlemans old campaigner. Myth, au-i"xed the third race in style reminiscent of k is best form of two years ago. handily disposing of such good platers as Prince Blazes, Moroni and Sidhow. Myth is a pretty good fcorse when at his best, but never iu the strictly 3«-liable class. Kid Hampton made a show of the other mem-iwrrs of a dozen indifferent two-year-olds in the half mile selling race, and "Doe Rowell had to viand for a £500 raise, which he did like a drum Kajor. Then Tyrba. at long odds, defeated a big field of the kind that run all the year round, very ■inch to the surprise of the able mathematicians who had "figured" it out that Obsidian should t irely win, and as a windup Thomas Carey scrambled home narrowly in front of Woodtrice nd the members who faithfully follow EzelTs • irses came home with comfortable assurance «jf the price of a warm dinner in their inside 1-ocket. fine card is provided for this afternoon. with the Lakeside Stakes as the mainattrac-,, . Lathe clerk of the weather promises a clearing sky, the attendance will, do doubt, be jarge.
