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OLIVERS GOOD DAY. W. L. Oliver, one of the best fellows in the race horse business and a born comedian, won two races with Mauga and All Gold at Harlem yesterday and then immediately started to give everyone he came in contact with a good time. Oliver is a very popular fellow with every race track follower that knows him. Being a good loser and an excellent entertainer under any circumstances, it is not hard to gues9 what he did after winning two race6 right off the reel. Maugas win was in the Proviso Stakes, which was worth ,800, and the Cayuga-Medusa filly displayed a fine turn of speed, staying the five furlongs gamely, leaving four other good youngsters, including Farmer Bennett, behind her. Mauga was ridden by Master Tommy Knight, who, by the way. is riding in excellent form, and opening at 7 to 1, was backed down to 6 to 1. Farmer Bennett, with the only Burns in the saddle, was the public betting choice, being backed from even money down to 7 to 10. Starter Dwyer got the small field in the stake race away at the first break to a perfect start, it being almost impossible to tell which youngster was first or which was last. Mauga, however, proved the quickest breaker and immediately shot to the front sailing past the half-mile post two lengths in front of Boomerack, who was a length and a half better off than Farmer Bennett. Mauga stepped the first furlong in 124 seconds and the quarter in 24 Hat which made the wise ones remark "Oh, she will come back." The filly was fit and ready though and going strong and easily she headed for home with a commanding lead and although leg-weary and all out she managed to stick it out to the end finishing three parts of a length in front of Boomerack, who ran a good game race. Close observers of form and players of good judgment climbed on Headwater when the bookmakers carried his price from 3 to 1 up to 10 to 1 and they cashed their tickets, too. Whatever made a sprinter of Headwaters ability a 10 to 1 shot was a mystery. That he was the best in the race he fully demonstrated, by running around his horses on the the stretch bend and eventually winning most impressively. May Beach was a stanch favorite for the Headwater race, but she got away all in a tangle and never really got fully straightened out. finishing among the "also rans.- Albert Simons seems to be the "real thing" and he and his friends cleaned up quite a neat sum on Regea in the first race. Roes rode Begea and he evidently went to the post bent on getting away in front, which he managed to do, and it was nothing but Regea all the way. Kohuwreath, running in Farmer Gene Leighs name, finished second and Donna Bella was third. Donna Rita, long overdue and at the fancy price of 1 to 1, "rolled home" the easiest kind of a winner iu the second race which was at a mile and a quarter. The pace in this race was very slow and ju?-t suited Donna Rita who made a sprint of it through the stretch. With the American Derby so near at hand much interest is always taken in the performances of the different candidates, and consequently All Golds race was the center of attraction yesterday. The handsome son of Rayon dOr— Merry Nellie romped iu front all the way a mile in 1 :434— and was worked out the mile and a quarter in 2:10j. This colt is a sure starter in Washington Parks big*event, and it will take a good horse to beat him on that day if he improves as much from this race as he did from his last one. The closing mile-and-a-sixteenth selling race went to The Elector, who, like Donna Rita, was a long time rounding into form. Ca6t Anchor, Natural Gas and Anna Chamberlain have been barred from starting at Harlem until they are schooled to the barrier. Hereafter all horses not properly schooled will subject their owners to a fine of 5 by the Harlem officials. All doubt as to H. E. Leigh beinjf represented in the west this year was dispelled when he started Kohnwreath in the first race yefterday at Harlem. W. Oliver was down hook, line and sinker on Mauga and All Gold, but he suffered a little ill-luck when Emigre ran unplaced in the sixth race. Charles H. Smith was at Harlem and told Secretary Nathanson that Lieutenant Gibson would be a probable starter in the Derby Trial Stakes at Harlem next Saturday. All Gold will be a sure starter in this event. Alexander Shields, of the firm of Carruthers and Shields, wired Secretary Nathanson yesterday to the effect that Advance Guard had won the Canadian Derby. Advance Guard and the rest of the firms stable will arrive at Harlem in a few days. Program books for next weeks races at Harlem will be issued today by Secretary Nathanson.
