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SORTIES PRAIRIE STAKES. The Prairie Stakes was an easy thing for Sortie yesterday at Hawthorne, and Passe Partout as usual came home in front of his field in the steeplechase. These were the two principal features of an excellent afternoons racing at the handsome Cicero track. Besides these two attractive events The Lady showed her quality in the mud, Maggie Davis gained a nose victory over Found in a six-furlong handicap, and there was aho something doing in the way of a selling race war. The Prairie Stakes was for two-year-olds at five and ;i half furlongs, with a gross value of ,340, and a half dozen of the best two-year-olds at the track were up for contention. Of the six Pat Durnes Sortie was most fancied and opening at 3 to 1 he was hurridly backed down to 12 to 5, Wild Pirate having 6econd call at about 3 to 1. Winkfield was up on Sortie ard he managed to get away in front, but the Dunne colt did not have speed enough to keep up in the front rank in the first part of the contest and passing the half mile ground he was last but one. Princess Tatyana being out four lengths in front of Wild Pirate with Handy Man third and Jiminez. with 123 pounds up, fourth. This same order remained around the far turn, but entering the stretch there was a general closing up and scramble for positions. Buchanan on Princees Tatyana had an idea in his head that by swinging to the extreme outside he would find the going much to his advantage, bat this was only an idle thought and by turning so wide the boy ruined whatever chance the Princess had. Winkfield on Sortie I chose the center of the track, which proved to be the proper place, and after a short, sharp 3 drive the Dunne colt soon had things his own i way and at the wire was two lengths in the lead 1 Handy Man came fast in the last quarter and 1 finished second thiee lengths in front of Wild 1 Pirate. Rumor has it that the latter ran his s race Wednesday, when he was worked five and a half furlongs in 1 :C9. Betting on Passe Partout in the steeplechase 3 at 6 to o was like getting money by letter, and most all f the careful ones, even those who as 3 a rule pass up the jumping races, were down. . The St. Florian— Kvery where Hindoo over the jumps got away in front and that is all there 3 ever was to it. Be took all the fences slick and j clean, and, as is his way. won pulling up. with 1 Viking second and the handsome filly. Frond, . third. It was 1 to 2 against The Lady to beat an ordinary " lot in the mile condition race and this 5 consistent filly never gave her backers one 5 anxious moment. She was third when the • barrier went up, but got to the front on the » 1r t turn, and setting a pace to suit bormtf, "rolled home" three lengths in front of Tutlrili. ■ The six furlong handicap, which nas second I on the program, furnished the only bit of excitement . . of the day. Maggie Davis. Found and 1 Miss Mae Day coming into the stretch Leads i apart and having a battle royal for about three-sixteenths . of a mile. None of the trio has a i reputation for gameness, and it was simply a question of which would laBt the longest, j Miss Mae Day was the first to quit, she giving I up about a hundred yards out, and from there i ! to the end Found and Maggie Davis had it ham- j i mer and tongs. Found had the better of the argument up to the last few strides, when -he ■weakened and Maggie Davis, staggering and ready to lie down, barely got up in time to poke , her nose in front. Ma.-ter Jed Waldo rode Maggie Davis, and his victory seemed to be a popular one with the female portion of the grandstand spectators. Louis Ezells Matin, backed from 10 to 1 down to 6 to 1 and handsomely ridden by Kiley. came home by himself in the initial five furlongs I two-year-old selling race. Matin was entered . to be sold for 00 evidently being all Ezell thought he was worth. G. W. Scott, however, took a fancy to the colt and when he was offered for 9ale bid 1900.sh0 for him, and as his bid was not raised be got the colt. Ezell seemed well satisfied to get rid of Matin and in the paddock hunted Scott up to have him hurry and take his new purchase off his hands. Scott remarked that as soon as he could get a halter he would take Matin to his stable and Ezell in a joking way threw in a halter along with the colt j ; thereby sending Scott on his way rejoicing. After losing Matin Ezell at once put in a claim for Sad Sam. who ran third, and got him for 75. Molo was backed from 2 to 1 down to 8 to 5 to win the closing mile and a sixteenth selling race, but the 113 pounds he had to carry held him when the pinch came and the best he could do was third to Blue Lick and Handpress. Blue Lick was well supported by a silent few at 5 to 1. and ran much better than he did in either of his last two races. Jockeys Bassinger. Caywood and Winkfield. all of whom had mounts in the stake race, were fined 5 each by Starter Holtman for bad conduct at the post. Jockey A. Jackson, who rode Frond in the steeplechase, was fined 5 by Judges Kuhl and Trevathan for pulling up his mount at the finish. Pat Dunne has bought Aloha II. from Mrs. Bradley at private sale.
