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GEORGE ARNOLDS MNE SACK The fourth race at Washington Park ycstei day was productive of one of the most exciting finishes of the meeting George Arnold Head ¬ water and Major Dixon passing orer the imag ¬ inary line noses apart It was a spectacular finish and aroused the immense gathering to the keenest pitch of enthusiasm George Arn ¬ old whose performances hereabouts this year hava suffered in comparison with his great races of last year was allowed to go up in the betting many of the talent putting their faith in Headwater on his good showing against Sid ¬ ney Lucas several days ago agoGeorgo Georgo Arnold put up one of hie best lacee and showed a dash of his former speed going1 into the lead soon after a half had been run He wheeled into the final quarter a length in front of Headwater on whom Major Dlxon who had moved up fast along in here on the inside rail was lapped It appeared very rosy for the Jones gelding as the trio approached the last eighth as he had moved up to the eon of Sir Dixons throat latch latchCaywood Caywood uow sat down and rode ono of the best races of his life He armed and legged tire big horse with all the power he could summon and by dint of an energetic effort the like of which has seldom been seen here this year fairly shot George Arnolds nose first past the post with Headwaters nose the same distance in front of Major Dixon Mathews on the last named lodged a claim of foul against George Arnold but the judges failed to sustain it George Arnold is now back to his old form again and it will take a mighty good horee to beat him at seven furlongs or under from now on onCambrian Cambrian bad on his running clothes yester ¬ day and ran to his best form Favored by the start he dashed at once to the front in the fifth race a mile and seventy yards affair cloeely at ¬ tended by Caviar with Specific third a length away The lastnamed got about two lengths the worst of the sendoff and was never able afterward to close the gap Moving down the backstretcb Cambrian running along well within himself easily maintained his advantage while Caviarincreased his lead over the Ellison hope to itwo lengths Along in here Bnllman rallied Specific and by dint of punishment got his mount close up to the two in front ol him when bending for the final straightaway Onoe straightened for home Caviar cried quita and the son of St Florian dashed up into second position Bnllman tried his every art and skill to close on the flying Respass horso in front of him butlthe two lengths handicap at the start was too much to overcome Cambrian winning by a lengtbIwith Specific two in front of Caviar The lastnamedwas well up to the head of the stretch and then fell away He is probably waiting for the mud to show at his best bestTheory Theory ably piloted by Bnllmanv ran baek to her California foim and bad DO trouble in an ¬ nexing the purse of the first raee to her credit She was easily in the lead all the way and won handily at the end by two and a half lengths from Sevoy who beat the fast closing Lady Elit i one for the place Duelist of whom much waslexpected ran a dull race and was never a contender Sevoy was rank for five furlongs but when the pinch came showed tho white feather TAndrisa was badly outrun for the en ¬ tire journey a The ifive and a half furlongs scramble for youngsters went to the consistent Janbert who flaehed to the front at the barriers rise and re ¬ mained there to the end winning in a canter by three and a half lengths from the improvingRad Hook who was two lengths in front of the faint j hearted Doreen The Four Hundred who ran 1 CONTINUED ON SECOND PAOB GEORGE ARNOLDS FINE RACE Continued from Firit Fags so Impressively several days ago waa dnll of jpeed and ran far below expectations flnifihing i taraway sixth sixthPat Pat Dunne scored with Toah in the second jvent of the day the gelding shaking off Im ¬ promptu easily after the first quarter had been ran and thereafter remaining in front to the id Ho beat G W W handily by a length vvith tho latter a neck before Leo Nowell on Tdiwn IlHlonca was lapped Impromptus race raB too bad to be true and he has probably trained off offThe The finale resolved Itself into a duel between Hen Battle and Serrano the two hooking up in ho Inst eighth and fighting it ont hammer and Sense to the wire The Woodford Everman gelding finally won by a neck with Serrano five lengths before Scarlet Lily The Respaes horse was probably a shade short and the race which was e good one should benefit him a great deal
