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JOCKEY SUTHERLAND GETS A BAD FALL. Lively Bidding Tilts After Selling Races at Ascot Park Durnell Is Winning Heavily. Los Angeles, Cal., January 3. The "halter men" were much in evidence at Ascot Park this afternoon. "Red" Walker started the ball rolling in the game of "boost" by bidding up Tiieo Case from 00 to . When he stopped at the latter figure, owner Williams retained ills colt with an advance of . J. J. McCafferty took Sun Mark for 00, a raise of 00 over his entered selling price. Bob Marks bid up Stoessel from 00 to , but Fred Imzader retained the colt for an extra . C. K. Durnell has become the sensation of the hour here. He won heavily over the victories of Sir Wilfred aud Incantation yesterday and came right back with a plunge on Cutter today. Spence Sutherland received an ugly fall on Allegiance over the first jump in the steeplechase today. He was picked up unconscious and taken In an ambulance to a hospital. He is suffering with concussion of the brain and physicians say tonight that he is in a precarious condition. Jockey Wiley was fined 5 and suspended for three days for breaking through the barrier with Cutter. George Wheelock and his brother arrived yesterday and will remain for some time; neither is booking but both are betting from the grouud.
