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QUIETING AT BENNINGS. ALL CONCERNED TAKING READILY TO THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS. Favorites Faro Badly on the Heavy Track PjmHco Horses Much in Evidence in the Days Racing. Washington, D. C, November 10. Things appear to be breaking well for racing here. It was at first .supposed that the bookmakers would encounter a storm of criticism on account of the decision In the Davis case, but such does not appear to be the result. Everything Is going oloug serenely and both the public and the regulars are being educated to the new system of personal wagering. There is not any difference In the betting as compared with the old system, excepting that the bookmakers move about and do not confine their operations to any one enclosure. About eighty-five did business. Still there is a lot of complaint from the chalkers of odds. They say that it is impossible to handle much money. The fact that it is hard to get an idea of the average price of the market, keeps many of the heavy bettors from wagering their accustomed amounts. Most of the favorites today went by the board, but it hardly helped the professional brethren any. They lost heavily to Perry Belmonts El Dorado. He was backed by the heavy bettors as if an election was held overnight and from the way Lady Vincent ran it certainly appeared to be so. El Dorado showed much the most speed while Lady Vincent seemed a laggard of the worst order. Other days will come for her. Conditions of all sort seemed to put a damper on the days sport. In the first place the weather was damp, cloudy and threatening, and in the. second the tremendous rainstorm that waged" here all day Sunday had turned the track" into a morass of mud. This brought a lot of scratches and materially reduced some of the fields. It is beginning to -dawn on many of the racing folk that Pimlico form is sure to cut a wide swath , here. During the three days racing nearly half a dozen horses that raced nt that point have been returned winners. Today Baringo captured, the first, Lord Boanerges brought home the purse in the third and Ivanhoe was an easy winner in the fifth race. Valley Forge would be one of the best steeplechasers in the cast if he could be depended upon to stay a route. For the second time on a Jockey Club course the horse went the entire course without blundering and for the second time he came home a winner. He had no trouble in disposing of the jumpers he met and leading all the way, won easily.
