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H0LSCHER THE LONG DISTANCE CHAMPION. Wins the Maximum Stakes at Three Miles End of f the Bennings Meeting. Washlugtou, D. C, December 1. Holsclier won l- the Maximum Stakes at three miles here this afternoon and goes to winter quarters the champion long : distance flat racer of the season. It was not until 1 the fall meeting at Brighton that nolscher. for which James B. Brady paid ,500 as a two-year-old, . earned his first brackets. He followed this up with victory in the Brighton Cup at two miles and a quarter. At Bennings he has won the Dixie at : one mile and three-quarters; the Washington Cup at two miles and a quarter, and the Maximum. Four . winning races at a greater distance than one mile . and a half is a good record In these davs of sprint : racing. In all of his winning races except that of todav, Will Shields apprentice rider, Noone, has ridden Holscber and seemed able to lo better with him than the more fashionable riders. Noone was undpr suspension today and Horner bad the mount. Holsclier, coupled with Reidmooro, was a 2 to 5 ; favorite. He was last of the field of six for two I miles, but when Horner moved up with him in the last mile victory was assured, though Holsclier did not take the lead until a quarter of a mile from home. He came on then to wlu as his rider pleased. Sandalwood and Palette made the running, but the first named retired at two miles. Palette hung on remarkably well, taking second place from Pete Dailey by three lengths. The meeting and the season ended todav. In spite of the drawbacks at the beginning, including a new and untried system of betting and very bad weather for the first few days, the meeting lias been highly successful and the attendance on the whole is fully ui to the fall standard here. The new betting scheme offered no inconvenience after the first dav or two and not one word of complaint was to be heard against It at the close. Horsemen, riders and the followers of raciug. part here tonight until next spring. A majority of the horse owners and riders who do not countenance a season of idleness will go to New Orleans, but not a few will take the long jump to California. Man-of the regulars returned to New York tonight and will take matters easy until after the holidays.
