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JAY OBRIEN WINS THE MUG. PILOTS QUADRILLE TO VICTORY IN RACE FOR THE AMATEUR CUP. Oraculum Takes the Openinq Race Easily — Reidmoore Makes It Four in a Row — Lonrt Ball Is Left. Washington. It. C. April 11. The Amateur Cap was the attraction which drew nil improved attendance Ht Benning today. There was an agreeable change in he weather also and a good days s|x rt was witnessed. Quadrille, ridden by .lay OBri-ii id New York, was an easy winner of the feature, lie was a heavily hacked favorite. His owner. Will Shields, furnished the favorite for the closing race also in BeUMooce, whose variety was his lint th a the meeting without a defeat. The Amateur Cup brought out the four hest amateur riders in this country, while Mr. Homier son, of Hamilton. Out., who rode his own hone, Thomond. showed to he a rider of skill and judgment. Mr. OBrien, wko rode the winner. BtCBM equally tit home on the Hat or over country. At either he is a finished horseman. Master Tommy Wright, the seventeen year-old. who rode Bulwark, is a star also and is the only rider yet to ride Bulwark under the whip and keep him from swerving. Oraculum. which won the opening race, will proh ably prove to be a good sprinter this season. He was not wound up for a hard race, as the best he had worked was throe-quarters of a mile in I:_0. but he had so much speed that, he beat his opponents without much trouble. Diamond Flush was a false favorite in this race. With any other rider but Miller he would have I»een at a much longer price. Long Ball, well backed to beat the odds on choice, l.ady Isabel, in the second race would not break and was left standing still. The Baltimore crowd suffered heavily in the steeplechase. They backed Guardian as if he wis a Good and Plenty, but the bene came to grief in the Int .turn of the field and 1aprika, at 5 to 1. was always heat t the others. A very good card is offered, for tomorrow and with such horses as Kiglu and True. Blue Dale, How AImiiu You; Ben Cake, Servile. Helen B : Goli toil. Mi.rsion. Boh Callahan Jr.: Cobleskill. I.ally. Sally K.: Bins and Needles. Mammyiiioo. Mink Rake; Oxford, Buttons. Ormondes Bight, showing in the entries the attendance should be largely increased.
