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SMITHS RIDE ON OXFORD. "Every time .Tame* McLaughlin thinks of Louis Smiths ride on Oxford in the Carter Handicap he shudders," says the Morning Telegraph of Wednesday. "Be is convinced, he says, that Smith had a brainstorm when he turned iulo the homestretch. I never, the owner and trainer of the stout gray declared yesterday, saw an ex| erienced jockey in a greater hurry to make up fifty or sixty yards in a good field than Smith was in the Carter. In view of the rush Oxford made it is not surprising he quit iu the last fifty yards. "The victories yesterday of Laily and Jack Me-Keon cheered McLaughlin up a bit, and he is hopeful of getting Oxford to the post in winning form in the Sterling. Oxford will not have to give weight in the Sterling, and he is a shifty uorse at one wile." Bracing Breeze, which is carded to start today in the race for genlleinen riders at Pimlico, is a half-sister to Solon ghiagle, Or. Spruill, Cave Adsuui and the two-year old Kallirue.
