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SOME UNEXPECTED YICTORS BLAGG DEFEATS AL MULLER AND HYPERION II IN EXTRA FAST TIME Monsignor Canters Away from Jack Witt Notter NotterFails Fails to Land a Single Winner Owners and andHorses Horses Flitting to Northern Tracks New Orleans La March 31 Outsiders made a clean sweep of todays card and those wlio pinned their faith to favorites sustained one of the severest losses of the season Jockey Notters followers also suffered big losses by that riders failure to pilot a single winner winnerThe The program was again given over to the poorer class of horses and large and unwieldy llelds were the result resultPoor Poor riding Ijy diminutive and unskilled appren ¬ tices was directly responsible for a fall that threat ¬ ened to terminate seriously in the second race It was caused by Slcmmom allowing his mount Mead owgreen to bump into several of the others and fall Before Merrigo and Queen Gyle could avoid the prostrate animal they had fallen In a heap Slemmons was picked up unconscious and remained in that state for some time His worst injury was a kick over the eye which will confine him in the hospital for some time T Chandler on Merrigo sustained a badly sprained leg by his tumble tumbleThe The best race was furnished by the sprinters In tin fourth Won by Hannibal Bey on which C II Ellison and other sharp players made a big winning Robin Hood and Goldproof were the choices but raced each other Into exhaustion hi the first half which eliminated l oth as serious factors in the final drive Royal Onyx taking second place Robin Vood pulled up limping after the finish i The mile and seventy yards race went to Monsignor In game style and stamps him a formidable factor in the early racing to be held in Kentucky He was away in a poor position but under skillful Kiildance gained steadily on the leaders and com ¬ ing with a good rush through the stretch won draw ¬ ing away with speed in reserve Jack Witts effort was a good one considering that lie conceded weight to all the other starters and finished second There was much crowding in this race Lotus Kater being the chief sufferer and Minder astride Plantland the olllcuder The Jockey was suspended for one week by the officials for his rough riding ridingThe The defeat of Prince Ahmed and Hyperion II by Blngg and Al Mnller was unexpected Blagg in iis last start when ridden by Nlcol ran poorly but today showed great speed and could have set the Reasons mark lower that the 112 recorded recordedJockey Jockey Powers carried off the riding honors by piloting Hannibal Bey Blagg and Mousignor to vic ¬ tory toryPresident President Roosevelts young daughters were Inter ¬ ested spectators of the racing this afternoon afternoonFrank Frank Brown will sliip his entire string of racers on Thursday next to New York YorkW W Gerst and G Holle shipped two carloads of horses this morning to Nashville where they will be rested before going on to Kentucky and Canadian tracks tracksA A Welwr W A Burttschell and others will shin the latter part of this week to Baltimore and race at the Pimlico meeting meetingNine Nine horses owned by I A Cella and a consign ¬ ment owned by P M Clvill will be shipped next Thursday to Lexington LexingtonLotus Lotus Eater bled after running In the fifth race raceJockey Jockey Nicol was fined 50 by the starter for dis ¬ obedience at the post in the first race raceFor For a similar offense jockey E Walsh was sus ¬ pended for the remainder of the meeting meetingT T P Hayes will ship his string to Louis ¬ ville next Saturday where tiey will be rested un ¬ til that meeting begins
