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POPULARITY OF RACING UNDIMINISHED Splendid Crowd Visits Santa Anita Park to Witness Excellent Sport Goldstein Leads Riders Los Angeles Cal April 3 An excellent and wellbalanced card today brought out an unexpect edly large crowd In fact it appears as If racing could run here for weeks yet without showing a decrease in its popularity A coup was brought off with McChord which made a fair band of platers look cheap In the third race The quotations showed that McChord was neglected by the local sharpshooters but Itl3 rumored that he was well backed throughout the country countryHenry Henry Mason gave Ormondes Right to his friends as the probable winner in the fifth race and he was hoavlly supported but failed to finish in the first three after racing prominently to the head of the stretch stretchThe The followers of Goldstein had a good day and he appears to have a winning lead for the Bennet Jockey Cup trophy which will be awarded to the leading jockey of the week by the judges tomorrow tomorrowToday Today was the final cutin only sixteen books taking stands
