Prospering At Lexington: Interest In The Racing Continues Unabated And Attendance Is Good.; Moquette Surprises the Admirers of Heine and E. T. Shipp--Neoga Runs like a Good Two-Year-Old--Terah Scores a Win., Daily Racing Form, 1908-04-24

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PROSPERING AT LEXINGTON INTEREST IN THE RACING CONTINUES UNA ¬ BATED AND ATTENDANCE IS GOOD Moqucjtte Surprises the Admirers of Heine and E T Shipp Nooga Runs Like a Good TwoYear Old Terah Scores a Win Lexington Ky April 21 Todays ordinary card furnished several surprises and resulted in much profit for the Iiookinakcrs IiookinakcrsThe The chief upset came with the running of the fourth race In which Heine K T Shipp and Mo Uiiette were among the starters The last named making his debut for the year was ridden by an unknown jockey consequently was neglected in favor of K T Shipp and Heine the latter inviting most of the Kiipimrt near the close of the betting Moquettu made a show of the others and won in the commonest kind of a canter Incidentally stamping himself by his performance today much above the ordinary threeyearolds shown In tills section and one likely to be troublesome for the supiK sed cracks on eastern tracks Heine after rough usage in the early running had little diffi ¬ culty lit landing in second place from the poorly ridden K T Shipp The latter was severely com ¬ mented on by close observers and jockey Butler was reprimanded liy the Judges for his listless handling of the horse horseIn In the Hfth race Terah a castoff from G C Ben ¬ netts string gave a high display of speed and mado a show of Ills opponents Including Arrow Swift SwiftW W A Smith showed a fair lilly in the llrst race In Neoga a daughter of Monsieur de LOrme Nooga This good looking miss displayed u tine turn of speed came from behind to succeed Abby C in the leadership and standing the final hard drive won In game fashion from Maid of Gotham GothamThe The other twoyearold nice winner was the New Orleans performer Tony W On form he should have been the Urst choice but Tony closed sec ¬ ond choice to Uoseburg II W Ott rode him well and Uoseburg II was given i weak ride by Sklrvin which settled the result Night Mist and Louise Macfarlan added to the score rolled up by horses that had been raced on southern winter tracks tracksItongh Itongh riding was much in evidence this afternoon the chief offenders in this line were PIckens and J Butler The latter was given to understand that unless he desists from the practice he will be given a lengthy suspension Fred Gerhardy Is here in the interest of the Wind ¬ sor Jockey Club soliciting entries to the stakes to be run there next summer


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