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TURKEYS DAY AT PIMLICO TAKES RACES WITH HIS CRACK SIG AND HIS OLD STAGER MARTIN DOYLE Superstition Runs Like a Good One Aphrodite Scores by a Close Margin Billy Oliver OliverNot Not Up in the Rules Baltimore Md May 4 The colors of Amos Tnr n ey were very much in evidence this afternoon Iu the opening race his good twoyearold SIg beat the oddson favorite Gerald 1 winning in run ¬ away fashion In the New Howard Handicap the feature race of the card his Martin Doyle picked nj 120 pounds and won by a head after a driving finish with Superstition Favorites won four races and as all were heavily backed it meant that the layers got a drubbing they will remember for some time to come Four of the races furnished good contests and in two of them the finishes were very close Harty rode two winners Sig and Martin IH yle In the steeplechase Mr W 0 Hayes rode bis own entry Yama Christy and the old jumper ran the best race lie has shown this spring being beaten only by a small margin by the favorite Oeorge Leiper after a driving finish which lasted for furlongsThe over three furlongs The going was fairly good and good time was made in most of the races There were n number of scratches from some of the races the New How ¬ ard Handicap especially suffering by withdrawals withdrawalsA A L Prices threeyearold Superstition showed an excellent performance In this race He led nearly all the way setting a very fast pace in thi early running and it was not until in the last two strides that Martin Doyle succeeded In heading him Superstition broke out of the maiden division here a few days ago and may develop into quite a useful horse He possesses great speed and la very game gameSIg SIg the winner of the first race is the colt that has been touted as the best of his age here He beat an ordinary band in bis previous effort but today came back witli a much improved perform ¬ ance He ran very green in his last race but today he settled right down to business from the start and showed a keen turn of early speed run ¬ ning the first quarter in 23J and the half iu 482 which is very fast for this track trackAphrodite Aphrodite which was shipped here from New York last week by Tom Welsh started in the second race today was heavily backed and made good by beating Larikiu out a nose at the finish finishJ J S Flynn accompanied by his father arrived from New York this morning He came over to ride Melange in the seventh race The going did not suit the filly and sbe ran poorly poorlyJockey Jockey Liebert was suspended for three days by the starter starterThere There will be a hunt club meeting at Philadelphia on May 10 21 and 23 23Billy Billy Oliver was much put out when the stewards scratched Hawkwing in the first race He warmed the colt up for the race and a jockey had weighed out to ride him but the paddock judge sent word to the officials that Oliver had failed to report the colt to him The same thing occurred on Saturday last Little Lighter which was named as a starter in the sixth race was brought over to the paddock before the horses went to the post for the third race His rider weighed out and the horse was warmed up but his people made the same error that Oliver did that is they did not notify the paddock judge that the horse was on the grounds groundsJockey Jockey Charlie Koerner left for Louisville this morning He has been engaged to ride George Longs threeyearold Sir Cleges in the Kentucky Derby tomorrow General W T Townes was among the visitors at Pimlico this afternoon
