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ESTRADIA BEATS BERWICK IS LUCKY BUT SHOWS MUCH SPEED IN PACE MAKING AND FINISHES GAMELY Elizabeth Harwood Wins Easily from Transform Bottles a Surprise Deuce Leads All the Way Reduced Admissiou Unwise i Cincinnati O July 1 The handicap at three quarters which featured todays card and in which Estradia Berwick Dainty Dame and Mottle Montrose started resulted in one of the best contests and rousing Mulshes of the meeting Estradia and Be wick being only a nose apart at the end There was considerable disagreement with the placing as is frequently the case in close finishes Berwick was best despite the 110 pounds he was assigned to carry Warren his rider made the mistake of restraining him too much for a half and allowing Estradia to secure a long lead On the stretch turn he also took his mount wider than lie should The race was a fast one from the start Mottle Montrose setting a great paco early She tired after going a half as if short and will show Im ¬ provement provementAside Aside from the handicap the races were contested by large fields and furnished surprise In the defeat of the bestbacked horses The open ¬ ing race was considered a good thing for T I Hayes Variation which had run well in the Cin ¬ cinnati Trophy The big Held was her undoing an she was away poorly and suffered from crowding Lady Ruby through good racing luck managing to win In the succeeding race Elizabeth Harwood had things her owu way She was away fast and led the others for the entire trip Deuce was also in a soft spot and never gave his backers much un ¬ easiness in the third thirdHostile Hostile Hyphen was the best in the fifth race but poor riding and crowding in the last furlong accounted for his defeat by Bottles and Aunt Rose Bottles has just recovered from having been fired and ran a creditable race under the circumstances circumstancesGallileo Gallileo after many attempts found condltiouH suitable and won the closing race in game fashion from The Thorn The latter was a big favorite but after apparently having the race won whet opposite the paddock faltered and allowed the Mc ¬ Dowell representative to pass him himBarney Barney Schreiber will depart tonight for his farm near St Louis Just remained over to see Emp ¬ eror William run I believe he is every bit as good a youngster as Jack Atkin was and 25000 would not tempt me to part with him notwithstanding present adverse racing conditions said Mr Schrei ¬ ber Emperor William is a grand looker but is still on the high side and will no doubt give a better accounting before long but 25000 is a lot of money and it is doubtful if any purchaser could be found for the colt at his owners valuation valuationMr Mr Schreiber while here has been besieged with requests from owners for stable room at Santa Anita for the next winter meeting He was forced to turn all the applications down as no stall room will be allotted until after a meeting of the board of directors next September Then the officials to serve will be announced The secretary will have full power to allot stall room roomBilly Billy Myer who is superintending the reconstruc ¬ tion of the Fort Erie track has telegraphed here for horsemen to refrain from shipping there until at the last minute as he wants to give the track proper attention and keep horses from working on it until it reaches completion completionW W T Young will ship the horses The Abbot and Miami to Lexington to be turned out The Abbot is suffering from a quartercrack quartercrackJockey Jockey Pollock reported hurt by a fall while schooling a green jumper was at the track today and showed no symptoms of injury Todays injuryTodays attendance as well as that durine the early part of the week has been far below former standards despite the reduction in the price of admission It is now generally conceded that a mistake was made in reducing the admission charge
