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BARHEY OLDFIELD DEFEATS SPEEDY PEDRO Seattle Wash September 4 Barney Oldfield army Dunlaps extremely useful threeyearold scored his eighth victory at The Meadows meeting when he took the measure of Pedro and oilier fair iwrformera In the only race with any pretension io SOod class of todays card Pedro on the strength of a scries of good races in the best company here rnltfd a hot favorite and was beaten strictly on his merits having no excuse beyond tlio fact that he luid ius pilot Jockey Scovillc whose saddle form leaves much to bo desired Barney Oldfleld probably is n better horse than he is generally credited witlv being beingTIic TIic remaining five fields were composed of selling lilaters of the cheapest sort and the racing that Jlioy furnished ivas uneventful and uninteresting Hose Cherry and Salable scored as favorites Fat work was responsible for the plunge that made R y T the Hrst choice in flio twovearold race Tlie olts chances were destroyed when he rani out on the turn as he has done In his previous starts Jockey Archibald who was making his reappear once in the saddle after a long suspension created a Stir by winning the race Vltli Minolta against which as laidDiet high as 30 to 1 had bcenr laid Diet Dwyers starting ivas not np to the high standard he has maintained throughout the meeting Jockey meetingJockey Wilson was fined and reprimanded for cutting across In front at the start with El Chi uualnia la the closing race
