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PIMLICO RACING POPULAR. RECORD ATTENDANCE OF RECENT YEARS VIEWS MERCHANTS- HANDICAP. Lad of Langden Wins Big Race at Long Od.ls — Rio Grande Takes Amateur Cup — Trance Rumored to Have Gone Lame. Baltimore. Mil.. May S. — Today was the banner day of the Plmlico meeting. Ten thousand persona Hilled out to alia* B* the Baart and the croud was a record for the Maryland Jockey Club. The Merchants" Handicap, one of the richest stake* run during the meeting, was the attraction. The best borae* 1 ere want to the imst in this race, the Held* nunilioriiig fourteen. Included were August Bel moot* Metropolitan Handicap candidate. Half Sovereign. Statesman. Cowan and Live Wire. The race luoved a stirring contest from start to tiidsti ami lire result was a big aarprlae. The labm resolved Itseif into a stretch due! between I. ad of Langden. Siskin and Cowan, and the three finished in this order, the favorite. Statesman. In-ing beaten off. There was 1 lot of interfere ace in the race, with Cowan and Siskin the principal suliercrs. Besides the Merchants- II Heap there wire other features the Amateur Cup. whieii called lor gentlemen riders, and Hie Chesapeake Steeplechase. Eleven started In the latter ran- and all liuished safety. The Amateur Cup went to Rio Grande, which won in a canter. It was the seventh running of Hie l i.p and. in keeping with Hie conditions. Master Tommy Wright becomes the absolute owner of this hand some trophy, having won tin- race three turns. James Whalen left with the Belmont horses for Belmont Bark tonight and G. M. Udom will ship to Hie same place 011 Monday. It was the talk of tie-naddOCk that ttdom* lill. Trance, had bowed a ten don after lieing worked a mile this morning in 1:43. Jockey J. Keid will go to Jamestown to ride for the Dunlop stable. Amos Turiiov has M-eiired a call on the bay for the Toronto meet ing. James McCarthy, who was arrested yesterday for raising a ticket on the horse Kdgely. was sentenced to six months iiiii.risoument this morning. C. L. Jones. Mm has been booking here, left for Chicago tonight. His pane* in the ring was takca by Perry Block. Jockey Scoville. who was granted his license by the Jockey Club yesterday, had his lirst mount of the meeting on Cowan in tin- Merchants Handle* • It was rumored about the track today that Powers would leave I.oiiisyille tonight for Diinlico and that he would ride for James It. ICeene next summer.
