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BLAGG IS IN SUPERB CONDITION Picks TJp Penalty and Repeats at Juarez Followers of Jockey Shilling Have Disastrous Day El Paso Tex January 20 Blagg picked up a livepounds penalty and repeated impressively in the sixfurh igs handicap feature at Juarez today The Free Knight gelding equaled the track record of 112 for six furlongs with plenty In reserve and is In the game sui crb form ras when he established a new track record for the same distance at the New Orleans Fair Grounds course when a threeyear old Since II G Bedwell claimed Knight Deck a stable companion of Blagg and transformed him into a stake horse Mr Lee has amused and inci ¬ dentally enriched himself by making two of Bcd wells pet racers Pajaroita and Goldfinn look like deuces The selling race war between the two horsemen originally precipitated by owner Bedwell has injected an entertaining angle into the sport Jockey sportJockey Shillings following which is practically the entire local public had a bad afternoon from a betting viewpoint as the popular jockey failed io land a single winner out of six mounts of which four were quoted at short odds Shilling rode with his usual vigor and skill hut as he expressed it the majority of his mounts were of such poor caliber that he could do nothing with them The result in the juvenile affair was a surprising upset The winner Miss Brunette had finished a beatenoff last in all her previous starts at this meeting when run ¬ ning without a hood and blinkers equipment On this occasion they were worn and a sudden rejuvena ¬ tion resulted The filly was backed heavily Jockeys heavilyJockeys It ice Bcnschoteu and Garner covered themselves with glory by putting it on Shilling In the first second third and sixth races respectively and were a 1 nippy lot during the afternoon There is no interruption in the perfect weather nor diminu ¬ tion in the patronage and the meeting promises to wind up successful beyond the expectations of its projectors projectorsMax Max Hirsch disposed of Spooner to J R Wain wright this morning for 1210 1210Jockey Jockey Archibald while riding Siscus was crowded into the fence during the running of the first race yesterday and had his foot painfully bruised The injury forced him to cancel his riding engagements for the remainder of the day and will keep lnui from riding for a week
