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GOOD RACER BREAKS DOWN SERVILE GOES WRONG DURING RUNNING OF RACE AT TERRAZAS PARK Meadow Creates New Track Record in Race Which WhichShould Should Have Gone to Knight KnightDecks Decks Credit El Paso Tex February 1 Servile broke down in the feature race at Torrazas Park this afternoon The injury to his right foreleg was so acute that lie could hardly hobble to his stable quarters The fiveyearold brother to Waldo enjoyed a urief but glorious career on the local turf Two of Servlles notable races were the establishing for the time be ¬ ing of two track records for seven furlongs and one mile respectively run In 125J and 138 After n week of pronounced soreness in front and unwilling ¬ ness to work certain indications of a landing break ¬ down he went so lame that he will have to be re ¬ tired A misguided plunge developed on the Johnson Gray horse to beat Knight Deck Meadow Early Tide and others in tlxj race while the odds against Knight Deck soared from S5 to 31 Jockey incapacity encompassed the latters defeat a fluke victory by a narrow margin going to Meadow the outsider of the trio Page literally rode Knight Deck into exhaustion and certain defeat The gallant racer was unable to survive the heartbreaking and suicidal pacemaking tactics Imposed on him and suc ¬ cumbed in the final strides of the race He would have won if lie had not been unduly hurried The time for the mile and one sixteenth was 145 repre ¬ senting a new track record recordArchibald Archibald Garner Austin McCahcy Ploss and Louder were the successful jockeys witli one win eaeh Favorites Ivegan well when Ina Gray and Star beam scored In succession After that outsiders held uninterrupted sway The juvenile affair resulted In tlie proverbial blanket finish between five Morning Song Ilzie Mary Rndd Solito and Solid They were so close that only the judges were able to separate them Morning Song under Austins superior han ¬ dling got the decision Orbed Lud n coming star in the turf firmament won the sprinting feature at five furlongs In 59 witli the unknown jockey Ploss up The fouryearold son of Smile is coming on so fast IsIt that there Is no telling Iiow good ho Is It has l een officially announced that the present meeting will ran until March 1 the originally sched ¬ uled closingPresident tinie for closing President Alberto Terrazas left yesterday for Chihuahua SaturdayConsiderable to be gone until next Saturday Considerable comment was provoked because tbo horse Aluia Boy owned by J W Young finished last yesterday and was nosed out for first place to dav
