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ANOTHEB PIMLICO RECORD BROKEN Blackford Changes Hands After Reducing Track Baltimore Mil October 25 Stirring contests were the order at Pimlico this afternoon The fields in a majority of the races were evenly matched with the result that short margins separated the first two in most of the finishes The ojiwnlng dash found three of seven starters lighting if out all through the homestretch and finishing hiads apart In the soc oud race Hill Top siml Rlackford raced like a team through the last quarter So close were the pair when the winning mark was passed that It was hiiru to tell which was the victor until the otlicial placing was displayed Bhickford was ridden by Eddie Diigau and shrewd observers pronounced hs ride on Blackford a most skillful effort The pace in this race was fast throughout and a new track record for the mile anil forty yards was made by the winner winnerFanntleroy Fanntleroy won his first nice iii months when he beat Busy a head in tho fifth whicli was at a mile and a sixteenth Ho came from behind and closing with his oldtime dash got lip In the final strides Frank Taylor has succeeded In getting this game son of Little Saint into good form again and he probably will be a factor to be reckoned yith from now on onOnly Only two horses went to the post in the last race Footprint and Pharaoh The former was at oddsfin and he had to lie hard ridden to get up In the closing strides to win by a neck neckThe The recent running of the Walden Stakes at Pim ¬ lico in which Stinger beat The Commoner colt Touch Me led to a lot of bantering lietween John Pangle trainer of the latter and C C Smithson owner of Stinger The result Is that they have agreed to race the colts at weight for age one mile for 500 a side and as a guarantee of good faith each has put up 100 as forfeit The match will IK run at Jamestown JamestownBarney Barney Schreiber joined the ranks of the layers at Pimlico this afternoon The sale of Jack Atkin is still hanging fire but itissald that it will be con ¬ summated daysWhile within the next few days While being exercised liefore1 the races this after ¬ noon The Gardener got the better of his rider and ran away three miles This probably means that he ylll not start again until the Jamestown meeting meetingThe The Clifford gelding Bhickford is once inore in the stable of Riclmrd E Watkins After Blackford won the Potomac Purse this afternoon Mr Watkins boosted him rOO over his entered price of liOO and securedbiin i Capsize was lame after his preliminary gallop for the opening race but he showed a good game per ¬ formance J W Flynn trainer of Forrest Roses stable announced that Capsize would be fired and put by for the winter f fBcauclcre Bcauclcre arrived at Pimlico tlu tnoming and will go to the post in the Pimlico Selling Stakes at a mile and threequarters one of the featuresof tomorrows program Beauclere Is now owned by Tom Sharkey tne former pugilist pugilistMatt Matt Feakes will go into winter quarters with Mrs L A Livingstons horses at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting when the stable yill be shipped back to the Rancocas Farm in New Jersey JerseyFred Fred Littlefield lias retired his old campaigner Jubilee from the turf and the horse has been shipped to the Walden farm at Middleburg Mil Jubilee will be mated with several mares nexf season seasonWord Word was received from John G Greener that Countless would not be shipped from Latonia to start In the Bowie Stakes on the closing day of the Pimlico meeting meetingA A G Weston R W Walden and G W Scott will ship their stables from here to Jamestown on Sunday SundayAfter After Jesuit unseated his rider at the second jump he galloped around the field and in attempting to leap the fence at the lower turn got astride the top rail and remained there for ten minutes until the rail was taken down
