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! NORFOLK RACING NEAR END MEETING OF JAMESTOWN JOCKEY CLUB SCHEDULED TO CLOSE THIS AFTERNOON. Dragnet Disappoints at Short Odds Plate Glass 1 Continues to Score Supposed Good Thing in Steeplechase Finished Third, Norfolk, Va., April 25. With only another day remaining of the spring season of racing here, lovers of tlie thoroughbred turned out in large numbers at the Jamestown Jockey Clubs course this afternoon. The day was a perfect one for outdoor sport, while the track was in better condition than on any previous day during the mooting. Tlie change from heavy going to fast track conditions resulted in several upsets, tlie most pronounced of which was when Dragnet failed to win the opening race for two-year-olds at half a mile. The Belmont lilly had shown some good races in the mud and the talent accepted a short price on her chances this afternoon. Auto Maid beat her away from the post and Dragnet was never able to overtake the leader, which won by a couple of lengths. The half mile was run in 48. Taplin. who had tlie mount on Auto Maid, also won tlie fifth race with Ilandrunuing, an odds-on favorite. The Ocean View purse, a seven-eighths of a mile dash which was meant to be the feature race of the-program, brought out a good field. Plate Glass, bold at a short price by the layers, made a. runaway affair of the race and won in a canter from the California racer, Phil Mbhr. Gun Cotton was handed about for a "good, thing" in tlie steeplechase, but the best she could do was to finish third, the winner turning up in Nick o Time, which fenwd well and won with something in -reserve from Dr. Heard. The management has furnished an eight-race program for the closing day. One of tlie purses will be donated to charity. Several stables left for. Pimlico this afternoon. Included in the shipment were the racers owned by Capt. T. M. Walker. Jockey Byrne accompanied the stable. A. G. Weston, -JL C. Prlcharrand Jule Garson will ship to Baltimore tomorrow morning. Sam Louis sold John Patterson today to B. Mock for 400. He will be raced on the half-mile tracks lit Canada this summer. The Belmont stable was shipped to Pimlico tonight. Jockey Eddie Dugau. left for the. same place yesterday.
