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STAIE TO ADDED STARTER BOB R. WINS MONTICELLO HOTEL HANDICAP OVEE WET TRACK AT NORFOLK. Feather Duster, in Greatly Improved Form, an Easy Winner Talk of Extension of Jamestown Jockey Clubs Meeting for One Week. Vf Norfolk, Va., November IS. Secretary Gerhardy provided a splendid program for patrons of the Jamestown Jockey Club this afternoon. Die Monti-cello Hotel Handicap, the feature race; brought out a high class field. It was a dash of one mile, carrying the value of ,500, and was contested by eight horses. Bob R. and Ben Loyal being added mainly because of the sloppy condition of the track. It was a wise move on the part of trainer Mulholland in sending Bob It. to the post, as the result showed. The sloppy going Just suited Bob It. and he won with a good Tut to spare by a couple of lengths. Bob It. was coupled with Sir John Johnson as the Boverwyek stable enTy. The latter was ridden by Goldstein and lie made the early pace for his stable companion. Entering the homestretch, where Mc-Cahey brought Kormak up on the outside with, a bold challenge, and was on even terms with Sir John Johnson, Goldstein took the latter wide and carried Kormak out with him. This permitted Bob It. to slip through on the inside and save much ground and in the final sixteenth the latter got up to win going away. With a little better luck Kormak probably would have won. As it was, he was beaten a neck for second place. Plate Glass propped at the start, and quit, when he reached the first turn. The first and fifth races furnished stirring finishes with the winner first home by short heads. Mad River just lasted long enough in his race" to withstand JawlHUies rush, while Joe Galtens barely outstayed Chilton Queen hi his race. The latter was supposed to be a "good thing" and was well backed by a coterie of shrewd operators. The greatly improved Feather Duster, which ran Beaucoup to a head yesterday, came back this afternoon and galloped home with a long lead In the sixth . race. Schuttingor. who is now doing all of William grySartks riding. Had the mount. He also rode Bob It. to victory in the stake, race. The attendance, which has shown a steady increase during the past week, was again large, and it indeed must have been flattering to the management. There is. some talk among the horsemen ol circulating a petition asking the club to prolong the. meeting for one week beyond the original schedule, and this may be done. When jockey J. Mclntyre appeared at the gates tlila afternoon his badge was taken up and he was told to keep off the grounds. General Manager Bob Levy was of the opinion that if the lad was not good enough to ride here it would be just as well to keep Mm off the track. Fred W. Gerhardy lias received applications from all hilt two or three of the horsemen racing here for stabling at Charleston. T. J. Healey will turn over part of his string to A. G. Weston to take south. Albert Simons will sell several of his string and plans to ship the remainder to Banning, where they will be wintered. Mr. Simons has arranged to take up a band of the Whitney yearlings at the conclusion of the present meeting and they, too. will be wintered at Benning. W. T. Anderson will send about six of his horses to Charleston. He will himself winter at Benning with a string of eighteen. It looks as if the Benning colony will be an extensive one this winter, as fully 200 horses will spend the cold mouths at that track.
