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NEWCOMERS AT NORFOLK JAMESTOWN JOCKEY CLUB PATRONAGE IS SWELLED BY NEW ARRIVALS. Favorites Take Fivo Purses and Layers of Odds Hava Bad Day Moncreif Wins Only Race In Which Favorite Fails Sager Again in Form, Norfolk. Va., November 20. Todays attendance at Norfolk was swelled by the arrival of a large delegation of racegoers who came from Marlboro and the west. Many new faces were seen in the big crowd that turned out and tho sport took on an added . interest. The racing conditions were the next thing to being perfect. With pleasant weather and a track that was in first-class shape, some keen sport was witnessed. It was a great day for favorites, the last five races being won by the first choices. Moncreif was the only outsider to bring comfort to the layers. His victory came with the running of the first race. William Cahill appears to have restored Barney Schreibers Bannockburn colt Sager to something like the good racer he was last season, when he ait an important figure on the Canadian tracks. Soger won todays feature race, a dash of a mile and- an eighth, for which he was a 7 to 10 favorite. Hs was ridden by Guy Burns and beat The Golden Butterfly a couple of lengths after assuming an easy lead rounding the far turn. Todays victory was the fourth that Sager has scored at this meeting. He has shown a disposition to run over dny sort of a track and in his recent races he has been pulling up in sound condition. Caugh Hill, a colt that Archie Zimmer bought for T. D. Sullivan at the sale of the Sanford horses-last summer, bids fair to develop into a useful plater. He met a big band of maidens in the fifth race this afternoon and won In little better than a canter. In his first few starts Caugh Hill showed a disposition to quit, but today he showed- an ability to stay. Different tactics were pursued with CaugU mil in this race. His rider was told to wait with him. In the early running he trailed the leaders, waiting until after they had- gone half a mile before making his move. Rounding the far turn, he slipped through on the Inside and raced into an easy lead which he retained without much effort to the end. Schuttingcr had two winning mounts, on Moncreif and Chrysels, winners of the first two races. It Is just possible that this lad may go abroad next seasons ija his employer has received several offers foe the-contract he holds. Before the races Judge Cole announced that ho had lifted the suspension against jockey G. W. Carroll, .who was suspended at Dufferin Park for rough riding. Carroll had connected himself with the Beverwyck Stable and will ride the horses in that string hero and at Charleston. Steinhardt, who was also under the ban at Dufferin Park, was not permitted on tho track. Among the arrivals from Marlboro wero J. G. Wagnon and M. L. Hutchinson. Both brought the horses they raced at the Maryland track. William Murray, Hart Dernliam and P. Knebel-camp were other arrivals. Mr. Dernham, who will act as racing secretary at Columbia, left for South Carolina last night. He reports having received applications for 350 stalls at Columbia and predicts a successful meeting at that point. Captain William F. Presgrave came over from Salisbury. Md., to enjoy a few days racing. Ho reports tho Clyde horses in splendid condition. All are now in winter quarters at the farm in Salisbury. Tho lot includes ten well-bred yearlings. J. B. Campbell, representing tho Charleston Fair and Racing Association, was a visitor. He is here In the interest of tho stakes offered by that South Carolina association and reports that horsemen are entering in a liberal manner.
