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POOR RIDING MARS RACING JOCKEYS HANDLE MOUNTS UNSATISFACTORY ILY IN SLOPPY GOING AT NORFOLK. Rain Spoils Last Ladies Day Program of Jaraes town Jockey Clubs Meeting1 and Interferes With Shipments to Columbia. Norfolk, Va., November 2S. Todays races at the Jamestown Jockey Clubs track were run under decidedly disagreeable weather conditions. A blinding rain fell all afternoon and it was with difficulty that the colors of the different riders could be distinguished. The change from 11 good track to sloppy going upset form calculations and the days resultn showed only one winning favorite. Poor riding cut an important figure in the defeat of some of tho choices. It was Ladies Day, the. final one of these occasions for this meeting, and there were few women who braved the fury of the storm and visited the course. The attendance was small and under the circumstances this was to have been expected. Scratches were numerous and the withdrawals materially reduced the fields. There were only three-starters In the feature race, the Old Dominion Handicap, a dash of one mile and seventy yards, for which Jacquelina was made an odds-on favorite. Tho filly was accorded strong stable support, but she ran a disappointing race and finished last. Tho Milden stable, trained by Frank D. Weir, furnished the winner in Husky Lad, which made a runaway affair of the race to win by a length and a half from Bourbon Beau, the runner-up throughout. Be was made favorite in the opening dash and made good by leading all the way and winning easily. There was not much support for Gift and at no time during the running was ho even dangerous. Peak handling him poorly. Haldeman, favorite of the third race, was also the victim of a wretchedly bud ride. Byrne got away from the post Ilyiug and raced Into a good position going to the turn. Straightened out on the hackstretch, he began to take back until he was last but one and when he made his move he rushed Haldemnn up on the outside. Entering the homestretch, Haldeman went to the outer rail nnd whatever chance he had was ruined. The winner of the race turned up in Dixie Knight, which came from last place and, In a hard drive, just managed to beat Roebuck a head. Butwell rode the winner and gave him ono of bis best finishing efforts. The special wltich was to have left for Columbia, this afternoon, was broken up bv the rain. Many of the horsemen refused to leave in the storm, but H. G. Bedwell and John Powers, with J. L. Hollands horses, decided that a little thing like rain would not alter their plans, so thev departed. If the weather clears overnight, a special will leave tomorrow, another on Thursday and still another on Friday.
