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OFF DAY AT CHARLESTON PLATERS OF THE POORER SORT ALMOST MONOPOLIZE THE PROGRAM t Prohibitive Price Spoils Attempted Betting Coup with Blackfriar Cangh Hill Reduces Palmetto PalmettoTrack Track Record for Six Furlongs Charleston S C April 5 Todays card at Pal ¬ metto Park was of the offday variety and brought into contest some of the poorer class of racers that have rim here this season Speculation was stag ¬ nant and a panicky atmosphere pervaded the ring all afternoon The racing however was interesting An attempted coup on Blackfriar engineered by Wayne Joplin and his connections met with failure though the horse wan handily enough This wat due to the fact that Mr Joplin and his followers were forced to take a ridiculously short price far below the figure they expected This was brought about by the action of Tom Shaw in posting 1 to 10 on the horse and continuing it throughout the bet ¬ ting The other layers opened the horse at 2 to 5 The Joplin coterie were also forced to take a mil shorter price than they looked for against Forehead another of the afternoons winners winnersAcording Acording to rumor Blackfriar and Forehead had been kept well under cover and the dockers averred that both had been worked at unseemly hours ti prevent knowledge of their good trials Heavv commislons for both horses were placed throughout the country and under normal conditions the win ¬ nings would have been handsome handsomeForehead Forehead which horse is trained by Wayno Joplin was bid up 500 over his entered price of 1100 by an agent of T J Shaw There is a feud on between Messrs Joplin and Shaw Black ¬ friar winner of tlie sixth race also trained by Mr Joplin escaped because he pulled up lame after his victory victoryThe The stewards have lifted the suspension against jockey Joe Byrne so that the lad can ride Bard of Hope in the Palmetto Derby tomorrow Capt P M Walker kept the colt here to run in this stake but he will be shipped to Norfolk tomorrow night to join the remainder of the Walker stable now quartered at the Jamestown Jockey Clubs course Frank courseFrank Bain dropped out of the ring this afternoon and sold the remainder of his cutin to Julian White who took his stand for the afternoon This mada two books that Tom Shaw operated it being gen ¬ erally understood that Mr White acted for Mr Shaw In the matter matterWhile While it has not been given out officially it is understood that the meeting at Palmetto Park will come to a close on Friday April 19 localise tlw Jockey Club refused to sanction the extra day of racing asked for forThe The going at Palmetto Park this morning was fast and some good trials were shown Among thMii were wereAny Any Port Mile in 143 143Arciti 132Benedictlna Arciti Seveneighths in 132 Benedictlna Half mile in 53 53Cauipeon Cauipeon Fiveeighths in 102 and threequar ¬ ters in 115 115Claque 118Colonel Claque Threequarters In 118 Colonel Brown Half mile in 50 Corinth 50Corinth Threequarters in iGV Cracker Box Mile in 147 104Dr Detect Fiveeighths in 104 Dr 118Duval Barkley Threequarters in 118 Duval Mile in 145 145Dynamite Dynamite Threequarters in Iil9 Iil9Ella Ella 102Hibernica Bryson Fiveeighths in 102 53J Hibernica Half mile in 53 J 102J II Barr Fiveeighths in 102 J 119Jawbone II IIougliton Threequarters in 119 Jawbone Seveneighths in 134 I 110Leonora Jessup Burn Threequarters in 110 Leonora Pearl Fiveeighths in 103 Lydia Lee Fiveeighths in 105 Lynchburg 105Lynchburg Threequarters in 11S Manager 11SManager Mack Mile in 140 140Pocotaligo Pocotaligo Seveneighths in l31Jf Righteasy l31JfRighteasy Half mile in 50 49St Uubia 50Uubia Granda Half mile in 49 St Avano Threeeighths in 30 30Starbottle Starbottle Seveneighths in 132 Suffragist 132Suffragist Fiveeighths In 105 105Three Three Links Half mile In 49 49Tom Tom King Seveneighths in 129
