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DONAUS VICTORY SURPRISE ODDS AGAINST GERST RACER SOARED BE ¬ CAUSE OF MISHAP IN WARMING UP Gets Best of Bad Start and Wins at 7 to 1 Mr MrReardon Reardon Pilots New Star to Victory in inRace Race for Amateurs Charleston S C April 1C The approaching close ot racing here is causing a revival of inter ¬ est in the siiort Todays attendance at Palmetto Park would have done credit to a midseason gather ¬ ing Action in the betting ring was lively too lively In fact for the layers as they again lost extensively While interest chiefly centered in the race in which amateur riders bad mounts and which furnished plenty of excitement and amusement for the crowd still it was overshadowed by the result of the second race Several good sprinters were en ¬ gaged in this with T M Green Donau and Carl ton G the lastnamed a supposed good thing considered the chief factors in the result During the preliminary canter Donau wrenched an anklo and returned t the paddock in a distressed condi ¬ tion The layers on learning of the mishap sent his price skyward and those who had backed him clamored for his withdrawal On tho advice of a veterinarian trainer Ham decided to send him to the post He gave the starter some concern by reiieatodly lunging through the barrier and finally Mr Dade made his only mistake of the meeting in releasing the barrier just as Donau again lunged It gave him an advantage that practically assured him the purse for not alone was he off many lengths In advance but the others were unprepared T M Green being virtually left at the post Carl ton G and James Dockery which followed Donau most closely away from the barrier ran in Indiau file behind the leader throughout Under a capable ride from Mr Reardon New Star had no difficulty in taking the purse for amateur riders Joe Rose on which Mr Donald Pous had the mount would have won but for interference that he suffered as a result of the Inability of Mr Foss to keep Frog straight Tlie latter would have won with Mr Reardon or Mr Pons in the saddK Tlie winning rider received a handsome silver ciU as a memento of the occasion occasionBy By an oversight Hatteras was omitted from the original entries for tomorrows last race He will carry poundsW 104 pounds W B Curson bought at private terms today from J C Milaui the twoyearolds Faustina and Mayer dale The latter has never started and is by Star Shoot RegentThe Queen Regent The practice of charging entrance money to tha races here was ordered discontinued today and en ¬ trance to purses during the rest of the meeting will be free freeA A big plunge was instituted on Endymion II in the closing race but tli horse failed to run up t expectations because of his almost broken down condition startE It probably marked his last start E C Smith was advised today by the Oklahoma City management that only the mutucl style of betting will lie used at the track this summer George summerGeorge Land will takeliine of his horses to Coem dAlene on Saturday next The lot will include St Avano ReportII and Royal Report II G Bedwell who has been cutting a wide swath here will transfer bis entire racing string consisting of two carloads of horses to the Coeiir dAlene track next Saturday Mr Bedwell had originally intended to race on the Kentucky tracks this summer but has changed his plans The horses he has at Norfolk will also be sent west at the close of the Virginia meeting In the same con signment for Coeiir dAlene will go the horses Amoret and Emily Lee owned by C D Ray aud now being trained by J Brannon The latter will also taUa witb him Cu Bon W B Carsons nine racers an also destined for Coeur dAlene dAleneJohn John W Rice announced today that a meeting would be held at Electric Park Baltimore following the Pimlico meeting The Electric Park meeting will be inaugurated May 1C and continue until May 27 Marlboro will have a tendays meeting beginning June 3 3The The first of the big Kentucky specials will leave here for Lexington on Saturday next The secpnd one will go direct to Louisville on Monday Stake MondayStake blanks for the Fort Erie summer meeting were todayA distributed among the horsemen here today A big delegation will leave here for Norfolk on Friday night immediately at the close of the racing Among racingAmong this mornings workouts at Palmetto Park were the following followingAmoret Amoret Half mile in 37 37Any Any Port Threeeighths in 43 43Be Be Seveneighths in 137 137Bcttie Bcttie Sue Fiveeighths in 100 100Brush Brush Threeeighths in 40 Choptank 40Choptank Threequarters in 121 ifDr Dilatory 121Dilatory Threequarters in 121 if Dr Dennner Threequarters In 122 Emily 122Emily Lee Half mile in 34 Jessie Porter Threeeighths in 38 Light 38Light i Life Threeeighths in 40 Limpet Mile in 132 Marjorie 122Moekler A Threequarters in 122 Moekler Half mile in 34 34Xadzu Xadzu Fiveeighths in 100 100Nick Nick Stoner Threequarters in 119 K Ralph Lloyd Threeeighths in 3J Rose Queen Threeeighths in 3S
