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KEEN CONTESTS AT NORFOLK KORMAK WINS HANDICAP EASILY BUT OTHEB BACES ABE HOTLY CONTESTED Good Things Galore in Owners Consolation Bace BaceWon Won by Bubia Granda Grecian Bend Best BestBacked Backed Has Poor Luck and Finishes Third Norfolk Va April 25 Well balanced fields fur ¬ nished keen contention at the Jamestown Jockey Clubs course this afternoon A majority of the winners scored by small margins and few of them had anything in reserve at the finish The card was made up of seven races that included a consolation handicap for horses that have not won at the meet ¬ ing and an owners consolation selling race for horses the property of owners who had not won a race this year Kormak proved tbe best in the handicap He was a well backed favorite and after overcoming early interference won easily hv a couple of lengths from Superstition the top weight of the race Korniak ran his mile in 140 which marked performanceThere a good performance There were as many good things In the owners consolation race as there usually are in races for maidens Grecian Bend was backed from AO to 1 to 5 to 1 and but for a bit of bad luck in the early running would have rewartiod her backers hand ¬ somely As It was she came fronr iast iiim t ± ri period of the running to be beaten only half 1 length and a head The winner turned up in Itnhlii Granda also well backed by a select few The fact that her connections paid 110 In forfeits for which she was in arrtars in order to start the mare was known to a few and they profited handsomely handsomelySpeculation Speculation was keen and sixteen layers were in line lineThe The colors of the Canadian owner W G King Dodds were conspicuous during the afternoon They were carried1 to victory in the third race by Camellia while Lord Elam beat a band of shifty platers in the closing dash The latter was ridden by Butwcll who gave his mount a rousing finish finishPonkatassct Ponkatassct winner of the opener a dash of half n mile for twoyearolds ran in the name and colors of II P Kyle who purchased the filly from A G Woston just before the latter left with his horses for Pimlieo The new owner shifted riders taking Diggins down and substituting Butwell It was well this was done for the fillys victory was duo to the vigorous finish that Butwell made The race resolved itself into a struggle through the home ¬ stretch between the first throe and at the end Ponkatasset managed to last long enough to lead Dogwood home by a neck with Deborah third an ¬ other head away awayDay Day Bell which finished second to St Abe in the steeplechase promises to develop into a useful chaser In todays race he fenced in bold fashion and in the stretcli drive he was wearing St Abe down Jockey Eddie Martin probably will leave for Lexington Saturday night to ride the Cesarion colt Forward in the Breeders Futurity Jockey Joe Byrne has been engaged to ride one of Thomas C McDowells representatives in the race raceThe The Walker Stable will leave for Kentucky to ¬ morrow morning morningFrank Frank Shannon arrived from St Louis this morn ¬ ing where he spent a couple of weeks after tin close of the Juarez meeting Mr Shannon will book at Pimlico PimlicoFrank Frank J Bryan the Jockey Club steward left tonight for Pimlico to take up his duties at that track trackSeveral Several stables left today for Baltimore among them those of A G Blakeley A G Weston aud Robert Davies DaviesSome Some of the trials this morning were Casque Fiveeighths in 1OS George S Davis Iiie in 145 145Mon Mon Ami Fiveeighths in 105 105Reybourn Reybourn Mile in 145 145Rosseaux Rosseaux Threequarters in 123 123Sandhill Sandhill Threequarters in 120
