Settles Into Its Stride: Racing Goes On Without Special Incident At New Indiana Track.; Second Days Patronage Not So Generous as That of Opening Day--Jockey Dennler Victim of Accident, but Escapes Serious Consequences., Daily Racing Form, 1912-10-18

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SETTLES INTO ITS STRIDE RACING GOES ON WITHOUT SPECIAL INCI ¬ DENT AT NEW INDIANA TRACK Second Days Patronage Not So Generous as That of Opening Day Jockey Dennler Victim of Acci ¬ dent but Escapes Serious Consequences The vccond day of racing at the new track of tiu Mineral Springs Jockey Club near Porter lud passed off pleasantly Ixifore an assemblage of spec irutirs inferior in number to the attendance of tin nrst day Delicious autumn weather was a feature and its continuance i ver Saturday at least is ardently officialslor hoped for by the club officials lor he first time the patrons of the track wit ¬ nessed 11 start in front of the stand or sufficiently near it as to be rated as such Tiiis was in the third rare of the day a dara of mile and a slx iciriith with six starters They were of no note as racers Imt snflieiently matcncd iu speed to furnish a capital contest to look at and ran well bunched nearly all tlie way to quite a demonstration in the way of applause Bit of Fortune well ridden by Warrington proved the winner with Sureon sec ¬ ond and Billikcn third Stliau which when younger did Pat Dunne good bervice caine out of tlie race so Inme that he could scarcelr hobble from the track to his bam bamThe The niuning of the fifth race furnished a sensa ¬ tion of the uuusual order tlie thrill coming after ibc race had been decided It was a closely con ¬ tested dash of six and a half furlongs in which 4w Stein proved the victor with Stick Pin second and Rluck Mate third The winner and one or two dihirr horses pa ssed on well around the turn before fmUiug up and were then galloped back smartly When ncariug the saddling paddock Joe Stein sud ¬ denly darted to its gate andcrushing against the fcwc threw jockey IJennler flying and continued on into tho paddock Tlie boy was stunned but not 1adly hurt The colt was led to tho judges stand and by permission of the officials had his equip imns stripped off and carried to the paddock scales irliere together with the reviving rider they were vmiglicd nnd found to l e correct Haying in mind the accident of the day before when little Rohblus ins injured the incident created quite a flurry of iieitemeut but it was speedily allayed allayedPretty Pretty Molly a neat appearing Cesrion fllly won Ihe lirst race all the way with Icicle in closest ir ult Tom Ryans Downland was thought to have a good chance here but is a bit backward in vmlition and finished third Slie pulled up limp ins so painfully as to appear to be broken down gkU presently l egan walking soundly and is sup Tf fd to have stnick berself berselfThe The second race fell to E R Bradleys twoyear tilil BMdovle an occurrence that may induce him to send more of his horses to Porter Baldoyle led nearlv throughout and won quite easily from Kitty W and Ella Grane In this race the horses were wiJl bunched as tlie barrier flew up but Mite and Ladv Bobbins were evidently unprepared and dwelt an to have practically no chance from the outset outsetThe The first close flt of the meeting came with the running of tho fourth race In a rousing finish Otilo l liuilnlca iuilnlca Cassowary sind Horus came home in a jiap but for thu second time in two days Otilo had liis nose in front second money falling to I miiuici and third to Cassowary tthelda ran in lids race and for once behaved pretty well at the li t but disappointed a good many people by run ¬ ning unplaced unplacedAs As ou the opening day tho train service to and from the track was of the most efficient description and in that respect the patrons of the meeting cmld not IMS better served servedTho Tho best appearing race of the day was the last In which seven twoyearolds of rather good tlstK met at fiveeighths of a mile and ran so closely Inmehed as to evoke considerable cheering but Yorkvllle wlille having to do his best led all the way and finally won by a length while there was a Kniwing head and head finish for second and third Places Iwtween Ethelburg II Senator James nnd COMS r dAKue ivitU the trio bringing up in the therjKrkIeymDreyer rjKrkIeymDreyer arrived at the Porter track yester div from Pittsburgh He reports that a carload of J Jrs rs s are on tbe way from PittsburgU to Porter made np of J H Mobys Xila Glipian and Cloak J Sheridans Field Flower Foxcraft and Mother V Tavlnrs Chlpiewiivan Senator Hubble and Iringstiel and tome others othersTockov Tockov crt returned yesterday from Kentucky and reports that mom horses are coining here from Tlf injuries of Jockey Robbins are not serious iohig confined to a cut above the eye nnd various minor bruises He will resume riding Vxjfore the thejoVfcev joVfcev Dreycr brought the report from Pitts la rgh that horsemen who won at the Bnmots Nhnid track received 10 per cent of the total of the nrses offered One owner ho stated received as ft return for winning three races racesNew New stables are boinz constructed at the Mineral Wrings tract to provide quarters for tlie horses that a e Anv comiuR in from 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