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STEELE CONTINUES TO RIDE WELL Kentucky Jockey Again Performs Feat of Piloting Four Winners at Porter It was sweltering hot at the Mineral Springs track yesterday and the crowd in attendance had a steamy time of it The cooling breezes that had from the first day of the meeting served to mitigate the heat of summer were conspicuously absent Some rain had fallen Tuesday night but nothing like what came down In Chicago and its suburbs and the track was almost fast Ill general the racing was quite spirited and some of the finishes of the exciting order orderJockey Jockey Steele continued his commendable practice of ridiug more winners than all the other jockeys at the track combined Ho began by riding the winners of the tirst three races in succession and wound up by guiding Pampiiiea to victory in the last race of the day In the fourth and llfth races he was forced to lie content with landing his mounts in the list of placed horses Steele is really riding with skill and good judgment and stands out by himself in the riding talent at the track much as Musgrave did at the illstarred meeting of last fall fallOne One of the most interesting finishes of the meet ¬ ing came oft in the fourth race which had ten starters In the stretch there wns a general clos ¬ ing up and when the horses were a trifle over a sixteenth of a mile from the winning line a half dozen or so were so nearly in a line across the track that it seemed anyone of them might win and the spectators were cheering frantically Then Fernanda drew out and in front of the stand Blacksmith challenged under Steeles energetic call with a rush that momentarily seemed likely to prove sucecossful but Fernanda responded to the pressure resolutely and holding Blacksmith in the last few strides thrust her lean head across the line first by a throatlatch It was the kind of racing folks like to see seeBut But three more days of racing remain and now that matters are going smoothly the track people are expecting an increasing attendance and their expectations are really justified by the wellfilled racing programs presented dally dallyJockey Jockey Mondon on Higher Up was flagrantly guilty of rough riding when he steered his mount across the others in approaching the tirst turn and caused a bad jam The judges fined him 25 for his recklessness recklessnessPart Part of J K Allens racers will he shipped to Windsor at the close of the present meeting meetingJockey Jockey Taplin departed last night for New York where he will rest briefly before going to Canada to resume ridiilg The cause fofliis discontinuance of ridiilg at the present is due to his trouble as a result of a fall at Santa Anita several years yearsA A D Steele will take the J O G II Keene and J C Milani horses he has been racing at Mineral Springs to Windsor at the conclusion of tlie local meeting Jockey Steele will go to Windsor and following that meeting will go to Hamilton for the racing there and then to Saratoga where he will rejoin the stable of his contract employer J N Camdcn CamdcnGreen Green K Morris changed his plans suddenly and shipped last night to Windsor his racers Kiva and Silver Tone ToneJockev Jockev K Steele has been engaged to ride Kay of Pleasure Old Trump Killie Baker Ike Cohen and Danville II at Mineral Springs today
