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PROTESTS FOLLOW MISS NICHOLS VICTORY Payment of Purse and Bets on Race at Porter Sus ¬ pended Pending Investigation Delightful and invigorating weather was an item that accounted in part for the best attendance of the week at Mineral Springs Park yesterday So far as surface appearances went the track except at a few spots seemed to be nearly at its best but the time scored was so slow that it must have still been wet underneath the top cushion of dry dirt However all through the present meet ¬ ing the track has been disappointingly slow Last fall when it was new and raw such records were made over it that experienced turfmen said that in time it should prove about the fastest mile track in the United States The horses running over it last fall were better than those now in action there This would account for some of the difference tint the chief fault is in the track itself Probably scientific treatment by an exper ¬ ienced trackmaster would bring about the redemption of its early promise but however that may be it is just now a slow track trackThe The orilv real sensation of the day came witii the running of the sixtli race In this Bagley Bros had an entry purporting to be the bay mare Miss Nichols aged by Deceiver Lady Hon She was backed from 4 to 1 down to S to 5 and won In a canter On the suspicion that she was a ringer and not a maiden award of the race and payment of bets was suspended pending an Investigation In 190 a filly of the breeding given was foaled as the property of Nichols Bros In Kentucky She went to the stud in Texas and in 1 DOS foaled a filly liy Clonmell Whether the mare that finished first yesterday is that mare or not remains to lie estab ¬ lished In its way it is an interesting case and a warning to tlie officials to inspect entries carefully before permitting unknown horses to start startSome Some rattling good finishes marked the racing If was not a Steele day and the other riders had an inning two veterans in W Dale and Nicol scoring winning mounts and Dale rode a finish pleasing to witness Moudon also gave Ivan Gardner a stretch ride worthy of note noteAs As a result of W H Halls derogatory remarks concerning Jockey Feeneys handling of Eva Tan guay in the fourth race the judges ordered him to remove his horses from the track and denied him the further privileges of the course Hall who owns EVa Tanguay was emphatic in his declaration that Fepney had pulled the mare 15 Horn owner of Tom McAfee which started iu the third race Wednesday was also ordered from the track for using reckless language languageAfter After the finish in the opening race Goldlash was bid up from an entered price of 250 to 305 by J Booker and was bought in inJockey Jockey Steeles failure to laud a winner yester ¬ day cost his large following a big sum sumHigher Higher Up came out of his race yesterday in a bad way arid probably will be out of racing for the remainder of this year yearSeveral Several protests will be liKlgfd according to Judge Day against the payment of itny puree money to Miss Nichols on the ground of ineligiblllty to the race as she is supiKised to have won at bush meetings Yesterdays race was for maidens maidensG G H Keene who races n string of horses In connection with bin brother J O Keene was a visitor at tlie track
