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LAUREL CONTESTS CLOSE FIELDS AT MARYLAND TRACK ARE SMALL, BUT RACING IS SPIRITED. Light 0 M Life Wins Handicap for W. A. Read of Washington S. C. Hildreth. May Take Belmont String to France, Baltimore, Md., October 3. Interesting contests were the order at Laurel this afternoon. While the fields were small, they were well balanced and in a majority of the finishes tlie winners had to be ridden out to score. The six furlongs handicap, the feature race, found Light O M Life the winner by a neck. Light O M Life had to stand a hard drive to bent the fast closing Cadeau. Callahan delayed making his move with Cadeau a bit too long. At the finish his mount was gradually wearing the leader down. The heavily backed Valkyrie just did manage to last long enough to heat Czar Michael a head in the second race. Valkyrie made all tlie pace, but was tiring and, with a more vigorous rider than Watts, Czar Michael probably would have beaten Valkyrie. Fred Mulhollaud, winner oC the third race, was bid up from K lo ,200 by William Garth, but was protected and retained by .7. O. Talhott. Santo Sotllle will be hero Sunday and will at that time make some interesting announcements concerning the winters racing at Charleston. James Butler, J. H. Rogau, H. K. Knapp and Mayor Preston of Baltimore, were among the visitors at Laurel this afternoon. H. D. Brown, who has been here since the opening day, left for British Columbia tonight. He has some mining interests In Canada and, after Inspecting them, will continue on his journey to California, where he will remain during the winter. C. O. Smith will sail for France some day next week. He will spend several weeks in Paris before returning. W. T. Anderson will winter his big string of horses at Gravescnd. He has four yearlings by Peep oDay that are said to be above the average. R. D. Williams has arranged to ship the mares Lady Irma and Fond Heart to his farm in Oklahoma at the conclusion of- the Laurel meeting. They will be mated with- Hilarious next spring. J. L. Holland has twenty-four yearlings at the farm that wjll hi- shipped to Charleston for winter racing. August Belmont is thinking seriously of sending several of his horses now in this country to France next year. In fact, trainer S. C. nildreth may take them over this fall, and in that event jockey McTaggart will accompany him. The plans are to " take up tlie yearlings bred in France that are eligible to race in that country and to make jumpers out of a majority of the American-bred horses. Mission and Priscillian are among those that will be put to jumping. Rock View bowed a tendon slightly at Saratoga and will pot be raced again until next year. His trouble has responded to treatment. In the event of Mr. Belmont racing part of his stable In this country, he will probably purchase the contract that Hugh Penny holds on jockey Johnny McTaggart. J. O. Talhott Is replenishing his stable prepara-: tory to a winter campaign at Charleston. Last night lie purchased from T. J. Healey the useful racer Flying Yankee. He will probably take over several of the Whitney: yearlings before going south. Jockey James Bntwell will winter in Jacksonville this year. He will leave for Florida at the conclusion of the Norfolk meeting. In the event that J. W. Messervy starts the filly Addle M. in the Palmetto Derby at Charleston next spring, he has agreed to ride her. This will be the only race in which he will ride until the regular racing season opens next spring. Jockey W. Obert will leave for Kentucky tomorrow night. George M. Hendrie Ijas a call on Obert for the Churchill Downs and Latonia meetings. Obert handled the three-year-old Great Britain particularly well in his races in Canada and will ride him in all of his Kentucky engagements this fall. William Garth has let up on the big band of yearlings he has at Beuning. They will be put to galloping again in a week or ten days and will be tried out at the conclusion of the Plmlico meeting.
