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CLOSE FINISHES AT LAUREL ALL SIX WINNERS AT MARYLAND COURSE SCORE WITH LITTLE MARGIN TO SPARE. Gotelus Accounts for Feature Race, a Juvenile Handicap Belamour Shows Benefit of S. C. Hil-dreths Skill Halter Men Active. Baltimore, Md., October 7. The races at Laurel this afternoon were nm under cloudy skies, which threatened at any minute to unload a delude. As a matter of fact a little rain fell during the afternoon, hut not enough to affect the going, which was last. Well-matched lields went to the post and all six raees furnished stirring contests;. The Belmont colt, Belamour, had to lie hard ridden to heat Sherwood a neck in the opener and j Madeline L. just did manage to stagger home a ! head in advance of Meh.s In the jumping race. In the third John Keardon came from behind to gee home a nose hefore Colonel Ashmeade. In the feature race, a live and a half furlongs handicap for two-year-olds, Gotelus came from lieiiind witli a rush and scored hy a scant hall length. The next thrta were heads apart. Flittergoid was caught in tlie harrier or lie would have heen a keen factor. YVllow Eyes just did last long enough to withstand Mary Ann K.s rnsli in the fifth and Gregg out-gamed Polly II. in the closing dash. iopulveda was claimed after lie was beaten bv W. t Weant. whose Stelcliff iluished fourth. Sep-tilveda cost his new owner 00. Colonel Ashmeade ran in the colors of 1,. Most in the third race lodav. Colonel Ashmeade was claimed hv J. . Tallwtt at Havre de Grace from Most after the latter took him out. or a selling race from M. Bonev. William Garth has offered jockey Buiwell a contract for next season, the terms of which call for a retainer of 00 per month, besides the usual fees for winning and losing mounts. The report that C. O. .Smith had purchased the betting privileges for the Jamestown meeting is erroneous. The ring, as in past years, will be strictly an open one and will he in charge of Mortimer Mahoney. The haltermen were in the limelight this afternoon. Belamour, winner of the opening dash, was up ,K0 over his entered price ot ,500.- but Thid wis proteotcnnd lmught in by S. C. Hildreth for his emnloyer,,,frBgust Belmont. After John Rear-do:i won the third race he was hid up from 00 to ,200 by Charlie Fox. who presumably acted for John W. Schorr, former owner of the horse. Yellow Eyes was bid tip from 00 to ,000 bv Sain Louis and was also retained. In the closing race Gregg was run up from 00 to ,200 by A. Simons. He, too. was retained. Jockey Joe MeCahey was a visitor at Laurel this afternoon. It was his first appearance since he was taken down with an attack of typhoid fever a couple of months ago. Thirty-nine books were in line this afternoon. This included the two fielders. Among the new-layers was Eolc Iearsall. The condition books for the Pimlieo meeting were distributed among the horsemen this afternoon. There are a great number of selling handicaps in the book. The races were put on to discourage horsemen from taking advantage of selling races in order to win bets. Kate K. was claimed out of the first race bv J. 15. Gray for ,400. Recent work-outs of horses in training over a heavy track at Laurel were as follows: Adams Express Three-eighths in 3S. Afterglow Half mile in 53. Alfamaha Three-quarters in 1:23. Applauder Half mile in 52. Ardelon Mile In 1:4S. Blackford Seven-eighths in 1:3S. Bob Lynch Three-quarters in 1:21. Bonnie Eloise Seven-eighths in 1:40. Cam peon Three-ipiarters in 1:22. El Mahdi Half mile in 53. El Oro Half mile in 55. Ella Bryson Half mile in ."2. Flumma Mile in 1:58. Frederick L. Three-eighths in .18. Frontier Five-eighths in 1:07. G. M. Miller Half mile in 5.!. Gallop Throe-quarters in 1:21. Gcucsta Three-quarters in 1:20. Ilnsson Seven-eighths in 1:41. Hester Prynne Five-eighths in 1:05. Impression Three-eighths in 11. Kaliuka Three-quarters in 1:22. Kale K. Mile in 1:58. : Alary Warren Five-eighths in 1:09. Master Joe Three-quarters in 1:20. Mindinette Five-eighths in 1:05. Moncreif Thtoe-quarters in 1:2."!. Monmouth Five-eighths in 1:01. Nimbus Vive-oigliths in 1:09. Nonpareil Mile in 1:52. Orbed Lad Five-eighths" in 1:0!. - Perth Rock Five-eighths in 1:05. Premier Half mile in 51. Pretty .Molly Half mile in 53. Progressive Three-quarters- in 1:21. Ralph Lloyd Half mile in 52. Recession Five-eighths in 1:05. Sepulveda Seven-eighths in 1:10. Sherlock Holmes Half mile in 5.!. Sprite Three-quarters in 1:2:5. Star Gaze Three-quarters in 1:25. StelelifT Three-quarters in 1:255. Superintendent Five-eighths in 1:0.8. Surprising Half mile in 55. Sylvan Three-eighths in 40. Tandstickor Three-eighths in -10. TartarMile in 1:5!. Tay Pay Mile in 1:52. Tick Ta"k Three-quarters in 1:21. - Piidailiitcd Five-eighths in 1:04. . Infurl Five-eighths in 1:05. Votes Five-eighths in 1:05. Working I jid Three-eighths in -11. Yankee Notions Three-quarters in 1:23. Yellow Eyes Mile in 1:5:1.
