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MORRIS COLORS VICTORIOUS BANQUET AND INTONE FINISH FIRST AND SECOND IN CLABAUGH MEMORIAL. Scrapper and Flying Fairy Score for Capt. E. B. Cassatt at Pimlico — Steeplechase Marred by Fatal Accident to L. Navarre. Baltimore. Md.. May 0. — Todays program at Pimlico was replete with features. The card was the best offered during the meeting and well balanced fields went to the post in a majority of the races. interest in the afternoons sport centered iu tho running of the Cubaugh Memorial, one of the annual fixtures of the i*iuili -o spring meetings. The conditions of this stake make it sort of a local affair for the reason thai it calls for horses bred in Ibis and nearby states. There were eleven siarters iu the Cmbaugh today and the all scarlet of Alti.-d Ileiuian Morris finished tirst and second, the win ner turning up iu Banquet, with his stable coin pinion. Intone, second. There were two added starters. Gaelic and L.vdia A. The latter had won the opening race iu which she showed a good turn of speed, but she was outpaced all the way iu the stake race. She is a light filly aud it looked an e acting task to ask her to come back and beat the lot she met in the Clabaugh. A iat.il accident -attended the running of the steeplechase, in which L. Navarre fell and broke his back. He was running well at the time and appeared to have a winning chance. At the eleve-entli fence Shannon River fell and L. Navarre tumbled over him. The finish resolved itself into a duel between Owanux and BxtOU, iu which the former won b. three parts of a length. apt. K. B. Cassatt furnished two of the afternoons winners in Scrapper and Flying Fairy. The latter beat a lair band in her race, while Scrappers victory came with the running of the s.Mon.l race, a selling handicap. Ilw was entered to be sold lor 3000, and became W. L. Shorts property on his bid of ,000. Pardner pulled up a little sore after his race, tha trouble appearing lo lie in his shoulder. Frank McGkaity, one of starter Dades assistantsy will leave for Toronto tonight to school the two-earol.ls at Woodbine. Trial by Jury was ordered withdrawn by the stewards. The dam of that colt. Princess Chic, was sent to Kentucky and mated with Fair Play, but foaled iu Pennsylvania. The conditions of the race called for starters bred in Maryland. Pennsylvania and Virginia, so the ofli.-ials decided that Trial by Jury was not eligible. Thomas Hitchcock and a number of other society : .Iks Interested in racing went to Long Island last night to attend the meeting given by Harry Payne Whitney at his place near West bury this afternoon. lie- best trials shown at Pimlico this morning were: Belamour — Seven-eighths iu 1:32. Brynary— Three-quarters iu 1:21%. Bwsna ruMbo— Three-quarters in l :20. Defcndum — Mile iu 1:45. Kmerald Hem — Seven-eighths In 1:31%. Fair Helen — Half mile in ." 0%. las, es Five eighths in 1:85. Holiday Mile in 1:44. llouon Half mile iu 81. Little England — Three quarters in 1:17%. Master Jim— Mile in 1:45%. Milky Way -Three-quarters in 1:19. Iomette Bleu — Three -quarters in 1:19. Riibv Hyenas — Five-eighths in 1:04%. Sandbar— Mile in 1:45%. Scallywag-Three-quarters in 1:18. Sir Edgar — Three eighths iu 36%. Texas Star — Three-eighths in . . Wooden Shoes — Three quarters in 1:20%.
