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A I j i 1 1 ; TRACK CONDITIONS CHANGE AT LAUREL. Winner of Handicap Comes from an Unexpected Quarter in Manasseh Patronage Remains Good. Baltimore. Md., October 10. Weather and track conditions at Laurel Park this afternoon were un-propltious, hut there was a big, crowd in attendance nevertheless. The going was sloppy and rain fell intermittently throughout the racing. Notwithstanding the change in track conditions there were comparatively few scratches, and while the winners for the most part scored easily, the sport was interesting. .... A selling handicap at one mile and a sixteenth, for three-vear-olds and upward, was the programmed feature. Of the live carded, one declined. All four starters had their supporters. August Belmonts Thornhill was the popular choice, with Spearhead much fancied. Neither, however, was the winner. Manasseh, reveling in the muddy going and showing improved form, took the lead right after the start and quickly opened up a commanding lead. Thornhill was tlie one In closest pursuit and he made a game .effort. He was unequal to the task, however, and had to be ridden out to beat Spearhead for second money, while Manasseh scored easily. James Butler, whose two-year-olds - have shown remarkable form during the meeting, suffered one of his occasional defeats in the fifth, when Doublet was beaten bv Protector, a strapping colt by Stalwart Torrid. Protector was off well and Immediately ran into a good lead, which he held all the wa- though at the end he vas tiring and had to be" shaken up. Doublet had none too good luck. He had to work his way through the field and at the end finished a resolute second. Tlie horses that Herman B. Duryea and Harry Pavne Whitney are shipping back to the United States from Europe are expected to arrive at New-York tomorrow. Preparations have been made to stable some of them at the Sheepshead Bay track, and stalls have already been bedded down for then-reception. Jockey Joe Notter returned here from the W.hU- ney farm In New Jersey, while jockey Phil Goldstein went from there to his home in Chicago. Goldstein will ride for Capt. W. F. Presgrave next season. He will report Jan. 1 at the Silver Brook Farm in New Jersey, where the Presgrave and Clyde horses will he wintered. W. H. Frey and A. II. Vivell departed tonight witli their horses for Latonia. Jockey Dreycr went with the Frey establishment. The contract that the Qulncy Stable holds on jockey Schuttinger expires .with the present meeting Schuttinger will attach" himself with" 1. S. Tyree next year. He will probably ride at Charleston and Havana during the; winter mouths. .Tanics Fitzslmmons announced that he would dispose of all he horses tjiat ran in his name during the past season. He- has arranged to take up a division of the yearlings that the Qtiiilcy Stable has at Sheepshead Bay, where they are at present in charge of Ed Phelan. There are nineteen in the lot and some of them are said to be extra good looking youngsters. Capt. W. F. Presgrave is disposing of most of the horses he raced in Canada. He has already sold several. W. J. Mclllmurray, of Toronto, secured the sprinter Yorkville that Capt. Presgrave was training for J. K. L. Ross and Balfron will probably be transferred to some other owner tomorrow. Earl of Savoy was bid up from 00 to 05 by W. R. Mlzell and was retained.
