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I « | j i , ] i , i | i ; BACK BAY TOO SPEEDY FOR DODGE. Takes the Laurel Handicap and Defeats the Good Two-Year-Old — Much Track Gossip. Laurel. Md.. Octolier 1. — The Octolier meeting of -the Maryland State Fair began at Laurel this I afternoon under Haltering conditions in spite of . disagreeable weather conditions. Heavy rains, which fell during the night and this morning, made j the going sloppy for the early races and as the afternoon progressed it became heavier. A large , crowd was on hand and speculation in the mutuels j was brisk. P. Sheridan, a recent arrival from the Canadian circuit, furnished the winner of the feature race, the 1-aurel Handicap, with ,000 added, a dash of three-quarters, in his consistent old Kubicon gelding. Hack Kay. The two-year-old Dodge started out like J the winner and set the pace, with Hack Bay ill close pursuit until entering the liomestretch. where Rack Hay passed hiui and at the end drew away into an easy lead. The disappointment of the race was Leocharcs. which appeared to be anchcred by his heavy impost. At all events, lie was never a factor. Directly after the start Leo Skolny lost his | rider and then ran away four miles. This will probably put him out of commission for the rest of the year. Several of the horses in James Arthurs stable were unloaded in rather poor condition, but arc rounding to. Progressive and Tactics were among those which had slight attacks of car L-vcr en route. A couple of Peter Sheridans horses also shipped here poorly. The sidling plater. Patience, while being gal-lo|M l yesterday, picked up a nail, which means that she will be on the shelf for a lime. The horses of the Anderson and Marrone stables and those of Fox ha 11 I. Keene. ihat were left over at Iravesend. arrived here yesterday. There are nine hundred horses on the grounds and every stall is tilled. Manager Matt Winn contemplates building a modern steeplechase course next year, which, when completed, will lie the equal to any in the country. Grata seed was sown in the infield last summer and there is already a good sod. The new training barn that was started two months ag, at Churchill Downs was completed a few days ago. It is one of the lines structures of its kind ia the country. It is completely euclos.d and has :i training track of six laps to the mile. The stretches are twenty feet wide and on the turns it is thirty L-et wide. Several new stables have been enacted Bt the Downs ami quite a number of prominent iwneis ban decided to winter at Ijtuis-villo. Harry layne Whitney has reserved a stable there for the division of the string that Albert Simons will ship to Churchill Downs. Price Jlc-Kinne and J. t . Madden will also winter their haaaaa at Churchill Downs. Morton Ings. the new track superintendent at Laurel, has the place iu splendid order. Ings wil. act as track superintendent at Saratoga next year and at the conclusion of racing at that point, will return to Laurel. Jockey James Hutwell will again winter in Florida. He has purchased a small farm at Springfield, a suburb of Jacksonville, and will erect a cottage on it during the winter. Walter H. Jennings will shortly sail for England to make extensive purchases at the fall sales for Charles W. Clark and tleuige W. Wiugtield. Califor nia and Nevada sportsmen. M. Daly has purchased Reliance and Jem from BBC Juiucy Stable and they will go into winter quarters at Hcuuiug. It is intended to convert Reliance into a jumi er. Silas Veitch has shipped his junqiers to Pimlieo. where thev will be rested until the Novcinlier tm-oting of the Maryland J.x-koy Club. Holiday, the Hat riinuer that he trained f,r Archibald Rarklic. is at Laurel iu charge of James Fitzsini-nious. : , Edward H. McLean. Washington sportsman, has adopted tiie silks that were formerly used on the turf bv Frederick tiebhart and has registered them for life. Many of the big operators canie over from Havre ile Grace, Among thos on hand were Tom Shaw, Emil Hera. Sim Dunnl. W. A. Porter of J. A. Grey fame. Frank Shannon and Tom Costigan. Charlie Ellison came all the way from Kentucky to attend the meeting. Ellison is strong for the mutuels and has had great success since their introduction in Kentucky. Hob W.ihlen came over from Pimlieo. He is another ea.-tern horseman who will lie at Churchill Downs next spring. Waldon will ship twenty head to Kentucky next spring and will race at all of the early meetings on the Kentucky circuit.
