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i i TOP 0 TH MORNINGS FINE PERFORMANCE. Carries 140 Pounds and Wins the Chief Race at Laurel in Fast Time. Baltimore, Md., October 5. Paul Powers furnished the winner of todays feature race at Laurel when Top o th Morning won the first division of the highweight handicap from a band of fast sprinters. What made Top o th Mornings performance stand out was the fact that he picked up 140 pounds, made the pace and ran three -quarters in 1:1:;. Tom McTaggart had the mount on Top o th Morning, it being his first mount at the meeting. He rodd a well judged race, nursing the big sprinter along in the early running and when the final drive came lie had a bit of speed in reserve. Wise Man was second and The Masquerader third. All three of these horses recently arrived from Canada. The second half of the highweight handicap, which had been split, was run as the fifth race. James Butlers Gnat won this end of the handicap in easy fashion after racing the heavily-weighted Hanson into defeat in the first half mile. The Butler stable had previously scored when Rally won the third race, a dash of three-quarters for two-year-olds. After Reprobate won the opening race lie was advanced from .00 to ,500 and bought by Sam Louis. The latter afterward disposed of the colt at Private sale to Edward McBride. J. F. Sweeney, who is gathering a stable together for a campaign on one of the winter tracks, has purchased Hauberk of W. It. Coe. John Farrell, Jr., of Baltimore, has added Firing Line to his string. He acquired the colt at private sale from R. T. Wilson. Estimable, which was taken from n. G. Bedwell by Sam Louis after she won the other day, has been sold to J. O. Talbott. Ultimatum spread a foot in his race the other day. which accounted for his quitting so badly. Henry McDaniel is here with five of the Willis Sharpe Kilmer horses. They are all doing well and will be seen with the colors up shortly. Trainer McDaniel has taken a call on jockey Ambrose, who rode for him when he trained the Davies horses in Canada. John Evans, who manages the big racing stable that Joseph E. Seagram campaigns on the Canadian circuit, remained in Canada at the conclusion of the Toronto meeting. Mr. Evans will winter at the City Hotel in Waterloo. Metropolitan racegoers will remember Mr. Evans as the owner of Beansy, which first raced as the Fire Grass gelding. T. Costiman was among the arrivals from New York and will remain over for the week end. Matty Corbett is expected here tomorrow. Pay Streak bled during the running of the steeplechase, which accounted for his rider pulling hint up. Fred Gaylor will, in the future, look after the engagements of the apprentice rider Collins, who is under contract to Thomas Clyde.
