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JOCK SCOT A SPEEDY COLT ♦ Outruns Fast Band of Sprinters in Pikesville Handicap. • Grcsson Continues on Her Winning Ways — Unusual Happening in First Race. ♦ r.altimorc. M 1.. May ".— IJ. t.. Breslors good raM Jock S«-ot ran a fas* EM to win the Tikes vill - Handicap, the feature if an ordinary card offered taring patrons at iimlieii this afternoon. i! was a high elass baud of handicap liorses that Jack Butt, on I ran from start to finish, including besides The Porter, a three year-old from S. Boss stable, such fast ones as Tumbler. Tea Caddy, the re.it old sprinter Leochares. making his first start of the year. Yankee Witch. Startling ami others. Jack Scot was ridden by Te l Rice and. going to the front, never left the result in donht. running the half in 4« and the three-«iuarters in 1 r!2%. 1. 1*. Whitneys All Gold fill;. ressi.n continued on in her winning way today by easily outrunning K. It. McLeans promising filly Hon .lour in the Driving Park Purse for two year -old fillies, which •oik second in interest to the handicap. Incidentally • nMjii hung up a n-w track rec-or.l for the half in-lc Tl e unusual tiling happened in the opening race of the afternoon when the field liorses wen- bucked into favoritism ami that the public disolayed good judgment in doing so was quite evident when one of the field horses. Claqucr. led all the way to win in easy style, while Gibhy, another field horse, ran third. A hustling ride on the part of George Walls was .-til auportaut factor in Ophelias success in the second race. Walls kept the filly close up from the start, took her through on the inside when entering the -.tretfl:. where Ophelia, taking the lead, just listed long enough to get the decision, only a nose margin separating her from Esquimau. The KIWridge Steeplechase furnished a surprise for the followers of the cross country sport, when Ml Gold Bond and Melodrama, the outstanding choices, were taken into camp by George I. Wide-ners Nutmeg. Gold Bond tired after taking the lend at tiie twelfth fence and finished fourth, while Mclodraui-i did better in landing a close second. Nutmeg followed in tbe rear in the early running, but closed up fast the last time around and. moving int" the lead, gamely hung on t the end. Murphy proved too S|»oedy for tin se OMftoxed to liim in the sixth race, quickly taking the lead ami holding a safe margin throughout. For tin- second time today field horses were ■ ae-essful when Amalgamator and Oenone finished first and second respectively in the closing race of the afternoon. CASSIDY WILL FINISH OUT THE MEETING. The announcement wnK made this afternoon that Edward Trilie. who did the starting at Bowie this spring and who has been the starter at the Tijuana track since its construction, has Itoen engaged to do the starting the first two days at Jamaica. Trilie i a conj| etoiit man and New Yorkers will have their first opportunity of seeing him at the barrier at Jamaica. This means that Mars tassidy will finish out the meeting at Iimlico. J. W. Dayton will have for New York with his .1uiii|mts at the conclusion of the Iimlico meeting. He has what In- considers a coming champion ; ti-eplechaser in the foreign bred Alderberry, a three year-old filly, half-sister to Oiancoy Fellow. A. H. Vi.ell l.-ft for New York yesterday with his stable, which includes the fast sprinter Etruscan. Col. Wats.. n of West Virginia was a visitor at Iimlico this afternoon. James Kowe was an arrival from the Brookdalc Farm with Hie 1reakucss candidate Flags and the handicap horse Borrow. The approiitiee jockey Kummer litis ridden thirty -seven winners, which means that his apprentice al Iowa nee in the east will expire when he rides three more winners. While exercising He Will this morning, jockey Johnny McTaggart sustained t wrcm-ln-d .fiiklo as a result of an accident, when the horse stumbled and threw him. Tin- steeplechaser Chancy Fellow broke hjs neck wlien lie fell in the jumping raee ,,n Saturday last Arrangements have Ix-on made to slim to quo-ilinl on Sat unlay, the two stars ..f the Wilfrid Via u stable. Omar Khayyam and Westy llogaii A mini licr of two-year-olds in the stable were sent direct to Aqueduct from Beniiing.
