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OMAR KHAYYAM ONCE MORE Great Colt Emerges from Retire ¬ ment in Good Form Again Defeats Slippery Elm in a Fast FastEun Eun Mile with Heavy Weight WeightOn On His Back Laurel Md Oclolter 2 The great Omar Khay ¬ yam made an auspicious return to racing today at Laurel Park when he accounted for the Marines Liberty Bond Handicap The popularity of this wonderful Englishbred racer was strikingly at ¬ tested by the enthusiastic ovation accorded to the Via H colt on his return to the scales Loud and long lil the spectators applaud this gallant thoroughbred Omar Khayyam bad not raced since last spring yhen he failed to display anything near his bril ¬ liant threeyearold form After lieing given a rest lie was prepared for Saratoga racing but went wrong on the eve of the opening of that meeting However after over two months careful preparation Sandy McNanghton announced that Omar Khayyam was ound again and in splendid condition Todays nice proved that his trainer was not mistaken Omar was saved to the stretch turn from where he moved up steadily and wearing Slippery Elm ilown through the stretch drew away in his charac ¬ teristic style at the end The mile was run in 138 and Omar pulled up without signs of distress distressThe The Howard Selling Stakes the feature of to ¬ days card fell to Franklin after a desperate stretch drive with Peerless One It was a stub ¬ bornly contested struggle from start to finish and the winner was in doubt to the final strides stridesThe The Frenchbred colt LEffare won the inaugural flash of the afternoon He quickly raced into a big lead but his early efforts told in the stretch whore he began to tire and Knapp was forced to ride him out to withstand the fast closing rush of Tetley width was the public choice choiceThe The backers of Dottie Vandiver the outstanding favorite in the second race experienced several sinxipus moments when the Trap Kock filly after leading from the start tired in the final eighth iind just lasted long enough to get a nose decision over Duchess Lace The latter would have won in another stride strideSnbahdar Snbahdar from the Triple Springs Farm Stable led all the way in the third to score an easy victory over Bellringer and Oniro The favorite Master Karma lost whatever chance he inav have had by being kicked while at the jurat The juratThe sixth race was Indian Chants from start to finish with Dan anil Fountain Fay fighting it out for second honors the former getting the verdict by a small margin marginJOCKEY JOCKEY SANDE SERIOUSLY ILL ILLJockey Jockey Sande who was taken down with an attack of Spanish influenza yesterday will not be wen daysThe in the saddle for several days The colors of Joseph E Seagram the well known Canadian breeder and president of the Ontario Jockey Club were seen on a Maryland track for the first lime this afternoon when his Havoc colt Hong Kong went to the post in the o ening race Mr Seagram some years back raced a powerful stable fin the metropolitan and Saratoga tracks but of Ilte years has confined his racing to the Canadian courses coursesWilliam William A Porter is here witli Willis Sharpe Kilmers stable and will remain for the rest of the Maryland season seasonKimball Kimball Patterson wired that he would l c here Friday with James W McCIellands string which includes among others the fast twoyearold Eternal The latter will probably meet Commander J K L Hoss Billy Kelly in a special race some time dur ¬ ing the meeting meetingGeorge George Peterson lodged a claim for his horse Grey Eagle yesterday for just 915 over his entered price and retained him himWilliam William McDaniel is looking after the engage ¬ ments of jockeys W Kmipp and A Amman The latter upprenticeSteeplechase is said to ta a good upprentice Steeplechase jockey Johnny Clarke was a visitor at Laurel and will be seen in the saddle quite frequently meetingHerbert during the Laurel meeting Herbert Walter a wellknown business man of Toronto and W Krauseman whose Hampton Dame was a frequent winner on the Canadian turf were arrivals Hampton Dame has been retired to the Htud CalgaryFranklins and is in foal to Calgary Franklins victory in the Howard Stakes was a costly one for J S Ward as he was forced to stand a raise of 1505 to retain his horse Sam Louis was resjionsible for the bidding
