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FIELD DAY FOR JIM ARTHUR Saddles Four of the Seyen Win ¬ ners at Prince Georges Park J Rodriguez Shares thegfonors by byRiding Riding All Fourn Elm Takes Fet Bowie Mil November 28 A typical Maryland holiday crowd was in attendance at Bowie today that is to say the stands paddock and betting enclosures were overcrowded The dismal morning had no effect on the several thousand who took ad ¬ vantage of the last holiday of the season to pay homage to King Thoroughbred Intermittent show ¬ ers and a cold wind affected their comfort comfortThe The days feature the Thanksgiving Handicap fell to the consistent Slippery Elm well ridden by Stalker in the same easy fn Jiion that has marked his recent victories on this fourse Deckmate bet a good pace during the early running with the others well strung out behind him He held his position to the final eighth where the Woodland Stock Farms candidate challenged and after a short duel subdued him to win easily Deckmate was as easily best of the others and had no difficulty gain ¬ ing second place honors from the much improved Sunnyland SunnylandThe The Ascot Purse was won bv Charlie Leydecker after a thrilling finisli with Kashmir The Arthur candidate set a fast pace to the final eighth where he was challenged by Kashmir Quietude running fast attempted to find a way through between tin pair but Charlie Leydecker moved over a bit and the Morris filly was thrown tocher knees almost unseating Kmnmer The accident eliminated her from further contention and the leaders went ou with Charlie Leydecker holding on gamely at the finish It was a field day for Jim Arthur and jockey Rodriguez Arthur saddled four of the seven win ¬ ners three of his own and one for T Francis and Rodriguez rode all four Besides Charlie Ley deck ers victory in the Ascot Purse HudaVBrother won the second Bolster and Water Lady coupled as the T Francis and T Arthur entry finished first aiid second in the fifth and Cobalt Lass accounted for the sixth Hildas Brothers success was easily achieved the oldgelding winning by eight lengths Bolster was best liiTiis race and ran accordingly while Cobalt Lass showed a splendid performance to beat Dolinu after disposing of the pacemaker Irene which led to the last eighth The French bred colt Manoevre scored the easiest kind of a victory in the opening dash a mile race for threeyearolds under selling conditions He drew away into a big lead at the half mile post and had no trouble maintaining it to the end endPoor Poor Butterfly made good in the longdistance race that terminated the afternoons sport leading home Puts and Calls the latter evidently handi ¬ capped by the goiug goiugOn On Saturday November 30 the last day of the meeting the hones will go to the post in the first race at 1 p m
