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OAKLAWNS CAPITAL RAGING Fine Weather and a Fast Track Bring Out a Big Crowd Favorites Win All but One Race Bobby Allen Takes Another AnotherrGossip rGossip of Track HOT SPRINGS Ark March 19 The mile purse of 800 which closed todays program was by far the best race carded It brought out a fairly good field and resulted in a victory for Ed Trotters Troilus a manytime disappointment this winter but today he displayed all his oldtime speed by maintaining a commanding lead from the start and winning from the others witii case There might have been a different result had jockey Mac Garner given Harvest King which finished second a more energetie ride Garner was a stormy petrel at j New Orleans this winter being involved in different fracases culminating with his complaint that he had been offered a bribe to jmli Buford to let Frederick the Great win which resulted in the ban ¬ ishment of former jockey Goose Garners ride on Harvest King was anything but the meritorious per ¬ formance jockeySummerlike exacted from a crack jockey Summerlike weather was again instrumental in bringing out a record crowd to view the sport The limit number of layers were again in line and they found the amount of speculation steadier than formerly formerlyFavorites Favorites swept the card with one exception Bars and Stars being the offender but as Eulogy the victor on that occasion was a wellbacked second choice the layers were hard hit pn the after noons operations operationsBobby Bobby Allen a Avinner on the opening day re ¬ peated iiis good performance and took into camp a band of twoyearolds which included Clear the Way and II P Whitneys first time starter Zone dArmee The latter is a striking looker that is bound to prove a winner before long Plenty longPlenty which lias been reserved for a good tiling made his opponents appear cheap by leading them for the efttire way in the second nice and winning as his rider pleased pleasedRufns Rufns Riley a Texas speed marvel just managed to get tip in time to overhaul Ed Stone in the third race and Honolulu Boy had no difficulty to land the fifth race There were five claims lodged for him and C Hawk representing H Field whose Aztec landed third in the race secured Hono ¬ lulu Boy in the draw for 1450 This was an ad ¬ vance of 450 over the cleaming price he was secured for JarmonStarter in his last start by Messrs Solomon Jarmon Starter A B Dade arrived late this afternoon froni his home in Heildersbn Ky where he attended the death and burial of his brother He will pre ¬ side at the barrier tomorrow tomorrowJ J S Wallace who is representing the Thorough ¬ bred Horse Association was a belated arrival this morning from Xew Orleans OrleansMonarch Monarch which J C Ferriss acquired from G J Long died this morning Nanan which Ferriss is training for Ed Alvey had to be left in New Orleans because of his serious illness illnessPoverina Poverina will be raced here by J S Ownbey he having secured her on private terms from P T Chinii before shipping from Jefferson Park
