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THINKER TAKES HER RACE Comes from Behind and Defeats Dick Williams Narrowly Cancion Wins from the Heavily HeavilyBacked Backed St Germain Trusty Trustyin in a Canter Track Talk HOT SPRINGS Ark April 7 W H Fixers Thinker with C Robinson in the saddle furnished the outstanding incident of todays Oaklawn racing when she accounted for the mile and a sixteenth handicap in sensational style success crowning the fillys speed in the final stride after a liard effort to get un to down Dick Williams in the last few strides To achieve the victory Thinker had to come through what appeared an impossible opening next to the inner rail but she succeeded in doing the impossible in the last few strides Dick Williams landed second place somewhat easily from Kewpie ONeil The latter was ridden by J Durseh and that rider had the Patterson repre ¬ sentative all over the track The time of the race 145 Mi marks the fastest of this spring for the distance and is only onefiftli of a second slower than Paddy Whacks track record A recordA hard rain this morninrj threatened to be ruinous to todays sport and many of the owners firmly believing that the course would be muddy made haste to get their representatives out of the dif ¬ ferent dashes resulting in the card being riddled to a greater extent than was warranted Tlie going contrary to expectations was the fastest of the present meeting and the racing was inter ¬ esting estingCancion Cancion scored in the twoyearold dash for which the newcomer St Germain carrying the v i j iiijcii iiii u jiiiiut inMJivnrn of the first race on tile strength of a good trial t Germain was green at the barrier ami during the early running which helped his defeat Trusty defeatTrusty raced in his best recent form in tlie second race and won all tlie way Tlie wayTlie third race brought out tne poorest band that las been gotten together here and it resulted in an extra close finish with Hickorynut an extreme outsider winning from Saadi another long priced one the favorite Verna B coining in third Eulogy thirdEulogy which since her arrival here has raced n consistent style accounted for the final race Tom H C Basch The latter was claimed by L A Broaddus for 1000 1000WA1DECK WA1DECK STABLE LEAVES TODAY TODAYC C Bruce Head and G II Keene whose horses run in the name of the Waldeck Stable departed tonight for tomorrowThere Kentucky Their horses follow tomorrow There were many departures Sunday for Ken ¬ tucky and eastern points and tlie latter part of this departuresMikifula week will find many additional departures Mikifula had to be excused from starting in tlie fifth race today because of a wrenched ankle sus ¬ tained while being galloped yesterday yesterdayJohn John W Schorr left for Memphis Tenn his home where lie will remain for several days before going to Louisville He has several horses at Doug ¬ las Park in charge of trainer Louis Tauber TauberEternal Eternal was given n gallop of a mile in 149 this morning and he had his head in the air all the way His fractions were 25 A 50 120 Jockey 120Jockey Albert Johnson returned to the saddle to ¬ day after a brief illness occasioned by the shock of the news of the death of jockey Frank Robin ¬ son He sent an order for a huge floral design to a Cleveland florist to be sent to the Robinson home cityJockey in that city Jockey Andrew Schuttinger who lias been confined to liis bed for the past week with a severe cold resumed alsoWilliam riding today also William Snyder who was called to Memphis by the deatli of his mother and James Osborne who has been on the sick list took up their duties with starter todayCancion Dade aunin today Cancion was sold by G It Blackford to R F Coppage and he ran In tlie latters interest in tho first todayJockey race today Jockey George W Carroll sustained injuries alxwt tlie hip when Cacambo which he was galloping yesterday morning crossed his legs and fell He was unable to fulfill his riding engagements today
