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ANOTHER DERBY CANDIDATE Ed Stone Qualifies Further in Defeating Bridesman Choir Master Wins After Many Vain Attempts Robert Lee Stays Well for Mile Race HOT SPRINGS Ark April 17 A program of tiie consolation variety with the Douglass Ilotchkiss Purse at a mile and seventy yards serving as the feature was Oaklawns offering to its numerous racing patrons and while the starters were of ordi ¬ nary class the racing was wholesome and the win ¬ ners hard to locate locateKrt Krt Stone carrying K W Moores colors with jockey Crump up won the feature after a hard drive to dispose of Bridesman Rufus Riley was the supposed good thing here but like all good things that have emanated from the Texas owned stables at this meeting it went down with a thud and left the white hat brigade stunned Rufus Riley would run only in spots for the first three quarters and sulked apparently in the stretch Madras Gingham was the early leader but she had enough before reaching the threequarter post At this stage Bridesman took up the running but Ed Stone challenged him iff the stretcirand won going away fast Choir Master which Has been a frequent disap ¬ pointment finally showed up to his best form in tlur1 opening race and beat a bad Dand High Note and Recluse following him closest at the finish M Bert Thurman scored a lucky victory in the second race by virtue of being away well Kuklnx in this which was expected to cut a wide swath was given a bungling ride which accounted in part for his failure The third race should have gone to Verity jvJiichwasmuch the best butisheTilandeSr third due to interference that she siiffereVTfronf I as a result of the leaders closing in on her after rounding into the stretch and almost causing her to fall Scrub Lady one of the contributors toward the interference benefited most by ifand succeeded in outstaying Archie Alexander for the purse Minawand the favorite in the race showed fractious post acting while at the barrier and after un ¬ seating her rider twice practically ran her rate ¬ at the post postROBERT ROBERT LEE HEAVILY BACKED BACKEDRobert Robert Lee was the medium through which some of the wise ones profited well in the fifth race for they backed him extensively and he won with evi ¬ dent ease from Thirty Seven and Little String The final race found Sea Urchin in full possession of his best form and lie displayed a derided im ¬ provement over several recent races enabling him to outstay the unlucky Leah Cochran which was best but a slow beginner and being forced to race wide contributed to her defeat defeatThere There will be a big exodus of turf followers from here tomorrow and to enable them to make train connections in the evening in ample time the rac ¬ ing will begin at 2 p m mRed Red Red Rose which Mose Goldblatt left here because of illness will probably lie shipned with the C E Patterson consignment next week His Zone dArmee which is also on the ailing list is showing steady recovery W recoveryW H Fizers band of racers will be shipped to Louisville tomorrow night The official ruling against trainer T E Rornmon and followsFor jockey Johnson posted today reads as follows For practices calculated to defeat tlieiegitimato oiMrntion of the claiming rule and for general un ¬ satisfactory conduct in connection with the official inquiry the trainers license issued to T F Born man is withdrawn withdrawnBecause Because of conduct and associations detrimental to the interests of racing and for failure to main ¬ tain proper riding condition jockey A Johnson is suspended for the remainder of this meeting In the same connection apprentices C Brown and 11 Hamilton are warned as to tJieir futurfi behavior i
