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MAD HATTERS EASY VICTORY Son of Fair Play Triumphant in Pimlico Autumn Handicap. : Sir Barton Runs Poor Race and Finishes Third, Bridesman Taking Second Money. PIMLICO, Md., November 5. S. C. Hildreths Fair Play colt Mad Hatter, winner of the first running of the Latonia Championship Stakes at La- tonia tills fall, accounted for the Pimlico Autumn Handicap this afternoon. He was kept under restraint to the head of the homestretch, from where he raced into an easy lead and was eased up at the finish. Bridesman was second, four lengths behind the winner and eight in front of the favorite. Sir Barton. The latter raced on the inside, where the going was the heaviest most of the race, which did not help his chances any. The defeat of Sir Barton was a facer for the public,, and the colts ruce was not within many pounds of his previous race, when he beat Mad Hatter at a greater difference in weights. The Greentree Stables Roi Craig proved an easy winner of the Junior Steeplechase. Keating had him under restraint until in the last half mile, then he won going away after taking the lead when going to the last fence. J. W. Mays Ballot colt -Vice-Chairman was easily best of- the two-year-olds that contested the opening race and won all the way by a wide margin. A close finish marked the second race, Poultney defeating Alvord a neck, with the favorite, Uncles Lassie, third. Another disappointug favorite was Right Over Might, iu the fiftli nice, W. R. Coes Star Court taking the measure otThe Beach Stables representative.- Joan of Arc, at long odds, accounted for the mile and an eighth race, run as the sixth. G. W. Fornian has arranged witli Frank Regan to take over the plater Dorcas in the hope that this racer may come back to the form ,she displayed when that good trainer handled him before Foraiau took him out of a selling race at Saratoga. J. .11. Ford, a former steeplechase jockey who was recently discharged from the service, yesterday claimed the three-year-old Fleeing Sheik from G. Holmes. Ford also purchased at private sale from R. T. Wilson the two-year-old Umbala. They will be shipped to New Orleans. Duettiste, which won the Manly Memorial Steeplechase at Pimlico on Tuesday, is about as shifty a steeplechaser as we have seen in some time. Tills horse came back with an improved performance over his race at Laurel, when he had to be ridden out to beat Debadou. He is a perfect fencer and possesses quite, a turn of speed. ; . At equal weights it is doubtful if there, is a jumper iu the country that can bent him.
