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ARNOLD STILL TRIUMPHANT Wins Jefferson Parks Feature Race Without Any Trouble Speculators Burn Their Money MoneyOver Over Machine Gunner Arch ArchPlotter Plotter Takes His Race NKW OHLKANS La March 15 With fast track racing in prospect and lovely weather as enticements to an outing at Jefferson Park today the attendance was excellent and the big crowd present was rewarded by good racing and some highly interesting finishes finishesSomebody Somebody a good many somebodies in fact made a costly mistake over the opening race This was a half mile dash and Machine dinner was on every ¬ ones tongue The outgrowth of this unanimity was that he was backed down to 7 to 111 and prob ¬ ably would have won if provided with a good ride Kilt he was not and in a rousing finish Coombs won by a nose from Tutt The latter was a head better than Machine dinner which in turn was a similar distance from the outsider Molinero MolineroArch Arch Plotter was a 7 to 10 favorite for the second race and duly won but not as that sort should True MS Steel set such a goodj pace and hung on so grimly thai it look all that Arch Plotter could do to get ill in time to snatch the award by a head The ever faithful Ceneral was third only another head away awayArnold Arnold was the easiest of victors in the main mainrace race of the afternoon e of the short distance distancehandicap handicap obligingly prosontejXto him sofreijyently at Jefferson Park He set a swift pace to The last sixteenth and won pulled up to a canter The former Kradlcv filly Itinding Tie caused some excitement by finishing a good second and landing some big place and show bets for her supporters at long odds Ticklish ran well and was a closeup third but the speedy Tacola ran as if something was the matter with him himTattle Tattle had admirers who thought he was a good thing in the fourth race and right well he ran Kut with Lyke up the favorite Dixie Car ¬ roll vindicated public form and took the race by r couple of lengths from Tattle with The Pirate nosing Toe the Mark out of third place The mile of the race was run in 140 quite good time for the track today todayVim Vim proved best in the third race and in a hot finish with Dominican took it by a head with Precious Pearl a fast gaining third thirdLady Lady Ward was plunged on to win the sixth race and after being hacked down from S to 1 to 41 to 1 proved no mistake had been made by winning in a canter five lengths in front of ancient Krynlimah with Waterproof a good third Then Mah took the last purse and only two more days of racing remain here to be ionsidered ionsideredJockey Jockey Coltiletti who arrived this morning from Hot Springs gave S A Cloptons Pullet Proof his final Derby trial this morning The horse covered a mile and an eighth in 157 Damask covered the same distance in 150 easil3 i iJockey Jockey Class will be out of the saddle for some time His fall from Verde soon after the start in the second race resulted in his breaking his col ¬ larbone Precious Pearl was claimed for 1000 by Cain Sanford represented in the third race by I am First FirstJockeys Jockeys Xoeller and Smith were forced to cancel their riding engagements for the afternoon on ac ¬ count of illness illnessThe The unsightly Itinding Tie making her first ap ¬ pearance in those parts and running for the first time in the colors of Cain Sanford who claimed her from K It Kradley excited considerable curiosity She raced impressively and ontgamed Ticklish for second place after a well maintained effort effortWhen When the weather was so bad the fore part of last week it appeared as though the odds brokers were not going to get enough action during the re ¬ mainder of the meeting to give them a chance to recoup their losses but this idea was dispelled with a change to better weather conditions The action was there as of old but it only served to put tho oralizers farther into the hole although they got a few good breaks in their favor Saturday SaturdayJockeys Jockeys Steve Wida and Lawrence Lyke are put ¬ ting up an interesting contest for riding honors the former being in the lead now with a margin of one winner over the latter Wida has scored eightec times and he has ridden every day while Lykes seventeen victories have been earned in eighteen times and he has riden every day while having won thirteen races and he also was out of the saddle for a few days Sixty two jockeys have accepted mounts at the meeting to date and thir ¬ tysix have won one or more races
