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MAIN RAGE TO ORMONDA Speedy Filly However Forced to Last Ounce to Beat Clean Gone Improved Weather Brings Out Big BigCrowd Crowd Bowie Track Gains Gainsin in Popularity POWIE Md April S Ormonda which last au ¬ tumn showed hrililant form at this track won to ¬ days feature a purse race at seveneighths of a mile but she had to be ridden out at I he end to outstay Clean Gone Ormonda ran gamely how ¬ ever and although losing much ground at the head of the stretch inIll on gamely under punishment The Shea filly had only stirtcd once here that being in the handicap opening day when she ran well behind Slippery Elm On the strength of that race she was confidently supported in the mutuels by the majority of the speculators who were pres ¬ ent entThe The weather was an improvement over that of the previous two days and a big crowd was present Outside of the races won by Ormonda and Iltra Gold the card was lacking in anything that represented l highclass field platers of the cheaper variety filling the rest of the races racesIlowii Ilowii continues to gain in popularity large dele ¬ gations from both 1altimore and Washington jour ¬ neying to the course daily also quite t few racing cnlhnshisls from the neighboring villages Ining regular attendants With the proposed Improve ¬ ment in the road from the track to AVashington Paltirnorc Pike the attendance will show a daily increase on account of those who will motor out to see the races racesilackclnriine ilackclnriine upset form calculation in tln first race winning in a hard drive by a narrow margin Tuft showed the most early speed and hung on gamely Coombs made a good showing for first out Mary Erb had little speed and ran far below her previous good races racesThe The second race for maiden threeyearolds and over brought a motely collection to the barrier among which Tom Fool proved the best after a sharp stretch drive Short Change from a bad be ¬ ginning made up a world of ground and secured second place from Mistake at the end Mistake unseated her rider Judge at the post and Purke was substituted after a delay of eleven minutes minutesliagpipe liagpipe lightly weighted and favored by a good start scored a lucky victory in the third race from The Pclgiau II which away badly made up con ¬ siderable ground and just failed to get up Franklin nlsf away badly closed up rapidly into a fast going third Pibroch had some early speed and quit quitULTRA ULTRA GOLD EASY WINNER WINNERThe The fourth race was won by 1ltra Gold the fa ¬ vorite in easy fashion from Kings Champion which made an impressive showing Arrowhead easily outstayed Fort PIiss for third honors the latter tiring badly after showing early speed speedNapthalius Napthalius favorite for the sixth race justified the opinion of his admirers by winning from ien Ilampson and Indolence in the order named Pen Hampson running in improved form hung on gnmey and easily hold second place safe from In ¬ dolence Sentimental tired badly badlyFour Four claims wen lodged for Napthalius after he scored in the sixth and G V Forman secured the horse for llor llorKrbo Krbo injured himself while beiur led to the paddock for the last race and was ordered scratched by the stewards stewardsFrank Frank Garrett a young trainer who has success ¬ fully trained a number of horses for the past few years has two twoyearolds the property of Dr J F Adams of Iallimorc which horsemen regard as promising racers They will be ciit to Pimlico at the close of this meeting meetingMany Many improvements have been made at Havre de Grace and more are being contemplated The new paddock meets all requirements it being of steel and of increased size over the old one The big McClelland establishment of racers is quartered in two new barns recently built At the conclusion of the spring meeting more stables are to be built and the steeplechase course improved improvedEttahe Ettahe winner of the seventh race Wednesday was retained by his owner J Kennedy for ltH0 ltH0Jockey Jockey Coltiletti was ailing somewhat today and his contract employer S A Clopton decided to give him a rest putting Morris on the horses that Coltiletti was scheduled to ride The lad will not ride until the Havre de Grace meeting meetingJ J Ilealy trainer of the J Lnmsdcn stable was a visitor today todayNapan Napan owned by Ed Alvey of this city arrived at tin Shields stable this morning from one of the neighboring farms where he has been resting for more than a year Shields will train him himAmong Among the apprentice riders F Hunt under con ¬ tract to Frank Dayton peus to be the most promising
