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CLEOPATRA WINS THE PIMLICO OAKS Wildair Gives Much Weight and a Beating to Older Handicap Horses BALTIMORE Mil May The Pimlico Oaks with iOW added for three yearold fillies at a mile and a sixteenth was the principal feature of a tempting card which attracted a vast assem ¬ blage to the Pimlico track today The Whitney pair Panoply and Arethusa were so heartily backed that they went to tiie K st at less than even money c upled but W R Cues fine filly Cleopatra proved best suited by the going and scored an easy vic ¬ tory Arcthusa proved her most tenacious opponent am finished a game second but only a head bet ier than Rubidium Panoply made the pace to the far turn then began laUiring in the going and finally brought up an eased up last lastIt It develops that the ruling issued by the stew ¬ ards last week in the Tntt race was against the horse and not the owner Consequently II W Fry is iu good standing and his colors will be si en on Veteran in the sixth race on Monday MondayThe The two Harry Payne Wliitnoy threeyearold fillies Panoply mid Arethusa will be shipped from Iimlico to l iisvillc on Wednesday to fill their cigagemciif in tiie Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs DownsThe The 1 I l uclirim and J W Dayton stables vill leave iiere tVi Toronto on Monday There an1 several jumpers r the latters string stringJockeys Jockeys Morris and K llaynes were suspended for three days by ili starter yesterday for dis ¬ obedience at tlu post postThe The sponge case i nude investigation by the rtewards It develop that the person who is snp osod to Imve placed tue poni up Little Nearcrs nostril was a white man was seen coming out of the horses stall by n couple of negroes One of them was offered 100 not to say anything M connection with tin mattrr A ruling in he cast is looked for either Monday or Tuesday 0 K Pons left for Toronto tonight with his hfrses Jockey lleupel will remain here until the finish of the Iimlico meeting when he will join Jii 5 employer at Ttirinlo CW Jassor and Kranlc Farbaer are alto scijdlTig tiicir sfii tiles to To ¬ ronto tonight tonightJoseph Joseph McLenpan wound Ui all the preliminary business in connection with the shipping and ap ¬ plications for license from hose who contemplate racing on the Canadian circuit and departed for lironto this afternoon afternoonJockey Jockey A flavor who was retored to favor by the Canadian Racing Associations at its meet ¬ ing held in Toronto yesterday made his reappear ¬ ance iu the saddle this afternoon after an absence f three or four years lie is now under contract to Commander J K L Ross ml sported the lat ¬ ters colors on His Choke and Damask flavors rrditig will be confined to his contract employer employerRobert Robert Walden acting for Mr A II Morris lias disposed of to J J Karrell the twoyear old Rygone Farrell also has Clean Cone in his stable stablePefore Pefore leaving for Ottawa Thomas Gorman sec ¬ retary of the foiinniiglit Park Jockey Club an ¬ nounced that many improvements had been made to the plant since racing ws last held at the Quebec track The membership of the club is three times greater than when racing closed down in Canada The Governor Jeiiecil of the Dominion the Duke of Devonshire will attend the meeting accompanied by the Duchess ot Devonshire It is the intention of the club to set apart a special day wlen members of parliament will be guests of the Conuauglit Park Jockey Club On this occasion something extra in tiie way of attractions will be offered offeredQuite Quite a crowd was on hand this morning to wit ¬ ness the running of the oldtimers race Of the thirteen carded three were withdrawn W II Kar ricks Rowdy ridden by his son Kenneth Karrick won from Mrs F A Clarks Uindstoek with F Ambrose Clark in the saddle W V Conrads Red Leaf with Mr C R Feischmanu up was third The halfmile was run in rS R E Watkins Francis ridden by A f Porretto fell shaking the latter up lie was removed to one of t local hospitals There were no bones broken only a few bruises bruisesBetween Between the running of the fourth and fifth races Louis Feiistel brought the great threeyear old Man o Var out and sent him a mile lie was ridden by jockey Cordon and carried about ILo pounds Tiie fractional time of the workout was 2 4 11 148 148Wildair Wildair qualified f r the Preakness when he beat an all aged band in the Chesapeake Handicap which he won by eight lengths He made the pace all the way and Ambrose picked his going for the entire race raceAfter After AVilduirs race John P Grier was brought out and sent a mile in lil James Rowe kept waving the lad to g on witli the colt but John P Grier evidently could not run freely in the going and refused to extend himself
