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MOTOR COP IN WINNING FORM AGAIN Shows Unite His OldTime Speed in Leading All the Way at Pimlico PALTIMOKE Mil May 17 Probably the most ignifcaiit feature of the Pimlico racing this after ¬ noon was Motor Cops convincing demonstration of the fact that lie is tit lie counted again in 1i list of best sprinters in ihis country He set i remarkably fast pace and won all the way in his b st style of two years had King Herod was i ted to furnish dangerous opposition but he hev v s in difficulties in the early running and fin ¬ is cd unplaced unplacedNight Night Haider was an o idson favorite for the fiirlli race but took his measure in the easiest vjiy imaginable in won by eight lengths pulling ui This g may prove one of the good twoyear Ids of later on At any rate he is gifted with a measure of pecd that should give him other triumphs triumphsAt At the conclusion of the Pimlieo meeting It F Cmiiau will ship his extensive string direct to Louisville It is the intention of the Maryland turfman lnruiifiiie his racing almost entirely to Kentucky this year yearJockey Jockey Sande returned from Louisville this morn ¬ ing where he went to ride Poniface in the Clark Handicap Handicaprank rank Herod who is training the plater Charming for Chris Martin has been puzzled for a month or six weeks past trying to diagnose an ailment vlich the mare was suffering from Several veter iiiaiians were called in but nothing definite could be learned On Saturday there was a discharge from the mares nostrils which Herold examined and in it discovered what apparcntly wen small pieces of sponges This morning Dr Henry T McCarthy operated on the mares head and found that a sponge had been forced so far up in her nostril that it was lodged in the pocket under the eye It had been there so long that it was be ¬ ginning to slough off and it is supposed that it Mas placed there at New Orleans the day previous to the time she ran so poorly when heavily backed by her connections connectionsH H O Iteilwell will ship the J K I Ross string with the exception of King Thrush from here to Aqueduct King Thrush will be left over to start in the Preakness Stakes tomorrow The Canadian division of the establishment has been sent to To ¬ ronto in charge of Fred Schelke and jockey Claver will accompany this part of the stable to Camilla F Carman reports the loss of the useful horse Startling which died at his farm in Maryland last week The horse suffered from an attack of fever feverThe The great threeyearold Man o War showed his admirers sensational speed this morning which made the trainers of the other Preakness eligibles sit up and take notice With jockey Cordon in the saddle lu was brought over to the barrier and sent a half mile He left the post none too well but despite this went like the wind when lie became settled lit his stride His move was 23 IM IS mil under restraint at the end If Man o War can maintain his speed over a long route it seems be is the horse of the century centuryItlizcx Itlizcx ran threeeighths from the bluffier this morning in 3 Wiidair in 23 and the half milw in 48 and Donnaeona threeeighths with blinkers on in 35 Samuel I Kiddle and Mrs Kiddle were arrivals this morning There is an nir of mystery as to who will have the mount on Mail o War in the Prcakness tomorrow It has definitely been de ¬ cided that Ensor will not have the mount It is surmised that Knmmer will ride the horse horseHarry Harry Payne Whitney accompanied by a party of ten friends will come over from New York in Mr Whitneys private car to witness the running of the Ireakiiess in which Wiidair will sport the famous light blue anil brown
