view raw text
RAIN FALLS AT LAUREL Mud Runners Have First Opportunity of Meet- ing Four Straight for Goldine. LAUREL, Md., October 28. Soft going prevailed at Laurel Park this afternoon for the first time during the meeting. Rain which fell last night left the course sloppy, and lowering clouds kept down the attendance somewhat, but the crowd on hand had better success in battling the "iron -men"" than is usually the case when track conditions change. Camoufleur, the four-year-old Astronomer colt from the stable of W. L. S. Martin, led home the best band of horses brought together iliis afternoon, winning by five lengths from Herd Girl and Wood Violet, Black Top, F. Hunt up, won the first race in the colors of D. S. Fountain. He Von going away from Wild Thoughts, an even money favorite, and Kinetic. Black Top paid 9.50 for . J. E. Wideners Duettiste,- running through the field in public for the first time since his successes of last spring at -Pimlico, picked up 167 pounds and scored an impressive victory ovec-Deba-ddu and his own jstablemate, Joyful. Goldine, the Golden JIaxim Miss. Bodlne filly recently claimed from A. L. Austin by Mrs. R. I. Miller, was sent to the post by her former owner and scored her fourth consecutive victory of the meeting. Widow Bedotte nnd Frank Monroe divided the remainder of the purse. Frank J. Bruen. general manager of Oriental Park, will leave for Kentucky tomorrow to take in the Latonia closing days program on Saturday. J. B. Dunn shipped Ida Dunn and Pleasing Pictures to the Eastern Shore Farm this morning. .Mr. Dunn will campaign St. Quentin, Madeline Lillian,. Louise V. and Phantom Fair nnd five or six others at New Orleans during the winter. G. R. Allen ships Kontiicky Boy end Vera Wood to Tijuana Monday. Jockey Yeargin, under contract to Mr. Allen, will accompany the shipment. Harry Knight, for whom a subscription was trnp here,, has been.n, tpl JPaso, ,rexa, VirF1 three starters in .thfe Manly Memorial Steeplechase . ut .Pimlico. !Her horses "ate in excellent form just now and are schooling well. Tomorrow will be schooling day. at Pimlico. There are more jumpers on hand this yedr than any previous one in the clubs history. Mrs. Wilfred Viaus good two-year-old Celt Network filly Ten-Lec arrived at Pimlico this morning from New York. L. Cheyne, the steeplechase rider who broke a collar-bone in n fall recently, hag been subjected to a wiring operation. P. Brady, another of the jumping riders, is nursing a like disablement. Simpson Boyle, uiider contract to E. B. Bradley, appeared with the colors up today for the first time since his injury in Kentucky last spring. Before leaving here for New York to do missionary work in the Interest of the Business Mens Racing Association meeting R. S. Eddy, general manager of the Fair Grounds track, expressed Jthe opinion that a settlement would be reached with the horsemen in the matter of purse disputes so that there will be no difficulty of holding the meeting as scheduled.
