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JOHNNY DUNDEE TRIUMPHS Lowers Colors of Unbeaten Pep ¬ per Tea in Tijuana Futurity Hurdle Kace on Saturday Makes MakesBig Big Hit Three Straight Straightfor for Cefebrate SAN DIKOO Cal April 3 Johnny Dundee the speedy twoyearold gelding by Brunimel Gylfi lowered the colors of the unbeaten Pepper Tea in the first running of the 5000 Tijuana Futurity that featured todays program of nine races In the former meeting of this pair in the Juvenile Stakes Pepper Tea was returned victorious but it was over a sloppy track over which Johnny Dundee did not show at his best although he ran a credit ¬ able race to be beaten by threequarters of a length He made amends for that defeat today and proved that he wan master of the crack Peter Quince filly which reigned here supreme over the Juvenile division with four straight victories to her credit Pepper Tea was the favorite today and set a fust pace but tired near the end when the New Orleans racer challenged and gave away in the last eighth Johnny Dundee winning by a length in the fast time of 54If Pepper Tea was second a length in advance of Incognance which closed fast and gaining with every stride strideAnother Another crowd of immense proportions was on hand to witness todays big juvenile contest and the oilier promising nrces the good Sunday card offered Speculation was brisk and heavy SAN DIKGO Cal April 3 One of the best Sat ¬ urday crowds of the meeting attended the racing yesterday and witnessed the disposal of a card of eight races of which the mile and an eighth hurdle race was the outstanding feature The races proved a big success despite the fact that Coro nado the winner won in hollow fashion How ¬ ever the sight cf the jumpers taking the obstacles in a faultless manner had the big crowd in a high pitch of excitement The fact that the race proved a good spectacle and that it was not marred by any mishaps has encouraged racing secretary Leon Wing to give more of these races during the remainder of the meeting The winner Coronado which William Red Walker recently purchased frcm C 15 Irwin for the purpose of sending him through the field in eastern Canada showed him ¬ self to be a ready jumper Never dwelling at any of the hedges he drew far away from bis oppo ¬ nents when his rider called on him and made the others look cheap After taking each hazard he showed much speed on the flat flatCertain Certain Point was his nearest competitor fifteen lengths back while Appletto was an easy third thirdThe The change of riders from Poieur to Marinelli worked wonders with Capers and she took the opening dash in a canter from Cobalt and York Lassie LassieJockey Jockey Marinelli was astride of the heavily back favorite Czardom ir the second race but was unfortunate in getting away from the post poorly and despite making up a world of ground the finish saw him in second place Buckhoru II leading him home Little Pointer was third and best of the others othersIn In scoring with Rosellis in the third race an ¬ other mile dash jockey Noble won his first rnc of his short riding career Her victory was only accomplished after the hardest kind of a drive as Tours was catching her fast and another stride would have found him the winner Miss Scdalia the supposed good tiling in the race loomed up like the winner when a sixteenth out but tired with victory in sight and finished third thirdCELEBRATE CELEBRATE BY SMALL MARGIN MARGINThe The three choices in the fifth race at five and a half furlongs provided a thrilling finish in which the bush wonder Celebrate managed to land home in front by a short head with Goldie Hose and Smiling Maggie next in order Again the crack jockey Marinelli missed winning by a scant margin as his mount Goldie Rose was limning almost two strides to the winners one at tiic finish Celebrate in winning his race accounted for his third straight victory of the meeting meetingThe The fast sprinter Herder scored another lucky win when lie lasted long enough to defeat Dancing Girl by inches The finish was nip and tuck be ¬ tween these two for at least an eighth of a mile Ike Mills which finished in third place was only a half length behind the leaders at the finish finishHarrigans Harrigans Heir despite his jxior start in the seventh race was so much the test that lie quickly raced into forward contention and disposed of his opponents in the stretch with apparent east eastThe The onetime useful horse Nepperliau was forced to lower his colors before Salgeorge in the final race of the day at a mile and seventy yards The Walker cripple which has been patched up gal ¬ lantly fought it out for a brief way in the stretch hut could not wipe with the winners rush rushTile Tile claiming brigade made no mistakes when they readied into the fiftli race for horses Cele ¬ brate and Goldie Hose which finished one two both changed ownership J E Lewis taking the former while James Griffith led Goldie Hose to his barn In both cases the consideration was 700 700Owner Owner S Polk reported that his consistent filly Bardora which crashed through the outside fence after winning the last race Friday was so badly cut around the stifle that he expects her to be on the shelf for some time timeJockey Jockey Hinphy departed tonight for Wheeling W Va where lie will accept mounts at the meeting which is scheduled to take place in the near future Hinphy signalized his departure by riding the last winner winnerJockey Jockey Noble who rode the first winner when he drove Roellis over the line in the third race by a nose is a protege of Charley Howell the Texas horseman who developed the good rider J Roberts Noble looks as much like Roberts as two peas in a pod and Howell is of the opinion that lie Continued on second page JOHNNY DUNDEE TRIUMPHS Continued from first page will make just as capable a rider as his first find findNVar NVar Mask the winner of the 10000 V S Grant Hotel Handicap is being pointed for the 20000 Coffroth Handicap the richest of all the winter stakes which will be decided next Sun ¬ day War Mask which in his race pulled up lame is going along soundly and Clarence Buxton is of tlie opinion that he will get this gallant little horse to tlie races for his next stake engagement in a racing condition Kashmir is another from the Buxton barn which is going along freely and should War Mask train to his conditioners satis ¬ faction will be saved to run ill the 5000 Tijuana Cup at two miles
