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UNEVENTFUL AT LEXINGTON Routine Racing the Order with No Stars Clasning General Haig Defeats Woodtrap Woodtrapin in a Close Finish Good GoodWeather Weather for Today LEXINGTON Ky April 27 W O Stoners General Haig which in the past has shown a great liking for this track and scored some brilliant vic ¬ tories here again demonstrated that he is capable of a good contest by taking the measure of the highly regarded Woodtrap in the iiiilc and a six ¬ teenth handicap which featured todays card The rough track was favorable to both contenders and they raced In front of the others from the start Woodtrap being in the van and apparently going easily until the stretch turn was rounded where General Haig came up steadily and in a brief rush drew up to win by a scant half length Woodtrap landed in second place a good distance in front of Master Bill with the others in the field well strung out outPleasant Pleasant weather was a feature this afternoon serving to bring out the full strength of racing enthusiasts here The track was in a bad way as a result of the heavy drenches it has been sub ¬ jected to but it improved steadily and if no more rain falls there is a good prospect of it being fast for the racing of tomorrow tomorrowBackers Backers of favorites fared poorly many of the choices succumbing this applying particularly to Advocate Better Still and Woodtrap The trio all placeSeveral brought up in second place Several close finishes featured that between Llewellyn and Belter Still and the one between General Haig and Woodtrap giving the big crowd extra thrills thrillsRagazza Ragazza in the opener started tlic favorite backers off auspiciously by beating The Nephew home homeThe The succeeding dash found Mary Jane Baker the favored one but she was beaten easily by Planet PlanetBengalcse Bengalcse carrying the Xalapa Farm colors spreadeagled the maidens he met In the third race Fred raceFred A Vaughn secretary of state for Ken ¬ tucky made the presentation of the cup donated by the Phoenix Hotel to the handicap won by Gen ¬ eral Haig HaigThe The colors of former senator J W Bailry were carried home to victory in the sixth race by Una Clark This daughter of Delhi Prism displayed a high order of speed from the start and raced like she might be a good one oneJockey Jockey Taylor who rode Nig in the sixth race was suspended for five days by the stewards as a result of rough riding ridingGeneral General Haigs improved performance caused the stewards to summon trainer McGarvey for an ex ¬ planation lie held that General Haigs failure to run better in his previous race was due t Jockey McGraws action in getting him cut off frequently He was given the benefit of the doubt but was warned that his horses will have to perform con ¬ sistently at all times1 times1OWNER OWNER AND RIDER WARNED WARNEDThe The improvement shown by Hereafter in his rare yesterday caused the stewards to have a meeting with owner Roscoe Goose and jockey Burke Both were given to understand that qualification mot li ¬ ed would not be tolerated but escaped with the reprimand reprimandJockey Jockey Pool narrowly escaped a long suspension by the stewards as a result of the interference suf ¬ fered by Swecpy in the fourth race for it appeared that Pool had been the offender but close observers standing at the point where the interference occurred including trainer Kimball Patterson who has charge of Sweepy asserted that Pool was not at fault and the interference was the result of Bet ¬ ter Still stumbling and bumping into Swoepy The mishap probably cost Better Still the victory victoryJames James McLelland gave many an owner a hearty laugh during the afternoon by displaying a tele ¬ gram received this morning from the irrepressible Archie Xlmnicr from Havre de Grace in which Himmer mourns the loss of Kirah recently claimed from him and implores McLelland to send him Leonardo II to take the place of Kirah as the stable pony is indicating loncsomeness loncsomenessTrainer Trainer Alex Gordon will bring Fantochc and Muskallonge here from Louisville to be starters in the Blue Grass Stakes serving as the final trial in DerbyThe racing for the Kentucky Derby The crack band of horses that James McLelland has here racing in the Xalapa Farm colors will be SundayWilliam shipped to Louisville Sunday William Hamilton who is serving as one of starter Dados assistants received word today from Mrs James Osborne that her husband stricken with a paralytic stroke during the Shreve port meeting is gradually recovering and lias re ¬ gained speech speechB B L Squires and S H Harlan respectively agent and trainer for Larry Waterburys string of racers were granted licenses this morning by the Kentucky Racing Commission CommissionPablo Pablo Martinez who rode successfully at the Tijuana meeting and whose contract has been taken over by W F Poison will arrive here from his home in Mexico MexicoGeorge George Barnes who is training the horses of C W Clark came over from Louisville this morn ¬ ing to have a look at some of the yearlings he has at 1 C Milams place Barnes stated that all the Clark horses are doing famously particularly Cap ¬ tain Mac which ho thinks will be troublesome in the races in which he will start startTom Tom Hare Jr will not be raced until late in the fall having been recently fired for a suspicious leg
