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TOUCH ME NOTS FINE RACE Prominent Preakness Candidate Makes Auspicious Start Jockey Coltiletti the Riding1 Star StarWith With Four Straight Wins Winsin in as Many Mounts HAVRE DE GRACE Md April 29 The Green ree Stables Touch Me Not one of the prominent candidates for tlie rich Preakness Stakes to be run at the Pimlico meeting made his first appearance of the year here this afternoon when he went to he post in the Albemarle Purse a dash of a mile and seventy yards for threeyearolds and over ouch Me Not showed a smashing good performance le was ridden by Coltiletti overcame a lot of early nterference and won under a pull Some Baby was second and Wood Violet third Going to the first urn Touch Me Not was blocked and his rider was orced to take up to keep from cutting Wood Violet own Straightened out on the backstretch he was taken to the outside and saved until straightened out in the homestretch where he assumed an easy lead to win going away at the end Touch Me Not ran his last mile in 139 a real good perform ¬ ance considering that the track was easily a second or probably more slow to the mile mileLight Light showers fell during the running of the lirst two races then the sun came out and the weather was pleasant the remainder of the after ¬ noon The outstanding feature of the afternoons rac ng was the splendid horsemanship displayed by lockey Coltiletti He rode four straight winners 1rineess Pandora in the third Silence in tlie fourth Touch Me Not in the fifth and Toss Up in the sixth He finished the day with a clean score as le had no mounts in the other races racesFair Fair Mac won his second straight victory through the field when he easily accounted for the steeple ¬ chase contest of the afternoon afternoonAnother Another twoyearold winner came from the Peli ¬ can Stable when Hyperbole led all the way in the opener and easily beat Kate Brummel by two lengths lengthsSeven Seven carloads of horses pulled out for Jamaica this morning and fifteen or twenty more will leave for the same place on Sunday SundayLOFT LOFT STABLE COMING TO PIMLICO PIMLICOMax Max Hirsch has arranged to ship a division of tlie George W Loft racers from Belmont Park to Pimlico on Monday next Included in the band will be the jumpers Sweepmint and Germa Jockey Mergler will do the riding for the Loft stable this year yearEdward Edward McBride purchased at private sale of W J Salmon the racer Hay Rack He will pick up tliree or four others and ship them to Canada where they will be campaigned next summer summerJoe Joe Joe was claimed by W J Reidel for 1740 1740G G Lutz has discarded one of his crutches and hopes to be able to get about with the use of a cane in a few weeks Lutz broke one of his legs last fall fallJames James Lyons and John West two wellknown moving picture producers from Morristown N J were among the visitors visitorsM M Boasberg leaves tonight for New York vhere he will remain a couple of days before continuing on his journey to Mexico City where he goes to look over the jockey club race course in that city with the idea of closing for the concession with the Mexican government governmentJ J J Duffey A Blakely W R Salee and George Peterson are among the ones who will leave in the shipment which will leave here Sunday for Jamaica JamaicaDnunmond Dnunmond the property of W A Shea and Bills Luck the property of T H Wilson will be shipped to R A Smiths farm at Newark Del where they will be turned out for the summer summerHyperbole Hyperbole winner of the first race was claimed by S Louis for 2155 P J Miles claimed Puna man for 3285 J M Collins put in a claim for the jumper Bronze Eagle which was not allowed for the reason that it was 50 short shortJ J J Duffey purchased Esearpolctte of Ed Moore and will ship her to Jamaica JamaicaC C A Applegate has turned the imported racer Flying Orb over to F Byer who will race him on the halfmile tracks in Maryland Applegate pur ¬ chased Frogtown from L T Bauer He lost this horse to tlie latter through the claiming route a few days ago agoE E H Moore claimed Toreador for 1630 1630J J Richardson claimed Sammy Kelly the winner of the final race for 1625
