Heat Race The Attraction: Medford Boy the Winner--No Racing on Wednesday and Thursday., Daily Racing Form, 1921-05-02

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HEAT RACE THE ATTRACTION Medford Boy the Winner No Racing on Wednesday and Thursday TIJUANA Mer May 1 A mile heat race best two out of three was the feature of Sundays program and attracted a large crowd to witness it Pierrot won the first heat with Sea Beach siicond and Billy Joe third The secondheat was captured by Medford Boy Mike Daly finishing sec ¬ ond and Kl Rey third Billy Toe was withdrawn after the first heat The third and final heat fell to Medford Boy Pierrot got second money and Mike Daly third thirdThe The present meeting here will come to an end next Sunday It has been the most successful one despite difficulties encountered froni the Mexi ¬ can authorities in the matter of passport regula ¬ tions that for a time threatened to bring it to an abrupt ending endingFor For the final week there will be racing on Tues ¬ day but none on Wednesday or Thursday It will be resumed on Friday and extra programs provided for Saturday and Sunday SundaySAN SAN DIEGO Cal May 1 The consistent and speedy sprinter Herder accounted for the feature race at Tijuana Saturday at four and a half fur ¬ longs which was the seventh race on the card The son of Colin Belgravia met a fast band but raced them into exhaustion with his superior speed He led by a wide margin throughout winning in a canter in the fast time of 53 which equaled the track record held by Joe Blair Harry D finished in second place while Shifty was best of the others othersJockey Jockey Earl Taylor who rode five winners Fri ¬ day continued his good riding by landing three winners during the afternoon In the initial race Taylor scored with Little Less a western bred colt making bis first appearance under colors The winner paid 12780 with the iron man and easily led the favorites Tabloid and Sample past the judges judgesTaylor Taylor again Iproved successful JtJf iPlbngprieed horse when he piloted Red Man a winner in the third race at threequarters Red Man paid better than 8 to 1 in the machines machinesJockey Jockey Murray and his mount Mondaihe figured in a spectacular fall in the third race in which the rider luckily escaped unhurt while the horse broke its shoulder and had to be destroyed Mon Oaine fell soon after the start while in the middle of the field and fortunately the horses in the rear avoided the fallen animal Indeed Dakota Boy hurdled the prostrate thoroughbred when it seemed certain that he would go down downLong Long shots continued to score throughout the afternoon and the lucky ones that backed the out ¬ siders reaped a harvest harvestStanley Stanley H which seems to have taken a new lease on life spreadeagled his opponents in the concluding race at five and a half furlongs win ¬ ning by a wide margin all the way His race was a fast one as he covered the distance in 106 pulled up upJockey Jockey Carter was taken sick yesterday morning from excessive reducing and was forced to cancel his mounts for the day


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