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MISSIONARYS EASY VICTORY Gives Weight and a Beating to Spanish Maize Havre de Grace Track Fast and andBacing Bacing Good but Disastrous Disastrousto to Favorites HAVRE DE GRACE Md April 25 Mis ¬ sionary chestnut son of Hourless Mission ridden by jockey Schuttinger was returned the winner of the Sheiiandoah Handicap with R I Millers Sailing Along second and Spanish Maize third The race was a dash of a mile and seventy yards for threeyear olds under handicap conditions and served to introduce some of the Maryland candi ¬ dates for the Preakness Stakes and Ken ¬ tucky Derby The band that forced the starter was a small one five in all two overnight entries being scratched scratchedMissionary Missionary was accorded but weak support by the backers while J K L Ross Spanish Maize was installed a hot choice Off to a good start Missionary left from the extreme outside and made a fast pace for the first half pursued by Violinist while Spanish Maize brought up the rear After entering the backstretch Turner moved up on the outside with Spanish Maize and racing around the turn he loomed up as a seeming ¬ ly formidable contender Schuttinger saved ground with Missionary on the last turn and rushed him home an easy victor while Vio ¬ linist dropped back and finished a tired horse Sailing Along raced and finished gamely and outstayed Spanish Maize The latter raced wide on the turns and tired in the final eighth eighthMissionarys Missionarys race was a good one and he demonstrated that he will hold his own here ¬ after with nearly any of the threeyearold brigade in this section sectionRacing Racing conditions this afternoon were all that could be desired and a crowd of huge proportions journeyed to the course The racing furnished was of a spirited order and several of the winners only earned ver ¬ dicts after strenuous drives The form back ¬ ers were again a sea and failed to locate the majority of the winners long priced horses being in the ascendancy The track condi ¬ tions were splendid and the going fast fastDOWNFALL DOWNFALL OF FAVOIUTES BEGINS BEGINSThe The opening dash of the afternoon which brought out a big band to go five and a half furlongs resulted in an upset for the backers when Eang guided Titania home an easy winner from TingaLing and Jago The winner made the running throughout and ended with a wide margin TingaLing be ¬ gan better than usual and disposed of Allah in the stretch drive Jago came from a long way back and took the short end of the purse Charlie Summy enjoyed favoritism and was prominent in the early running but quit badly in the final eighth eighthBessie Bessie Leighton overlooked in the specula ¬ tion was an easy winner of the twoyearold race at a half mile from Josephine C and Lank The start was a good one and before the field had gone many yards there was a considerable crowding and Gold Mount was the chief sufferer Bessie Leighton came on the outside of the leader at the head of the stretch and took a good lead in the final eighth Lank from a slow beginning fin ¬ ished with a rush and was going fast at the end Lough Red an outsider in the specula ¬ tion and racing for J W Healeyfi was re ¬ turned the winner of the third race a dash of a mile and seventy yards in a drive from Phalaris with Horeb third The winner came from the rear to pass the popular choice Phalaris in the final sixteenth sixteenthWalter Walter J Salmons Superlative graduated from the maiden ranks in the running of the fourth race of the day in a drive from The Peruvian and Star Jester The winner was ridden by Butwell and the latter can be credited with the victory when he brought the Salmon starter up on the outside in the final sixteenth and lifted him in a powerfully ridden finish The Peruvian came wide on the last turn and Butwell alert to the oppor ¬ tunity sent Superlative through on the in ¬ side and in a desperate finish got up on the closing strides although the winner was un ¬ decided until the official placing was dis ¬ played playedLunetta Lunetta accounted for the sixth race a dash of a mile and a sixteenth after a mild drive from Tippo Sahib and Lucky B The start was delayed for several minutes due to the fractious behavior of Lucky B which reared and unseated jockey Rice The lat ¬ ter fortunately fell clear clearMaize Maize racing for W Farnum took a cheap band of platers into camp in the final race of the day Exhorter took second place and Martha Luckett was third The winner was Continued on eighth page MISSIONARYS EASY VICTORY Continued from first page another outsider in the wagering and for ¬ tunate in securing a clear course on the inside disposed of Exhorter in the final drive driveThe The stewards have posted an order refus ¬ ing the entry of the horse Irish Dream for repeated misbehavior at the post postSamuel Samuel Louis claimed Titania from W Durnan for 1675 following the running of the first race raceA A G Blakely acting for W Daniels and on private terms has sold to Bert Williams the plater Archive ArchiveWord Word was received today of the death of Max Frank a wellknown bookmaker at Jamaica Hospital Long Island The lafe Mr Frank was operating last summer on the lawn and his death was a shock to his many friends here hereTrainer Trainer Albert Simons of the New Orleans Stable reported this morning that several Inmates of the stable are on the shelf due to an attack of coughing coughingJockey Jockey Simms was discharged from the Baltimore Hospital this morning fully re ¬ covered from a severe shaking up while jockey W Hunt is laid up with a fractured bone in his ankle ankleJockey Jockey D Prible who fell in the last race yesterday is not as severely injured as the first report had it An exhaustive examina ¬ tion at the General Hospital in Baltimore yesterday established that a dislocated shoulder and a shaking up comprised his injuries instead of concussion of the brain brainT T J Shaw and E Koehn were visitors from New York today while Ollie Martin stopped over en route from Chicago to New York YorkR R F Carman reports the arrival of a bay filly at Carmandale by Meridian Yad owpeep owpeepJ J P Smith has taken over the horses of the Vulcain Stable and will train them in the future The stable will be shipped to Jamaica JamaicaE E Loh announced the arrival of a bay filly at B F Devers farm at Ferryman Md by Woodstone Positive PositiveAt At private terms this morning G W Fore ¬ man purchased from L W Garth acting for W S Stockton the steeplechaser Le Mar so uin uinAmong Among those who will ship from here to tho New York trades on Thursday are W L Oliver J P Tevis G Whalen and Woods Garth Aqueduct and Belmont Park are the destinations destinationsWord Word was received from Roger Milton manager of the Guayabal Stock Farm at Havana Cuba that breeding conditions are going along favorably There are fortyfour head at the farm including the brood mares of C A Stoneham E L Fitzgerald and L Quesada the latter a prominent Cuban breeder Kildare Boy which is at the farm has been bred to the following mares Diffi ¬ dence Cousin Sally and Belle Wraclc Many of the mares which are at present quartered at Oriental Park will be transferred to the farm this month monthDr Dr H J McCully who arrived yesterday from New York made an offer to James McClelland manager of the Lexington Stable for the Derby and Preakness candidate Lucky Hour Manager McClelland made a counter proposition of disposing of Mission ¬ ary and Lucky Hour for 150000 which was refused refusedC C 1C Harrisons Rubien is laid up with a quarter crack which developed yesterday A similar injury resulted in his retirement as a twoyearold twoyearoldJoseph Joseph D Healy arrived from Havana Cuba today having made the trip on Horace Stonehams yact Caesco Before leaving Cuba he turned out the plater Frascuelo for the summer summerEd Ed Steed a wellknown trainer and horse ¬ man died at the Anchor Hotel in Baltimore recently Death was sudden The late Mr Steed was a Canadian by birth and was prominently connected as a trainer for some American stables
