view raw text
MARLBOROS OPPORTUNITY - Fair Meeting of Five Days Has No Opposition. Thriller Beats Valentla In 3Ialn Attraction Utah Surprises and Wins at Long Odds. MARLBORO. Md.. November 13. Marlboro took a new place on the racing map this afternoon when the five-day meeting of the Southern Maryland Fair Association opened. In other years Marlboro was not as fortunate in the allotment of racing dates, generally having opposition from the larger tracks, but this year it has none whatever and as a result there were many from the. big circuit stayed over to fill in the time until the opening of Bowie next Saturday. In fact, so many stayed over that the little half-mile plant was uncomfortably crowded. It was a good program that had been prepared by Joseph McLennan and with the weather and track at its best the sport was excellent. While Marlboro is within easy automobile ride of Washington it is rather a hard trip by train, and to make it worse for the opening day there was some sort of a rail-load breakdown that delayed the crowd until after the first race had been run. However, there was nothing the matter with the race special from Baltimore, and it brought an immense crowd. Some idea of the crowd might be had in the fact that all the programs had been sold long before the running of the first race. For a feature offering there was a handicap over about six and a half furlongs and it brought about a good finish when Mrs. J. M. Blacks Thriller was just up to beat Valentia, the Fred Burlew castoff that now races for L. Shack. Another of the starters from Mrs. Blacks stable was third when South Breeze saved that part of the purse. POOR RIDE BEATS VALENTIA. It was probable that Valentia would have been home a Avinner with a better ride. Away well, she was outrun to the first turn, where she was cut off and crowded back rather badly. Then in the backstretch she again went to the front and she looked a sure winner at the head of the stretch, but Jackson, who had the mount, became alarmed when Thriller closed on the outside and he dropped the fillys head and went to the whip. Valentia was not through, but she needed the support rather than the whip, and Thriller headed her in the last two strides. In the opening five and a half furlong dash R. F. Carman furnished the winner in the three-year-old Zorro. Woodstock rushed him away from the post until a couple of lengths to the good and, riding him hard all the way, never left the result in doubt to be home winner by three lengths from old Al Pierce, while True as Steel was the one to finish third. No Trumps and Sid C. Keener were the ones that first gave chase to the leader, but they soon gave way, the latter quitting badly after going a half. An upset and decided surprise marked the decision of the second race, in which the black colt Utah got up in the last stride to beat Arthur Middleton by a head after the Continued on eighth pare. MARLBOROS OPPORTUNITY Continued from first page. latter had led from the start. The race wa3 considered to be a duel between Runnan and Arthur Middleton, although Kitty Johnson came in for some backing. Old Arthur Mid-deleton was away first and Avith the advantage he secured it seemed as if nothing could deprive him of victory, so smoothly was he running. Runnan was in third place behind Who Knows, while Utah Avas on the outside next in order. This despised outsider gained steadily and his rider finding an opening next to the inner rail entering the stretch rode his mount through and to victory before the crowd could hardly realize it. BE TRUICMAN SUCCESSFUL. Mrs. E. Truemans Be Trueman was winner of the dash that was the third offering, but she had to be hard ridden to score from Richard E. Carmans The Girl and Auntie Em Avas third from St. Angelina. The finish was close in this contest. Be Trueman tiring badly near the end and it required Stirlings best efforts to keep the filly in front long enough to make sure the victory. A. Bennetts Purl, ridden by D. Stirling, was returned the winner of the fourth race, which was at six and a half furlongs. Second portion of the purse fell to W. JNIetz-gars Jap Muma, while Ina Kay, racing for B. Chapman, was third. The winner was accorded extensive support in the wagering. E. Jelley had a chance to make his score two for the afternoon when lie had the mount on P. S. P. Randolphs Horeb in the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth, but he had trouble in keeping his mount in on the .short turns and when he bore out it gave j Doctor Jim his opportunity and he outran the old gelding through the last quarter to win with something to spare. It was Horeb J that cut out all the pace and it seemed i that his inability to run around the turns I as a half miler should have brought his defeat. J. D. Bryan announced today that the Jefferson Park meeting at New Orleans would be opened Thanksgiving Day to continue until the end of December. There had been a rumor that the meeting would be preceded by a short fair meeting and he wanted it understood there would be no such preliminary racing there. E. Sietas, before leaving New York for his Maryland campaign, sent his good mare Elected II. to John E. Maddens Hamburg Place Farm, where she Avill join the the matrons there. Mack Garner will be at Bowie to ride for the Montfort Jones Stable. Rockminister Surf Rider and the other good ones that are J J to race under the Jones silks are already on the grounds and ready to race. Dr. F. W. Ashe was a visitor. He is looking after the horse shipment to the Havana meeting. Clarence Buxton claimed Purl after her victory for ,000.
