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HER FIFTH VICTORY Belie of Elizabethtown Equals the Record Set by Marionette Her Performance Yesterday a aMeritorious Meritorious One Joe V a aPossible Possible Future Star HAVANA Cuba January 3 Belle of Elizabethtown tied Marionette for the num ¬ ber of races won at Oriental Park at this meeting when she scored her fifth victory this afternoon in the feature the Sea Coast Handicap This was a dash of threequar ¬ ters with a purse of 900 She carried top weight 120 pounds and set her opponents a dazzling pace but was tiring at the end She was hard ridden to last long enough to beat East View by the smallest of margins The finish was so close that the winner was in doubt until the official placing was dis ¬ played The first half was run in 4G seconds secondsAlthough Although Belle of Elizabethtown was a tired horse and her victory achieved by the smallest of margins her race was indeed a meritorious one She picked up 120 pounds and ran the legs off such speedy horses as East View Chief Sponsor Sun Brae and Edgar Allan Poe If Belle of Elizabethtown could confine her racing to Oriental Park she certainly would be champion championA A mishap soon after the start othe first race eliminated the favorite when Ray Atkin stumbled and lost his rider before he had gone an eighth The winner turned up in the second choice Kitty Cheatham the old Meelick mare taking the lead after Mann chen retired from pacemaking and had no serious opposition from thereon Orchid King finishing fast outlasted tho tiring Mannchen for second money moneyLOWERS LOWERS TURBULENTS COLORS COLORSAnother Another success was recorded for W R Coe when his Mountain Lassie beat the evenmoney favorite Turbulent in the sec second ond race This was a dash of five and a half furlongs with the pair mentioned above considered best of the five starters There Therewas was no mistake in that calculation but the majority expected to see Turbulent win However such was not the case for Moun ¬ tain Lassie under J Callahans energetic riding held sway throughout and always held Turbulent safe safeI I Last Chance II proved to be a repeater by coming back with another good race thia afternoon He was a strong favorite in the third race and after following the leaders to the turn out of the backstretch assumed an easy lead and won with ridiculous case casei i by a good margin Bruce Dudley beat Red by a neck for second place placeANSFICIOUS ANSFICIOUS TURF DEBUT DEBUTJoe Joe V a big upstanding colt by Solomon Chatterbox accounted for the race which called for Cubanbred maidens and which was run as the fourth He was ridden by Pickens and made short work of his oppo ¬ nents winning with great ease from Virulilla This was Joe Vs initial appearance on the turf and if his race today is a true indica ¬ tion of his ability he may develop into a high grade racer racerThe The mile and a sixteenth of the sixth race found Blazonry the winner with Miss Ran kin second and Pibroch third the latter be ¬ ing the favorite Blazonry had things easy after wresting the lead from Miss Rankin at the far turn turnThe The horses Guelph and Connnudrum which have been racing in the interests of R J Harner will hereafter run in the col ¬ ors of their trainer M Bernard BernardF F Porterie who has been training the horses Buford Douglas Fairbanks and Dona Bella for Senor Jose Lopez has relinquished their care and in the future will be trained by their owner
