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PERHAPS ONCE TOO OFTEN Meets Defeat in Bough Race Won by Sea Prince Far East and Machine Gunner In Close CloseFinish Finish Miss Hope Takes Measure of ofBloomington Bloomington Le Blenet Beaten HAVANA Cuba February S Today it was a case of sending the pitcher to the well once too often Perhaps has been winning so consisenly here all winter that the public believed him to be almost invincible Ac ¬ cordingly he was the favorite in the Casino Handicap the principal offering of todays program at Oriental Park As a consequence there was keen regret when Perhaps met with defeat In justice to tlie horse though it may be said it would have taken a super animal to undergo the rough usage he was subjected to and still be able to win But Perhaps is no super horse only a plater of fair ability and being such he had to bow to the inevitable He was sharply cut off on the first turn and his rider Burns was forced to pull him up practically putting him out of contention contentionThe The winner turned up in Sea Prince which after taking things easy during the early running moved up fast in the stretch and finishing with great speed soon had a commanding lead to win cased up Fin castle was second and Little Black Sheep third thirdThe The Cubanowned Violet Mersereau scored in runaway fashion in the opener which was a maiden race for threeyearolds Burns hustledher into the lead and rated her in frOnt o file stretch turn where she drew away but at the end tired badly and was staggering at the finish to beat Bantam by half a length lengthIn In the second race Far East made all the pace beating Machine Gunner by half a length The latter however was gradually wearing down the winner Ruban Rouge the wellbacked favorite was a distant fol ¬ lower to the top of the stretch but closed with a rush in the final eighth when too late lateMiss Miss Hope led all the way in the third race being a length in front of Bloomington at the finish Heavy speculation developed on Brennan but he cut little figure in the run ¬ ning ningIn In the fourth race Johnny OConnell came from behind in the stretch and beat the fa ¬ vorite Lo Bleuet by a half length Chin coteague and Mambi drew away into a long lead in the early stages and raced each other into defeat both tiring badly at the end endJockey Jockey Guthridge was suspended for ten days for foul riding on Berlin and Stutts was suspended for the same period for foul riding on MallowmoL MallowmoLJ J F Hynes the Canadian owner has ar ¬ ranged to ship his horses to New Orleans on Saturday They will go in charge of William Short who will also ship Kitty Cheatham of which he is the owner
