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DUC DE MORNY VICTORIOUS Finally Makes Good After Several Disappointing Performances Defeats Good Band of Racers in Tijuanas TijuanasPrincipal Principal Contest Eddie Dugans Good GoodJtidc Jtidc We Help to IJrolaski SAN DIEGO Cal February 1C After many disappointments Due cle Morny run ¬ ning in the colors of IT D Gates finally showed a return to his good eastern form by taking a smart band of longdistance horses into camp in the sixth and feature race at the Tijuana track yesterday over a dis ¬ tance of a mile and seventy yards yardsNine Nine thoroughbreds of the better class answered the call of the bugle in the contest with the C B Irwin colors represented on three runners These were Rajah Black Betty and Regreso There were many ad ¬ mirers for this formidable trio and attract ¬ ing the bulk of the speculation they conse ¬ quently ruled the favorites Hyanpom the speedy son of General Roberts with his known fondness for a soft track was next in demand Due de Morny which was coupled in the betting with Heap as the Gates and Patterson entry seemed to go begging until just at post time when a heavy plunge developed for the two With the books laying as good as 10 to 1 against them this price faded before the avalanche of dollars which showed for them and when the runners started on their journey i to 1 was the best that the men who wield the chalk would lay layStarter Starter Morrissey was unfortunate in ef ¬ fecting a start which lessened the chance of Rajah the main hope of the Irwin con ¬ tingent He collided with horses as the bar ¬ rier arose and went to his knees Thompson quickly got him into motion but he never recovered and soon was trailing his oppo ¬ nents Going to the first turn Hyanpom and Bill Head encountered much trouble with the latter the chief sufferer He was buf ¬ feted about like a cork on a stormy sea and before the backstretch was reached was practically eliminated from the race raceSHOWS SHOWS AMAZIXG SPEED SPEEDLouanna Louanna from the Shafer Conway barn essayed to set the pace and led the others around the turn However Due de Moray showing amazing speed shot to the front passing the half He led by a wide margin to the stretch where Hyanpom which had gained ground steadily offered him a chal ¬ lenge For a moment the hopes of the Hyan ¬ pom backers were high for it appeared as if victory was his Then to their dismay Hyanpom tired and Due de Moray drew away again to win by a length and a half Tiring fast Hyanpom gave way to Louanna and the mare took his measure for second place by a half a length Black Betty was fourth while the other Irwin starters fin ¬ ished far back backA A bad bunch of sprinters faced the barrier in the opener a dash of fiveeighths with Continued on twelfth DUC DE MOW VICTORIOUS Continued from first pajre Peggy Martin ruling the favorite Review from the Strite Valentine stable proved the winner in a brisk finish with Charlotta Smith and James G finishing noses apart in the order named namedThe The veteran jockey Ed Dugan gave Bro laski a giltedged ride in the second an ¬ other fiveeighths dash and the son of En field showed the way to his opponents by a length and a half Closest to him came San thia C which took a nose verdict from Er mitana mitanaIn In saddling Billy Gibson in the third a gallop of an even mile Clarence Buxton sent much the better horse to the post of those he met as the result of the race shows Billy Gibson seemed to outclass his oppo ¬ nents and simply cantered home by six lengths from Silex II and Mistake Jockey Rails had the mount on the Buxton horse and he could have won by the length of a city block had he cared to give the horse free rein reinMiss Miss Meelickwas another to find a soft spot and she made her competitors look cheap in the fourth At oddson she made every post a winning one and at the end was easing up to win by open daylight from Tempy Duncan and Onwa OnwaThe The colors of Colonel R I Baker of Ken ¬ tucky were home first in the seventh race a mile under claiming conditions when his Power a speedy daughter of Rapid Water and Sure Come reveled in the going and cantered past the winning post two and a half lengths ahead of Poor Puss and Plow Steel Again the Irwin colors failed for Bowsprit from this establishment was backed into favoritism His reign was brief and by the time the stretch was reached he was a dead tired horse horseQuarter Quarter horse riding tactics killed whatever chance Harry Rudder and Southern Gentle ¬ man had in the concluding race Long had the mount on Harry Rudder another Irwin starter while Millerick was at the rein rstride Southern Gentleman The two horses were away together and the riders rode them with all their energy from the time the horses took their first stride The result was that Harry Rudder and Southern Gen ¬ tleman raced as a team to the stretch where both tossed it up and fell easy victims to those who had reserved their speed for the final run Emma Williams which had been wisely rated behind the leaders came on to win by a length with Kimono second by the narrowest of margins over Jack Ledi
