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WINS P1MLIC0 OAKS r "Bud" Fishers Nellie Morse Beats . Relentless By a Head. ♦ Sombre Scores Again — Sunspero Proves Best in Running of Annapolis Handicap. • i PIMI.TCO. Md.. May 8.— Beneath the names of Milk Maid. Cleopatra. Careful Pinahmeur j ami Gadfly on the tablet of winners of the Ptanlieo Oaks, enscribe that of Nellie Moras. "K-ud" Fishers Puke McPuke filly won the sixth renewal of the stake this afternoon in muddy going. She triumphed by a bead over J B Pavis Relentless. Yankee Princess. Sunayr. Sunmagne and Strut MM 1.V/.7. e completed the field and finished in the order named, all beaten off. Merimee rode the winner. Nellie Morse earned .7r»0. Tli.- atari was long delayed by the misbc-hav [or of Relentless. Coming from the paddock she tried to run away. At the barrier Bha attempted it again, but Marinelli puled her DP inside of a sixteenth of a mile. When they were off Relentless went to the front in the rush for the turn. Sunayr was closest to her. running in her wake. Merimee placed Nellie Mcrse outside of the Kilmer miss. Neartag the half Merimee becran his move. Readily lie advanced a length and a half in fnnt of Relentless. About that time Sunayr began to weaken and it became apparent that the race was between the leaders. Nellie Morse seemed to have it to herself through the stretch. However. PePntless came again, benefitted by a difference of eight pounds in i weights, and dosed within a head of the leader and was wearing her down at the end. Her string of three victories broken when she met Single Foot and Primrose last out, J. S. Cosdens Sombre earned brackets in her fifth start tooay. winning by half a length from Flying Bbony in the Wicomico Purse at four and a half furlor.ps. John F. Kleaver finished third in a field of five. SCOIIIi: IN LIMELIGHT. Flying Kbony. a first-time starter, showed I , paadnesa for the mud by making pace und r restraint, with Sombre lapped on him. The j Coedea filly 1. st a little ground straightening i out. but were the Cochran colt down and I won going away. She was the second winner I ridden i,y BeobM in two races. I Gtfford A. Cochrans. Sunspero made all ; the pace in the Annapolis Handicap and b.-at four other three-year-olds over the mile. Indian Trail save him chase throughout. It was in this race that •Huds" Mr. Mutt, mentioned prominently in connection with the Preakaeaaand Kentucky Derby, was I a atarter. lb fin shed third, but impressed : Bone as a dangerous contender for the big i Maryland and Kentucky prizes. Extreme heat sta other two-year-olds1 through the four and a half furlongs of mud hi the first contest. He carried the silks of Samuel Ross. F. Parnes donned the "Wash- | ingtonians Jacket for the race. False Face. | the favorite, finished second to the gelded | son of Iltimatum — Pida A. Ball Gee beat the others. Aaathrr Washington triumph came with the decision of the steeplechase. J. W. Healey. who lives in the District, saddled Tassel for A. C B stwick. and the Iierrilldon i filly was a length and a half in front of Canaque, the pac. maker, at the end f two miles. Boa liirron was third in a field of nine. Verdant Valley, loser of a rider at the sixth, was the only one to meet with mishap. Baeom Me got up in the last stride to win the third from Reprisal. Beths Lemon beat the others i ri a dash at three-. piatters. Seobie nail led the silks of p. F. Carman to ride the winner. Reprisal displaced Ad- mirer as the pacemaker on the turn, but tired badly right at the end. . «-
