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LARGE CROWD AT OMAHA Judge Pryor Breaks Track Record in Winning Feature — Horses Fight During Race. OMAHA. Neb., May 31.— Despite the inclement weather, a big crowd witnessed the opening of the spring meeting at Ak-Sar-Ben field today. Judge Pryor broke the track record for five and a half furlongs when he defeated Abadane by a nose in the ,500 Governors Handicap, the main attraction of the inaugural program. A strange freak of racing occurred in the fourth when Kirsties Cub reached over and grasped Faithful Girls bridle between his teeth. Both were contenders at the time. They ran fighting for a quarter and finally were both pulled up. Frank Kelly was an arrival from Tanforan, Cal. He brings the promising 85-pound apprentice rider Antone Peternel, under contract to M. Keefe, who trains horses owned by G. M. Anderson, nationally known as the former screen star. Bronco , Billy. Jockey Arthur Collins still shows evidence of the narrow escape he experienced in a fall at Tanforan. His right ear, which was badly torn in the accident, is still bandaged, but is healing rapidly. Dr. R. E. Lovell has been a busy man of late attending to the many horses that are on the ailing list. He reports that the good mare Lucy Kate is suffering from an attack of influenza, as is Goldies Cub. Dr. Lovell has operated on Harry D. and Cascade in an effort to correct their wind trouble. He put the firing irons to LEffare, Settle, Col. Murphy, Alice Harvey and Ginger. Fred Frankle, a well-known oralizer of New York, is a visitor here, having come from California. Harry Keisel is another that came from the golden state, where he raced a pretentious stable of runners, which he has turned out for the summer in charge -of G. Neal at Tanforan. The mare Sallie Carter, owned by Dan Howell, broke down this morning while galloping through the stretch. C. Koerner has brought a likely looking apprentice jockey to Omaha in little J. Gorm-ley. Colonel R. L. Baker, who has a division of his stable at Tanforan, has wired his trainer to make every effort to ship the horses to Chicago. Those that are out West are Cherokee Dee, Victoire, Jack Bauer and the veteran long-distance campaigner Pif Jr. Pete Williams, who with his brother owns the crack two-year-old Reputation, is here with ten horses of mediocre caliber, having brought them to Omaha from Kentucky.
