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BARBARY BUSH VICTORIOUS Beats Orpheus in Principal Contest at Laurel Park. Ten Minutes Accounts for Quantico Handicap, After Which Epinard Is Paraded Before the Crowd. LAUREL, Md., Oct. 1C Barbary Bush beat Orpheus by a length in the Gunpowder purse, an all-aged race that came fourth on the program. It was at a mile. Harlan fin-ised third. Parke saved ground all the way with the Greentree stable gelding and rode him out by hand to maintain this lead through the stretch. Harlan was away fastest of all, but Barbary Bush, taking the inside positon, saved ground and was showing the way around the first turn. Harlan attending him closely with Orpheus outside of them both and all three of them racing almost in perfect alignment. Nearing the stretch Barbary Bush drew out slightly, but Orpheus came on him again and stood a drive gamely. Harlan saved ground, but was beaten five lengths by the second horse. Three others competed but failed to bother the leaders. Immediately after Ten Minutes won the feature the Quantico Handicap for the Glen Riddle farm at Laurel this afternoon, Epinard, the French champion, was paraded for the inspection of a large crowd. Accompanied by a stable pony and mounted by an exercise boy, the famous son of Badajoz galloped up in front of the stewards stand to the strains of the Marseillaise. Eugene Leigh and Frank Leigh were in the group that surrounded the French horse as a battery of photographers did their work. The race in which Ten Minutes triumphed was a fitting introduction to the French champion, which has run three great races in this country. The Hourless colt began slowly and was last of the field for half of the mile and a sixteenth course, came around and won going away. Dr. OMara, the pacemaker, held on for second money a length in front of Golden Sphere. I. Parke had the mount on Ten Minutes, his second winner in two consecutive races. A good band of two-year-olds staged a thriller in the third race with Contract finishing in front with Saratoga Maje second and Courageous third. Saratoga Maje made the pace almost to the finish, but gave way by a head to Contract, which came on the outside. Kennedy rode the vic- Continucd on sixteenth page. BARBARY BUSH VICTORIOUS Continued from first page. torious member of the W. J. Salmon string. It was the first win at the meeting for the stable. Comparatively green jumpers performed in the Prospect Steeplechase. It was for three-year-olds at two miles. Owen Tudor won the contest by fifteen lengths. Trap-stick beat Warrenton almost that far for cecond place. Despite the distances between the winner and the others, the race was thrilling, because Barleycorn accompanied Owen Tudor to the fourteenth and final fence when he made a bad landing and somersaulted. Owen Tudor led all the way with J. Pierce in the saddle. Trapstick gave him the closest chase, but Barleycorn moved up with a rush starting the last dash through the backfield and gave Owen Tudor a long drive into the homestretch. He tired slightly, however, and was beaten at the time of his mishap. In view of the, fact that it was Barleycorns first race through the field, it appears as if he will amount to something in that branch of tho sport E. J. Hollands Ivory opened up a lead quickly in tho first race and held on gamely to win by a length and a quarter from Wuhu. Westovcr beat the others in a field of fourteen two-year-olds. Breuning rode the winner. J. W. Dayton, a resident of Laurel, obtained a concession of five pounds off the weight assigned his Wraith in the Paca Claiming Handicap by riding J. IC L. Ross good lightweight apprentice R. Fisher and had the satisfaction of seeing- the gelding come home two lengths in front Fisher rode a good race, following the pace of Scoop closely until he staged his usual bolt for the outside fence at the stretch turn. When the Louis colt ran out Fisher guided Wraith through next to the inside rail to an easy victory. Scoop held cn for second money half a length in front of Ten Sixty. Soggarth Aroon, well ridden by Liebgold, made the pace in the closing race, shook off Baby Grand in the stretch and won by a head. Baby Grand saved second money and third fell to Little Clair.
