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VALADOR SHOWS THE WAY Leads Throughout Mile and a Quarter of Laurels Feature. Outsider in Three-IIorsc Race Takes the Measure of Ten Minutes and My Play. LAUREL, Md., Oct 27. Only . three horses participated in the Woodlea Handicap, feature of the program at Laurel this afternoon. It provided a more pleasing contest, however, than many of the races with larger fields, although, as usually happens in a three-horse race, the outsider was in front at the end of the journey. Valador, the outsider, led throughout the mile and a quarter. Ten Minutes finished ahead of My Play. Following a short delay at the post, Valador began well and went to the front under urging from Bruening. With the forward position secure, he took hold of W. Martins color-bearer and rated him along under restraint My Play, top weight at 126 pounds, followed the Short Grass colt with his 109 pounds most closely in the early running. Schuttinger had him under restraint, confident of completing a stable double begun by Sweeping Away in the first race. Ten Minutes, habitually a slow beginner, followed the other two around the turn and down the backstretch. At the three-eighths post Ten Minutes began to gain on My. Play as the latter challenged the leader without avail. Rounding into the stretch My Play began to tire and Ten Minutes closed upon him. At the eighth post the Hourless colt was within a half length of the son of Fair Play, which was staggering in a futile effort to cut down the two-length lead of Valador. In the final eighth Ten Minutes disposed of My Play and held on gamely under punishment, but the remaining distance was not long enough for him to get to the pacemaker, which beat him by a length and a quarter. Dream of the Valley, well rated, and ridden by Ambros3, won the third race for W. R. Midgely. The old Watervale gelding began bearing out and caused the outsiders to straggle away from the post He got a good position around the first turn and had enough left to hold Frosty Boy safe by half Continued on sixteenth page. VALADOR SHOWS THE WAY Continued from first page. a length at the end. Bounce beat the others in a field of fourteen. For the first time at the meeting the sun did not shine. The eighteenth day was cloudy, with growing promise of rain in the sky. B. Hardings Sandrae raced Alex Wood-liffe into defeat in the first five-eighths in the fourth, drew away in the remaining eighth to win by two lengths from Gymkhana, which closed fast for second money, a length and a half in front of Tangara. Parke rode the winner well. To help round out a highly disastrous afternoon for the talent, neither Scotch Broom nor Blue Moon landed in the money in the sixth. The winner turned up in W. J. Salmons Carlton, while Leatherwood was second and Wraith third. Eight went to the post and the first six were but heads apart at the end. Thrills aplenty came with the running of the steeplechase. Away to a good start, a field of six went their way over the jumps. Between the twelfth and thirteenth obstacles at tho turn into the final straightaway, Crest Hill made a sharp turn and, slipping, fell with Byers. This left Lollipop, Jim Coffroth and Draft fighting it out in front These three went to the thirteenth jump closely grouped in the order named. In landing Jim Coffroth bobbled and tossed Pierce out of the saddle. The lad, however, clung to his mount and drew himself back into the saddle in the course of the next four or five strides and finished second to Lollipop. He never managed to get his feet back into the stirrups and was beaten seven lengths. Eight lengths further back finished Draft Smooti rode the winner for Ji. Pending.
