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BOiNNIE OMAR TO THE FORE Shows Return of Best Form in Winning Laurels Feature. Comixa Noses Ont Bill OFlynn After a Ileal Horse Race Edinburgh Narrowly. LAUREL, Md., Oct. 30. Bonnie Omar showed a return of the form that characterized his best racing in Canada last summer, and won the best race on the Laurel program this afternoon. Pete .Walls had the R. Reuge color-bearer in "front throughout and won by three and a naif lengths from Prince Hamlet, which got up in the closing strides to take second money from Blind Play by a head. Blind Play, the favorite, followed Bonnie Omar closest in the early part of the race. Handily he raced along behind the pacemaker to the top of the stretch, where he was called on and found wanting. Bonnie Omar drew away when Walls called at this point and won easily. Cloudy skies and a track that was only moderately good were the conditionb under which the sport was conducted. Well rated by Ambrose, Edinburgh beat a fast band of two-year-olds in the fourth race. It was at six furlongs. The G. Babin color-bearer began fast, but was rated behind the pace to the stretch and triumphed over Eilisto by a neck in a drive. Ser.or beat the others. While Ambrose was conserving the energies of the winner, Damon Runyon and Senor preceded him in the precession. Sencr put Damon Runyon away after straightening out, but could not ditrpo.se of the other two. Comixa beat Bill OFlynn by a nose in a real horse race. It was the sixth contest on the program and was at five and a half furlongs. Despite the dead track, the E. B. McLean filly ran the distance in 1 :07. Heeltaps was third of a field of six at the end of the journey. She was beaten by a length and a half by the firfct two. In a line start Chrysalis showed first momentarily, only to give way quickly to Bill OFlynn. Comixa chased him to the stretch turn, came to the outside of him there and held on well under energetic riding by Williams to win by a neck. Watch Charm, Telescope and The Reaper finished on the front end in the final. Tele- Continued on sixteenth page. BONNIE OMAR TO THE FORE Continued from first page. scope made the pace, but weaiiinod near tho end and the vinner clcsod with a rush. Ren-zetti rode the winner for his contract employer, R. McKeever. A dash of three-quarters opened the afternoons entertainment and the winner turned up in Merrimac, which, under the guidance of G. Babin, brought the colors of Mrs. M. E. Williams home three Inegths in front of Atlantida and other cheap platers. Gold Mount was third. Atlantida set the pace but Merrimac was within striking distance at all times and drew away in the final eighth. By saving ground at the head of the stretch Gun Boat got to the front in the second race and maintained his advantage the remainder of the way, althougn in the deep going through the stretch and tiring near the end. Prince of Power, the pacemaker, swerved outward in the stretch and" surrendered the lead, but came again and was gaining on the winner at the end. Pogonip finished third. Pete Walls, in the silks of tho Glen Riddle Stable, rode the winner. Dancing Fool was too much for the quitting Goldfield in the third. Maiben rated the weak-hearted son of Ballot as well as could be done and went to the front rounding into the stretch but he quit in the final eighth and enabled Dancing Fool to assume a length lead in the final drive. D. Fisher had the leg on the D. L. Rice color-bearer. Our Star was third at the end of the mile and a sixteenth. Parthema and Toscanelli, the early pacemakers, fought it out for last place in a field of ten.
