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FOUR FOR W. HARVEY Star of New Orleans Meeting in Limelight at Bowie. Moonraker s Success in Lexington Purse, the Feature, Included in His Total for the Day. BOWIK, Md., April 7.— The feature at Bowie this afternoon, the Lexington Purse, a mile and seventy yards condition race, resulted in a victory for Moonraker from the Greentree Stable. He was an easy winner over Mrs. C. Lawrences Magic Wand, while S. Mosts Balboa saved third from Setting Sun. It was another delightful day for the sport and there was a tremenrlous crowd on hand. The sport was worthy of the attendance and an interesting incident of the day was when I Aucilla, a brother to Leochares, a crack sprinter a few seasons back, was winner of the juvenile offering for L. S. Thompson, his ! ] breeder. Pixola was excused from starting in the Ivexington Purse, having contracted a cough and it left a field of six to compete for the | I prize. The start was good and Harvey hus- | tied Moonraker away to such good advan- j ■ tage that he was two lengths clear of the others when the back stretch was reached. Magic Wand was racing in second place and Balboa was showing the way to Faenza while Setting Sun and Thomasine brought up the rear. In the run through the back stretch Moonraker increased his lead to three lengths but Magic Wand held second position and Balboa and Faenza, closely lapped, followed the first two. This order remained unchanged for the rest of the journey and Moonraker was still two and a half lengths clear at the finish while Magic Wand beat Balboa a j length for second place. This race made the j score two for Harvey for he piloted Romping Home winqpr of the second. EASY FOR DESPAIR. When Harvey rode Despair to be an easy winner of the mile and one-sixteenth of the sixth race, he scored his fourth victory of j j the day. This was one of his easy rides, fori Despair was so much the best that he simply j | romped along in front all the way and at the ! | end was showing the way to Westwood by | ; three lengths, while Lieutenant Farrell was a length further away and Hands Up a distant fourth. Normal, making his first sart of the season, appeared on the track wearing four bandages and he could not un-track himself at any stage of the running, while Boy From Home was forty lengths back of him at the end. There was really nothing to the race when Despair went to the front at the rise of the barrier. Lieutenant Farrell and West-wood were always better than the others and at the end Westwood proved to have enough left to beat the Lieutenant. ! ; Aucilla. a brother to Leochares, racing for j I L. S. Thompson, his breeder, was an easy | ; winner of the opening half-mile dish for j maiden juveniles. Thomas Clydes Welshot ; ; raced to second place and third was the J I portion of Youare. from the H. P. Whitney stable. This one raced as a stablemate of! i the winner, both being sent to the post by , I Fred Hopkins. This race was marked by a bit of rough riding that could be excused from the fact j i I that it was a field of green two-year-olds, j Welshot was the offender when right after the start he swerved over sharply from the outside position and piled up the field, knocking Majuba and Chef out of the running. Youare acted badly at the post, but when the start came he quickly took command j with Welshot close after him and Aucilla chasing after the pair of them. AUCILLA DRAWS AWAY. This did not long remain the order when Stutts settled Aucilla into his stride and he quickly raced to the front. elshot held I to second place and Youare had the others well beaten. Through toe stretch it was no ; trick for Aucilla to draw away unLl he was five lengths clear at the end, while Welshot i beat Youare three lengths for second place. The race run by Aucilla suggests that he may be a first-class colt and a worthy son of the great old brood mare Leayonara, that gave many a good one to racing. For a first effort it was decidedly impressive and he at least demonstrated that he is a colt of an excellent turn of speed. Youare, his ; ! stablemate, will haw to improve in post manners before he becomes a reliahle racing proposition. On two oecasions while at the post he broke away from Parke and galloped j an eighth the wrong way of the track beta* he could be stopped and taken back to the barrier. After Hidden Jewel had been withdrawn from the six and a half furlongs of the sec- | ond race it gave Clyde Freemans Romping Home his opportunity and he was winner ■ from F. B. Capras Poedie and A. Finnella St. Michael saved third from Masquerado. j Little time was lost at the barrier and as I Continued on second page. J I FOUR FORW. HARVEY 1 Continued from first page. it rose Zouave was the one to show in front with Romping Home closcj at hand and St. I ! Michael third. The others were in a fairly ! close bunch with Masquerade bringing up the rear. Zouavi- was never able to draw I j away from Romping Home and when Harvey j I j I was r ady he took the Freemaa gelding; I • into the lead and he was not to be beaded I , though at the end he was being hustled along smartly 10 make the victory certain. Poedie finished resolutely under urging to tike second place, while Pt. mchaeJ tired j slightly right at the end. Masquerade was] I racing well when too late, while Zouave after his early flash of speed quit badly. F. Classens I ady Classen r:n a gnatlv Approved race over ber recent effort when she was an easy winner of the three-quarters j of the third race. At the end she was showing the way to Rodeo by two lengths I and in turn he was half a dezen lengths before Grace Troxler, while the others were strung out. From a good start I ady Glassen and [Frances Johnson were the ones to go out in the lead, but Lady ;iassen soon made the 1 j , j I j I 1 I ! ! I j j I j I I , pace so stiff that Frances Johnson tired and as she dropped back Rodeo worked his way up until in the stretch he was racing second to the winner. In the last eighth Harvey rode in his best style, but Rodeo could not cut down the lead of the filly. Grace Troxler was in close quarters for a considerable part of the race, but was going well at the end. while Adrianople closed some ground to reach the place two lengths back of that filly. W. Harvey brought his third winner of the day home when he scored with G. C. Winfreys Top Sergeant, making him a re- peater at the meeting. F. A. Tansors Golden Billows, showing improved form, after forcing all the pace, was an easy second, and Dorothy Adams third, ahead of Eager. The surprise in this running was that Top Sergeant, contrary to his usual habit, was reserved back of the pace and outrun all through the early stages. Golden Billows was rushed out by D. Fisher and she was soon three lengths clear of her company. Baser was in second place, and both Seths Flower and Wood lake were also showing the way to the Winfrey plater. It was not until nearing the stretch turn that Harvey moved up on the outside with Top Sergeant, but when he did move he mad? a good job of it, and the old son of Cock o the Walk ran around until he was at the heels of Golden Billows when the final eighth was reached. From th. re home he raced over the mare, to be winner by a length and a half, while sh-- in turn beat Dorothy Adams a half dozen lengths for second place.
