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HEAVY TRACK RACING . Aurora Course in Bad Condition for Tuesdays Racing. * ■ Tender Seth Home First in Most Pretentious Contest — False Alarm Pays Well. i — ■ AURORA. 111., June 16.— Claiming races made up the program at Exposition Park again today and the best field of the after-roon went to the post in the fourth race, a five and a half furlong dash. Tender Seth was the winner with Pelion second and Kos-man third. There was little delay at the post and when the barrier was released Old Broadway was away somewhat slower than the others. Pelion, which was making his j i first start since last fall, soon went to the front and at the quarter was leading with ! ! Tender Seth in close attendance and Kosman : j third. After they had straightened out in the stretch the son of Seth moved up on even terms with the deader and slowly drew away ] I until, at the end. he had a length and a half advantage. Pelion held on well however and will doubtless give a good account of himself later. Kosman was tiring at the end and would likely have been beaten for third had | the journey been a little longer as Mt. Shasta I almost overhauled him at the finish. j The track was in bad condition, It being heavy and lumpy and it took mud runners of the most pror.ounced type to negotiate the going. As a result the fields in the majority I I ■ of the races were reduced to six horses. The weather was perfect, however, and the attendance, considering it was an off day, was good. GRADUATES FROM MAIDEX RANKS. W. H. Dunbars Open Fire graduated from the ranks of the maidens when he was victor over a small band of non-winners that went to the post in the initial race. The winner took command at once and held Colonel Schooler safe in the stretch run. The latter provided the winner with his only opposition, but although hard ridden could never catch the son of Under Fire. C. T. Worthington was an easy third, the others failing to dis- j play much speed. Another of the get of Under Fire accounted for the second purse of the day when Smoky l ay, a daughter from the dam Claire ol" ay and making her racing debut beat home the . two-year-olds opposed to her. The stiff goin did not seem to bother this filly to any great extent and she rushed to the front turning out of the back stretch, and showed the way . from there to the finishing line. Viking outran the rt st. raced Peter Brush into defeat, I and held on gamely to be second while Turner was third. The Arsonia stables Power won the third race. Slu was outrun in the early stages but finislud with a fine burst of speed on the outside of her opponents through the stretch and got up to win in the last strides. She was going very fast at the end and won going away. Doaaaa T., which finished second, also displat l gM-d speed, only being beaten in the last few yards after racing well up all the way. Full of Pep saved much ground at the stretch turn and this enabled her to be third. Glory and Phyllis Gentry ran disappointingly, the former failing to display rnui h speed while the latter quit badly after hading well into the stretch. PAY HANDSOME RETIRXS. The fifth race brought out the largest field of the day and the winner False Alarm paid the days largest price, 9. SO. Ridden by the unfashionable jockey, Cochran, the public for the most part, passed him up and speculated on tlv other starters but the few who were fortunate enough to hold certifi-catts on the winner let out a shout of d light wiu-n the earnings were aaaslaysd. False Alarm ran wt II from the start and raced to the front on the outside after turning out of the back stretch and was never headed. | Martha Moore gained seadily and was racing well at the finish, while the boat the I heavily backed I.avmia could do was be third. Closing with a rush on the outside through the stretch YVIiirlw.m] wis returned victor in the sixth race, ha openlaa; a four lengths Lad in the last f i ft anls. Jubal Early also finish. .1 with a treat rush to tak. s. ■ -ond plaee whil.- Nans Fortune was third a li ngth in front of Itotiiian. Hhlalm OoM and I van II cat out the early running but the formers bad actions at the post coupled with her in av w. lght ll wind to .war lor out and aha was hi i aajaal to th task of holding the ctlurs wh.n th. y chall.tig d. liean 11 quit l.ad.y and tlalahad last. Al Sti bier, r.K-ing for C. C Wright and displaying sauch laaprovasaaot o.r his performance of yist.rlav. showed the amy for the entire journey la the last race of th Richelieu was seooasi and was gradually wearing the winM-r down, wl.il - Plying Prince made up much ground to be third.
