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FAST TRACK AT ORLANDO St. Donard First in the Feature Attraction — Thrilling Finish Marks Fourth Race. ORLANDO, Fla.. April 5. -Fast going prevailed at Seminola Park today for the first time in a week. Apparently the unseasonable rainy spell is over as the meeting enters upon the final week. Todays crowd was larger than the average ladies" day, the sunshine being responsible. Because of the muddy spell many of the riders seem to have forgotten the shortest way around the track. The riders who kept their mounts close to the inner rail at the stretch turn won most of the afternoons races. In two or three instances the ground saved clearly was responsible for narrow victories. Rausser snatched two victories by this method, one when he rode St. Donard in the fifth and feature race. First Call and Viking finished second and third to the G. P. Fought representative. The Ally followed the leaders under patient handling by Tryon and got up in the last strides to beat Quota a head at the end of the one mile race. Super Lady was third. P. Christmas owns him. Wee Toddler moved to the front rounding the turn in the opening race and drew away to an easy lead. Jussie I*, followed the leaders into the stretch, but could not get to the winner. Plack Friday beat the others in a field of seven. H. L. White rode the winner for the Oklahoma Stable. Oil Lady carried the silks of F. Bechtcl-lieimeis Sunflower Stable to brackets in the second. McDonald saved her behind Wilton Flanna and Dean H. in the stretch, and came around them. In the final quarter Wilton Flanna saved second place. Crrmz-lcigh beat Dean IT. for third place. See It Through saving much ground in the third, caught and passed French Canadian in the closing stride after the latter had shaken off Trapeze an eighth from home. Trapeze saved third place. Rausser rode the winner. A thrilling finish marked the fourth race, the smallest of margins separating the first three as they dashed past the judges. Trafalgar beat The Peruvian by a head in the fourth, while Keaolani was third, only beaten a nose for the second place. Trafalgar slipped through inside of two horses straightening out, and took the lead, but just lasted. The Peruvian came inside of him and would have won in another stride. Aron rode the winner, which belongs to H. C. Rumage.
