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OPPERMAN TRIUMPHS » Takes Prince Georges Handicap, Saturdays Bowie Feature. • T. W. OBriens Derby Colt Tim- mara Gains More Admirers by Another Impressive Victory. ♦ BOWIE, Md., April 10.— Opperman. recently taken out of a claiming race by Frank Kelly, was winner of the Prince Georges Handicap this afternoon from the best handicap field that could be mustered against him. The race was worth ,360 to the winner ami altogether it seems to have been a wise- claim when the old gelding cost Kelly only J."».0O0. It was the last Saturday of the Powie meeting and a tremendous crowd was out for the occasion with many New Yorkers over for the day of sport. The Prince Georges Handicap was only one of several good races and it was a day of great entertainment. T. W. OBriens Kentucky Derby hope. Timmara. was winner of the second best race of the* afternoon when he led a fast band of three-year-olds home over the five-eighths distance Then in the juvenile race of the day, H. P Whitneys Miniator gave a sensational exhibition when he triumphed after appearing hopelessly beaten in the s retch. The finish of the Prince Georges Handicap would undoubtedly have been entirely different had it not been that Joseph K. Davis Reparation, winner of the Inaugural Handicap, the opening day, broke down in the stretch when he looked a sure winner. He was pulled up by Maiben who dismounteel and it was with difficulty that the old fellow was taken from the track. SECOND BY A NOSE. It was J. P. Burttschell s lounger, which raced well at New Orleans, that finished second to Opperman and he only beat H. G. Bedwells Cudgeller by a nose for that part of the prize, while J. H. Buschers Golden Mac ran third. The start was a good one and W. Smith at once went out with Cudgeller to set the pace and around the first turn it was Lounger that raced second, while Maiben was saving ground with Reparation on the inside and he had him galloping along in hand in third place. Opperman, as usual, was slow to be under way and he was well back in the field, but Johnny McTaggart was keeping him out of trouble and he was racing strongly. Through the back stretch Maiben permitted Reparation to race by Ix unger, raced into second place, and it was apparent that the big chestnut could go to Cudgeller at the first asking, though the Bedwell colt was still three lengths to the good. Lounger was outrunning the others. But Opperman was beginning to improve his position, while Golden Mac. racing along on the outside, was going strongly. At the ea.A of the stretch Maiben made his first move with Reparation and he went to Cudgeller with so little effort that he looked a sure winner. Then he was seen to tire suddenly and Maiben, realizing what had happened, eased him up and there came a general closing up of the field. As Reparation dropped out of it. I»unger drew up on Cudgeller. but Opperman was right after him and racing in better style. Then came the final battle in which Opperman proved to be best to win going away by half a length. Lounger and Cudgeller fought it out to the bitter end and it was only in the last stride that Iounger beat the Bedwell hope for second place by a nose. Golden Mac had finished strongly to be three lengths farther away. WINS EXPECTATION PCKSE. T. W. OBriens Kentucky Derby hope . Timmara. was an easy winner of the Expectation Itirse. at five and a half furlongs This was a condition race for three-year-olds and the son of Westy Mog.ui -Plureen won e-aslly from Samuel Ross" Cinema, with A. G. Westons Welshot just beating Roegans Toyland for third. W. Harvey, who had the mount on Timmara. rode a wonderfully confident race. Cinema was first to show from the barrier and Harvey moved to her in the first eighth, but once alongside the filly he took hold of Timmara. content to hold her safe. Thus he gallope-d the colt along under restraint Welshot raced at the heels of tne first two and Nat Evens, on the inside, was right there and showing bee-oming spewed Toyland was ■lower to be under way. while Phantom Fire, the only other starter, was outrun from th.- first stride-It was not until well into the stretch that Haive-y -ased his pull on Timmara and permitted him to draw away from Cinema. The- handsome- brown at once opened up a lead of a couple of lengths and at the end he was in hand and a length and a half clear. Cine-ma hung on well to beat Welshot by a length and a half, while Toyland was finishing so strongly that he would have passed the Weston three-year-old for third in another stride-. Both of the winning races of Timmara at 0 oil till ue-U on t a elf til IUfcV, | , . - 1 . i I - , . l [ ; i ■ . , : . i I • OPPERMAN_TRIUMPHS| Continued from first p:igol _ the meeting have been impressive, though j » only over the five and a half furlongs route. | and he seems to be training nicely for his Derby engagement. Miniator, the unsexed son of Pennant and A Miniato that races under the silks of H. P. Whitney, gave a wonderful exhibition of , v speed in the opening dash at a half mile when in the run through the stretch he appeared hopelessly beaten he closed half a dozen lengths in the final eighth to nose out J A. F. Ueinharts Best Friend. Then a length and a half further back A. P. Canale. which raced at Miami, beat Noon by half a length for third. The start was a good one. but Best Friend got away from the barrier with such a rush that he was soon a couple of ; * 1« ngths clear, while Capricorn, a stablemate : to Miniator. was shut off on the rail and " Miniator himself was off none too well. | A. P. Canale and Noon were the ones to | give chase to Best Friend and the three of j them were soon four lengths before the I _ others and racing so strongly that there didnt seem to be even a remote chance to i Al Me catch them. Miniator was in fourth place, i but eight or ten lengths back of Best Friend. I There was no change in the running posi- ■ tions as the horses swung into the stretch I ■ and Miniator did not appear to be making ! tl up any ground. It was not until the final " up eighth post was reached that he began to | ■ run and Turner had him on the outside of " the leaders. lb fairly flew that last eighth in and in the final stride he had nosed out w Beat Friend. 0 Cheap platers came together in the second race as six and a half furlongs and the win- tl tier turned up in .1. Uotunnos .Johnny Camp- i c: bell when he eisil led home A. Sequins j tl .loella .1.. while Bod Guard just savnl third tl the from McCrimmon w It was a BJOOd start and Johnny Campbell t " riling in his best form at once went Into I D the r omnia Wd and he was never headed Bod] At A Qunrd nave rhaae until into the stretch where : tl .loella .1. found her way by him and she fin- : st ished reaotately, but Johnny Campbell was el still two lengths elenr at ih. end. Fager h he was guilty of a misei.ii i - performance in at ibis and it was in marked contraal to his w last previous start. He had no apeed and Ireggatte did not seem to b. aelning him ii in in any degree until it was too lat. . when he fi doaed some ground in the stretch. a, There was a good finish tame out of the fifth rac- framed for platers, when G. W. n Foremans Arbitration was winner from h in Walter .1 Salmons Traveller by half a length i, while two lengths further back ilns B. M. tl 1 1 Al Me ■ tl " up ■ " in w 0 tl c: tl tl the w t " D At A tl st el h he at w ii in fi a, n h in i, tl 1 1 Bnehrona Bed Pennant just nosed out old .are Free for third. Mungo and Red Pennant were the ones to cut out the running . and .are Free was not far back of 1 them. Then in the stretch Care Free moved I slightly, but it was only for a few strides ; when Arbitration cam* with his winning rush. Maiben saved ground with Traveller the stretch and he was catching the winner at the end. while Red Pennant just outgamed Care Free in the losing strides. 1 . L. Rices Dancing Fool was winner of tin- mile and three-sixteenths sixth race be- BUM W. Smith saved ground with him at the head of the stretch and got through on inside after Clique looked like a sure winner. Fleetwood and Rupee were the ones; dash away into a long early lead with 1 Dancing Fool and Clique following them. the head of the stretch Leyland went to 1 tie- outside to go around the leaders. Smith BtUck to the inside with Dancing Fool. An eighth out. Clique was showing the way. but had been carried out a bit by the tired pacemakers and then Dancing Fool made his winning rush on the inside. Frank Koama and Jeekej v. Stott figured , a double when Spugs was winner of the final mee of the day in a drive from Tonhlml and Mary Ii. Albert Songer has taken over the engagement book of Jockey J. Walker, who rode Florida for Owen Pons. Walker can scale ninety pounds and rode with auceeea during i- winter.
