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WINS PIMLICO OAKS •• jH. P. Whitneys Rapture Easily Accounts for Big Fixture. ♦ Ingrid and Black Maria Fail Dismally — Indemnity and Mun-den in Rousing Finish. ♦ PIMLICO. Md., May 5.- The running of the Pimlico Oaks, one of the classics of the ; Maryland Jockey Clubs spring meeting. j brought a large gathering out to the Old Hill ! Tot* course this afternoon. It was the sev- . enth running of this stake and Harry Payne Whitney furnished the winner in Rapture, a daughter of Chicle and that good mare Kn chanting. Rapture was ridden by G. Ellis and beat her opponents in a canter, a margin 1 of twelve lengths separating her from Ingrid. which in turn beat Black Maria a head for I the place. There were eight starters, and i Black Maria, well touted by the New York ! delegation, was a heavy played favorite. Starter Milton sent them away promptly 1 for a splendid start and in the early running I Gavotte and the imported filly Silver Song ■ drew away to make the pace. They led into the back stretch and raced head and head to the half mile post where Kllis sent the Whitney filly up and rounding the far turn I Rapture took command. Once in front Rap- 1 ture drew away about her business and the further they went the bigger the gap . he opened. In the meantime Sande was rating j Ingrid along under slight restraint, not too I far off the pace, with Black Maria far back and last of her field. Just before making the turn for home Sande made his move with i Ingrid and the latter moved up stoutly next j to the rail. For a time it looked as if she j would go to the front but Rapture had a J world of speed in reserve and she drew I away as though the others were tired. In the stretch run Ingrid tired and at the end : she was under a hard drive to stall of Black j Maria, which came from sixth position at the eighth post and closed with a rush. : Gavotte and Silver Song retired after going three-quarters. The Oaks carried ,000 : added, the winners portion of which was ! ,290. The time, 1 :45*and, marked a record I for the Pimlico Oaks, POMPEY NOT COMING HERE. Before the running of the Oaks Mr. Coe announced that he would depend on Black : Maria representing the stable in the Preak- ness and that Pompey would be sent to Churchill Downs to start in tne Kentucky I Derby. On her showing this afternoon Black j Maria will have to improve a whole lot to j win the Preakness. A rousing finish came with the running of j the first race, a dash of a half mile for I maiden two-year-olds, when four of the ten j starters fought it out all through the home I stretch. Indemnity, with Munden in the I saddle, was the winner when she beat Lois : Rinehart by a head. Then followed Sir Barley, another head away, and the latter outlasted Irish Smile by a scant half length. The first two raced like a team the entire way. ! Kntering the home stretch, Chalmers sent I lxis Rinehart te» the front, bat when i straightened out for the final run. Indemnity j came again and in a sinew straining finish, outlasted Lois Rinehart. Sir Barley, a keen factor from the start, hugged the rail all the way, while Irish Smile went a bit wide at the turns. Cnome Second, the favorite, was Continued on sixteenth pugc-j J t . WINS PIMLICO OAKS Ce-ntinupfl from first page never a factor. Smallwood took him back when the break came and he galloped along with the rear division all the way. The second race, a split of the first, brought a well matched field to the post and another close finish resulted. It was a hard drive all through the home stretch between the first three. Ibby was the winner, coming from behind in the final eighth, and just managed to get up in the last few strides to beat Crafty by a head. The latter was a nose in front of the favorite, Overlord. Starlight was quickest to begin, and she showed in front for an eighth, where Crafty and Over Lord moved up and thex raced beads apart until making the turn into the home stretch, where Starlight dropped back. Chalmers then brought Ibby up and, coming to the outside of the stretch turn, she finished gamely. Swizzle, a first time starter, began very slowly, but ran a creditable race, finishing fast. Jockey Willie Crump rode his first winner at the meeting when he landed Foreland an easy winner in the third race. Incidentally, it was the first favorite of the afternoon to win. When the start came, Foreland was off in front and in the run down the buck stretch carried Yami along fast enough to make the latter quit after passing the half mile pole. Rounding the far turn. Foreland increased his advantage, drawing away into a commanding lead which he retained for the balance of the race. At the end he was two and a half lengths in front of Dream Daddy, who beat Sea Sand a like distance for the place. Sea Sand was away slow from an outside post position and raced wide at the turns. The Cocoon met with some interference in the first sixteenth and was taken back to last place. He then closed up some ground and finished in the middle of Um track.
