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WINS ELGIN HANDICAP Strut Miss Lizzie Takes Measure of Pegasus in Feature Contest Thunder Shower Destroyed After AfterCrashing Crashing Into Fence and andBreaking Breaking Leg AURORA 111 May 25 R J Boyles Strut Miss Lizzie well handled by the veteran jockey A Pitkens accounted for the Elgin Handicap fifth and feature event at Exposi ¬ tion Park this afternoon Pegasus making his debut at this meeting raced to second place Statler from a slow beginning was up in time to head Down Town in the closing strides for third The latter cut out the early running with Miss Jennie and Strut Miss Lizzie following When straightened out in the stretch Strut Miss Lizzie gradually wore down the leaders and taking command a six ¬ teenth out drew away handily near the end Pegasus worked his way up on the outside of his opponents in the stretch and handily dis ¬ posed of the others Down Town tired badly after showing good speed until midway of the stretch stretchAn An accident attended the running of the race which proved fatal to Thunder Shower the favorite Jockey Kehrt brought Down Town over sharply shortly after the start causing a jam and Thunder Shower was crowded into the fence breaking her hind leg at the hock The Began filly had to be destroyed destroyedJockey Jockey Kehrt was set down by the stew ANOTHER LARGE CROWD CROWDSummcrlike Summcrlike weather prevailed The track was in excellent condition and a crowd above midweek diy proportions journeyed to the course to witness the sport The seven races were all well filled A field of eight an ¬ swered the bugle in the feature race which liad the appearance of a very open looking the only ab ¬ race Monday Morning was sentee from those named overnight overnightStevens Stevens made it a double for the Boyle stable when he outgamed Sister Josella by a narrow margin in winning the seventh race This pair dominated the running prac ¬ tically throughout Sam Lorch came from the rear in the stretch to beat Fraser easily for third place Mozer put up a weird ex ¬ hibition on Invictus InvictusTrainer Trainer R J Gilmore also saddled two winners for J Schreiner His first suc ¬ cess came when Miss Ann scored a hollow victory over the twoyearolds engaged in the fourth race The Sweep filly opened up in easy early lead which she increased as the nice progressed After being shuffled back early Mayberry made up considerable ground in the stretch to beat Tamea home for second place placeJIATIIILDE JIATIIILDE SETII EASILY EASILYLafe Lafe M cut out a fast pace until midway of the stretch in the curtain raiser with Bathilde Seth in closest pursuit When the final test came Bathilde Seth had most in reserve and won going away Lafe M was easily best of the others Illinois King barely lasted to save third from My Biddy High Card was shuffled back early and never re ¬ covered coveredAfter After El Astro had cut out the running for the first fiveeighths of the second race Woody moved up from second position and held the race safe in the closing drive He finished a length in front of McCrimmon which in turn enjoyed a similar margin over 2Iarjorie C The early pacemaker El Astro tired badly at the end endCavalry Cavalry which carried the Schreiner colors to victory in the sixth followed in close pur ¬ suit of Towntons Choice and Gentry until reaching the final eighth then steadily im ¬ proved his position on the outside and won going away Gentry barely lasted to save second place from the fast finishing Geo JJever Towtons Choice tired during the final eighth after entering the stretch with apparently a safe lead leadAnother Another exciting finish developed with the running of the third race in which Rosamond ing Gala tii Rosamond was in the first flight throughout while Galatia was forced to work her way up from the rear in the stretch Green Hills retained third from Harry li which finished with a belated stretch rush rushMarjorie Marjorie C was claimed from W V Casey by the H 1C Brown Stock Farm for 1500 out f the second race
