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! MAN 0 WAR FILLY TO FORE ♦ Sister Ship Best in Decoration Day Purse at Fairmount Park. ►_. — Holiday Program at Collinsville Course Below Standard — Great Crowd Jams Every Ineb of 3Iammoth Plant. ♦ — COLLINSVILLE, Ky., May 30.— The Aud-ley Farm Stables Sister Ship, a three-year-old filly, by Man o War — Star Fancy, was victress in the Decoration Day Purse, which served as the feature. Meknes finished in second place, and Witchmount got up in the final strides to down General Haldeman. There were seven starters in the race, which was at five and a half furlongs. It was substituted for the original Decoration Day Handicap, at one mile and a sixteenth, which was declared off. The winner was benefited by a good ride and also was away well. She displayed fine speed to keep in front from the start, though Meknes was making a severe effort to overhaul her at all stages. She raced in advance of Meknes, with Black Agate a close pursuer in the early stages, but tiring fast after the first quarter. General Haldeman and Witch-mount both made unsuccessful attempts to reach the leaders in the stretch. They were shaken off easily and finished inches apart in a hard tilt for third place. It marked the first victory for the Audley Farm Stable during the present meeting. Decoration Day found an outpouring of racing devotees that surpassed any former gathering at the course, with the exception of Derby Day. So large was the crowd that it filled every space in the club house, grandstand and lawns, and reached along the rail to the quarter post in the stretch. It was a gathering that showed considerable interest in the sport and attending incidents. There were many who were visiting a race course for the first time, and they began arriving at an unusually early hour and brought hampers of lunch with them. The sport was under ideal conditions, and some excellent and spectacular sport developed, even though the program was decidedly below holiday standard. SURPRISE IN OPENER. The opener brought with it an upset when the neglected Cliff was home a winner from Foretell, with Whiskey Run in third place. The favorites, Adventuress and Suky, failed to get a part of the purse. The winner had shown a good performance in his preceding start, but for some reason he was not considered seriously. He left the barrier on even terms with the others, and promptly moved into a slight lead, which he held for the entire distance. Foretell followed him the closest for most of the way, and Whiskey Run worked gradually to a contending position when he was enabled to save ground at the stretch turn as a result of Adventuress being raced wide. J. C. Milam, who should have won on two previous occasions with a couple of his starters, finally managed to land a purse when his Big Bill Thompson was home in front in the second race, which brought eleven starters to race from the three-quarters gate. The send-off in this, as in the first race from the gate, was perfect and without loss of time. Time Exposure at once succeeded to the lead, but was followed closely by Big Bill Thompson, which managed to wear down the leader in the last twenty yards. Rundark, which had been well up for the entire trip, held on to third place and was in advance of Famine at the end. The third successive favorite to fail was Edith Gray, which landed in third place in the one mile and seventy yards race. The one-time E. R Bradley star Buck was the victor here, but only after a stubborn tilt, to get home a matter of inches in advance of Rebeck. The latter would have won in another stride. Edith Gray was unlucky to suffer from poor riding, and she lost the lead by virtue of her riders timidity. Double Rainbow raced with her for a period. The finish was one to enthuse the crowd. RACE TO FALSE START. The fourth race, at three-quarters, brought an unusual incident, when half of the field of twelve starters raced from the barrier to a false start and continued to the finish. Dream Life beating home The Cocoon, with Sandalwood in third place. The others had raced after the leaders, but they began pulling up before going far. The participants in the false race returned to the barrier and, in the actual race, H. G. Bed wells Forenoon, which had only gone a short distance in the false start, raced promptly to the lead and led for the entire distance, to win from Queer, which had not left the barrier in the first instance. Clay Pigeon, another that had remained inactive, managed to land in third place. There was added incident furnished in the race by Dream Life running away an additional quarter mile, and The Cocoon also cantering off a considerable distance before being overhauled. _ ♦
