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j j I NO FEATURE AT FAIRMOUNT Blessings Scores in Best Race on Off-Day Program. • Parnell Bound and Sam Pass Stage Oae of Most Exriting Finishes of Entire Meeting. ♦ COLLINSVILLE, 111.. June 27.— Today was an off day at Fairmount Park, there being no outstanding feature arranged and there was a conspicuous absence of any particular stars or favorites with the patrons. However, in most instances close and exciting finishes occurred. Public choices raced with a good measure of success and the majority of the winners were selected by the players. The intended feature offering the Jefferson Barracks Purse, brought out a small band of fillies and mares to race three-quarters. Mrs. T. J. Regans four-year-old filly Blessings, ridden by jockey M. Meyer, accounted for this race. The combination of the Keeneland Stud Stable and jockey L. Trimble accounted for another purse when, in the race for maidon two-year-old colts and geldings, the youngster Murmuring Pines was ridden to victory by Trimble and vanquished a good band of juveniles over five and a half furlongs. W. I. Kohns Copper Son, the medium of a big play, and ridden by J. Judy, raced to second place and was only beaten a neck by the winner and would have been winner in a few strides more. Hildurs Charm, a first-time starter, bested the remainder and, finishing with good courage on the inside, got up to outgame Thistle Spray for third place. The winner was a big surprise, and under a hustling ride raced into the lead from a good start and, holding sway, set his own pace to near the last sixteenth, where he was in danger from the final rush of Copper Son, but under strong riding was good enough to just get the verdict. G. E. Pruett, who shipped his horses here after the sudden termination of racing at the Omaha meeting, accomplished a double victory, accounting for two purses in a row, the second and third races. The first of these victories was chalked up by the six-year-old Musketeer, the gelding taking into camp the large band which he opposed over the three-quarters route. Musketeer landed in advance of Clay Pigeon, the latter one of the outsiders which proved a big surprise, and the favorite, Al-tura, barely lasted to secure third place, just outfinishing Golden Top in the final few strides. Altura set the pace to the stretch turn, holding, the lead to that stage. Clay Pigeon raced in the van with the leaders, Continued on twenty-fourth page. NO FEATURE AT FAIRMOUNT Continued from first page. while Musketeer was going along nicely not far behind on the outside. Altura gave way near the last eighth, where Clay Pigeon went to the front. Meanwhile Musketeer, responding at once when called upon entering the stretch, was sent up along the outside and, finishing with the best speed, had something left for the final drive and gradually came up on even terms with the leader, and in the final few yards Musketeer headed Clay Pigeon to win drawing clear. Pruetts colors were again carried to victory when Piute, the favorite in the third race, made good in popular fashion, and took the measure of a well matched band of route runners over one mile and a sixteenth. In the wake of the winner came Thistle Boy to take second place award, while High Life finished third. Piute was sent into the lead right after the start and proceeded along in the van under restraint, setting all his own pace. Midway in the stretch he was called upon to withstand a severe challenge from Blaze, but Piute repulsed this one repeatedly and, after racing Blaze into submission, always held sway thereafter and finished with much in reserve. Thistle Boy moved up menacingly entering the stretch, getting into second place, which he held to the end, but was unable to threaten the winner. The double of G. E. Pruett was participated in largely by the apprentice star V. Smith, who gave a sparkling exhibition astride both the Pruett stable winners, piloting both of them. A good band of the more capable juveniles started in the Scott Field Purse, a secondary attraction, and in this the overwhelming favorite, Parnell Bound, racing in the colors of E. J. OConnell. made good. Parnell Bound was winner from Sam Pass, Gotta Gonow and five other youngsters over the five and a half furlongs distance. Ridden by G. White, Parnell Bound began slowly but worked his way up among the leaders in the first quarter and showed in the lead on the far turn. He set the pace thereafter, closely followed by Sam Pass and Gotta Gonow, while the others were outrun all the way. Parnell Bound drew away approaching the stretch turn but, in the stretch, began tiring rapidly, and then Sam Pass raced up on even terms with the leader on the outside. There ensued one of the hardest fought final drives witnessed here in many a day, with the pair of leaders racing like a team. Finally, in the last fifty yards. Parnell Bound succeeded in outvaluing his rival and managed to keep a head advantage in the late stages, to win in the final strides.
