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FAILS TO HOLD BIG LEAD Marabou Gets Away in Front but Is Beaten by Pacheco . at Beulah. COLUMBUS, O., April 23. Pacheco won the Clock purse, which featured todays program of the Beulah Park Jockey Club. San-doz rode the Jones and Keating gelding. Marabou and Thrace finished second and third. The race was at a mile and seventy yards. Marabou set out to make a runaway of the race and opened up a five lengths lead in less than a quarter- of a mile, but Pacheco followed well up until the filial quarter, when he "moved up on the outside and drew away in the final strides to win by half a length. The footing was fast and the sun shone brightly through the afternoon, but a cold wind swept the course. M Jordans Lady Le Comte beat French Girl half a length in the opener. Betty Browning was third at the end of the five-eighths. Greenberg rode the winner. Jedburgh Abbey carried the colors of Dr. A. J. Gerrike to a half-length victory over Snow Man in the second. Kalakaua was third. The race was at five and a half furlongs. Cleverley rode the winner. Sandoz, astride J. Bronenbergs Oblique, made every post a winning one in the third and finished the five and a half furlongs four lengths in front of Yorktown. Bounding Rock was third. Mrs. V. Clouds Idealia won all the way in the fourth, which was at three-quarters. Yer-rat had the mount. Bob Spalding and Not Guilty split the small parts of the purse.