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THREE IN ROW FOR OBLIQUE Bronnenherg Gelding Again an Easy Winner Spring Bnd Better Than 50 to 1. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 26. J. Bronnen-bergs seven-year-old gelding Oblique again won, off by himself today, increasing his winning streak to three straight since coming here from "Wheeling. He went in the fourth race, at three-quarters of a mile, and quickly demonstrated that he had the speed of the party. Black Boy was second, running a good race throughout and holding the place safe against Lucky Play, which tired. Sans Terre proved best in the fifth, leading Donnatina and Hula over the route of a mile and a quarter. This race was named the Deshler-AVallick Hotel Purse. Spring Bud, at better than fifty to one, won the opening dash. Tormino had the mount. He kept the AV. P. Little color-bearer close to the pace and saved enough to win going away by a half length. The race was at five and a half furlongs. Betty Browning, the pacemaker, finished second. Illumine was third. In the second race, I. S. Shafers Copper opened up a lead at once and kept widening it to the end of five and a half furlongs. He was on top by ten lengths, with Sandoz in the coop. Kalakaua and Barberry divided the small portions of the purse. It. J. Farjis provided the winner of the third in Vera C. the favorite. Greenberg saved her close to the pace of The French Girl, and by coming around the pacemaker, drew away to win by a length and a half in six furlongs. Stuarts Draft beat the others in a field of ten.
