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MIAMI TRACK CROWDED Gables Racing Association Entertains Largest Crowd of Meeting. New Years Handicap Falls to Arras First Juvenile Race of Year Falls to Dusky Dame. MIAMI, Fla., Jan., 1. Under ideal weather conditions the Gables Racing Association entertained the largest crowd of its season at Tropical Park in a celebration of the New Year. Excellent sport was furnished for the holiday crowd with the New Years Handicap, of one mile and a sixteenth, the feature contest. It brought a stirring finish, in which Mrs. H. Detrues Arras scored over Calf Roper, from the Peconic Stable, with W. L. Johnsons Rip Van Winkle finishing a distant third. There was a race for juveniles, the first run during the winter, no other course having a race for the baby thoroughbreds. It brought out a big field and was a complete success, for they were a good, band that will undoubtedly be heard from with a bit more education. The crowd was late in arriving at the course and it was not until shortly before the running of the first race that the stands were filled, but it is remembered that the Miami crowd is proverbially a late one and as the afternoon wore on, motors continued to arrive until both grand- stand and club house enclosures were well filled. The track had a thorough drenching from the heavy rain of Thursday night, but it had dried out marvelously and, while the going was slower than at any time since, the opening, the footing was firm and safe. AWAY TO GOOD START. Hamilton lost no time getting the five away in the New Years Handicap and they were in excellent alignment Bay Angori, the lightweight of the party, was rushed out to set the pace and Arras, another lightweight, was in second place. Calf Roper followed and then came Rip Van Winkle, with Skyway in the rear. Montgomery made excessive use of the speed of Bay Angon when he rushed: into a lead of two lengths. Arras held second place and Mills was saving ground with him on the inside as he had him under slight restraint. Calf Roper was racing back of these and in the back stretch, when he was shaken up by Chiavetta, moved to the pacemakers readily. As he drew up on the outside Mills moved with Arras and the two carried Bay Angon along at a pace that made him quit rather badly. Rip Van Winkle was well back of these and under a drive in an effort to bring him close to contention. Leaving the back stretch it seemed certain that Calf Roper would run past Arras, but Mills had saved something for the challenge and he held his lead resolutely when the son of High Time ranged alongside. They were lapped as the stretch turn was reached and there it was that Chiavetta became anxious and swung his whip on Calf . Roper. Mills was putting up a powerful finish on Arras and the son of Campfire held on stubbornly to the end to be the winner by a neck. Rip Van Winkle, in the meantime, had caught the tired Bay Angon to finish a handy third, but he was eight lengths back of the fighting pair. PROMISING JUVENILE. The first two-year-old race of the year went to Dusky Dame, a daughter of Single Foot and Prolific. She races for her breeder, H. C. Ragan, and performed like a good one with excellent racing manners when she led home a nice looking band of juveniles. It was Chuck B., bearing the silks of McAtee and Bransfield, which raced to second place and W. C. Weants Be Silent saved third from Harned Brothers Hildur Rock. There was little delay at the post, though Big Leaguer, a gelded son of Polymelian and Little Gretchen, which has Peter Quince for sire, caused some trouble. The start was a good one and Be Silent, a filly racing for W. C. Weant, was more alert than the others and was first to show the way. She did not last long in command and then it was Dusky Dame that took up the running. Elston sent her right along and she ran straight and true all the way to have a length and a half to spare at the end. There was a general closing up in the i final sixteenth and Chuck B. came into con- tention to finish an easy second, three lengths before Be Silent, which had raced greenly and will certainly improve. Iredell, Continued on twenty-third page.. MIAMI TRACK CROWDED .Continued from first page." a son of Crimper and Bonnie Lillian, a daughter of Hildur, were two that attracted considerable attention before post time, but failed to show anything in the race. Thirteen started and they were a shapely lot of young thoroughbreds that are sure to improve with campaigning. There was a surprise winner in the second race, at five and a half furlongs, when J. Hofsteters Play Furious, sent to the post by Morty Murphy, was successful in the closing strides over H. A. Coulsons Cap-tains Girl, with Mortime, from the Mahopac Stable, just saving third from P. S. P. Randolphs Gay Pal. Sir Barley was a close fifth. There was a short delay at the post, for which Gay Pal was chiefly to blame, and when the start came, Mortime was not as alert as usual in leaving his stall. This was a slight handicap, but he was rushed right through by De Camillas and, opening up a lead of four lengths, he was still showing the way when he swung into the short stretch. Captains Girl had chased after him and when he weakened suddenly, in the Ehort run home, she took command, but did not have enough left to withstand the rush of Play Furious which was up in the closing stride. Gay Pal closed some ground and in another stride would have snatched third from Mortime, so badly was the son of Mor-Vlch folding up in the last sixteenth. The third race of the day over the five and a half furlongs distance resulted in E. B. McAtees Gibbys Choice being returned the winner over Edgar A. Iglehearts Margaret Parker, which in turn just saved sec ond place from Mrs. J. P. Mayberrys Bounder and Castle Rock was a close fourth, i Margaret Parker was the one to set the pace and in the early racing Sunny Star was In second place and Gibbys Choice raced third and next to the Inner rail. This was the order until the turn out of the back stretch. There, Clelland. found his way through on the Inside tomove into second place with Gibbys Choice. Safely in second place, Clelland elected to go to Margaret Parker on the outside and, swinging for home, he caught the mare to come along and be the winner by four lengths. Margaret Parker, tired badly, under, punishment, and she barely lasted to save second place from Bounder. There was another surprise in the fourth when C. K. Finchs Bird of Prey was an easy winner, with Asa Harneds Fair Billows racing to second place, while M. R. Pons Laftar beat J. V. Stewarts Tantalizing for third. The surprise was in the dull race run by Tantalizing after the form he had shown at the meeting. In this race the son of Baffling was never able to get to the front, though he had easily beaten Bird of Prey over the same distance and under the same weights Thursday. The start was a good one and Shasta Lover was first to show, but Bird of Prey was close after him and Fair Billows was in third place. In the run down the back stretch Bird of Prey drew away from Shasta Lover and soon took a good lead when McKechnie took hold of him and he was never afterwards threatened, to be home the winner by three lengths.
