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PLATERS DAY AT MIAMI Cheaper Horses Furnish Entertain- ment on Off-Day at Hialeah. Jaz Age Triumphs in Ocala Claiming;. Handicap Headliner of Program . Splendid Weather Prevails MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 8 In a program that was devoted to the selling platers, with the exception of a dash for maiden juveniles, the best Monday offering of the Miami Jockey Club was the Ocala Claiming Handicap, which brought out eight fairly good sprinters to race six furlongs. It fell to J. Parmelees Jaz Age and it was his fourth victory of the winter season. Jack Howards Miss Tulsa raced to second place and C. H. Millers Jamison was rather an easy third before Jack Collins. This race brought the first claim of foul of the meeting. There seemed to be no good reason for the complaint and it was not allowed. After the finish Joe Edwards Polygamous, making his first start of the winter season, ran away and was not pulled up by Kurtsinger until he had gone one mile and a furlong. Fogs of the early morning cleared away shortly after the work hours had been completed and racing was conducted under summer skies and the most delightful brand of Florida weather. Another large crowd was out for an off day and there was plenty of interest in the running of the program. EIGHT STARTERS. Eight started in the Ocala Claiming Handicap, and it resulted in an excellent contest. Miss Tulsa, racing in her best form, was the one to force the pace, but Jaz Age was close alongside after the first few strides and the pair soon drew away a length and a half before the others. Jaz Age was racing outside the filly and galloping exceedingly close to her for a part of the journey, but there did not seem to be any actual interference. Pop Gaffney was not particularly alert at the start, but he was soon in third place and really did not seem to have any good excuse. Jamison, as usual, was slow to settle into a racing stride and as a result was far back in the early stages of the race, but he came with a rush at the end and was only beaten by half a length for second place. Polygamous was outrun all the way and it was not until Kurtsinger was pulling up that he broke away and circled the course before he could be stopped. Three of the races were over the one mile and a furlong distance and the best one of the trio was run as the fourth race, and it furnished something of a surprise when Bob McKeevers Show Down was the winner over H. M. Woolfs Culloden, with H. C. Hatchs Montanaro beating the Mapleton Studs Tancred for third by a length and a half. It broke a winning streak for Tancred, which had been winner in his three previous efforts. TANCRED BEGINS SLOWLY. In this race the son of American Flag began slowly from the outside of the stalls and he was the victim of considerable interference. Show Down left the post fast and Phillips sent him along to a good lead. There was no time he was seriously threatened and at the finish he was still two and one-half lengths clear of the others. Culloden was outrun to the stretch, where he finished with a great rush to beat Mon- Continued on twenty-second page. PLATERS DAY AT MIAMI Continued from first page. tanaro a like distance for second place. The Hatch campaigner had no excuses and never was far from the pace, until he tired in the run through the stretch." Tancred, after his misfortunes gave a good account of himself to be fourth. , Skrip, after showing a flash of speed, tired chasing the winner and fifth was his position crossing the f inish line. T. McCarthys Salisbury, the four-year-old son of Sir Greysteel, was. an easy winner of the opening six. furlongs dash that engaged a cheap field. Mrs. E. L. Swikards Hamilton raced to . the place, with Mrs. A. Carfanos Traitoi saving third from Hie-over. From a good start, Traitor and Chianti went out to show the way and Salisbury was soon in third place and racing along smoothly under slight restraint. Hamilton was back of these and the others were in a fairly close bunch. Traitor passed Chianti before the turn into the stretch was reached, but it had taken something out of him and a furlong from the end he weakened badly. There Pollard called on Salisbury and he quickly went into command to be over the line winner by two lengths. Hamilton also closed with a rush to catch the tired Traitor in the closing stages and beat him for the place by a length. Mrs. M. Eckmans Starboard Light had to be much the best to be the winner of the second race, at one mile and a furlong, for, after being carried exceedingly wide at the head of the stretch, he scored in a drive over Mrs. A. Carfanos Partisan and Mrs. B. E. Chapmans Nealon Kay. From a good start, Wolverine went out to show the way in the early racing and Nealon Kay and Chattahoochee were not far away. Fair Albert was fortunate at the start, but did not have speed enough to hold his position and he dropped back rather badly. Starboard Light had left the post slowly, but he found his way up on the outside until going to the stretch turn he was alongside Nealon Kay, which at that time had gone into the command. Making the turn for home Nealon Kay bore out badly, carrying Starboard Light well over the middle of the course. This gave Partisan his opportunity and when, he made a good turn into ,the stretch he was showing the way. Buck straightened Starboard Light and in a game finish came again to beat Partisan by half a length. Nealon Kay was two and a half lengths back and three lengths before Tiger Prince, which had no excuse in the running. Eighteen maiden, juvenile fillies were brought together in the third race, and it resulted in another victory for the Willis Sharpe Kilmer silks when Mintwina, the half-sister to Sir Edwin, scored easily over Mrs. S. F. Murphys Modesto, and C. V. Whitneys Fretwork, a daughter of Peter Pan and Skylight saved third from Foul Tip, which raced for Mrs. John Hay Whitney. Modesto was one that was neglected in the machine, and the place price against her for each 2 investment was 10.
