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DOUBLE HEART SCORES Carpenter Colorbearer Easy Winner of Hialeah Handicap. . Largest Monday Crowd of Meeting Watches Races Under Pleasant Weather Conditions at Miami. MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 15. The largest Monday crowd of the season graced the racing of the Miami Jockey Club at Hialeah Park this afternoon and while none of the real top-notchers of winter racing were engaged, it was an interesting program. Summer skies and a temperature more nearly resembling August than February prevailed. The St. Valentines Claming Handicap occupied the feature position on the card. This was a seven furlong dash with all to be sold for ,000 and it resulted in an easy victory for F. H. Carpenters Double Heart with C. V. Whitneys Pennate just saving second place from Jack Howards three-year-old filly Miss Tulsa. Seven started and the support before the race was almost evenly divided between the winner and Richard Howes imported filly Lullaby n. From a good start, Lullaby II. and Miss Tulsa raced out to show the way, but Montgomery soon had Double Heart racing along back of the two fillies and turning out of the back stretch it was apparent he could take command at the first asking. Pennate was following Double Heart closely and then came Blackmock. Leros was running a disgraceful race and was soon a distant last. BY SAFE MARGIN. Lullaby II. was first to tire and as she gave way Montgomery permitted Double Heart to take command and he only cantered the remainder of the way to be winner by five lengths. Pennate, in the meantime, had been making up ground resolutely, but it was in the final strides that he caught Miss Tulsa to beat her by a head for second place. Blackmock was another two lengths back and then came Bub McFarland, the tired Lullaby n. and Leros, easing up eight lengths back of the others. The race run by Leros, in the light of his recent performances, was hard to understand. The Cocoanut Grove Purse, a condition affair over the seven furlongs route, really brought out a better field than the St. Valentines Claiming Handicap, though it did not carry .the same value. It resulted in an interesting contest, with G. W. Ogles Prince Tokalon rather an easy winner over W. L. Johnsons Rip Van Winkle, and Frank Grossmans Waterway was a close third, saving that part of the purse from A. Westons Dancing Mack. There was some delay at the post, but the start was a good one, and Mills went out to set the pace with Dancing Back. Prince Tokalon had left from the inside stall, and Elston was fortunate in finding racing room for him. He was alongside Dancing Mack and going stride for stride with the son of Mackenzie II. Chatford and Thais were close up, while Waterway was slower to get in racing stride. PLENTY IN RESERVE. Prince Tokalon hung to Dancing Mack until he made the Weston gelding tire when he drew away slightly, and Rip Van Winkle moved into contention to be a close third. Thais was still going well, and Waterway was moving up on the outside. But Elston had plenty in reserve with Prince Tokalon, and going to the stretch turn he drew clear and was never threatened, to race past the line winner by three lengths. Rip Van Winkle had more left than the others, but he was doing his best to save second place from Waterway by half a length. An accident occurred in the running of the opening dash, for cheap ones, when W. F. Yergasens Rubridge fell just as the field was rounding out of the back stretch. Fortunately, C. Phillips, who had the mount, was not seriously hurt and he was quickly on his feet. This contest resulted in a good finish when Jesse Spencers Flash o White defeated F. A. Carrcauds Sun Teatime, while C. A. Grandes Morden was a close third. Craigco and Sun Teatime were the ones to cut out the running and they were well lapped to the stretch turn, where Miss Avondale dashed up on the outside while Morden was making a run on the inside. The four were fighting it out a furlong from the finish, with Sun Teatime holding the others until the closing strides, when Continued on thirteenth page. DOUBLE HEART SCORES Continued from first page. Flash o White came with a rush that landed her the winner by a length. The Car-reaud filly had saved second place by half a length and Morden was only a head before Miss Avondale, which lost ground by coming around the leaders. Fifteen maidens of the cheap variety made up the field in the second race, at one mile, and the winner turned up in Short Story, from the Wheatley stable, ably ridden by Hank Mills. M. E. Williams Sweepmar finished second, and F. A. Griffiths Tumbling Glass third. It was a good start, and Mills lost no time sending the filly into command. Montgomery Maid was soon racing after her, but the daughter of Bucellas was under a slight restraint as she showed the way, and when the stretch was reached, Montgomery Maid had enough and dropped back as the others closed up back of the eventual winner. Short Story still had a length to spare crossing the line, and Sweepmar had come with a rush through the final furlong to take second place with plenty to spare. Tumbling Glass had raced forwardly all the way and was doing his best to save third from Iron Czar, which had left the post sluggishly to close a big gap in the running. The three furlongs race styled the St. Augustine, for maiden juvenile fillies, was considerable of a Whitney affair when C. V. Whitneys Fretwork was an easy winner, and Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Shavings finished second. Third was the portion of E. A. Iglehearts Lady Bracadale, and both she and Shavings were sold in the field group. There was a long delay at the post, and Unfair, the J. E. Widener starter, unseated Mack Garner in one of her lunges. Prudie Broom was so unruly that she was sent to a position outside the stalls. When the start came Fretwork had abundant room and Robertson at once rushed her along until she was well clear, and there was no stage of the running that she was threatened to be over the line winner by five lengths. A lively battle ensued for second place, and Shavings just beat Lady Bracadale by a short lead and Absolution was another length and a half away.
