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MIAMI FEATURE THRILLS Small Margins "Separate First Four in Nursery Stakes. Okapi First With Meany Second and John Davenport Third at Hia-leah Park Course. MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 20. To the thunderous applause of the greatest crowd that has assembled at beautiful Hialeah Park this season, Okapi, the two-year-old son of Eternal and Oktibbena, which races for the Brookmeade Stable, was winner of the Nursery Stakes Number 1. It was confined to the juvenile colts and geldings and carried a net value of ,310 to the winner. There never was a more thrilling finish, when Mose Lowensteins Meany was only beaten by inches and right at their heels came J. P. Atkins John Davenport, in turn only beating David J. Elys Helios by half a length for third. It was a truly run race and the winner thoroughly demonstrated he was worth the ,500 paid for him at the Saratoga Springs sale of last August, when he equalled the track record of :35. This race was the feature of the week-end racing of the Miami Jockey Club and the course was thronged with as representative a gathering as is found at any course in mid-season. The weather and track conditions could not be improved upon and there were other thrills besides that furnished by the juveniles. DOUBLE FOR ROBERTSON. The running of the Baby Stake completed a double for A. Robertson, the C. V. Whitney jockey, for in the previous race he had piloted George B. Wideners James River to a well-earned victory. Sixteen went to the post for the two-year-old prize, and it was natural there should have been some delay before an alignment was obtained, but the start was good, and the big field got away in the same stride. There was some slight crowding, and John Davenport was not as alert as those that beat him, but it was Okapi and Meany that dominated the race. Lapped virtually all the way, Meany had the son of Eternal headed for a time but under a furious drive Okapi proved the gamest, and Robertson never rode better. John Davenport had left from the outside stall and he bore over somewhat in the running. He was gaining at the end to be only beaten a length, and to earn his share of the purse, he had outfinished Helios, which was always in the front division. There was some excuse for Helios when he suffered slight interference right after the start, but he recoverd quickly with little loss of ground. The Live Oak Purse, a claiming affair for three-year-olds over the mile distance brought out a good band and it saw G. D. Wideners James River the winner over Southco, from the Kilrane Stable and third was the portion of J. J. Morans Don Tasker. From a good start Prince Fox set the pace and he was closely followed by Don Tasker and James River. Southco was slower to be under way and when Montgomery moved Continued on thirteenth page. MIAMI FEATURE THRILLS Continued from first page." up with him, he ran him up on the heels of the others, with the result that he was knocked back. He later ran into a pocket and had scant racing room until Montgomery changed his route and went to the outside Robertson also chose the outside with James River and the pair of them moved up rapidly after leaving the back stretch. Prince Fox was all through and was dropping back and on the stretch turn James River had taken command and Southco followed him. In the run through the final furlong the son of St. James drew away readily to be past the line winner by three lengths. Don Tasker had more left than the others and was going strongly at the heels of the Kilrane Stable gelding and the tired Prince Fox was fifth. Hank Mills had to do plenty of energetic riding to have the Wheatley Stables Lucky Jack home the winner of the opening six furlong dash for maiden colts and geldings. He had to drive the son of John P. Grier into the early racing to hold a position, but he came around the leaders at the head of the stretch to win going away. G. D. Wide-ners Home Work took the place, with Black Signal, from the Maemere Farm, just saving third. Prince Sweep and Afro American cut out the running, but Black Signal was not far away, while Lucky Jack had to go up on the outside to be within striking distance. Both Prince Sweep and Afro American weakened badly going to the stretch turn and there Black Signal looked a sure winner, but Mills circled around with Lucky Jack and closed on him a furlong out. As he came alongside the son of Black Toney, Lucky Jack swerved over, but he was straightened out by Mills to come on and score by three parts of a length. In the meantime Home Work was making up ground with a rush and in the closing strides he also headed the tired Black Signal to save the place by a head. Mose Lowensteins Fetish proved best of the cheap ones which met in the mile of the second race. He made all the pace, to win with something "to spare over F. H. Carpenters Tack, with G. Preeces Tore-along" beating Lord Concord for third. Tea Cracker, one highly considered before the running, after showing some speed dropped completely out of the competition, and it was discovered after the finish that he had bled. Callahan went right out to make the pace with Fetish, and Tea Cracker and Tack chased after him until the former bled and dropped back from the contention. Then it was that Tack made his bid, but he could not seriously threaten the Lowenstein gelding, which was winner by a length and a half. Torealong finished resolutely, while Lord Concord, a factor in the early running, was bearing out badly in the stretch run.
