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5 DEAD HEAT AT AGUA CALIENTE Dirigible and Suitor Finish on Even Terms in Sixth Race at Mexican Track Sunday. ! DEAD HEAT PAY-OFFS i J In wagers made away from the J track the prices as published in the I t chart of the dead-heat race should j prevail if track odds were offered j j and accepted. Where house odds were J taken the procedure should be as fol- j I lows: If was bet on each horse j j and 3 to 1 laid on Dirigible, the pay- J ! off should be to the bettor and j to the layer; if 2 to 1 was laid on j j Suitor the pay-off should be .50 to j j the bettor and .50 to the layer. J ! The amount of money bet plus the j j odds laid with the total divided j equally between the bettor and the j layer is the regular method of pay- J off in case of a dead heat with book- j ing odds prevailing. j AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, April 8. The first dead heat of the winter meeting and the third ever to be run at he Caliente track came in the sixth race, Dirigible from the barn of Harry Walters, and Suitor from the stable of H. Field finishing on the line. Dirigible took a short lead early in the race, but Suitor caught him at the head of the stretch and they ran nose and nose to the wire. The placing judges were unable to separate the pair, and called the race a dead heat, in which George W. Schilling, presiding steward, concurred. Justa Hymn was third and Plum Shot fourth. Books on the lawn paid off on both Dirigible and Suitor to win, cutting the price in half. The mutuel win pool was divided between the two horses, tickets on Dirigible paying .60 and those on Suitor .40. Place and show prices were paid on the two winners, and the show on Justa Hymn. Two previous dead heats were run at the border course, one in 1931, the other in 1932. On May 11, 1931, Sharp Thoughts and Basilla, an entry, ran a dead heat. It was not run off. On February 24, 1932, Shasta Snow and Bay Boy dead heated, and in the runoff the first mentioned won. Judge Schilling asked both owners Sunday if they wished to run off the dead heat, but they declined and agreed to split first and second money. Time for the six furlongs, in which Dirigible and Suitor tied, was 1:12, equalling the best performance at the meeting.
