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ANOTHER FOR IMA COUNT Spreckels Racer Repeats in Feature at Arlington Downs. Keester Has Another Good Day in Saddle Splurge Surprises in the Third Race. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 9. Ima Count, fashionably-bred Reigh Count gelding, which races for J. D. Spreckels III., California sportsman, scored his second victory of the Arlington Downs meeting by accounting for the Casino Claiming Handicap, which was the fifth and principal race offered here this afternoon. Sprinting into a good lead in the first three-sixteenths, Ima Count reached the finish two lengths before A. G. Tarns Hueu. The latter held the same advantage over Mrs. Floyd Wests Bedight, which lasted to head Genteel Lady for minor honors. A field of nine started with Crout au Pot, Lord Tournament, Fanfern, Rubio, Heedless Gal and Bill Donoghue following the leading quartet to the finish in the named order. Paul Keester, who was enjoying another good day, directed the Spreckels gelding and, after attaining three lengths advantage in the stretch, Keester had the winner under a firm hold when the finish was reached. Keester had previously triumphed with Friend John. Beginning slowly and forced to overcome early interference, Hueu did not reach his stride until near the final quarter. Once clear he made up ground rapidly and, although he failed to menace the winner, he was much the best of the others. During the first half mile Bill Donoghue, a Texas Derby eligible, followed closest to Bedight, which was in nearest pursuit of the winner, but during the final three-sixteenths the three-year-old gave way rapidly. CROUT AU POT TIRES. Crout au Pot, a strong second choice to the winner, which was held at 5 to 2, began slowest of all, but lucky to find room on the inside throughout, reached third position near the last eighth. However, she tired in the last stages. - Ima Count carried 115 pounds, equal weight with Hueu, and ran the distance in 1:09. Cloudy, dreary weather and a drop in temperature, which followed little drizzles that fell during the morning hours, was responsible for a slight drop in the attendance, but despite the threatening weather, a good sized crowd was present for the sport. The light rain failed to have any appreciable effect on the track and it was again at its best. Unlike a majority of the other days of the meeting, favorites failed to hold their own against those held in less esteem. It was not until the fourth race, the third at the short three-quarters of the Waggoner course, that a choice made good for his backers. Mrs. E. B. Carpenter furnished the winner of this race when Fair-sickle, a Joseph E. Widener castoff, led Lady Federal, Playing On and eight others from the better grade plater ranks to the end. LUCK PLAYS BIG PART. Luck played an important part in her victory, for after finding room next to the rail entering the stretch, she also was fortunate enough to get through in the last sixteenth. Once in the van she drew away steadily and the finish found her a length before the pacemaking Lady Federal, which lasted to beat Playing On a nose for second. While Lady Federal was disposing of Sugar Jar and withstanding the repeated challenges of Playing On, the winner was far back in the field of eleven. The exacting task of pacemaking proved too great for Lady Federal and when the winner offered her belated charge, she was unable to repulse it. With the exception oi Sugar Jar and Dark Seeker, which enjoyed prominent positions the-greater part of the sprint, the others were never factors. Two heavily backed juveniles, which were making their first starts disappointed verj badly when Sangreal, a fielder and Miss Disturb finished far back of A. B. Gordons Plucky Jack, Rudolph Lad and Billy I., ai Continued on eleventh page, ANOTHER FOR IMA COUNT Continued from first page. the end of the half-mile dash for maiden two-year-olds that opened the program. Sprinting into a good lead in the opening furlong, Plucky Jack, a son of Bostonian and Esthonia, made his own pace and clipped a second off the track record, when he ran the four furlongs in :47. He reached the end three and a half lengths before Rudolph Lad, Which led Billy I. by a length and a half at the close. A mild surprise came with the second race at the Waggoner course distance, when Treat and Felkners Friend John lasted to head the heavily supported Lamp Black. Two Tricks was third. Under good urging and on the outside of the field while reaching the lead, Friend John, which had the services of Paul Keester, took command nearing the final quarter and although unable to draw away from Two Tricks, had enough left to withstand Lamp Black, which lost ground throughout. T. E. Tennants Splurge and apprentice G. L. Smith, proved a winning combination and another mild surprise when they carried off the leading honors in the third race. At the end of the Waggoner Course sprint, the winner, which was making her second start of the year and the meeting, was a half of a length before the tiring Beckoned, which lasted to head the well backed Inflate for second. Unable to keep up in the early stages, the winner was sent past her opponents entering the stretch, and picking up the leaders in rapid fashion was drawing away at the end. After leading from the start, Beckoned extended her advantage to three lengths before reaching the final furlong, but she tired rapidly in the last sixteenth. Kingsport and Odd Blue, the only others of the field of ten that enjoyed prominent positions, tired badly in the drive.
