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3 , IMA COUNT TRIPLE WINNER Earns His Third Purse of Arlington . Downs Meeting in Feature. Co wpuncher, Purse Heads Texas Program Another Big Crowd Present as. Meeting Nears End. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 18. Two - allowance races styled the Cowpuncher Purse, a sprint affair that served as the fourth, and the Park Inn Purse oyer one mile and run as the fifth race, shared leading honors . as Arlington Downs approached the end of its spring meeting this afternoon. Despite threatening weather, another large crowd attended, and they were provided with one of the most interesting programs of the season. The Cowpuncher Purse, named in honor of the old pony that carried the late Col. : W. T. Waggoner over the broad meadows that is now the home of the Texas Jockey Club, enabled J. D. Spreckels HI.s Ima Count to become, the first triple winner of the meeting and apprentice Paul Keester to go into a tie with Wayne Wright for American riding honors. Ima Count was well backed for the Wag-goner course sprint, and made good for his legion of backers when he led throughout to reach the end a length before L. Beydas recently-acquired Joe Flores. The latter was a length and a half in the van of Mrs. A. M. Creechs Band Wagon, which tired after offering the winner the chief contention. It vas the first time since last Thursday that Keester was able to grace the winners circle and since then he has been only one winner back of the J. E. Widener star jockey, who is idle. Seven started with the winner, a four to five choice, taking command at once and after disposing of Croon in the first three-sixteenths, Keester nursed him along until near the final quarter. At that stage Band Wagon offered his threat, but when Keester went to a drive, Ima Count responded in good fashion. A furlong from the end he had a three-length margin, but Joe Flores, which had followed them to the stretch, came with a determined charge that mowed Continued on eighteenth page. IMA COUNT TRIPLE WINNER Continued from first paged - down the leaders in rapid, fashion. However, he was unable to menace the winner, but was much the best of the others. Jesting, Fickle Chance and Norman D., the latter a head back of Croon at the finish, completed the field but they failed to be factors. Under 115 pounds, equal top impost with Joe Flores, Ima Count ran the distance over the fast track in 1:08. The Park Inn provided one of the most thrilling finishes of the afternoon and another popular victory when the Corsicana Stables Blessed Event reached the end of the eight furlongs a half length before C. E. Davisons Jens Son. Rip Van Winkle carried the Lone Star Stable silks into third place, two lengths back of Jens Son and a nose before Irksome, which saved fourth from Woodlander, Hope Eternal and Cloudet. It was the three-year-old Irksome that probably prevented Jens Son from carrying off leading honors for the son of Diavolo, favored with ninety-two pounds, dogged his older opponent until he headed him at the close of. three-quarters. However, Irksome found his task too exacting, and Jens Son drew away to a clear lead before the close of seven-eighths. The duel also took too much from Jens Son, and when Lester Balaski drove the winner into second place, Jens Son was unable to withstand the challenge. With the exception of Woodlander, which tired after enjoying prominence for three-quarters, the others failed to offer a strong threat. In scoring his first victory of the year, Blessed Event carried 108 pounds, nine less than the topweighted Rip Van Winkle, and ran the distance in 1:38. Twelve unruly older maidens met over a mile in the first race and Thomas C. Wor-dens Royal Rover, again offended when he reached the end of the eight furlongs a neck behind Leo J. Marks Maracorina, which was next in esteem, and three lengths in front of Single Wave, the extreme outsider of the field. Ridden by Hilton Dabson and under strong restraint while following the pace-making of Olepal, the winner, a three-year-old the Donnacona gelding, drew away to a long lead after taking comand, but Royal Rover, which was allowed to lose ground througout, was fast wearing him down at the end. With the exception of Watch In, which quit badly after a half mile and Chatterbelle, which quit, the others of the field were never factors. Dark Seeker scored her fourth triumph out of seven starts this year when she carried Mrs. C. R. Scoviles colors to a driving and popular victory over Proven, Lamporte and seven other platers, which met at the Waggoner course distance for the second event. Taking comand. leaving the back stretch, the -winner held sway thereafter and with the exception of a bold bid offered by Lamporte, when he drove through on the inside aproaching the final eighth, she never received a serious threat. Away slowly and forced to race on the outside of his field, Proven closed with a rush that carried him a nose before Lamporte and a little more than a length back of the winner at the . close. E. E. Irbys consistent Sickle filly, Play- sickle, made an auspicious Arlington Downs . debut and scored her third straight victory : I in proving the best of the heavily backed : Eblis, Tracker and nine other three-year- . olds that furnished the sport in the third race, also at the Waggoner course distance, i Under the guidance of the improving El- mer Deperini and never far back of the J pacemaking Eblis and Bonnie Pan, the win- ner forged to the front in the final sixteenth to be a length before Eblis at the end. The j latter tired fast after attaining a two j lengths advantage in the stretch and only i lasted to head the fast-finishing Tracker for second. Three lengths separated Track- i er and Sassenach at the end, with Bonnie j Pan giving away rapidly after forcing the pace for a half mile. Charles Holland is shipping his small , stable to Detroit in the car with the Tran- i quility Farm Stable that leaves for that point Monday. L. C. Pike is anxious to dispose of Meany to some breeder. He is a son of St. Henry, and Pike believes he will make a useful . stock horse.
