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WOODLANDER EASY WINNER Epsom Downs Handicap Falls to Hernandez Gelding Easily. Donnacona Kid Takes Third Event in Easy Triumph Mid-Summer Weather PrevailsCrowd of 8,000 Attends. HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 17. Under a blazing Texas sun that was more fitting for mid-summer than for the autumn season, the most attractive eight-race program of the Texas Breeders and Racing Associations meeting at Epsom Downs was presented before a crowd of 8,000 Saturday afternoon. Topped by two handicaps, the Romeo and Juliet, for sprinters, and the Epsom Downs Handicap, designed for routers, offered the best fields which have competed in the respective divisions since the inauguration of this session. Interesting sport resulted in the majority of instances and there was a notable increase in wagering due to the enthusiasm of the fans in attendance, indicating that the largest mutuel handle of the season would result. Demonstrating superb horsemanship, apprentice Warren Cornay guided C. E. Mick-ens Donnacona Kid to an easy triumph in the third race on the card. It was the second of the day for the New Orleans youngster, who has been displaying improvement, Broadway Maid finished second, and third money was taken by Howard G. Working his way up from last place, Norman "Butsey" Hernandez gallant chestnut gelding Woodlander sped through the stretch at Epsom Downs today and overhauled Min Ormont to account for the Epsom Down3 Handicap, mile and a furlong test featuring r the- half-holiday program. Biography, another flashing the American Beauty jacket of Hernandez, was third, while Blue Train finished fourth in the field of six contestants. IMPRESSIVE PERFOR3IANCE. Woodlanders performance was quite impressive in view of the fact that the chestnut son of Rolled Stockings Rosewood shouldered 116 pounds, the second-highest impost. Failure of Mrs. A. M. Creechs entry of Reaping and Sound Advice in the Romeo and Juliet Handicap proved somewhat of a disappointment to the bettors who backed the pair into favoritism. Ste. Louise, displaying a courageous effort, got the decision by a head in a driving finish, with Reaping, which was a nose in front of Bachelor Dinner. In winning the verdict, Ste. Louise recorded the fastest time for five and a half furlongs when the brown daughter of St. Henry Lady Louise, traversed the distance in 1:06:54. Ste. Louise, winner of a previous start here against cheaper company, had an advantage in the weights, packing 104 pounds, and was favored by good fortune during the stretch racing when she found a clear path on the rail as she charged down on the leaders. As customary. Bachelor Dinner possessed sufficient speed to outrun his rivals away from the starting gate and was pursued by Reaping and Ste. Louise. However, jockey Eddie De Prang had a snug hold on the brown filly until reaching the stretch curve, where he clucked to his mount and she readily responded. When Bachelor Dinner and Reaping engaged in a ding-dong duel, Ste. Louise joined and pushing through on the inside the filly stuck her muzzle in front after getting within the last sixteenth, then hold on with fine courage to be adjudged th winner. LEROS IN EASY STYLE. Form players got away to a successful start when Mrs. E. McCuans Leros romped to an easy score in the five and one-half furlongs dash, winning by three lengths, well in hand. High Bottom finished second and Barney Keen barely lasted long enough to account for third. The odds-on choice never left the result in doubt, the brown son of Nocturnal moving into a long lead and being master the entire distance. The start was delayed for several minutes when Allegory reared and unseated his rider and galloped off three-sixteenths of a mile, then turned around and came back to the starting point. Rushing into command soon after the start, Our Spot, racing in the silks of Barton and Huff, registered a victory at the first asking by defeating eleven others in the second event, another sprint affair at five and one-half furlongs. No Change and Mary Carmen, both in the field and favorite in the wagering, finished second and third, respectively. The six-year-old chestnut son of Tan-gara was hurried away from the starting gate and before the first sixteenth was completed he took a lead of a length and one-half and retained a like advantage throughout the sprint Jockey Pete Martinez departed for the Three Ds Stock Farm at Arlington, where he will assist in the breaking of the band of yearlings that is now on the Waggoner brothers farm.
