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PATRONAGE LARGE AT OMAHA - One of Biggest Week-Day Crowds Present for Fridays Fine Card. "Good Thing" Arladale Rewards Admirers in Opening Race and Scampers to Easily Achieved Victory. OMAHA, Neb., June 16.— Before one of the largest week-day crowds of the meeting, the Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition Company presented its sixteenth program of the current meeting, which was featured by the Gallant Fox Handicap, for sprinters four-year-olds and upward, and at six furlongs. The original ten entries accepted to try conclusions, and again Mrs. E. H. Beezleys Anopheles was highly regarded, but there were many of the patrons who fancied the chances of M. Whitebrooks Jokester, while My Colin and Rondelier had a host of backers. The principal race was well supported by the St. James Purse, sixth on the card and for which seven of the better grade three-year-olds went postward with Byrdford and Goole sharing in the post of favoritism. Arladale, given around as a "good thing," made a show of her opponents in the first race, which engaged twelve of the less fashionable sprinters in a test of six furlongs. The winner given a good ride by apprentice Walter Fagan, raced in the thick of contention throughout, and when the leaders turned for home she sped to them and, continuing her successful march, reached the end four lengths to the good, while Blinkem had a margin of one and a half lengths over Baggala, an outsider in the betting, for the place award. The highly regarded and favored Leap Year Lady flattered her backers for a good part of the journey but failed to meet the demands of the successful trio when the real racing began.
