Crystal Maids Debutante: Shows Herself A Fine Filly And Defeats Elizabeth Harwood Easily.; Disagreeable Weather Cuts the Attendance Down but the Speculation Is Lively--Synchronized Defeats Mortiboy--Mary Orr Wins Luckily., Daily Racing Form, 1908-05-08

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CRYSTAL MAIDS DEBUTANTE SHOWS HERSELF A FINE FILLY AND DEFEATS ELIZABETH HARWOOD EASILY i Disagreeable Weather Cuts the Attendance Down but tho Speculation Is Lively Synchronized De ¬ feats Mortiboy Mary Orr Wins Luckily Louisville Ky May 7 Weather conditions could not have been more unfavorable than prevailed today A drizzling rain continued for the entire afternoon and the cold caused occupants of tho grandstand to circulate freely There was plenty of room the attendance being the smallest number at this track In years yearsThe The Debutante Stakes at a half mile was the principal offering and six twoyearolds started Crystal Maid a smartlooking miss from K 1C Lewis string showed her superiority over the others by winning in Impressive fashion Elizabeth liar wood taking second place and Neogu third Eliza ¬ beth Harwood went into u long lead from the sturt but in the stretch turn Crystal Maid moved up to the Corrigan representative and after a short drive shook her off and came away to win as her rider pleased in the last furlong The net value of the stake to the winner was 111 111The The condensed history of the Debutante Stakes since 100 is as follows followsYear Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time IflO Sinli llii Howell JM5 lS Autumn Leaves 110 GHinor I5 I7 1002 Oleliaut 1JO It Williams 17 175 S Slr0 inn White Plume 110 Winktield lr lr0 Sfc SfclTOO 1IOI Miss Inez US Helgcsen lTOO 8t 1 Peaiitiful Bess 1 11 XIcol XIcoll0t lr5 r 0 l0t Lillie Turner USD Austi Austin 1815 4 J 1 07 Ancient lir Troxler 1715 100S Crystal Maid 110 Lleidel ltr 5 r0t r0tSynchronized Synchronized which run a fairly good race in th Kentucky Derby and was only beaten a nose for third place was made the medium of a plunge by local backers and he made good In the closing race by leading throughout and winning in a common canter from Mortiboy and Warner Griswell There might have been a different result had J Howard been a little more alert and gotten St Valentine away from the post The old horse was practically left but closed a big gap and would have been sec ¬ ond in a few more strides stridesMary Mary Orr in the fifth gained u lucky victory as Lady Vie was much the best and but for a poor ride could not have lost E Grilfin h r rider got her away from the post in u bud position and allowed her to bump into the fence on the lirst turn Sire gained steadily from her poor beginning and was going fast and gamely at the end The auction pooling on this race was the best In evi ¬ dence UK to date Lady Vie selling in one pool for r 00 against rn for the others otherslien lien Howe showed a good performance In the opening race by leading the others throughout and winning well in bund Snap on which Robert Tucker wagered heavily ran fairly well but was always held safe by the winner winnerGoldproof Goldproof far outclassed the others which Started in the second race and won in u big canter canterEstella Estella under good riding made u show oC her opponents in the third und won by a big margin But for a mishap to J Lee Halbert would have been second His rider while trying to ride a whipping finish again injured the shoulder lie had hurt by the full from Lillian Bay on the opening day This allowed Bonebrako to get by Balbert In the last few strides Lee was forced on account of the injury to cancel all his other engagement engagementDespite Despite thp poor weather and mediocre fields that started the lietting in the mutuel machines and unction pools todav was of heavier volume than yesterday The management Tools elated at having introduced tho new system They are making preparations to secure the latest improved machines including totalizators The latter will expedite work and permit far faster announcements of the winning amounts Several machines will also be added to the show booths boothsL L A Cella one of the principal stockholders in Lutoniu favors the mutiiels und will advocate their adoption at Lutoniu It is also stated that several emissaries from the Canadian tracks are hero closely observing the mutuol betting and will report favoring their use if they prove sufficiently success ¬ ful here


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