. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-SIXTH DAT—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY y. AIN, rain, rain. First, second and all the time. Would it ever stop ? That was what the unterrified asked each other this afternoon, and the leaden clouds seemed to answer in the negative. For such a dismal diy the attendance was excellent, and the racing was exciting enough to suit the hardest growler. One of the races was won by a head, an- other by a neck, one by half a length. That should be excite- ment enough for a few hours. It was not a very good day for favorites, four of them being Miten and the remaining one winni
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-SIXTH DAT—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY y. AIN, rain, rain. First, second and all the time. Would it ever stop ? That was what the unterrified asked each other this afternoon, and the leaden clouds seemed to answer in the negative. For such a dismal diy the attendance was excellent, and the racing was exciting enough to suit the hardest growler. One of the races was won by a head, an- other by a neck, one by half a length. That should be excite- ment enough for a few hours. It was not a very good day for favorites, four of them being Miten and the remaining one winning by but a neck in a lrive. The successful knights of the pigskin to-day were teaman, Leigh, C. Weber, Taylor and Tuberville. Seaman tnd C. Weber also rode place horses. ! Dr. Ross, 6 to 1 at the post, won the first race in a gallop ly four lengths, this after appearing to be out of the hunt 'tear the half-pole. Mestor looked to have got the place from he press stand, but it was a close thing, and the judges -warded second money to Faro's owner Annie Moore and ^ortuna, equal favorites, finished back in the ruck. The second race knocked the talent out. Fred Parker aid to Zake Abrahams last week at the Brown sale for $115, fon by a neck in a hard drive from George L., while Easter . ohn was a poor third. Crawford, the favorite, did not seem 3 be quite himself, never being better than fifth at any time. Conde won the third event in fast time «.nd in fine style, jading " fiom eend to eend" and getting home first by over length, with Realization second, a length in front of Royal lush. The last-named was a heavily-played favorite. Mot- i and Mouowai wound up in the rear, the former quilting oout three furlongs from home. Red Root and Blizzard, excellent mud horses, fought all le way down the homestretch in the fourth race, the former ?entually landing a winner by half a length. Duke Stevens d for about three furlongs, when Blizzard passed to the fore ily 10 be tackled
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