The morning times., 1895-10-10
TWO CLOSE, HOT FINISHES
Great Excitement Among the
Sports at ST. Asaph.
OTHER EVENTS WERE TAME
silver Queen Won All the Way From
Two Fa vorit,s in he Opening Event.
Gormnn Was Strongly Tipped, hut
WAS Not In til. Money Elizabeth
Was Backed by the Wise.

The ST. Asaph track is fast making
record for the many hair-rasing finishes
that take place there. 1t is becoming n
common thing for three or four OF the
events every day To be won in the hardest
1inl of drives.
Yesterday was no exception to this rule.
and two of the contests were won amid
tremendous excitement by The rarroWest
KIND of margins. Mario aI.d Grassmcrc
were the ones Ia supply the sport in the
first. anI Ninety Seven, Lucille and Dorcas
&. came right back in the next race and
passed under The wire in such close order
that a blanket would have covered the
three.
This was enough excitement for one day
and the other events furnished rather
tame finishes. with the possible exception
of the fifth race, which PROMISED Il good
finish fifty yards from the wire. but was
spoiled by Grampan shooting out OF the
bunch and winning rather easily at the
end.
A HOT BETTING RACE.
I was good day for the sport and "A
large contingent Of sporting men were
present in addition To the regulars VINO
we're also out in full force. The track was
in good condition and the betting was
very brisk.
1ne closing. event furnished hot bet
ting race Elizabeth, Jimmie James, and
PocabontaS all bcin. heavily played. Inc
talent again had IA hard Gay of it, as only
two favorites succeeded i'll caGhing.
Silver Queen furnished Il big surprise In
the opening race, jumping out at the start
and winning all the way. She was quoted
at 10 to / VIXEN lie horses went To the
post, with Ceremony and Lady Teacher
almost equal favorites ut . to z and ] TO
5 respectively.
Leonitias, Orator, and Mario were all
rancicd for tie Nv o-ycar-old race, when
was next on the card. Mario had slight
rail- over the others at post time. Gleason
carried him into the lead and, keeping hlm
.oing all the way, lasted long enough 10
win by a nose in the hardest kind OF a Grive
from GraSsmorc.
THEY RAN LAPPED.
Eight pretty rank dogs faced the starter
in the third event, with Dorcas l.. the
choice at IL to Band Ninety Seven next in
demand at . to = Lucille and Ninety
Seven ran Tapped to the head of the stretch.
where Doroas l.. closed and the three had Il
merry fight clear to the wire, where
Ninet Seven managed to poke his nose in
front cf Lucille who was as much before
Dorcas l..
There was the hottest kind of 4 tip on
GOrman TO win the next event anu ne Wds
backed down from to l to TO ut
which price he closed He was never very
prominent and finished fourth to syde,
Luke Richards and Mohawk.
When the betting had settled in the ftith
race Grampian was the choice at To 5,but
a strong play came in ON Frank u while
the horses were on tn g way to the post andhe
closed at even money, while Grainpian
Went back to . to |
Tubal Cain, jr., led by open ia ylighttoth
turn where he quit and Frank u. went to the
front Grampian was not done, however,
and coming strong mt the finish captured
the money by n length from Frank ID.
Tie closing race was taken into camp
by Elizabeth who carried all the wise
money and won easily from Jimmie James
with Pocahoatas third.