The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-17
These Were the Features OF a Fa-
yorites' Day at the Far
Grounds Race Track.
QUEEN DIXON STOPS SHORT.
Tomlinson's Filly Ran Fast to the
Last Sixteenth and Then
"Dogged" 1t in Hurry
Stone Likes Mud.

Libble, a mud-larking bay mare by Free
Kn,ett. gave the players of true form what
Moses Levi Cohen gave the ragser-s swell
nt-yesterday.
On a track that resembIed one OF Mayor
Eiegenheiu's West End boulevards-clins-
ing mud 10 the fetlocks-the mare took up
70I pounds and galloped six and one-halr
furlongs in 1:2SH. Track and weight con-
sidered, She ran 1t awfully fast She was
walking at the end a long way in front.
Little Domtu;ck rode her for show pur-
poses, Just TO display her very best form.
for which the public should be grateful and
the owners no doubt wrathy. She might
have won the money by snout. just as
well, but Dcrninick was bent upon show
ing what she really can do in the n'"i TAR
beds.
Queen Dixon was the only favorite to
fall down on the public. Ampere. an equal
choice, also ran badly in the same race.
Queen Dixon ran like ghost 10 the eighth.
There she dogged it like the veriest Texan
that ever stopped at the quarter. Birdie
Stone. ridden hard at the end. camA Ike
a ghost and won easily The latter FLY had
a lot of speed left at the end. The form
o says that the Sir Dixon daughter does not
like mud Maybe But she ran for five fur
longs IL she did. feet steady. high and
sure. 1t is no cinch that Queen Dixon would
have won on a fast track, nor is it any
cinch that she does not like mud.
Neither is 1t a certain thing that she is
dead game. Anyhow. she stopped running
very suddenly when Birdie Stone appeared
at her throatlatch yesterday. II game
horse tires he does # gradually. II horse
is running fast in one stride and stopping
in the next there must be something
wrong. Game nags. when weary, do not
chuck II that fast Arnpere got crisis
cross ride in the stretch and was not
there at the END.
The ride that young H. Stuart gave
Strangest around the clubhouse turn in
the fourth race was very pretty and gave
bright augury OF the youngsters future.
Inside. behind, in close pinch the boy
handled the nervous and scared nag very
nicely; held him OF the pole and skated
through in excellent style and position On
the back stretch he lost gauge of pace and
fell back, TO come again at the stables.
The horse was a bit short and the effort
told on him. Strsngest will win good
race not very far away. Charlie OBrien
was the biggest kind of cinch In the at
fair. Though but 10 2 It was like putting
down so and picking up SO TO bet on him.
The third race saw a rarity in a gray
horse. the first that has been about the
track since sour old Draw Scot was con-
demned TO buggy pulling, ruIsaways and
killing of ST. Louis County farmers Up
worth was the nag's name. He was
good last and ought never to be anything
else. There never was good one Of his
color.
Dominick gave MandaInus what Tom Nc
Hale would dominate .bastely'' ride In the
first race. The horse with the Blackstone
sppellatton was taken the long route. as II
the rail were snake fence and he wanted
TO inspect all the corners. He was of last
bore through the bunch and galloped down
the runaway strong as a lion, but all out at
the end 1t was terribly bad ride entire
ly that tie Goose Hill Archer gave him.
q "Reminiscences of the day when Doniinick
was driving express wagons and carrying
TO break contracts, Kildarife won this race
which was a. shame. In all It was a good
day for tevorites mud and all that taken
into consideration.
Theory ran kindly and well in the fifth
race. buUDavs Waldo. Esq. was too good to
be beaten.