Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-29
Favorites Continued to the Fore at
the Benning Track Yesterday.
-FOUR FIRST CHOICES LAND TEE MONEY
Great Stallion AxteII, That Brought
$1o5,ooo, Sold for $4,000.
EASTERN LEAGUE AVERAGES

When the present meeting Of the Wash
ington Jockey Club closes. and 1t will end
December 8. all reports to the contrary,
no set Of men will be more gratified than
those who have been accommodating the
speculative public at the Benning track
during the past ten days. Yesterday favor
ties again won four of the six races on the
card, and as the two remaining events were
captured by heavily backed second choices,
the layers were hit harder probably than on
any other day Of the meeting. The attend
ance was again very large. and, while the
track had dried out considerably, it was
still slow. The racing was rather tame, the
finish in the last race being about the only
one in which the winner had any real diff
ficulty in reaching the wire first Lexing
tor Pirate, the property Of Jimmy Lee,
the superintendent of the track. captured
the first race. he being the 4 to l second
choice. Impartial was second. length
back; Give and Take third A second choice,
Amorita, also took the second race, beating
the to 1 favorite, Flaneur, length; Sal
valeta half a length back. The third race,
hurdle event at ~ miles. was entirely be-
tween Perion and McFonso. They took the
last hurdle together, but the former gradu-
ally shook the other off, winning easily by
a length and a half; Sir Dick eight lengths
leo from start to finish in the fourth. Magic
Light, at 10 and 5, being a length to the
bad Oriento the to 1 favorite, did
practically the same thing in the fifth.
winning by two lengths; Blueskin sec
ond. head in front of Handvice. Lady
Contrary, the to 10 favorite, went to the
front in the stretch but Fluke and Miss
Mitchell closed strong in the last eighth,
and they finished in that order heads apart.
AS stated in The Star several days ago,
President Belmont of the Jockey Club the
governing turf organization in the east, has
given assurances that horsemen racing here
after the Both instant will be fully protect
ed Notwithstanding the alleged threat of
the New Orleans Jockey Club to rule or
that track horsemen racing here in Decem-
Der. In this connection it can be authorita-
lively stated that the BenninS meeting will
not be continued after December =, and That
rejection of the application of the Chesa-
peake Beach Association for a license for
winter meeting will not be reconsidered On
the same authority it is stated that no one
participating in the proposed winter race
meeting at Chesapeake Beach can hope for
the slightest leniency from the Jockey Club.
Summary.
First race. five and one-half furlongs-
Lexington Pirate, 115 (HothersalD, to l,
Won: Imperial, 115 (Rutter), 10 to ! and
to 1, second: Give and Take, 104 CWalters),
10 to 1. third. Time. Ito 30 Federaist.
Dactyl. Farsight, Beverage, Red Spider.
Alaire, Darwin, Hopbrook and Ellen Is.
also ran.
Second race, maiden, two-year-olds, six
and one-half furlongs-Amorita. 107 Book
err. 3 to l. won; Flaneur. 107 (McCue), to
1 and to ;. second; Salvaleta, 40 CT.
Burns), to 1, third. Time, LIS. Wool
gatherer, Albert Enright, Callear, Anna
Darling. Caogswell, Timothy Foley, Hija
and Arverne also ran.
Third race. hurdle handicap. and
three-fourths mile, seven hurdles-Perion.
1873 (Mora). to 5. won; McFonso. 161
(Cochrane). to and to ), second: Sir
Dick, 1876 (Hueston). 20 to 1. third. Time.
3.24 40. Gould and Claroba also ran
Fourth race. selling. mile and 100 yards
Leon Ferguson. 1O6 (McCue). to 5, won:
Magic Light 1O2 (Miles). Is to 1 and to
/, second; Chas. Estes, 107 (Rutter). to
1, third. Time. 1.53 15. Maple, Kirkwood.
Holdup and Curassier also ran.
Fifth race, twO-year-olds and upward.
seven furlongs-Orenta, 81 (G. Thompson).
to l. won: Blueskin, 81 (Brien), to 1
and even, second Handvice, 81 Oh. Mich
aes), 40 to l. third Time, 1.30. Little
Daisy Charawind, Edgetield and Historian
also ran.
Sixth race. selling, six furlongs-Lady
Contrary, 103 (Walsh) to 10, won; Fluke.
SO Oh. Mchaelsl. to 1 and to 5, second;
Miss Mitchell, "a &c. Thompson), Is to l,
third. Time LII. Evelyn Byrd, Decimal.
Thermos, ]. H. Sloan and Hawk also ran.