Evening star., 1900-09-25
stamp him as ore Of the few honest horses

stamp him as ore Of the few honest horses
| of the year.
The Parkville handicap. at six furlongs,
! for two-year-olds. brought out a field of
nine. with Modrine, Reckton. Killashandra
and Belle of Lexington backed at prices
| nearly equal, Rockton finally starting fav-
| orite. Contestor broke away first. and went
| straight on. setting a stiff pace and trail
, ing out his field in the first half furlong.
Modrine taking second place and Rockton
third, with Gold Or and Kiiiashandra fol-
lowing in the order named to the bend into
the home stretch. On the turn Kilashan-
dra moved up on the outside. and making
rush for the front on the straight, ran past
the firing lot before her and won handily
by a length. Contestor lasted Just long
enough to get second place by neck from
Rockton, who beat Gold Or a head
In the opening race the hitherto unfortu-
| nate colt Criterion was favorite again at
odds on in a field of eight two-year-olds
over a five furlongs course. To fair start,
Bedeck was first away, but was at once
passed by Rrandysmash, who led by
length by the first-sixteenth of mile Be
deck and Criterion Tapped second and third
Throughout the race these three were the
contenders, Brandysmash holding on in
front until well into the stretch, where
Spencer on Criterion. let the favorite go on
Criterion then easily running into the lead
and winning about he pleased by
length. Brandysmash finished second two
lengths In front of Bedeck With nine run
ners in the second race, a handicap. at a
mile and seventy yards, the western horse
Mr.. Brown, was made favorite, the two
year-old Beau Galiant starting second
choice. As the flag fell Beau Gallant Slip
ped to the front. followed by Big Gun, the
two running Tapped around the first turn,
rr'Eoo-e Big Gun fel, back Pean Gallant
g. away ciear IN IIolil entering the b.ck
stretch. and drawing away from his field
further and further in his run around the
last turn, was pulled up all through the
quarter stretch, and won in canter by two
lengths. kinnikinnic trailed last to the far
turn, where he closed On the field and fin
ished second. head in front of Asorith
tntru MI Brown was never prominent
F!ftesn maiden fllics, two years old faced
the starter for the fifth race Julia Hanover
again the favorite. Mesaba, first away. led.
length before Fannie Maud to the head of
the stretch, where Mesaba quit and Fannie
Maud taking first place. held it to the end
and won. ridden out by helf length from
Mara Bolton, who got away back in the
crowd. and. after making up lot of ground
beat Nonpareii half length for the place
A selling race at a mile and a sixteenth was
the last on the program, and seven horses
ran for 1t. Bangor and Annoy equal favor
ties Rinaldo set the pace to the head of
the stretch. Miss Hanover second and An
noy :hird to that point. where Bangor went
up from fifth place, and, after little rous-
ing with the whip on the stretch, took the
lead from Rinaldo. At the end Bangor won
rather easily by length and a half. Ri
naldo second, a length in front of Miss
Hanover. The winner bought by r, T. VIII
son, jr., oft of selling race only a few
days before for 1880. was in for 81. 200. He
was bid UP to s. 400, and sold to Samuel C.
Hildreth. =