The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-05
OuDENARDE won THE
INDEPENDENCE STAKE
Annexed the Feature of Delmar
Track Card in Hollow Style
at Tempting Odds.
LED HIS FIELD ALL THE WAY.
Favorites Gave the Talent the
Worst of It-Tom Collins
Much Improved.
LED HIS FIELD ALL THE WAY.

Racesoers may have noticed that The Re
public tipped oudenardc to walk In on a
good track I'm the independence Stake. run
at Delinar Park yesterday. That is what
Ocdenarde did, at the tempting odds of Is to
J. The Republic did not tip him because 1t
expected a muddy track AS il happened.
the track, though muddy In the morning.
dried out by the time the race was run. and
was very fair going. indeed-not fast, Yet
far from muddy
Oudenarde took the lead at the start and
maintained it to the finish. beating Blink,
a 1-to-2 shot: Nan Dora. backed down from
tens TO twos, and Wall 13-to-10 shot. 1t is
not OFTEN that racegoers have such good
thing handed them as OUdenarde.
The start was a perfect one. Little black
Earl at once sent Oudenarde to the front.
Blink went with him, weber's toes at his
snroatlatch. SO rank was he in the going.
wall was right back of the two Then
came Nan Dora and Miss Thresa. with Sid
d2ns, the Derby hot one. whipping in.
Walls early speed surprised every one.
ana ne looked so fit that he was given the
race By general consent as they made the
iiTst turn. Walls very proximity to the
leaders proved his undoing; He Is horse
that cannot endure another TO touch or
hump him In a race. About the middle OF
the turn he either was bumped or was
forced into mud hole. From a position
behind oudenarde and inside Blink he fell
was clearly out OF IT.
How Oudenarde Won the Race.
Meanwhile Oudenarde with the black boy
lying prone on his withers. was cheerily gal
looping In front. Earl's ninety pounds a mere
feather on his powerful lo;ns. Blink, rated
With him, was running strong race Nan
D0Ta came along. going great guns on the
head. Thus they ran to the three.eighths
pole. Here Nan Dora made her bid. She
came up to 0udenarde's withers, but the
OF odd kan accepted the
let Blink close up on him as il beaten.
Just then Nan Dora made another bid
lenge was accepted and again she failed
to make good. Now Wall began to close
. lot Of ground and Murphy. shaking Blink
Blink mace an awfully game bid at the
quarter. but he WAS giving good horse
Eighteen pounds more than he could do.
still swinging along in his pendulumiike
gallop. steady as a clock. Nan Dora and
Blink were plainly Done ne. The mare quit .it:
has class TO him. He kept on.
Wall was closing like locomotive, UNI
u oNeill let so his head to draw his whip;
Then the Darden colt sverved and lost
ground. Earl picked the good. going for
dludenarde and sat down on him. The
chestnut cast.otf Of the Chinn stable lee Just
caracoled over In the good time OF 2o6 for
the mile and three-sixteenths. Blink gained
Il out resolutely for the place. Wallis
swerve in the stretch lost him show money
and cost the books pretty penny. Tor
Nan Dora was played for third money.
II was . good race. Mr.: Boardman. who
OWNS Oudenarde, won his first stake though
be has been racing a stable for some years.
He was given a great ovation by his friends.
Johnnie Mengel, who trained Oudenarde and
won with him his first race over a distance,
hne piece OF Workmanship when they see
Eavorites Were False to Their hacker
tremendous crowd saw the races, and
the play was very heavy. As usual whom
the track is heavy and It Is a holiday. the
wise" people kept getting the money, and
the favoriter. often false ones. backed by
tAA public. lost
Proceedings began with ian outsider with
lcp from Miss Guido. who was OF badly.
and La Mascotta. who never did like mud
The latter two were fayorites at short
the new Jockey from Newport. was on Mirt
Asher. AZ Lindsey came With good repu-
tation. clever bettors took q shot at his
Guido and La Mascotta- Miss Guido would
have won on an even break but she was
OF badly. Brigand Queen ran good race
from a had beginning. Curd Gillock ran q
disappointing race:
Ethelyne Dave Sommers and Kafir d.
vided favor in the second. Just what they
backed 6Ommera on was not clear. Last
tins he met Kaffir the latter was left at the
pest and ran him to a head. Gallagher
Those nov who .s saw him work K out In the mud
rot away running and Gallagher was on
val well away in the bunch. Owens held
Gallagher too hard In the early part and
then took him around the field on the turn.
He rot to Ethelyne's withers at the stretch
Of him and he stopped. Dave sommers died
e posn,nk Ka ION oNsi nss allowed y, ,s to
Vas second. with q. tight ride he might
with Hungarian out, Saline seemed good
ia the third, even II Bell is no Sloan. 30
overything In the race was backed. Mr..
etonmoush. who has been an improving
horse. John Morton. who was at 10 to l. ran
second. John Bull and Saline, who were
hacked. ran wretched races under poor
NJ Collins an Improved Horse.
Then came the race Of the day. General
was 5 PLAYED as It Nv was sb al
ana Tom Collins was not without friends.
Nr. Dade let them on with Gibson to the
itns raced IL front. Gibson went after them
and at the stretch head he caught up: Here
Nc0fuder weakened under Bolend, who did
net lara s ss n &c q; Ike absas
moment. but Tom Kiiey had Collins very
fresh after q let-up, as was pointed out by
The Republic yesterday. He came away and
won easily. With an even break Gibson
would have been there at the end. Boland 8
sxhseltion on McGruder was weak one.
He did not seem to understand the horse,
vho needs vigorous work. as all old horses
Do.
They put q real good one over when Pri-
ma II won the sixth race. The books were
shy, and 'ducked the wise money" but
enough was put on to do them damage.
Htma III won in q walk from lobe Paine.
Hindoonett. ridiculously false favorite.
Wls third.
I6a Leaford in Hard Lines.
The last race was q disappointing one.
With three horses in Il, the start looked
Ike q bad one. Leo Bruno passed the stand
etx lengths in front OF Ida Ledford and
Amelia Strathmore. It seemed as Il they
20, and that Gilmore was too quick for
orNeill and Bell. and was away in hurry.
Anyhow. Leo Bruno was gone before they
knew It. Ida Ledford went after him and
caught up In o hurry. and Amelia Strath-
more was not long getting up. Poor little
Ben was unhappy in every move he made
On Ida Ledford. He took her inside Leo
Bruno, where the going was soft. and where
tue big Sayer horse could lean his huge
into all the puddIes and mud holes new
truck can contain, was 5olted. damned.
crotsed and gouged all the way. OF all
the bad rides ever put up, Il was peach.
No wonder the FfBer mare could NOT win.
Leo Bruno came away at the end and won
eAaily. Another three-horse race In which
the outsider got all the money.
TO4DAY's CARD AT DELMAR PARK.