The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-07
Midgley's Horse Wins Club
house Handicap, Worth ST.
800, From Favorite by Neck.
SC0RPI0'S SEVENTH STRAIGHT
Mad Mullah Gallops Home Ahead
of Footlights Favoritc-Thor-
Deycroft Wins From Malay
in Ding-Dong Finish.
L SpEEIAL.

SPECIAL.
New Orleans. La. Feb. s.-W. Il. Midg-
Iey's Tribes Hill beat the heavily backed
fayorite. De Reszke. to-day by a neck I'm
the Clubhouse Handicap. worth $3.50 net
to the winner. 1t rained all night and the
track was heavy.
Tribes Hill should nave beaten Captain
Arnold and Floral King in the Merchants
Handicap last Saturday. Callahan laid
out of the race too long on that occasion.
To-day he had instructions 10 lag within
striking distance of the leaders entering
the stretch. New York opened up a gap
OF five lenEhths IN his field coir. down
the back stretch. Rounding the stretch
turn. Tribes Hin and The 2-year-old Clan
eor passed New York. DE ResZke also
made his move at this stage of the CON
test and the trio entered the stretch necks
apart. Clangor went TO pieces in the last
sixteenth and was beaten eight lengths
for the place.
Mad Mullah was backed from 3 TO }
down to II TO 20 in the fifth and galloped
home one lengths in front of Footlights
Favorite. The race proved TO be strictly
a two-horse affair. F~ootligh,s Favorite
started. out to make the running. but Mad
Mullah quickly overloaded GAYS filly. and
after racing her into submission had
things all his own way. Triple Silver was
beaten off six lengths for the place.
Thorneycroft and Malay had a ding
WAS heavily backed at Z to ). Whitcmore
and Badger made the running for a mile:
then Thorneycroft made his move, enter
ing the stretch a head in front of White
more. Malay came from third place in
the stretch and was beaten only Il head
at the finish by Thorneycroft.
Tommy Knight. hacked for a good thing.
played with his field in the first. winning
as lie pleased from Irene May and Lachc.
Phillins also rode the winner of the Sec
ond. landing Emigree to the front by two
played early speed, but quit in the run
through the stretch.
Scorrio had no trouble annexing the
third. He was heavily played at odds on.
1t was Scorpio's seventh straight victory.
K Pirfa race sc "a selll PEl,, six furl9nss-TSmmy Nc,
Venus vic,sa: Bseeis Ieieis: Lady Brock;
second race, six fur!onrs-Emigre. lss III.
nessy5. is to 5. second: Moderator. lo IiV-
!!R E% o1i. + fr to I; thias, c TImf; i t;ss 81; Count i"Ts
Barbara Freitchie and Our Nugget also ran,
,e T1'r I to- Tas 10. s Won fur IaRsnciSfs, - l' a asn.
ncssy, IS IS to to T. , second: ,-' Our Lille. IS q; Hen
o 1seasl assin 70 and q i Parlsieh nnms also l;i ran a. Optional
Phioria pulled up soon after start.
Fourth race: one mile. Clubhouse Handicap
Tribes Hill. 10 tCalla ham. 3 to l.. won. De |
Changer, 80 Oh. Phillips. 3 to /, third. Time,
also ran.
Fifth race. six f~urlongs. handicap-Mad Null
lab. los CRobbins). IL to 20. won: Footlights
Eavorite. 1G1 CHiggins). IL TO 5, second: Triple
fflver. 1h CIV. Hennessyl. so TO /, third. Time,
III ID: Mariana. Sparrow Cop. Lobbyist and
Sixth race. mile and a quarter. selling
Thorneycroft, 1Ol IT. DEAN. : to 3. won: Ma
lay. 100 Oh. Phillips. = to I. second: Badger. :
10 81. Hennessy). 8 to !. third. Time. a:l2.