The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-03
JUBA WON RACE
IN HANDY FASHION
kiley Gelding Once More At
tracted Notice by Winning at
Fair Grounds With Long
Price Against Him.

Long shot players Rad an inning at IN.
Fair Grounds yesterday. their efforts
winding UP In the last event. when Juba
went across the Finish In handy fashion.
Capturing first money at 4 good price.
Beginning with Back NJInter IN the
opening race. the long shot element sue.
cessiveiy pu: over Joe Graham. backed
from ~ TO / 20 - to /. Aline s. backed
from skies to TO /; Anadarco ut and
TO ], and Juba in the last race. against
which the smart set got as good as Il TO l.
The victory Of the last named stood
out in the light. Juba sprung into sensa-
tional notice a couple OF weeks back By
galioping home at iVg to !. Yesterday was
his second win OF the meeting. and he was
not only well played at the track. but
Geographic adyiceS Indicate thai he Vas
weIi payei away from here.
HIS Improvement yesterday was notice
able. stiii not 80 much as TO be considered
entirely Unnatural. the principal trouble
seeming To be In the handling OF varro.
who proved the contender at the end.
Young rode this one a very bad race.
and when he finally cut loose with the old
son OF Pgrdee In the stretch. lie closed
like lightning and lacked but a scant
length OF junIcial recognition ut the end.
Nellie Bawn. in spite OF her bad race
last out. was installed choice IN the open
Ing race. bat was not seriously In the
hunt. Her support was based on the tho
ory that she diG not like the sloppy going
last start, though that had heretofore
been considered her best hold. Detest
showed the way TO the stretch turn,
where Back Number ran over her and
Won in the light
Jesse Hughes put away quite a nest egg
when his Goodwood bred colt. Joe Gra-
ham. annexed the second race. The colt.
though considered one of the most promts-
ing ysarlings On the farm OF the late J. ID.
Lucas when Mr. Hughes bought him, he's
raced disappointingly.
r,N.
good and Hughes felt justified IN playing
him In the Indifferent lot he met yesier-
day. especially as 70 TO l was offered In
the early betting. Billy Handsel rIade the
and Joe Graham managed to stagger past
him and take the lead. Elenika Just did
hold on {? second place from the fast
Aiine :. was the diamond speciar' Of
tho good thing crowd, and when to j
against her vas offered in the third race
they started In az though they were going
to clean up the betting ring. They forced
the price back TO -. and were not both
cred as to the result. OF well from
poor start Aiine 5. rushed straight to the
front. and al one time led by a hslf dozen
lengths. She won. eased up. ~ two
lengths from Hazel Il
Aafalda. the winning favorite Of the
day. captured the feature event rather
easily. Marquis de Carabas Wen. TO the
front with a hurrah when the barrier
was sprung and looked winner at the
pole. Just as his hackers
wero beginning to feel safe. however. he
passed IL up miserably. and Mafalda took
the lead. Felix MozZes came with a rush
at that stage and looked as though he
might beat the Hayes mare, but he hung
in the final furlonS. and she drew away
again. BEATING tho unlucky BaEahane
horse by n couple of lengtns
Platt was Z. stron.: faYorite in the fifth
race and kept his b4ckers feeling good up
TO the very end. He had quite lead a
sixteenth out, but Taby Tosa's brother,
closed with the same fire as
the recognizable Taby and won by q head
In the last jump.