Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-10
Favorites Won Five Out of Six
Events at Benning.
RACED IN MUD AND FOG
Peter Paul, Well Tipped, Won Closing
Race Easily.
ANOTHER WIN FOR MILLER
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Opening of Big Billiard Tourney
Gould to Go to England
Base Ball Notes.

day long those that went out to Benning
yesterday witnessed some good sport Nat
urally the delegation of the fair sex was
not a large one, but the regulars, whom
nothing short of cyclone will keep from
their favorite sport. were on hand In force.
considering the bad weather.
Toward the close of the proceedings 1t
thickened up, so that the mist and fog hid
the horses from view at the far side of
the track, and few fieeting phantoms
were all that could be made out Of the
progress of the field.
Strange to say. the track was fast in
spite of the sloppy mud. Underneath was
a good. firm foundation. and that high
class horse. Lord of the Vale. with 120
pounds up, ran six furlongs In LIS 10,
faster by nearly half second than any
race at the meeting on dry course
These conditions of fair going. IN spite
of the looks Of the track. enabled the pub
lie to select the best horses with rare reg
ularity. The heaviest, scratching Of the
meeting. twenty-five horses decilnlng une
and five winning favorites, with Wen,
backed successful second choice, rewarded
the industry of the so-called knowing ones.
In each instance the best horse looked TO pc
the winner, except perhaps in the ffth
event of the day.
Lord of the Wales Class.
In Lord OF the Vale District racegoers
saw Yesterday a high-class handicap per-
former that cannot only sprint. but stay
with big weight In the saddle. Yesterday
Trainer Whalen ran the big horse in blink
ers. and compelled to look only at the
front" the son of Hastings was tractable
and we'll behaved at the post ana during
the race.
ALWAYS fayorite over his opponents LORD
OF the Vale. mudlark par excellence, rai.
the other two off their feet in the nrst nan
mile. run in the sizzling time for the
muddy track of 80 seconds. Then his
Jockey had only to sit still and hold the
big horse the rest of the way TO score
bloodless victory under wraps
OF the other two, Sterling was backed
TO beat Tickle, but after the colt had given
the FLY the mud from his heels for hair
mile she began TO close in game fasnloh'
and wearing Sterling down In the home
stretch Tickle got the place cleverly in
hustiing finish. Tickle Is generally front
runner, and her gameness coming from be-
hind was a pleasing surprise TO most peo-
pie.
Echodale, who takes to mud like duck
to the water, made a runaway victory of
the opening event after Optical had given
him a tussle for half the trip. Echodale
went to the post an equal favorite with
Delphie and the two carried most of the
big play. Optical. Parkviie and Australina
were also backed. while the fact that Nil
Ter rode Sir Rrinkley instead of the Garth
colt Judge White. sent quite few people
to the Briukley colt. He ran away for half
a mile before the race.
Pirateer at 100 to l.
An attempted coup by David Dunlop and
his Virginia friends not as successful
as was that they pulled Off with Duke of
Kendall on the opening day. The stables
brown horse. Pirateer. who two years ago
ut ms trac al
days. pulled off 81 800 winning for his then
owner c. r Henshall. was quietly backed
all around the ring at 100. 40 and 20. three
ways, until at post time less than one-third
Of these odds ruled. and the loaded-up
bookmakers began to scent a killing.
But two heads at the end saved the ring
it's place wagers and the show part of the
transactions. Pirateer handicapped in inter-
ference at the far turn and having to come
around his horses making the home
stretch. having gap TO make up that he
just failed to accomplish by a few inches.
At the finish. Fiat and Dephie. in the mid
de of the track heads apart. only beat
Pirateer over on the outside next the
judges by another head, and the latter
was running over them as they finished. In
another few strides it would have been
Pirateer second. Deiphie third and Fiat
fourth. But this constitutes the attraction
of the sport its glorious uncertainty.
Al Powell. the most consistent two-year-
old at the track. defeated so good a FLY as
was backed to heat the colt but In the
first three furongs he gave her more than
she wanted and he came along home by
himself. Mary Curtis. the Oxnard filIy,
finished SO strong that she would have
beaten Nancy for the place had the race
been Bit further.
Brush Up Raised No Dust.
Brush Up in the fourth race just slung
mud in the faces of her opponents from
start to finish. making it a case of hare
and hounds. reminding veteran trainers
OF the instruction one of them gave his
boy In a famous race up north at old
Jerome Park in the mud He said to his
jockey. Now, son. that bay horse over
there is the one you have to beat. At the
start you lay your horse in front OF that
bay II you have to whip to get there. and
Let him have all the mud in his face. That
will settle him" And 1t happened just as
the trainer had planned and the mud in
his eyes beat the best horse.
Next to Brush Up finished Baby Willie !
and Society Bud necks apart, and the latter
would have been second in another couple
OF jumps. But for a slow break she could
not have lost the place
The most unsatisfactory race of the day
was the fifth, from the poor ride put UP
on the favorite-- Winchester. Diggins let
him swerve In the last quarter and the
horse made poor showing IN his own sort
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