Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-15
GETAWAY DAY
AT MINING
Eight Thousand Persons Present the Close of the
Spring Meeting-Pater Takes the Handicap
Dead Heat in the Steeplechase

To say that the Washington Jockey Club
closed its spring meeting yesterday in the
proverbial blaze of glory hardly does justice
TO the occasion. For a distinguished as
semblage of fully 5000 people, including
a large proportion of ladies, crowded club
house and stands to overlooking, testifying
most eIoquently to the public approval of
the sport provided.
And with a fast track the racing of the
afternoon was eminently satisfactory 10
sport lovers, several close finishes and a
dead heat in one of the steeplechases keep
ing UP the excitement from first 10 last
While as favorites won four out of the six
events. the general public got the best Of
the layers in the financial battle of the
day.
Paters success in the second Bennlng
handicap was easily the feature of The day.
and the way the colt went the extra dis
lance shows that he can stay as well as
sprint And that to a man like young Mr.
Hitchcock he is a cheap horse at the s3,Joo
paid for him.
colt like Pater. who is now in the PINK
of condition, ought to be able TO continue
his victorious career up NORTH where ne
is going and to carry his new colors TO 'he
front on many more occasions. Ihen later
on this season or next the timber game
will undoubtedly be his
Pater's Benning Handicap.
Scratching reduced the field for the stake
rom ten horses to six, those declining the
issue being Race King, Old Guard Warm
ing and Right and True. This narrowed the
issue considerably, and Pater always
at odds on, late hackers having to take a
for But for
tine supuort awarded The Clown there
would have been little or no betting against
Pater But The Clown was wen thousht
of by many good judges and was expected
to run Pater close at the businessmen
furlongs.
Bobbie Kean also had some support, In
spite of his big weight, although his trainer
hardly expected him to do better than thlrd,
considering the weight he was conceding
The Clown Duke of Kendall. winner OF the
first Benning handicap at the opening DAY,
was at long odds, emphasizing the cnaF-
acter of the horses he was now meeting
while as for Tickle and Flinders they were
not seriously considered except 1of the
small end of the purse.
Pater's appearance in the Hitchcock green
was the signal for a warm greeting, and
as the colt paraded in his new colors he
looked a fine specimen of the hfgh-bred
race horse The Clown also showed TO adj
vantage but, voiced in this column, he
evidently is not as speedy as his brother
IN blood Pater, whatever ne may De dDIe 10
do with him longer route.
Not just now, for Pater yesterday could
have beaten The Clown and Bobbie Kean
at mile easily as he did at seven fur
longs. But as The Clown comes on in con-
dition he VIII no doubt improve greatly on
yesterdays effort. In the race Pater sim
ply went out usual and snothered his
company. Miller and the colt understand
each other thoroughly, and while Pater is
a rank horse the underground lad can place
him in his easily a much heavier
boy could do, and In his late races Miller
has placed the colt in front.
A Speed Marvel
In other words. instead of rushing Pater
along at top speed, Miller, after taking a
lead, takes a wrap the colt and has him
under pull ready for any challenger. His
IS 40 yesterday at seven furlongs
easily as he did It stamps Pater able to
carry his speed over a route. And right
now It is difficult to say what is the length
of his tether.
the day, three in ALL making eight sue
cessive races won by him in the last two
days. During the eighteen racing days
Miller rode in eighty of the ninetynine
races at Benning run on the fiat. He won
twentynine races was second sixteen
times and third eleven times, record TO
be proud of.
Under his pilotage Palora maiden. won
defeating winners like Nonsense and
Caronaf, horses that have shown well al
this meeting. But Miller made every post
a winning one. never letting Nonsense get
to him in the final tusse in the home
stretch.
1t was the general opinion that Miller
could have won on the second horse had
the fiders been reversed. and the successful
little Jockey was cheered by the interested
thousands as he brought Palora home a
clever winner. The latter's owner. james
Mclaughlin. himself great jockey in his
day, said after the race that Miller was
the best lad of his age and weight that ne
had ever seen. and he has mingled with The
best of them.
Orphan Lads Stake.
Miller won the s1,100 Jesse Brown stake
on the two-year-old Orphan Lad in style
that was little short of sensational. Get
ting the worst Of the break. Orphan Lad in
a scramble of only half a mile was next to |
last as the field got under way. But Mil |
Ter gradually made up his ground, was in |
the bunch at the turn, showed third in the |