Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-16
P|ML|CO RACES ON
Opening Day Furnishes Many
Features to Immense
Crowd at Baltimore.
TRACK RECORDS BROKEN
Adams Express Wins at 40 to /.
Matron Stakes Furnish
Good Sport.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
BALTIMORE, Md. October 15.-The
running of the two divisions of the Ma
iron stakes, the breaking of two track
records, the equaling of another and the
victory of Adams Express. at one time as
mSn as ~ to l in some books, featured
the highest-class racing program ever Of
Tered by the Maryland Jockey Club which
opened in a most suspicious manner this
afternoon at old Pimlico. That class will
tell was demonstrated in almost every
one of the seven events on the inaugural
card, and the local racing folks never Ia
the pleasure of viewing such high sport.
By the time registered in the different
events it could be easily judged just how
1ast the historic course has been worked
in for the beginning Of one of the great
est meetings ever held in this section Of
the country, and Secretary William p.
Riggs certainly can feel proud for his un-
firing efforts to make Pimlico one of the
garden spots for the thoroughbred racing
since the Introduction of adverse condi-
IONS In other states in the Union.
The silks of Americas most distin-
Sulshed turfmen were i'm the fore during
the afternoon and from every standpoint
it was the most brilliant Inauguration of
the fall racing here.
Not only did interest run high in the
deciding of the Matron, but the entire
card was of most interesting nature, es-
peclaily the inaugural steeplechase. the
Baltimore Club cup for gentlemen riders
and the Hotel Herman purse.
Novelty Is Scratched.
OF the two ends Of the Matron, that
for colts and geldings attracted the
most attention. made SO by the fact
that the name of Sam Hildreth's Nov
city, the greatest two-year-old of the
year and the winner of the rich Fu-
turity at Saratoga and other of the
most important juvenile stakes of the
season, appeared among those carded to
go 10 the post. There was some dis
appointment when the number assigned
TO the sensational son of Kingston
was placed on the board where the
scratches are displayed, but Hildreth,
the leading turfman of the year. was
not without d representative in the
race, as when he decided not to start
Novelty he pinned his faith on Zeus, a
fleet son of Adams, and but for tough
racing luck would have added another
stake to his big list. The winner was
X. T. Wilson. jrS. Handsome brown
son of Yankee that next to OIambala,
is the best horse of 1910 in the New
Workers. stable. 1t was in the most
thrilling sort of finish that Naushon
IL
front of Zeus, that was the choice of
the public TO win the big race. as the
colt has worked we'll and was thought
TO be a most able successor for Nov
city in Hildreths effort to land the
race.
Naushon. however, was overlooked a
bit in the betting by the conservative
spectators. for the Yankee colts previous
races had been good and he had run some
very nifty races over the metropolitan
tracks. The struggle of Zeus in the
stretch was a gallant one. for a few sec
onds after Starter A. b. Dade had
sprung the barrier it appeared as though
1t was 10 be one-sided race. as Zeus
apparently got caught in a jam and had
to take up for an instant. To this many
attributed the defeat of Hildredths repre-
sentative.
Bashti. II. p. Whitney's thirty-thou-
sand-dollar beauty. was by far the
best in the tilly section. She was
to ) favorite, and, getting away
in front, was never headed, winning
by two lengths from Love Not, the sec,
ond choice in betting. The latter tired in
the stretch and had to be hard ridden to
take the place from Horizon, who was IN
to in the betting. The summaries