Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19
LIEUT.. LYMAN FIRST
Brings His Good Horse Kyrat
Home in Officers Race.
MATABON A POOR MUDDER
Montcalm Wins for Mrs. ]. w.
Flynn-Murray Gets Off An
other Disgusting Start.

Lieut.. \. Il. Lyman. riding kyrat. his
| big brown gelding, won the feature event
| at Laurel yesterday, when he beat Lieut..
Rockwell. o. n, ridden by Capt. At
well, in a driving finish. The race was
the Laurel plate for officers of the army
and navy, which carried $1.J0O in added
| money. The race was over a distance of
two miles. and the requirements were
that the riders should appear in uniform.
kyrat proved himself to be a wonder
fully good mudder, and this gave him an
advantage over Matabon, the favorite,
who was Overestimated by Lieut.. Rock
well, his owner and rider. Matabon trail
ed the field until within a half mile of
the close, when Lieut.. Rockwell attempt
ed to push his mount forward, but the
gelding did not show a fondness for the
| rough going and could not make up much
of the distance.
As was expected the muddy track
caused big upset in the judgment of the
form players, only two of the we'll liked
favorite succeeding in getting home first
These were Plate Glass, who walked
away with the fifth race and Font who
took the last event in good style from a
field of six. Rey was considered among
the best things In his field in the opening
race, but his favoritism was late coming.
he has run in the mud at Laurel was
more highly thought of before Rey came
to the forefront of favoritism, but the
FLY either did not like the seven fur
long route else given q bad ride
by Ohert, who kept her well up for the
first part of the journey, and then fell
beck. Duke Daffy got second In a driv-
ing finish from Little ZIP. The latter was
outgamed.
The most difficult race of the day for
those who undertook the selection of win
nerS was the second event on the card, in
which thirteen out of twenty entries Sc
lected to make a run. The result was
that Horizon. with the assistance of
Jockey Troxler. got the lions share Of
the purse and beat out Mon Ami, p NJ.
Walkers gelding, by a margin sufficient
ly great to declare Mr.. Strode's colt an
easy first.
Mrs. ]. w. Flynn kept up her reputa-
ton for fooling the wiseacres when she
let Goldstein slip Montcalm over in the
fourth race. Montcalm was thought to be
unfit for a sx-furlong dash on a soft
track, but the gelding simply tOyed with
everything else in the race, and was I'M
der the wire an easy winner ahead of Ben
Loyal, the favorite.
The crowd, which was almost as large
as any that has attended the races, de-
spite the knowledge that the track would
be slow, had good chance to witness
one of the worst starts Mr.. Murray has
allowed to get by since he relieved Mr.
Dade. the second week of the meeting.
This time Guy Fisher, who many thought
had good chance to beat out Plate
Glass for the mile, was the victisn. The
barrier flashed up. striking Guy Fisher in
the face with the result that he was
practically left at the post.
Plate Glass took the lead and was
never overtaken Lochiel trailed behind
the leader all the way, and after the field
got strung out was never farther behind
than second. kormak was strong, finish
ing third and several times gained
ground on those ahead of him. The poor
start, which occurred directly in front of |
the grandstand, caused the hackers of
which, however. was UNDECIDED
Font owes the easy manner in which he |
won the event at mile and sixteenth |
to the poor way in which Grania got |
away.