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Show FAVORITES CONTINUE TO IB AT RACES I Five Public Choices Bring Home Mi the Money; Ladies Free i m Five favorites and one second cholco 'i Bt3 won at the fair grounds Thursday after- f BWi noon. In the last race, Salvago waa ) ml favorite, but he was beaten out for the i fiP; honors by .Grace G. Jockey II. Smith ?' sVfi simply outrode Nelson, the latter hav- SJH Ing live lengths at the head of ths j p'$i; stretch. Salvage seemed to die fast, t while Grace G. Increased her speed with Hlo' every Jump. i After the last race several of the book- f. St1 makers drew a long breath of relief, and ?ffr with one or two more meets following rj' as have been run the past few days, it J Mr" Is safe to say that there will be several i empty bookmakers' booths for rent. Two tf ? ft bookies have already given up the Job V as a bad one, claiming that they never vKr played at a meet where so many favor- ltes won. Evsrybody who played favor- 1 I'H. ites yesterday came away with a roll of money. f, '0$ The fourth race brought out the moal 1' sensational tlnlsh of the day. Tho first 1 7k I three horses Ontario Oregon, Bill Mav- w1 ham and Frank Lubbock finished heailft & it apart. Swaggcrlator came up with a it Jf$ rush and showed shortly after tho wlro Ml was passed, which led many people to i tf believe that he took third place, but a i'lb Lubbock had him by a good head at tho ? (CIS wire. s rift, Balnade stumbled in the fifth race, Jtft' which probably made a difference at thfl 30 finish. The horso was going good and .7! looked speedy enough to win, but Fore ( the 3 to 5 favorite, held out the pace anil 4 won by three lengths, with Sullivan up. w tj (9 A reception will be given by the Turt f trt and Field club during today's afternoon ft fcl race program. It Is also ladles' day, ffi K and everybody Is Invited. Ladles will be jtfJi passed to tho grandstand free. I)P |