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Show HOI PATH "isniil Bookmakers Puzzled mM odical Losses Dnrirj Two Weeks (M TRACK BECOMING 0!M FASTEST IN THE M Price Invin Brothers M Tern's Trick Is Saidfl Been $2000. W In the parlance of the race all Irons of the Lagoon are tbtfl crowd that the bookmakers lfl over known. The public httS more frequently than the bo There is not a ,ayer of odds Ulfl who has won anything. ivhi!tS ho r of them have lost contMriifl One of the books was actB polled to drop out because thefl had gone into Ihc pockets of sJfl The book Ics are greatly pumuTm situation. Wlille the aS ufl running in very fair foi-m, thjl account for the public's tTjfl some of the largest winnlnn on horses which were not fatH It ia also true that larqe been lost on favorites "whldrM win. This was particularly tfcJH the race that Fred. Mulltollaodl layer, accepted a wagor of UmH on Fred Mulholland and protmftS half of It with another book TB ran second and Jockey BurnsB pended indellnitely for not triH a good ride. Ncvcrthelu, a'V of tho day the hooks, noUUbH their lucky break in the MulholB showed scarcely any proritn. cj 'The fixed charges for one diiH making anioniu to 150 or dunH when the public wins the bul depleted with amazing rapl3iH books expect to get a better ijH The price that Irwin Broth'nfl Tern's Trick Is said to bo 4NtS this is not a f. icy prlca speedy sprinter, it must p milK that Tern's Trick has newrH liking for a route For a "ouariifl Tern's Trick !s as good 'a awTm breaker will he exceedingly IS the Oklahoma and Texas circaiiM it is understood the Irnlns eiB take Tern's Trick. Heathcrbloom, a famous filb-'fl to have been entered In IntfH derby, broke down after woriltB and a quarter In 2:0S -5 atiiS Downs recent. . She ran thsfl 1:40 3-5 and the mile and an fl 1:54. The work was lnUndd;M final derby trial, but she pu'Jtd- with a tendon so badly sprung will never race again. Sh u&H Cassati's Cheslerbrook farm luTfl vania. 'vfl Kopek has broken down atfl paik and has been siven awipM is exceedingly well known in.lfl as a good e.Mmg plater. He hlfl record In I :3a 4-5. The tclllnjM Juarez last winter started otttfl W. A. Buck was his owner. -S The prediction made m advaaflj opening of the ,. Lagoon tnct would, with racing over It, pnrjfl one of thu fastest in the coofl fair lo he realized much fl oven the most sanguine prophtfifl ed. With the meeting lest Ufl weeks under way, il Is er.titMfl ranked with tho fast tracia&B country. fl Five furlongs in le.s than Jjfl over a four-day old course. Continued on Following Pfl !IJ PITB5 "WISE" PLAYERS Iters Puzzled by. Peri-al Peri-al Losses First Two 1 Weeks of Meel. tied From Preceding Page. i's Trick showed on the fourth o meeting; Is certainly out of ry. The holder of tho world's record ran live nnd a hnlf a few days lator In within leas second of the world's mark for latancc. The Peter Medio, gold- Iup 110 pounds on that occasion, considerably more than he car-n car-n he sot the world's mark for bngs and it would not surprise f, with lighter Impost, he would own record before the end of cnl meeting, otlon seems the more reasonable j fact that Bodwell'P Elizabeth , making her first start In year, has already clipped two-a two-a second from Tern's Trick's or the distance. The best time furlongs on the opening day of ting was LIS S-fi. A few days rchmonet ran. the distance In This same gelding beat Frank at live and a, half furllngs on ling day in 1:0S 1-5, and less reek later was beaten by Tern's the pamo distance in l:0f 3-5. In the great Improvement in the such short time, horsemen pro-helleve pro-helleve that before tho end of son the Lagoon track will be wth one or more world's rcc-r rcc-r thfc shorter "distances, i has the fastest mile of the to his credit 1:11 3-5 though was timed tho last mile of a twenty yards In 1 Ml 1-5. Un-bly Un-bly McLemore's great maro can le over the track In better than . the tlmo would have to be ih better than J:I0 to bo im-as im-as cheap selling platers ran ince at Juarez last winter in an 1"30. The contrast between for short races and those over like a route might seem strance is not acquainted with the now nit those who saw the track urso of construction understand miles are comparatively very deep cut had to bo. made on turn and underground springs enougli In evidence to make the opgy. The cut Is rapidly being , however, and fast time around s circuit will soon be seen. ICANS PREFER RUNNERS. m iance at Horse Show Falls Off Be-JBlfre Be-JBlfre Race Courses Are Popular. iDOX, June 11, Much Interest Is Iiken in tho International horse be 'held at Oljmpla from Juno 12 Jpwards of 5000 entries have been , and although there aro not as rom America as formerly, the i of American officers in the competitions will partly make this deficiency. A great ninny ns are at tho race courses oil William II. Mooro of New York t over fortv-two of his horses horse show; Paul Cravat h has three Junipers, and Alfred G. lit will take part In the conch-ipetitlons. conch-ipetitlons. Louis and Waller will have entries In almost every Igli Jumping competitions for of-lll of-lll be the crcat attraction The ns Major I". S. Foliz. Captain irr, Captain G. V. Henry. Lleu-G. Lleu-G. Johnston, Lieutenant 12. F. and Lieutenant A. B. Chaffee last week with their mounts, -e been getting them into con-fter con-fter the 50a voyage, is 13(1 British officers, the Amcri-111 Amcri-111 hae as competitors officers 10 armies of Canada. Germany. France, Belgium, Sweden and ,,-cmpotItlon f"r tho King Edward tcup for Jumolns by international Jjls set for Juno 21, while the coni-in coni-in for the Kins George V. cup will fdged June 17. Thero are other lumping performances in which the !may take part. Tho decorations ipla alone tost 530.000. jind 510.000 & spent on Iho entertainment of itlnpr army officers. Kch'iue of decoration is designed tisform the Interior of Olympla ' old Tudor vlllase. at one end of the "Luwtlior arms." a roplica, of iintr.v residence of ti Earl of le, president of the association, conspif nous, while at iho oppo-I oppo-I an Elizabethan cottage has been 1 prfn turf, rl the .sides of the building, abovo itE rises a representation of tho of n rw of Tudor houses. royal bov lust year draped in ling' for Klnir Edward and which Bis year be froqueiitlv occupied by ers of tin1 rovni family, has been ately decorated. |