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SWINHERTON'S SURPRISE
Farmer Boy Leads Pacers Home. Hard
Has His Day on the Track
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Win the Ladiea'
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WEDNESDAY on the
Pinehurst track wit
nessed the hardest rac
ing we have ever yet seen
in the Sandhills. The
challengers had their
innings, the old favorites
took a fall, but not with
out some furious travel
ing and heartbreaking finishes. Fore
most of all that sturdy old king of the
track, Are Aram Bee, hitherto leader of
the procession and that Swinnerton had
every declared intention of driving with
for the. Thomas stables, both pacers wear
ing his colors leading the Pinehurst horse
by a fair margin. It is only fair to say
however, that Swinnerton got a poor start,
and he is planning dire revenge for the
Christmas meet.
THE LADIES' CUP
The girls have the faculty of making
a prettier and more exciting race than
anyone on the track. The Thanksgiving
performance was repeated Wednesday,
when every flying runner passed tho
judges' stand inside of a length, like a
squad of Cossacks on the loose, Miss Bliss
perhaps a head in the lead on Topsy,
making the mile in the remarkably good
time of 37 seconds. Miss Nave, a new
comer in the lists, rode a splendid race
on Jesie C, nosing Miss Esther Tufts
of times winner of the ladies' cup, into
third place at the last jump. The honors
were so nearly even that although Miss
Abbe on Button was fourth in fact she
gave the winner all she could stand, and
it would have been a hardy plunger that
would have bet against her fifteen feet
from the finish.
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ARE AMM LEE WINS THE SP LANE TROPHY BY A THREAD
a clean slate through whatever field might
develop this season, found a match, and
nearly two, in as hot a run as can be
pulled off. J. R. Thomas, out after blood,
had his two horses, Farmer Boy and Toy
Boy, about in condition, and did not give
up hope when the old champion nosed
them both out in the first heat.
It was so uncertain an affair however,
that the grandstand was prepared for a
controversy on the second, and got their
money's worth of uncertainty and sus
pense. The three horses came round the
bend in as even a line as ever was seen
on the parade ground, and took the
stretch step for step in scenes of the
greatest excitement. Swinnerton drove
his great horse to the very limit, and
hung on to the killing pace, so that the
three passed under the wire like a chariot
team. Thomas admits that lie did not
know whether he was ahead or not, an-1
many were to be found in the grand
stand who claimed that Toy Boy and not
Farmer Boy won the race. As a matter
of fact Toy Boy was third, . by about
six inches.
The last heat was a complete triumph
NAT HURD'S DAY
And at last Nat Ilurd has landed the
ribbon on the old war horse, Travellor.
Through thick and thin he has contended
that the hunter had it in him, and so
today he called for a show down for
them to put up any one horse in his class
there was in the stable, mount anyone
they pleased on him from Tod Sloan down
and he and the Travellor would show the
way. So J. C. Thomas took him on with
Rex. They had a fair start, and Kurd's
backers had a fright, for the two never
varied a handsbreadth the whole way,
but finished as they started, with Travel
lor a nose to the good.
CAPTAIN HECK'S NUMBER
Hurd also had something to say about
the line of talk heard in the paddock and
the village about this remarkable Captain
Heck. He was willing to admit that
Captain Heck had speed in his locker, and
was a fine traveller. But having scoured
the State, he contended there were others.
To wit, Kittro'n, who would be entrusted
to Whitlock for a demonstration. The
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